"Linc": What Would Your Father Think?

Former Governor and US Senator John Chafee Governor Lincoln Chafee is "Independent in Name Only", just as he was a "Republican in Name Only" during his ultra-liberal tenure in the US Senate. Now serving as "Chief executive" for Rhode...

Rhode Island GOP — Push for Defederalization

"Fast Time in Little Rhody for Patty Kennedy" Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy has taken a stand against the decriminalization of marijuana. The same guy who "took too many pills", so to speak, has a growing fear of "reefer...

To the Democratic Bush-Bashers: "Enough Already!"

I have written about TEA Party resistance to compromise. My greatest concern has been that conservative factions in the GOP have created more problems in fraught primaries which have pitted experienced establishment Republicans with grassroots Tea Party backed...

A Revue of 2012

Last week, Editor Paul Silva highlighted his famous "Beach Reporter" pieces. His stories have been funny, touching, worthwhile, and informative in stark contrast to the national media, which highlighted "You didn't build that" and "binders...

Letter to New Jersey Press on Gun Control

Armed assailants killed two women near Essex County College and three Gloucester Township police officers inside their police station. Newark Mayor Cory Booker claims that 34 gun murders occur every day in the United States. Crime rates have climbed in Newark and...