Blue v. Red
An interesting call to the Dan Yorke Show as I was nearing home on my commute. The caller started out complaining about the corrupt, one-party political system in Rhode Island and then suggested that he simply couldn’t vote for Republicans because, while he’s fiscally conservative, he’s socially liberal. He included opposition to the welfare state…
The Providence Journal ran this story on the front page, Saturday, with the headline “Stealth GOP effort helped Brown win.” The first paragraphs surely give comfort to those who continue to prefer that the upset not be proof of real grassroots unrest and voter discontent with the Democrats’ policies: The stunning Republican come-from-behind victory in…
I’ve been meaning to point out a problem with Lefteris Pavlides’s objection to a recent report that Rhode Island is among the unhappiest states in the country. Declares Pavlides: Year after year the so-called “happy” states are on the top of broken homes and children in single families. For my money whole, two-parent families have…
It’s a curious standard, that which Edward Fitzpatrick applies to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s objectionable remarks on the Senate floor: No doubt, those lines gave voice to the Democratic anger and frustration that mounts every time Sarah Palin posts more nonsense on Facebook. … Perhaps it’s good for Rhode Island to have a fiery, outspoken senator…
One further observation of interest with respect to Sen. Whitehouse’s stridency is the target of his claims: However much he actually believes that Republicans are obstructing process and feeding off fear, he’s surely comfortable assuming that he’s safe from personal attack and that the nation is safe from the actual atrocities of which he warns.…
Frankly, I believe a newspaper should have the right to take this sort of action, but I think it sufficiently outrageous that advertisers and readers should react negatively: Larry Grard, 58, of Winslow covered the November election for Maine Today, the vote in which Maine citizens rejected homosexual “marriage.” Subsequently, he received a press release…
I’ve been meaning to offer kudos for this excellent letter by David Carlin, who is, somewhat surprisingly, a sociology and philosophy professor at CCRI: The question of whether or not anti-SSM people are motivated by bigotry is an empirical question, and I submit (as would Dr. Harrop, I believe) that if their motives were empirically…
Further to Robert Wright’s specious left-wing argument that we shouldn’t battle terrorist organizations abroad because it might set off a few loons at home, take a moment to ponder this revelation: A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with “fed” scrawled on his chest killed himself but…
Wherein I respond to an op-ed by Rep. David Segal (D, Providence) suggesting that the grassroots tea party movement that so opposes the current establishment in Rhode Island would have naturally been inclined to support the old establishment back in the 1800s:
Curious to note that today marks the third time in four days that the Providence Journal has run the governor-as-bigot story on the front page. And unless I’ve missed it, the paper’s reporters have yet to indicate that they’ve any interest in disrupting that there is nobody in Rhode Island whose views fall within any…
