Voluntary Pilot School Choice in Cranston/Providence
I just checked in at the conservative blog, Anchorrising.com, and learned that Mayor Laffey has proposed a voluntary pilot school choice program between Cranston and Providence. Wasn’t I just saying something about this being a better way to address the problem than arresting impoverished and desperate parents? Now the Mayor is introducing such plan. Hmmm, [...]
Countdown to 2008 — Counting On Hillary?
Mark your calendars. There are now 300 shopping days until Christmas and 980 politicking days until the 2008 Presidential election. Despite the lack of imminence of either event, people are already shopping and politicking. (Is there really much of a difference? Caveat emptor.) According to crack political strategist (which is no more than a political [...]
Listening to Seniors and the Disabled
We are watching the Rhode Island Senate race closely here at Kmareka. One thing that I notice, and I’ve commented on it before, is that Whitehouse is doing the better job of listening to real people when it comes to health care and the new prescription drug plan. Here is the latest entry from his [...]
Bush Fiddles While Climate Changes
With each passing day and each new bit of calamitous news that greets my senses like pepper spray, I become more and more convinced that George W. Bush is a latter-day Nero, fiddling away while the world falls into ruin. I would almost find it entertaining, were the man not so completely out of tune [...]
Why is NARAL Not Endorsing Whitehouse or Brown in RI?
Jane Hamsher asks a very good question. Why is NARAL continuing to endorse Lincoln Chafee when they clearly have much more solid pro-choice candidates in the state’s leading Democrats, Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown? What is up with NARAL? Hamsher contends that they have become money-grubbing Washington insiders who no longer serve the cause for [...]
The Need To Speak Out In An Age Of Oppression
First, Cindy Sheehan was hauled away by the Capitol Police for wearing a t-shirt that said “2245 Dead. How Many More?� (The number of U.S. fatalities in Iraq is now up to 2290, by the way.) Then, one week later, Dwight Scarbrough—a Navy veteran currently employed as a scientist for a federal agency in Boise, [...]
Boycott Mount Rushmore — Protest Ban on Abortion
South Dakota has thrown down the gauntlet to those who support a woman’s right to choose to terminate an unplanned pregnancy. Yesterday, the legislature approved a measure that would “make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman’s life. It would make no exception in cases [...]
Iceland’s Sportacus to the Rescue
Learn to do the signature move of Sportacus! Sometimes your children are the bringers of new things into your life, and this is the case with Sportacus. He is the action hero of Lazy Town, a show on Nick Jr. which debuted in August of 2004, and now has about 7 million viewers. The show’s [...]
The Case for Impeachment — It’s Becoming Mainstream
This billboard is from the Carl Sheeler campaign for US Senate in Rhode Island. Carl Sheeler is running as a Democrat. Right now in the polls he is showing about 3-5% support. So he will most likely not win the primary. But he is the “Impeach Bush” candidate, and there’s something to be said for [...]
The Plane Truth
I keep having the same disturbing dream. I am on a crowded airplane flying through clouds thick with moisture. George W. Bush is piloting the plane. Riding shotgun as co-pilot is Dick Cheney. Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld are flight attendants, but they are dressed as cheerleaders. The service is poor to non-existent, except for [...]
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