Seeding the Grass Roots
Appearing on the Matt Allen Show, last night, Marc discussed the tea party with Matt and described the “resigned determination” of we who keep banging our head against the wall of Rhode-apathy and the corruption that it enables. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Will Ricci filled the gap on his Facebook page, but it didn’t occur to me, yesterday, to try to get pictures of all of the speakers at the Gaspee Tea Party, as I focused instead on the people in the crowd and the message that they’re sending via their hand-made signs. (MikeinRI has photos up,…
As ought to have been expected, the crowd is a bit smaller today than it was for the initial tea party — about, truth to tell — what I expected last time, probably a little south of 1,000, although I offer the usual disclaimers about being terrible with on-site estimating:
The second RI Tea Party, the Gaspee Tea Party, will be held from 4-6 today in front of the State house and will focus on local issues. Here is the list of speakers (PDF). Here is list of House and Senate bills that the RI Tea Party organizers suggest voting AGAINST: H5282 BY Guthrie, Pacheco,…
As I intimated yesterday, conservatives’ appropriate fear of populist movements connects with our conviction that the nexus of power and desire ought to be checked. (One can be fearful even of that which is necessary, of course.) During Friday night’s all–Anchor Rising Violent Roundtable on the Matt Allen Show, Marc and Matt kicked off a…
Former CIA official Herbert Meyer has an excellent article about the Left’s strategy and methods for radically transforming the United States of America, touching on some broad themes in current events: At the core of democracy is the rule of law, and we have already lost it. The liberals lecture us incessantly that everything is…
The Phoenix’s David Scharfenberg took the recent Tea Parties as indicative of something and looked into how the right side of Rhode Island–both overtly partisan like the RI GOP and RIRA and non-partisan, grassroots organizations like OSPRI & RISC–are working toward changing the political landscape in the Ocean State. Oh, and some blogger gets a…
Well, it’s some sort of milestone, I suppose, to be denounced by name in a mailing to the email list of Tiverton Youth Soccer (with which my children are not currently involved): Hi all, It is that time of the year again…. time for me to urge each of you to attend Tiverton’s Financial Town…
Herewith, the text of my speech at the Tiverton Citizens for Change Taxpayer Forum on Monday night. (Audio, with some extemporaneous differences: stream, download [5min 29sec]) Let’s be honest. For most of us, this whole civic participation thing is a chore. It’s a responsibility. We stay informed; we vote; and really that should be enough.…
