Marc Comtois
According to the Wall Street Journal: If we told you that an organization gave away more than $65 million last year to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International, AIDS Walk Washington and dozens of other such advocacy groups, you’d probably assume we were describing a liberal philanthropy.…
In my first post in this series, I sarcastically contrasted two headlines that seemed to sum up the current state of RI economic development. In the second post, I noted that ProJo columnist Edward Achorn had also noticed the contrast and wrote on the topic. Achorn was especially critical of the state’s reliance upon gambling…
While the ProJo Editorial board thinks Senators Reed and Chafee are on “safe,” though borderline, foreign policy ground in trying to obtain discounted heating oil from the state-operated oil company of Venezuala, Citgo, they do offer some familiar sounding warnings: A close ally of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, Mr. Chavez famously declared that the U.S.…
James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today is an entertaining read, but Taranto is off today and in his place is a sampling of the Wall Street Journals “Political Diary” (no permalink, unfortunately). Included in this sampler is a bit by Brendan Miniter about our own Chafee/Laffey contest. After noting that Laffey has gotten the…
It seems that Hugo Chavez’s Public Relations campaign–“Petrol Populism“–is making some headway here in RI. Rhode Island’s senators will meet today with officials of Venezuela and its state-controlled oil company to discuss what may be an imminent deal to sell discounted heating oil to the state’s poor people. Citgo, a Houston-based business owned by Venezuela’s…
We all know that the RI Board of Elections gave Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey a hard time by asserting that he was taking an “in kind” contribution by hosting a radio show on WPRO. For the record, I don’t support campaign finance laws and think they are an abridgement of free speech. We in RI…
JA Davis at RedState has a thought provoking post that both champions partisanship and refers to our own RI Senate Race. How many times have you heard someone say they were “independent” and voted “on the issues” or “for the person?” Doesn’t it always seem like those people have a very uppity attitude about their…
NB: I changed the original title of this post to reflect that Sen. Chafee has garnered funds for more than just the Narragansett school. It’s tempting to classify a lot of Federal spending as “pork,” and we at Anchor Rising have certainly done our part to call it like it is. However, not all Federal…
In Sure, EB is laying off…but we’ve got more slots!, I contrasted two headlines that seemed to sum up the current state of RI economic development. It was more of an attempt at saracasm than substance. Well, ProJo columnist Edward Achorn also noticed the contrast and has written on the topic. Last Wednesday, two fairly…