Monique Chartier
Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of General Electric was a guest this morning on ABC’s This Week. He describes his company’s first hand experience with Rhode Island’s anti-business climate and how it is the “Don’t” model for dealing with a financial crisis. [Commenter Mike points us to this item.] The New York Times this…
Possibly hoping to tap disenchantment with the recent performance of the stock market, Workforce Management reports that Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George…
You know, for a gang that claims to be enamoured of regulations and regulating, too many Democrats sure dropped the regulation ball when it came to mortgage guidelines and Fannie and Freddie. One of the more egregious offenders as we now know was Congressman Barney Frank. From September 9’s Wall Street Journal. At least the…
Setting aside for a moment matters of substance as well as my own preference in the presidential race, Senator Obama has to be saying to himself right about now, “Why didn’t someone tell me about this guy’s mouth?” Enter Joe Biden. Yesterday, the Republican camp was trying to score some points from speeches the Delaware…
Under Donald’s post “Multiple choice options regarding Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment”, commenter Phil remarks I cannot ignore the presence in R.I. of Republican conservatives and the detrimental effect it has on the place I live. Yes, let’s talk about some detrimental effects inflicted on the state by a particular political party and ideology. –…
The RIGOP has filed a formal request to investigate possible Hatch Act violations by the following candidates for the General Assembly. Elaine Coderre, House District 50 (incumbent) Grace Diaz, House District 11 (incumbent) Arthur Handy, House District 18 (incumbent) Beatrice Lanzi, Senate District 26 MaryAnn Shallcross, House District 46 Anastasia Williams, House District 9 (incumbent)…
… not to a drug incident but to a prior campaign. From Toby Harnden, US Editor of the Telegraph (UK); h/t the Drudge Report. Joe Biden is enjoying himself so much on the campaign trail that occasionally he gets to thinking he’s about to become president. “In a Biden…an Obama-Biden administration,” he said during an…
(The first was American. This one is African.) NewsBusters’s Kerry Picket asks When Will The MSM Report On Obama’s Support for Kenyan Tyrant Raila Odinga? In 2006, US Senator Barack Obama went to Kenya (at the expense of the American taxpayer) and campaigned for Raila Odinga, a man running for the presidency of that country.…
Aren’t Democrats supposed to represent the common man? The work-a-day joe? Sure, here we go – from the official website of the Democrat National Committee: an abiding faith in the judgment of hardworking American families, and a commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor strengthen our nation by earning themselves a piece…
In view of the stunning effect – the voiding of an election – of their non-action yesterday in the matter of Stephen Alves’ request for a new election, I wonder if the RI Supreme Court was simply unaware in pragmatic terms of the effect of their decision in the context of dates and ballot printing…