Marc Comtois
Club For Growth President Pat Toomey–who knows a little something about taking on a moderate Republican incumbent–has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he reveals that his organization has officially endorsed Steve Laffey for the RI GOP Senate primary. [Ronald] Reagan helped define the mission of the Republican Party. By re-establishing limited…
Tim Graham noticed that the Washington Post seems to have a policy of “Good Economic News on D-1, Bad Economic News on A-1” and Brian Wesbury commented last week about the ominipresent pessimism that seems to surround any and all economic news, noting: During a quarter century of analyzing and forecasting the economy, I have…
President Bush gave another speech on our progress in Iraq and our own Senator Jack Reed (again) offered the Democrat response. Senator Reed referred to the speech like this: “Another missed opportunity to be candid with the American public,” Reed tagged Mr. Bush’s speech. During a news conference in the Capitol, Reed said, “The American…
In a moment of negative serendipity (if there is such a thing), the following headlines great the reader of today’s ProJo: “Electric Boat to cut 2,400 jobs” “State OKs expansion in Newport Grand slots” The Electric Boat layoff is a result of a reprioritization by the Navy and is an example of the normal economic…
Anchor Rising Contributor Mac Owens has posted this story about an encounter with Senator Chafee on The Corner: Chafee is a disgrace. In February 2002, I was invited to give some remarks at the North Kingstown Republican Town Committee’s Annual Lincoln Day Dinner. This is a big event each year and all of the Rhode…
OK, that was a cheap ploy. I’m pro-choice within the context of L. Brent Bozell‘s editorial in today’s ProJo regarding ‘a la carte‘ cable television options: Consumers watch, on average, just 17 channels. But to get them, they are forced to buy this bundle of channels, because it opens up the universe of programming that…
I was clicking around last night before Monday Night Football and came across a Public Access show in which Mayor Laffey was being interviewed by an unknown-to-me but seemingly sympathetic host. (It was around 8:45 PM on Cox 13, didn’t catch the name of the show). I watched for about ten minutes and came away…
First, here is a worthwhile example of what Thanksgiving can mean in contemporary America. Contrast that with this jeremiad by someone who thinks Thanksgiving celebrates the oppressiveness of white European-types over Native Americans (don’t read it if you want to keep your teeth from grinding–though some of the comments are worth reading). (via Instapundit). Also,…
Byron York, using figures from the website PoliticalMoneyLine, noted that, among other things, the Charles Schumer (D-NY) led National Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commitee outpaced the Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) led National Republican Senatorial Campaign Commitee, $3,030,580 to $2,350,853 in October and leads overall $20,588,392 to $9,127,833, respectively. In response, he received a number of emails, of…