Democrats on the March
Local NEA agitator Patrick Crowley recently had a piece in the ProJo in which he piggybacks a call for a popular uprising within a book review (The Uprising by David Sirota). I haven’t read the book, but I’m familiar with Sirota’s progressive populist leanings and take them for what they are (ie; I don’t dig…
According to John Mulligan at the ProJo, it looks like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will follow the lead of fellow Democrats Jim Langevin, Barack Obama and Jack Reed and vote to approve the FISA bill (Andrew had more details and analysis of the bill here and here). As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen.…
Apparently Congressman Langevin has voted in favor of FISA. Local progressives are apoplectic, throwing around the DINO label (what kind of Democrat is pro-life!). It also seems that the fact that Congressman Langevin is Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee (Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats) is not so much indicative of his familiarity with the issue…
Based on David Scharfenberg‘s story in today’s Projo, I have to conclude that Cranston City Councilwoman and possible Mayoral candidate Paula McFarland hasn’t been paying much attention to her party’s Presidential primary…McFarland, who is finishing a fifth term on the council, said it is important for the party to settle on a candidate in the…
Ya know, if the current resident of the Oval Office had talked about visiting all 57 States in America or had momentarily slipped up by complaining that we didn’t have enough Arabic translators in non-Arabic speaking Afghanistan, I do believe the Daily Show and Colbert Report would have been all over it. But when He…
Is this a sign that today’s tough economic times are affecting even the ultra-rich liberal set? That For Sale sign on the front lawn of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s Elmgrove Avenue house in Providence is not an optical illusion. The senator and his wife, Sandra, are selling the house and consolidating their family at their house…
His appetite for late night weiners temporarily sated, State Sen. Juan Pichardo was one of those unveiling a “stop hate campaign” today: Advocacy groups and legislators today announced a campaign against hate and hate speech in Rhode Island that will call on all Rhode Islanders to participate. The initiative was prompted by a recent incident…
… do they get tired of their own rhetoric? More importantly, at what point does everybody start to catch on? I’m referring to the comments of Anne Nolan, president of Crossroads Rhode Island, with which Charles Bakst ended his column, yesterday: I said Carcieri is well educated and asked Nolan what she thinks his problem…
Just weaving together a couple of threads….first: [T]he Federal Election Commission handed Americans Coming Together the third-largest fine ever levied by the agency. The $775,000 fine against ACT followed an FEC investigation that found the group, which was organized for the 2004 campaign with substantial funding and active encouragement from Soros, spent $70 million of…
Yeah, Jon Stewart has honed his knives at the expense of many a conservative…but here he takes a stab at some liberal hypocrites. Via Watthead.
