Democrats on the March
Mass senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren purports to represent the little guy. Just ask her website. Washington is rigged to work for those who can hire an army of lobbyists and an army of lawyers to get special deals. It isn’t working for small businesses and middle class families. That has to change. It’s turning out,…
Why freedom demands father-daughter dances; the U.S., less free; PolitiFact gets a Half Fair rating for its Doherty correction; and the mainstream media cashes in some of its few remaining credibility chips for the presidential incumbent. Continue reading on the Ocean State Current…
Under Patrick’s post questioning the alleged War on Women, commenter Candace McCall remarks stop pretending you don’t know this is about abortion and contraceptive rights. We’ll take them one at a time. #1, Abortion: there is nothing new this election on the issue. So this is not about abortion. #2. There is, however, a new…
We hear all about this “War on Women” that the Democrats like to claim that the Republicans are waging. First, I think these “wars” are silly. It cheapens what the word means. Comparing policy to dropping bombs on a people certainly cheapens the term. But hey, while we’re at it, can we ask why the…
President Obama’s teleprompter style has been the subject of substantial (often mocking) critical commentary, and with some justification, as this nearly parodic 2010 video from a Virginia classroom proves: Given recent political events, one can sympathize with the desire of public officials to avoid extemporaneous speech. In a world in which one’s every public utterance…
Last week, Tom Sgouros at RI Future wrote a piece explaining how President Obama hadn’t really grown government that much; that there wasn’t a “spending binge.” To support his claim, he posted a chart from a piece written by Rex Nutting. The problem was that the Nutting piece has been completely taken apart by the…
… that’s not my characterization, it’s Margery Eagan’s, not exactly a raving right winger. To back up a little, last week, the Boston Herald learned that Elizabeth Warren, the Dem opponent of Senator Scott Brown (R-MA; can you believe it?!), had claimed Native American heritage. Elizabeth Warren’s avowed Native American heritage — which the candidate…
Fitch’s downgrade of Providence’s bonds has brought out in a big way David Cicilline’s propensity to tell whoppers. [Cicilline spokesman Richard] Luchette said the three-step downgrade by Fitch “confirms what both [Cicilline] and Mayor Taveras have said is the root cause of Providence’s economic problems How does this correspond, first of all, to his repeatedly…
It’s an age-old journalists’ “gotcha” question. The mere asking of it assumes that the responder has at one time beat his wife. It’s also a tactic that we see being used today in a press release by the RI Democratic party and its chairman, Ed Pacheco. In the release, Pacheco seems to be grasping at…
According to David Scharfenberg and his headline writers at the Providence Phoenix, David Cicilline is making a comeback. The same David Cicilline who had a 17% approval rating. The same David Cicilline who said he left Providence in “excellent fiscal condition”. The same David Cicilline who first blocked city auditors from the books, then stated…
