Monique Chartier
A third ACORN office has been videotaped giving tax evasion and federal mortgage application tips to a couple who purported to be establishing a brothel for underage girls smuggled into the country. This follows upon the exposure in 2008 of multi-state, multi-year voter registration fraud. The Brooklyn District Attorney has opened an investigation into the…
The bad news is that they are among the lowest paid in the state, accordingly to the president of the Pawtucket Teachers Alliance, Charleen Christy. The good news, however, is on a multitude of fronts. First, as they teach in Rhode Island, Pawtucket teachers are still in the top twenty percent pay bracket nationwide. Next,…
The Gaspee [correction] The Brig Beaver (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) The Crowd The Theme Flagage A name that’s been in the news lately … Right to assemble, right of free speech, right to wear a Spiderman hat: new Americans exercising some of their new rights
Under “Liveblogging the President’s Healthcare Speech”, Justin comments It’s almost nauseating to hear politicians argue for a “public option” on the basis that competition is so limited, when the reason is clearly government regulation and mandates. This is an excellent point also raised recently by Andrew. Health care reform is being designed not upon the…
Stephen Spruiell over at The Corner on National Review brings up something that has troubled me for a while: green jobs cannot exist outside of the vacuum of government subsidies and mandates. In fact, he points out that their survival is dubious even with such props and cudgels. To buy into the “green jobs” scam,…
In explaining why former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones was not vetted for the position, an exercise that might have prevented the brouhaha that arose out of revelations of certain of his extreme political positions and his eventual resignation, the White House downplayed the power and importance of the position of the Green Jobs Czar.…
In a state with 13% unemployment and high taxes that go, in part, to fund the not ungenerous compensation of public employees such as Ms. Esposito, do you suppose the Providence Journal thinks they’re doing public employees a favor with stories such as this in yesterday’s paper? Linda Esposito, a keeper of vital records for…
Buy blueberry futures. (… or do we sell short now that the news has hit the headlines?) Feeling lazy and stupid? (Hey! Put down the remote, come to the computer and pay attention.) Possibly you’ve been indulging at the State Fair of Texas. Not such Smart Choices? Looks like the new food labeling campaign has…
Would it be an awkward moment to mention this? State and local government workers are enjoying major gains in compensation, pushing the value of their average wages and benefits far ahead of private workers, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data shows. The gap is widening every year, rising by an average $1.02 an hour…
Below is the text of an e-mail invitation to Congressman Langevin’s health care town hall in Westerly tomorrow. [Thanks to Scott Bill Hirst, a registered Republican in Hopkinton, for forwarding. I’m sure rumors that the RNC has now launched a full-blown investigation into the question of your party status, Scott, are completely exaggerated.] I wanted…