Marc Comtois
Prompted by Andrew’s post, allow me point to Gerard Baker of the London Times, who has more to say: Once again, the Europeans, and their friends in the pusillanimous wing of the US Left, have demonstrated that, when it come to those postmodern Olympian sports of synchronized self-loathing, team hand-wringing and lightweight posturing, they know…
Hm. Some are crediting NBC’s Olympic ratings success to the individual pursuits of swimmer Michael Phelps. There’s ratings data to back it up: For Phelps’ first gold medal – in the 400-meter individual medley – last Saturday night, NBC drew 24.4 million viewers; for his second gold, on Sunday, 33 million; Monday, 30.2 million; and…
When the people at my workplace first heard that Frank Corrente was seeking a partial pension for the time he served government whilst NOT breaking the law, the reaction was universal: HA! That went for young, old and middle; men and women; conservative and liberal. Wow, we all thought, that takes some brass ones. But…
URI Economist Len Ladaro: Rhode Island’s recession may be entering a troublesome third phase. For the first time ever, the CCI registered a value of 0. I prefer to think of this as a long-run equilibrium: at long last, we have gotten from Rhode Island’s economy precisely what we have always demanded from our state’s…
“PRE-Dendum“: Be sure to read the comments for much clarification regarding how the credits are sold by the production companies, etc. Basically, the below analysis is flawed because I made some faulty assumptions and didn’t completely understand the tax credit “market” in this case. (It’s the same idea as the historical tax credits). What is…
President Bush has denounced Russia for escalating the conflict in Georgia: “I just met with my national security team to discuss the situation in Georgia. I am deeply concerned by reports that Russian troops have moved beyond the zone of conflict, attacked the Georgian town of Gori and are threatening the Georgian capital, Tblisi,” Bush…
Richard Clarke, Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters Your government failed you. So said Richard Clarke to the American people during the 9/11 Commission hearings a few years back. Clarke’s resume of over 30 years in the foreign policy arena speaks for itself and adds weight to his point of…
Matt Jerzyk has an interesting post on Patrick Conley’s attempt to develop (via rezoning) portions of Providence’s working waterfront. Matt respond’s to Conley’s recent op-ed refuting those of the Journal Editors and Edward Achorn: The future of the area has been under a cloud since Buddy Cianci’s 1999 “Three Cities Plan” which prioritized mixed-use over…
John Edwards has admitted that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter around the same time his wife was fighting cancer. Disgusting. The National Enquirer broke it weeks ago–with plenty of corroborating evidence–but it was ignored by the MSM (unlike McCain’s supposed “affair” that was “reported” by the NY Times earlier this year) and it…
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