I think once Thursday dodgeball finishes up, I may do these thrice weekly. * AP: “Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.” When the AP, which couldn’t be bothered to worry much about seriously examining Obama during the campaign, is starting to look at Ob...

The late Albert Einstein defined "insanity" as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Keep that thought in mind as you read what follows. For two days this week a United Nations meeting in Vienna will review the failed 10-year-old global "war on drugs" policy. Thei...

As usual, the dems' propagandists have taken a simple, straight forward statement of political fact, and twisted it in order to condemn it as "un-American." John McCain, the pathetic GOP standard bearer who lost to an incompetent nobody, and therefore played a pivotal role in severely damaging this ...

A SPECIAL AQUIDNECK INQUIRER ENDORSEMENT "now's the time": FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA As we watched Senator Barack Obama speak to a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, a city with which some of the staff of The Aquidneck Inquirer has roots, the great "Now&#...

JANUARY 20, 2009 Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address Following is the prepared text of President-elect Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, as provided by the Presidential Inaugural Committee: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have b...

* Much like everything else so far, the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts are stumbling out of the gates. The administration presented Russia with a reset button, which is cute because a) they mistranslated the word “reset” for “overcharge,” (and do they really ...

It’s not looking like the indefinite hold that was put on the D.C. Vote Bill earlier this week will be lifted anytime soon: D.C. vote supporters said yesterday that they are targeting more than 60 conservative congressional Democrats in hopes of securing enough support to bring the voting righ...

Reasonable people can disagree as to whether cameras should be allowed in the courtroom.  I personally think they should not, because cameras tend to make people do stupid things like wear Star Trek uniforms to court.  But I am willing to suspend that opinion for purposes of any oral argument that...

By LISA LEFF and PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As thousands of demonstrators chanted slogans and waved placards outside, California’s highest court on Thursday skeptically grilled lawyers seeking to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage. Attorneys for same...

Justice Department documents that demonstrate the Bush administration’s view of the president’s constitutional power in a “state of war” tell us things we suspected but didn’t want to know. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March 5, 2009 Pelosi Has Reason to Smile Mar...