Marc Comtois
I recently finished reading Peter Navarro’s new book, The Coming China Wars: Where They Will be Fought, How The Can Be Won. The purpose of this book is to warn that unless strong actions are taken now both by China and the rest of the world, The Coming China Wars are destined to be fought…
As Don has noted, Tony Snow has passed away after a battle with cancer. Snow recently served as Press Secretary for the current Bush Administration, but he was perhaps best known as a conservative commentator and newsman (FOX). Undoubtedly partisan, he was also a class act. Snow’s tone and tenor is something sorely lacking in…
CNBC rated the business climate of the 50 states. Well, at least we didn’t get worse…. Interestingly, while RI was pretty static in most categories, there were gains in Workforce and Education (almost into the upper 1/3 in each). Here is CNBC’s description of each category, respectively: Many states point with great pride to the…
Thomas Sowell, noting that more than a few conservatives/Republicans are voicing their intent to vote for Obama, opines as to why they may believe they have legitimate reasons for taking the leap of faith. Partly what is going on is that, in recent years, the Congressional Republicans in general– and Senator John McCain in particular–…
Hey, you. The one who was part of the 75% percent of Rhode Islanders who said they approve of Governor Carcieri’s E-verify Executive Order (and presumably the E-verify bill that just got killed by Senator Theresa Paiva-Weed). Guess what? The Journal’s Steve Peoples and/or Cynthia Needham think you were just confused…or something…by the question (the…
Brown U. senior and Darfur activist Scott Warren had a piece in Saturday’s ProJo describing his recent visit to Kenya where he saw first-hand how much the Kenyan people love the idea of one of their own–Barack Obama–on the doorstep of becoming President of the U.S. The enthusiasm in Kenya may match or even exceed…
Christine Lopes of Common Cause Rhode Island had an op-ed in today’s ProJo detailing the hurdles, hell, “rhode blocks” that RI citizens encounter when trying to find out various bits of info related to state boards. She takes both the Governor and Legislature to task, and explains that CC uncovered this interesting bit of Senatorial…
I missed this (and this) back in May (h/t Matt J.), but it’s worth noting that RI’s compulsory High School Capstone Projects are being eyeballed across the country, according to a ProJo report about a symposium convened to discuss RI’s program. Some states are considering the merits of adding such student exhibitions to their own…