Monique Chartier
Last night during the debate, President Obama countered one of Mitt Romney’s criticisms of him by saying “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed,” Obama said, after Gov. Mitt Romney jabbed the president for, he said, overseeing a Navy that is smaller than at any…
Video below. Transcript, courtesy the Chicago Sun Times, here. Background of the Al Smith Dinner. One of my favorite lines from Governor Romney’s remarks: I was actually hoping the president would bring Joe Biden along this evening, because he’ll laugh at anything.
In today’s GoLocalProv, RISC’s Harriet Lloyd concurs with the reservations of Common Cause’s John Marion about an election loophole exploited by Capitol TV, resulting in the taxpayer funded promotion of incumbent legislators – strangely, all Democrat ones. Just last week, Capitol TV ran “interviews” in which the legislature’s $70,687-ayear inhouse TV host, Dave Barber, gave…
The Daily Mail (UK) reports. The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week. The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. It is interesting that this news…
The Social Security “trust fund” is expected to run out of money in 2033; the Medicare “trust fund” in 2024. Last year, Rhode Island finally faced and addressed – okay, only partially addressed … actually, only partially AND with the inclusion of a trojan horse – the insolvency of its state public employee pension fund.…
WPRO reports that Democrats have accused Brendan Doherty of not caring about civil rights because he did not confirm that he would attend a particular forum tomorrow night. Huh, interesting. Taking a look at the agenda and the press coverage, it appears that David Cicilline did not participate in either of the Publick Occurrences events,…
–> The latest proposal for fighting global warming: we need to set in motion help from “above”. To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. –> Oopsie, sea levels are not rising…
The … Er, Evolution of the Obama Administration’s Explanation for the Attack on Our Embassy in Libya
An illuminating (thought the Obama administration might not appreciate it) timeline presented by the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
Due to technical issues, I heard only scattered snippets of the debate last night (so I did not realize how it went until learning this morning that they were all but rushing counselors and a case of Zoloft to stricken MSNBC commentators). At one point, however, the livestream kicked in just at the moment that…
Even if six things are going on at work, as they were today, I can usually grab what is being said on the radio, even if only on a tertiary level of attention. But this shorted my brain out with an audible sizzle when I heard it during a news break of the John Gibson…