Marc Comtois
I’ve been traveling for the last couple weeks, and last Wednesday while doing some work holed up in my hotel room, I stumbled on “The Goode Family“. It made me chuckle quite a few times. As described in today’s ProJo: Though it will no doubt be labeled right-wing agitprop by some of its trashed targets,…
Russell J. Moore at the Warwick Beacon reports: A Beacon survey of the Rhode Island Government Owner’s Manual found that 30 of the legislature’s 113 members are either employed or retired from one of the state’s municipalities, or serve as business agents for a union that represents those employees. That means 26.5 percent of the…
I’ve spent the last week training members of the U.S. Navy down in Norfolk, VA. Their dedication and can-do attitude is a refreshing reminder of the best that this country has to offer: her young men and women. Thus has it always been and will, thank God, continue to be. So take some time this…
I greet Gallup’s most recent poll indicating that there are more Pro-Life Americans than Pro-Choice with qualified optimism. Qualified, because the split essentially flipped from 50% pro-choice and 44% pro-life last year to 42%/51% this year. I wonder why? Gallup has some theories: With the first pro-choice president in eight years already making changes to…
Mama’s, don’t let your kids grow up to be bureaucrats: Last week the Department of Labor reported that employers shed a net 539,000 jobs in the first three months of 2009, bringing the nation’s unemployment rate to 8.9%. The manufacturing sector lost 149,000 jobs, business services lost 122,000 jobs, and construction lost 110,000 jobs. All…
The Phoenix’s David Scharfenberg took the recent Tea Parties as indicative of something and looked into how the right side of Rhode Island–both overtly partisan like the RI GOP and RIRA and non-partisan, grassroots organizations like OSPRI & RISC–are working toward changing the political landscape in the Ocean State. Oh, and some blogger gets a…
Dan Yorke was all over the ProJo expose on potential RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg and her husband, super-lobbyist Robert Goldberg. Mr. Goldberg has his hands in so many cookie jars that it would seem impossible for potential Chief Justice Goldberg to be able to rule on any number of potential cases…
Be wary of who you throw under the bus. Like, say, a city tax collector who may know some things (via 7to7): Fired tax collector Robert P. Ceprano….Ceprano alleges that Mayor David N. Cicilline pressed him in 2005 to waive back interest on unpaid property taxes by Richard Bready, the CEO of Nortek. According to…
I’m not sure when beauty pageants (you know, wouldn’t they be considered as objectifying women?) became so PC, but the flap about Miss California wasn’t really about previously undisclosed semi-nekkid pics–it was about Miss California Carrie Prejean saying she disagreed with the concept of gay marriage. The trumped-up nature of the bogus picture charges was,…
Justin beat me to the punch, but here’s the link to the AP story he mentioned about the budget deficit. More: The new record deficit this year — driven by the federal government’s efforts at bailing out financial institutions and automakers, the $787-billion economic stimulus act that Congress approved one month into Obama’s term and…