Blue v. Red
The forces of tolerance strike again: While the Democrat-leaning media continues to scare undecided voters with bedtime stories about some mythical angry McCain supporter whom nobody has seen, here is a real district attorney’s complaint documenting an unprovoked assault by an enraged Democrat against a McCain volunteer in midtown Manhattan: “Defendant grabbed the sign [informant]…
Whenever Matt Taibbi’s name appears on my computer screen, I pause for a moment to regret that the mainstream has apparently been moving toward him. The first time it happened was in February 2003, when Projo blogger Sheila Lennon gushed over his raw freshness. At the time, I wondered whether it wasn’t a bit unseemly…
Is it me, or is the news editor of the Providence Phoenix increasingly giving the impression of a strident partisan? To be sure, no doubt previously existed as to Ian’s political leanings, but something in this election season seems to be drawing him further across the tightrope spanning the ideological gulf, toward his ticker-tape-talking-point friends.…
Oh to have the financial liberty that David Segal makes evident through his priorities (emphasis added): I can think of nothing that would attract young people to Rhode Island, and keep them around, at a higher rate than expanded transit, and expanded health care — two services that have suffered the most, under the austerity…
PROEM: The streaming link wasn’t working all day, so having fixed it, I’ve moved the post back up to the top of the blog. Sorry for the muddleheadedness. Listen as I stun Matt Allen with my confession that I voted for Sheldon Whitehouse, explain our Engaged Citizen, and summarize Bill Felkner’s post using that feature…
Not to scuttle all that harmony over dreams of a “working waterfront,” but something’s too eerie about this not to highlight it: Launching an invasion while the world news is focused on the Olympics is pretty savy… and a grand first step towards a renewed, major US/Russia confrontation. Yes, quite a clever fellow, that Putin,…
Has anybody else gotten the sense that the Obamanation has the interesting effect of highlighting how extensively the zany intellectual clichés from the academic Left are ingrained in the liberal/Democrat movement? Consider Victor Davis Hanson’s post aptly titled “Postmodern Architecture”: What was stunning about the NY Times’ Bob Herbert’s charge that the McCain campaign, in…
Personal stress and strain is always a factor, but I’ve had a vague sense that dialog is becoming more difficult and the tone of political/ideological debate is becoming more vicious of late. The disclaimer, here, is that I remain deliberately naive; heck, I’ve been surprised to gather first-hand experience of the extent to which the…
Believe it or not, I’m not a big fan of class warfare. I’m a blue-collar capitalist, after all. I break my back merely to get by, but I’m deeply suspicious of plans to grant the government authority to redistribute income away from those who are more likely to have their backs massaged than strained. Still,…
If only progressives’ plans were always this straightforward: Statewide Wifi available everywhere to everyone… for free . And let the cable/telephone companies bid on the right to be the State’s sole provider. How would it be paid for? The company winning the bid to provide the service will maintain sole rights to sell advertising space…