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  • Ron Bloom, Manufacturing Advisor

    The White House announced yesterday that Ron Bloom, Obama’s “car czar,” will be the administration’s senior counselor for manufacturing policy.  The hope is that Bloom will “provide leadership … for the president’s agenda to revitalize the manufacturing sector.”  Bloom will still advise Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on the car industry, [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • The Future of Prostitution in Rhode Island

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    There is a lot of confusion and disagreement regarding the two bills going through the Rhode Island General Assembly right now which seek to criminalize indoor prostitution.  And of greater importance, there is much disagreement surrounding the social benefits and costs of criminalizing prostitution and punishing those involved in the [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:14pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Solving Rhode Island’s Budget Crisis: What Should be Done?

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    We are at a critical point for Rhode Island’s fiscal health. The newest update from the Revenue Estimating Conference shows Rhode Island’s deficit grew by $200 million to a total deficit of $590 million for FY 2010. Since 2004, the structural deficit has grown each year, despite the repeated claim [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 10:09pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Not a Single Republican Vote

    So, there’s a lot of talk about post-partisanship, about putting away partisan differences and working together to build a bipartisan majority to get things done and solve the bipartisan problems facing the U.S. Let’s review, shall we… Initially, Obama sought Republican support by “balancing” the stimulus bill with a large tax cut [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 1:14am EST
    by BrianHull

  • 10% Unemployment!

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    Fresh from Providence Business News: The state’s unemployment rate reached double digits in December, jumping 0.7 percentage points to 10.0 percent – the first time it has reached that level since 1976, when the government revised the way it measures joblessness. In other words, one out of every 10 people active [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 3:50pm EST
    by BrianHull

  • Governor Carcieri’s Horrible Plan

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    “Good evening, my fellow Rhode Islanders…” With these words, Governor Don Carcieri started his address to the state on Wednesday night. With these words, he spoke to all of us about the profound difficulties our small state is experiencing. With these words, he offered his disastrous solutions: Changing the retirement age of [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 6:21pm EST
    by BrianHull

  • The Economy in a Mess - It Doesn’t Have to Be

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    There are several issues that I have wanted to write about for a while now, but never took time to do, until now. There’s a lot of discussion about the economy: the financial crisis, home foreclosures, the auto industry bailout, growing unemployment, a shrinking economy, etc. To be honest with [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2008, 11:25pm EST
    by BrianHull

  • Barack Obama’s Victory Speech

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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 3:02pm EST
    by BrianHull

  • F is for Failure: The Bush Doctrine in Ruins

    By Tom Engelhardt On the brief occasions when the President now appears in the Rose Garden to “comfort” or “reassure” a shock-and-awed nation, you can almost hear those legions of ducks quacking lamely in the background. Once upon a time, George W. Bush, along with his top officials and advisors, [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 6:46pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • The 10 Dirtiest Election Tricks the Republicans Have Tried So Far

    From AlterNet. As Arianna Huffington warns Democrats, an increasingly desperate John McCain and the GOP are throwing the kitchen sink at Barack Obama. No wonder they called Joe the Plumber. So this week brought racist mailers, a tidal wave of robo-calls, more Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin’s love of the “pro-American [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 9:08am EDT
    by BrianHull

  • First Presidential Debate

    Full video of the third 2008 Presidential Debate with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Full video of the second 2008 Presidential Debate with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). Full video of the only Vice Presidential Debate with Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joe Biden. Full [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 11:59pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Presidential Debate Watch

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    DebateWatch 2008 Friday, September 26, 7-11pm Rhode Island College Donovan Dining Center 600 Mount Pleasant Ave. Providence, RI Rhode Island College is again partnering with the National Commission on Presidential Debates to serve as host for DebateWatch, a program in which participants are given a direct voice in the political campaign process. Political reporter Jim Hummel [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 8:57am EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Your New Job!

    A great video to call more attention to the Employee Free Choice Act. Check out the video and sign the petition. [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2008, 5:26pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Barack Obama on the O’Reilly Factor

    Barack Obama did very well responding to Bill O’Reilly’s oversimplification of complex global problems.  Stay tuned for parts 2, 3, and 4. [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2008, 11:20am EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Gov. Sarah Palin

    There are a few things that I wanted to write about John McCain’s choice for Vice President, Gov. Sarah Palin. First, I want to congratulate her on her success, being involved in city politics as a councilor and then mayor and then winning the governorship of Alaska. In all sincerity, [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2008, 2:24pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Obama’s Acceptance Speech

    A Brilliant speech. To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 11:14am EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Stealing Elections

    In an interview from October, 2006, that has only now seen the light of day, Stephen Spoonamore, one of the world’s leading experts in cyber crime and a self-described “life-long Republican” destroys Diebold’s already non-existent credibility about the “security” of their electronic voting machines.  A dialogue in eight parts. Part One Part [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2008, 12:20pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • 5 Things You Should Know

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    Here’s a great video by MoveOn.org about why Progressives shouldn’t assume Obama is going to win. We have a tight race, that’s getting closer. If we don’t want to see a McCain presidency all us liberals and progressives in the U.S. need to work hard to ensure an Obama victory. [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by BrianHull

  • RI State Races to Watch

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    The folks over at RI Future have selected 5 state races in Rhode Island that will be of prime importance in the upcoming November 2008 election.  Here they are: 1. Chris Fierro - Fierro is running for State Representative in House District 51 in Woonsocket.  This seat was vacated when Roger [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2008, 6:02pm EDT
    by BrianHull

  • Iraq Revisited

    Update (8-1-2008) The Rand Corporation just released a study of 648 terror groups that had existed between the years of 1968 and 2006.  The report, entitled How Terrorist Groups End, “indicates that most groups have ended because (1) they joined the political process (43 percent) or (2) local police and intelligence [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2008, 12:37pm EDT
    by BrianHull
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