Does The US Welfare System Benefit Jihadists?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 24th at 12:00 PM  | 

Our government, our media and the increasingly auto-beclowning supporters of our current national Zeitgeist strive manfully athwart ratiocination to rapidly disconnect the dots on The Boston Marathon Terror Bombing. Like the brilliant government bureaucrat who classified the Major Nidal Hasan’s Fort Hood Jihad Spray-Job as workplace violence, they aren’t lying per se. They’re just bull-(radio edit). Like the evil Jack Nicholson character in A Few Good Men, their operational assumption with respect to the American People is “You can’t handle the truth.”

The truth we supposedly can’t handle, quite simply is this.

State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam — was working up to 80 hours a week as a home health aide while Tsarnaev stayed at home. In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state. The news raises questions over whether Tsarnaev financed his radicalization on taxpayer money *

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Union Briefs for Thurs., March 14, 2013: The Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 14th at 06:30 AM  | 

When Barack Obama did the bidding of his union bosses by unilaterally declaring the Senate in recess and appointing three members to his National Labor Relations Board, he probably did not realize the fall out to his actions–or perhaps he did.

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David Cicilline (D, RI-01) admits lying about Providence’s fiscal health.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 13th at 11:30 AM  | 

Via Legal Insurrection comes this absolute gem of a confession from former Providence mayor (and current representative for Rhode Island’s First Congressional District) David Cicilline: Congressman David Cicilline offered a public apology and expressed regret Tuesday for saying during his 2010 campaign that Providence was in “excellent financial condition.” “I should not have used that word,” Cicilline said in a wide-ranging interview with WPRI 12. | Read More »

Time And Reality Are Rhode Island’s Deadly Enemies

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  October 24th at 01:30 PM  | 

Time waits for no one, no favours has he Time waits for no one, and he won’t wait for me – The Rolling Stones (HT:Sing365.com) If mathematics were as linear as the passage of time, Rhode Island would have a public pension inconvenience. This sadly does not hold true. Interest on borrowed money increases debt in an exponential fashion. The promises made to older working | Read More »

Rhode Island and Voter ID

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  October 10th at 10:06 AM  | 

Today, the New York Times has an editorial attacking so-called voter ID bills. According to Democratic and New York Times (but I repeat myself) mythmaking, voter ID is a racist Republican scheme to stop minorities and Democrats from voting: Of course the Republicans passing these laws never acknowledge their real purpose, which is to turn away from the polls people who are more likely to | Read More »

Jack McConnell: Obama’s Anti-Business and Pro-Abortion Judicial Nominee

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  May 4th at 09:40 AM  | 

A lifetime appointment to the federal bench is now selling for $700,000. At least that was the cost for Rhode Island judicial nominee Jack McConnell, who has donated that sum of money to Democrats in the two decades before President Obama tapped him for federal district court. McConnell faces a Senate confirmation vote as early as today, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown that | Read More »

Meet The Newest Democratic Party Governor

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 14th at 05:08 PM  | 

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Lincoln Chafee. He currently serves as the politically independent governor of Rhode Island. In a recent interview with WPRI, Chafee seemed to toss around the idea of being a Democrat. Chafee’s typical vapid non-speak follows below. The next gubernatorial election is “a long way away” and running as a Democrat “would be a hard step, just because of history,” | Read More »

Frank Caprio (D CAND, RI-GOV), racist.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 25th at 01:30 PM  | 

Well… if by ‘racist’ you mean ‘insufficiently respectful towards the President,’ which I understand is how the Democrats define the term these days.  Caprio is a little upset that President Obama isn’t endorsing him in what is turning out to be a very close gubernatorial election between him and ‘independent’ Lincoln Chafee.  So in classic sour-grapes fashion Caprio has decided that he doesn’t want Obama’s | Read More »

A metric ton of new polling today

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 6th at 08:00 PM  | 

Good evening. We have a great deal of new polling that’s flooded in. Much of it is interesting too, so rather than pick and choose which polls I’ll cover in depth and which I will omit, instead I’ll give a quick look at all the good ones. We’ve got Senate races in Nevada, Connecticut, West Virginia, Ohio, New York, Missouri, and Delaware, plus races for | Read More »

Governors matter.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 28th at 02:31 PM  | 

At RedState we’ve hammered for a long time the idea that your local politics matter. We also give plenty of attention to federal elections for the House, the Senate, and of course the President. But governors matter, too. The next governor of South Carolina will affect us all. As will Georgia’s, Ohio’s, and Oregon’s. It doesn’t matter where you live. These Governors, as well as | Read More »