Blue v. Red
National Education Association of Rhode Island Executive Director Bob Walsh expresses puzzlement over Colleen Conley’s being allowed to be the spokesperson for the RI Tea Party: on Buddy’s show on Ch. 6 on Sunday – he went fairly easy on her after she could not answer basic questions about the size of RI’s budget or…
In the seven years or so since Fox News came on the scene in a real big way, the back and forth about which station is conservative and which is liberal has become redundant, and it’s rare that examples are interesting, but an email from Our Country Deserves Better PAC highlights a telling scene. Here…
Sometimes, one reads statements that leave the impression that the center line of American politics is a portal from one reality — with its own intellectual and moral standards — and another. Among the (predictable) criticisms being directed toward the Providence tea party is that the vast majority of those in attendance were light skinned,…
I have to say that I’m disappointed at this quotation from Tom Sgouros in a Providence Business News article: The burden of state and local taxes has shifted from upper-income to middle-income Americans over the last two decades, “so people have a right to be angry, because the vast number of people are paying more…
This is a topic that I intend to consider from a couple of angles for some posts tomorrow, but it’s worth making the general suggestion that attempts by various folks to define yesterday’s tea party in Providence as something that it wasn’t, or in a light that doesn’t really apply, suggests that they just don’t…
Stream, Download This is one of those times in history when a society must make a decision. Social commentators of the near future will say one of two things about us: If we fail to be heard, then these tea parties, these expressions of outrage across the nation, are the final lunge of a fading…
Ed Achorn’s column, yesterday, is more relevant to today’s demonstration than may seem at first to be the case: What’s at the center of [Brown’s Columbus Day] debate, and others like it, is whether we believe in our civilization anymore. Growing numbers of people seem to be losing faith in it. To my mind, Columbus…
Stephen DiGianfilippo of East Greenwich ponders whom the stimulus actually stimulates: Like most members of Congress, I, too, lacked the time to actually read the 1,000-plus pages of the so-called “stimulus package.” From what I understand from media coverage, however, it provides funds for things like Food Stamps and “free” health care; “tax cuts” for…
It’s a tragicomic truism that members of the cultural movement, with roots in the “Sexual Revolution,” that presses for the acceptance of ever more licentious behavior, that peppers popular culture with lewd images and innuendo, and that leverages carnal lust as an enticement toward the trap of its radical worldview often accuse those who stand…
Overwhelming obligations and only mild interest have limited the attention that I’ve paid to the JournoList controversy with which readers of the national conservative blogosphere will surely be familiar. Now that the discussion has transitioned into one of the semantics of racism, however, a brief comment is irresistible. By way of background, New Republic publisher…
