Monique Chartier
That Newt Gingrich’s participation in the discussion on anthropogenic global warming has taken this form is disappointing. By appearing in an ad with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and looking around for solutions (even market based ones), Gingrich has lent his credibility to the erroneous propositions that 1.) man has caused this phenomenon and 2.)…
The following bills were scheduled to be heard by the House Finance Committee today at 1:00 pm instead of late afternoon at the Rise of the House. House Bill No. 7791 BY Moffitt, Mumford, Story, Singleton, Loughlin ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES — PUBLIC ASSISTANCE {LC2210} (require the department of human services to…
Camille Paglia writes in yesterday’s Telegraph: All women, on pain of excommunication from the feminist claque, must now support Hillary. Never mind her spotty record or her naked political expediency. Any woman with the temerity to endorse Barack Obama (as I do) is condemned as a “traitor” to her sex. “Gender is probably the most…
My grimly favorite reaction to the protests which dogged the Olympic flame through London, Paris and other cities was by a Beijing Olympic official, curiously not named in this government sanctioned article, who said that the protests “blasphemed the Olympic spirit.” The irony that the actions of the goons and thugs who have ruled China…
Candidates and advocates are told to stay on message. Such advice is sound only if the “message” contains a modicum of truthfulness or at least believability. Both of these qualities have been noticeably absent from the speeches and rhetoric of those who oppose the Governor’s executive order on illegal immigration and related bills. Friday’s rally…
The custody hearing over the 416 children removed from the polygamist sect by the State of Texas got off to a hectic start. A court hearing to decide the fates of hundreds of children seized from a polygamist retreat was off to a chaotic start Thursday as hundreds of lawyers in two different locations demanded…
In a letter to the Providence Journal, Mr. Dennis Odell of Smithfield gives him a “U” for Unsatisfactory. The other week, Rhode Island Atty. Gen. Patrick Lynch publicly opposed an offshore LNG terminal (“Lynch blasts LNG plan,” April 3). What does this have to do with law enforcement? Last month he supported Sen. Barack Obama…
Senator Stephen Alves (D – West Warwick) has proposed a graduated tax on gross corporate revenue. Moving swiftly (because, obviously, Senator Alves did also) past Rhode Island’s already repellent corporate tax climate and the fact that the budget crisis will not be solved by raising taxes of any sort, by the senator’s own numbers, a…
The newest addition to the list of “reasons” that the Governor’s Executive Order and various legislative initiatives on illegal immigration should not be undertaken is that the actual number of undocumented immigrants in the state is unknown. Mr. Jaime Aguayo of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Hispanic Affairs made such an argument yesterday morning on…
Sir Elton, isn’t it possible that some people oppose Senator Clinton’s candidacy on the basis of issues and character and not because they hate women? And how can we resist flipping it around? In the unlikely event Condoleezza Rice ever runs for office, will you support her or will you be a misogynist? British pop…