Monique Chartier
Further to Justin’s post, the homeless shelter on Prairie Avenue in Providence, one of two in the state required to accept predators, is next to (that would be next to) Edmund W. Flynn Elementary School. As the host city of the other homeless shelter required to accept predators, Cranston is understandably up in arms because…
Matt Allen asked a good question this evening: would this be acceptable if it does, in fact, focus solely on cars involved in real crimes? The Police Department is going to try out a new gizmo installed on its cruisers to automatically read motor-vehicle license plates and give officers a quick read-out of whether a…
It looks as though President Obama is holding off on comprehensive immigration reform. Even if it would be more corect to append a “for now” to that sentence, the president is to be applauded for doing so. What caught my eye was this. “I’m just surprised at how muted the reaction has been to Obama’s…
… though snows would be the more accurate verb. Ha! (Additional silly jokes supplied upon request.) The sun is the least active it’s been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which…
(… his real name is Michael Weiner?) From the BBC News. Islamic extremists, white supremacists and a US radio host are among the 16 of 22 excluded in the five months to March to have been named by the Home Office. Since 2005, the UK has been able to ban people who promote hatred, terrorist…
And speaking of fibbing, someone’s fingers slipped when entering recipient e-mail addresses and a draft memo outlining a … rebranding campaign for global warming got wider distribution than intended. From Friday’s New York Times; h/t Drudge. The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.” The term turns people off, fostering images of…
… pointing out that the RI Supreme Court 1.) has messed up 2.) by skipping past grounds to exonerate William Irons. The attorney general argues the high court need not take up the constitutional question at all, that the Ethics Commission itself issued an advisory opinion that gave Irons the OK to cast legislative votes…
NewsBuster’s Noel Sheppard points to the results of a Pew Research survey released Thursday. For the first time in a Pew Research survey, nearly as many people believe it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns (45%) than to control gun ownership (49%). As recently as a year ago, 58%…
Our coverage this time is courtesy of Joe Bernstein who, along with myself, was one of over a hundred in attendance at the event Wednesday night. Joe walked right by me that night without saying “hi”, not that I’m calling him a snob. But in his comments under Justin’s post, Joe channelled and articulated my…
Or vacations. Or home remodeling. Or a down payment. Whatever a second home mortgage will buy. Today’s Washington Post reports that taxpayers will be picking up part of the cost of these goodies for distressed (second) mortgagors. The Obama administration unveiled an expansion of its $75 billion foreclosure prevention plan yesterday, providing new subsidies to…