Monique Chartier
This is simply unacceptable. The president has openly admitted that he has walked away from two of the paramount duties of his office: the preservation of his country’s sovereignty and the protection of his country’s citizens, legal immigrants and guests. [H/T Glenn Beck.] On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience…
Further to my post about the inadvertent rudeness of modern technology, CNET’s Jasmine France has put pen to paper … er, electrons to screen and outlined some “Mobile Manners”, starting with the date. … I can’t even begin to tell you how many stories I’ve read or heard regarding significant others’ downright rude use of…
In yesterday’s Providence Journal, House Speaker Gordon Fox describes how the new Rhode Island fireworks law came to be. “It was my intention to put it in just to get the discussion going for next year,” Fox said. “And the members just liked it. So next thing I know, they’re like, ‘We want to vote…
A half inch piece of plastic. H/T WPRO’s John Depetro; kudos to WPRI Eyewitness News for exposing this palpable danger (or something) to the students of Tiogue School: Eight-year-old David Morales says he made the camouflage hat with army men on top, as a school project. The hat was more than just a fashion statement,…
Friday’s Investor’s Business Daily. Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans. The “midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their…
So in early April, Governor Deval Patrick’s Division of Insurance rejected most of the rate increases for individual and small business plans which Mass insurers requested, marking the first time the state had flexed its authority in this way. But, though most of us have a love/hate view of them, insurers are just the man…
Further to my post pointing to the Hummel Report about overpriced school repairs carried out by Iron Construction under the authorization of Mayor Moreau, someone kindly sent along a list of campaign contributions made by the president of that company. Let’s see. Thanks to Hummel, we know what Mr. Depasquale appears to have received by…
This week’s Hummel Report [h/t WPRO’s John Depetro] returns to the scene of a prior potential crime to discover that Mayor Charles Moreau has had a heavy hand in choosing the vendors for repairs to Central Falls schools [Superintendent Fran] Gallo quickly found out, though, Mayor Moreau held the checkbook, and was calling all of…
Courtesy Ocean State Follies
In an American Thinker article in February, Andrew Walden points to a startling and very unpublicized fact about wind power. In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills. Now, some of the older ones would have been discarded for newer technology.…