Marc Comtois
His appetite for late night weiners temporarily sated, State Sen. Juan Pichardo was one of those unveiling a “stop hate campaign” today: Advocacy groups and legislators today announced a campaign against hate and hate speech in Rhode Island that will call on all Rhode Islanders to participate. The initiative was prompted by a recent incident…
With a hat tip to Dan Yorke, below are some of the new things that will now fall under the expanded sales tax being proposed by the tax-and-spenders in our Legislature, under the, ahem, “ECONOMIC GROWTH AND FAIRNESS ACT OF 2008”. Oh sure, there is this….. Commencing on January 1, 2010, the rate shall be…
Took the gals to see Horton Hears a Who on Saturday (and I wasn’t the only one). The ProJo gave it 5 *s. I don’t know if it was that good, but it was pretty good. The kids enjoyed it, though it may have skewed a bit young for them, and there were enough pop-culture…
I’ve been scarce around here lately, sorry about that. A couple quick things: The RI Refrigeration thing is yet another manifestation of the frustration so many have with lax immigration policy. Personally, I think asking for an SS # crosses the line, but I’m not into engaging in such confrontation anyway. Not sure what purpose…
Attention fellow members of the VRWC: set decoder rings to “Q2340442LLM” The Score is no more and WPRO 630 AM has acquired the 99.7 FM slot to better promulgate VRWC talking points. That is all.
Todd Spivak was a local reporter for a small newspaper in Chicago when Barack Obama first came onto the scene. In this story, he describes how both he and Obama came of age in their professions at about the same time and, more importantly, gives his perspective on the rise of Obama from legislator to…
For those of you with an interest in what historians blog about, I’m hosting History Carnival 62 over at my side project, Spinning Clio. Please keep in mind that the purpose of the Carnival is to present those items both submitted by others and discovered by the host (me this time around). Generally speaking, if…
Huh. Anyone who remembers MTV back when they played those things called “music videos” also knows who Kurt Loder is. Like me, you may be surprised to learn that he’s a libertarian. That’s what you get when you stereotype people based on their employer. He recently did an interview for Reason here, which is a…
I don’t want to overwhelm with charts, but I’ve got ’em! Similar to my previous posts–based on the ProJo’s work–on cost per resident for footing the payroll for schools (with some elaboration), I’ve compiled the same data for other areas of government. But instead of “embedding” all of those into this post, I’ll just give…
William F. Buckley, Jr., part of the bedrock foundation–some would say the cornerstone–of the modern American conservative movement died this morning. From the National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez: I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut. He died…