Seeding the Grass Roots
Noting the fates of previous grassroots movements, Patrick Ruffini suggests to Tea Partiers: “Hitch yourself to established power institutions at your own peril.” That doesn’t mean that they should ignore the Republican Party, refuse to participate in it, or fail to work with its established members. It does mean preserving an independent priority. Indeed, Ruffini…
Here’s my speech to the RI Tea Party meeting, on Wednesday: The speech is only incidentally a sales pitch, but it’s worth tagging on the reminder that you can email or call (401-835-7156) me to pledge financial support — as subscriptions, donations, or advertising — for 2011, helping to create a full-time job doing what…
Like Anchor Rising, the Rhode Island Tea Party is beginning to prepare folks for the two-year build-up to the next election. Part of the motivation is, of course, more immediate, because there are going to be plenty of battles to fight at the local, state, and national levels in the interim. With that in view,…
Sorry for the lack of posts. The Katz household is recovering from the hurricane. (Isn’t yours?) The day has not gone to waste, though. I’ve got a new song to add to the “Sing for Unity” album that I’ve created on my MP3 player: Of course, the album started as a collection of outrageous Obama…
A lot has been said about the August 28th rally on the Mall last weekend. As a non-Beck guy (not anti- just agnostic) and having a lot to do last weekend, I frankly didn’t pay too much attention to the event and the aftermath. Now that I’ve caught up a bit, I think Rich Lowry…
Beck’s Restoring Honor rally kicks off at 10 this morning. C-Span will cover it live. Members of Rainy Day Patriots will be posting photos here. If so inclined, any Rhode Islanders in attendance are encouraged to send photos, videos or live action reports to A.R. during or after the event.
Browsing around on a google search to see whether an l.t.e. by S.K. Town Council candidate Andrew McNulty got printed (apparently I’m too proud to just ask), I stumbled on this. With heavy emphasis on scaling back the size and spending (there isn’t a non-cliche adjective that properly describes how out of hand both have…
It may seem an odd adjective to use in describing a person in such an establishment role as the Providence Journal‘s Commentary page editor, but in writing and conversation Robert Whitcomb is an iconoclastic figure. His take on the reason for dissipating civic engagement among the young, in the United States, highlights the characteristic. Whitcomb’s…
The Rhode Island Statewide Coalition (RISC) recently announced that it has “reached a threshold of $100,000 in a combination of pledges, direct contributions and seed money which will be used to help pro-business candidates from any political party this election season.” Now it’s enlisted the world-famous-in-Rhode-Island Arlene Violet to steer the truck: The RISC Business…
I’ve been meaning to mention the Congressional appearance of the Ocean State Policy Research Institute: The Ocean State Policy Research Institute (OSPRI) today issued an appeal to the Rhode Island Attorney General asking for intervention in the Open Records Request sent to his appointed counsel in the lead paint case who is now being considered…
