Civil Liberties
Host Richard August discusses recent legal events related to Second Amendment rights with RI Second Amendment Coalition President Frank Soccoccio.
Have Rhode Islanders asked themselves how far they’re willing to let government go prosecuting (or persecuting) political groups that they find objectionable?
John DePetro and Justin Katz take the temperature of Rhode Island politics.
From the beginning, the likelihood that Providence police officer Jeann Lugo would receive a fair hearing was vanishingly small. His political views conflict with those of the ruling class in Rhode Island, and he therefore does not enjoy basic rules of justice and due process. How egregiously brazen this injustice can be is shocking, nonetheless. …
Oddly, that’s a question Melanie DaSilva doesn’t manage to answer in her WPRI article about the plans of local police to put license plate recognition cameras on both sides of the bridge that connects Portsmouth and Bristol. It’s almost as if a paragraph is missing: [Investigating criminal activity is] not what [the cameras will] be…
Justin Katz called it early. Bill Bartholomew’s extremely clipped video of Jeann Lugo striking Jennifer Rourke at the State House melee Friday night is a serious disservice to the truth. Bartholomew’s clipped video doesn’t show what happened leading up to that moment. So you don’t see Jennifer Rourke laying hands on Jeann Lugo. Without his…
The image used as the featured image of this post shows Rhode Island Democrat Governor Dan McKee signing gun control legislation recently at the State House, and even people who support the outcome should be concerned by it. For the good of our states and our country, Americans used to have a clear, if undefined,…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review up-to-the-minute politics in Rhode Island.
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about the ways insiders are missing the point in Rhode Island politics.
No sooner do I resolve to take the summer off from social media than the Lieutenant Governor of the State of Rhode Island, Sabina Matos, decides it’s politically advantageous to involve me in her primary campaign to retain her seat. According to her press release: The Ocean State Current and the Center for Freedom and…