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Further to Patrick’s post, I cannot resist re-posting what has become one of my favorite political videos, prepared and released earlier this year by the Hinckley for Senate campaign.
You’d have to be living under a rock around here if you’re not aware of the accusations of sexual harassment that have been leveled against John DePetro by WPRO co-worker Dee DeQuattro (the complaint can be found here). Yesterday DePetro talked to RI Future’s Bob Plain (who also used to work for WPRO) in an…
I think we’re seeing that the problem is more organizational. Or maybe it just starts at the top and filters down. Now even the Providence Journal is accusing the Cicilline campaign of umm, well, not exactly telling the truth. In today’s Politifact report, Cicilline earned a “False” rating. A David Cicilline campaign flier says Brendan…
Via Andrew Malcolm at Investors Business Daily. Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan directly takes on President Obama and explains how his health care reform cost more–not save–money thanks to double-counting and other gimmicks.
And he even said so himself. she’s (Hillary Clinton) easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. Then-Vice-Presidential Candidate Joe Biden September 10, 2008 Ok, the quote is four years old. I’m rehashing old stuff. I get that. But…
Ah, yes. And they wonder why many of us are wary of binding arbitration. A Department of Public Works employee who was fired after being arrested on charges he stole from the city, has won the fight to get his job back and will receive approximately nine months in back pay. Kenneth Naylor, 48, of…
As the Wall Street Journal writes: There’s no excuse in particular for letting the White House claim that Mr. Ryan would “end Medicare as we know it” because that is demonstrably false. Late last year, Mr. Ryan joined Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden in introducing a version of his reform that explicitly retains Medicare as…
Over the weekend, two people whose opinions I value disagreed — with disconcerting vociferousness — with my objection to the innovation that the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity is calling “dependency portals.” When that happens, there are two possibilities: either my gut aversion was wrong and my reasoning was mere rationalization, or I’m not…
I enjoyed watching the first two debates on Newsmakers. The first, between Senator DaPonte and Rep. DaSilva where I’m still trying to figure out whose pay grade it was that should have known about the $75M being intended for 38 Studios. If it wasn’t the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, then who? Then this…
Robert Oscar Lopez writes of the internal confusion he dealt with being raised by his lesbian mother and her partner. Quite simply, growing up with gay parents was very difficult, and not because of prejudice from neighbors….When your home life is so drastically different from everyone around you, in a fundamental way striking at basic…