http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ri-news/ en-us Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:00:00 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421042/posts     ~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Station Newport, Rhode IslandThe Naval Station Newport (NAVSTA Newport) is a United States Navy base located in the towns of Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island. NS Newport is home to the Naval War College. It once was the homeport for Cruiser Destroyer Force Atlantic, and now maintains inactive ships at its pier facilities, along with the United States Coast Guard. In BRAC 2005 (Base Realignment and Closure), NAVSTA Newport gained over five hundred billets, in addition to receiving, again, Officer Candidate School (OCS), and the Naval Supply Corps School, and... Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421042/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 02:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420726/posts (CNN) - Lincoln Chafee Monday will formally announce his bid for Rhode Island governor Monday. The former Republican senator-turned-independent will officially jump into the race at an event in Warwick, where he once served as mayor. The 56 year old Chafee lost his U.S. senate seat in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse after a bitter Republican primary battle against Stephen Laffey. Chafee eventually left the GOP and is now an independent. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420726/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:35:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412394/posts On the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) slammed Republicans for their "desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, falsehood, obstruction and fear," which he said will result in a "day of judgment" by the American people. -snip Whitehouse attributed these "desperate acts" to the Democrats' "momentum," which is working toward passing health care reform legislation, and "when we do, the lying time is over. The American public will see what actually comes to pass when we pass this bill as our new law. The American public will see firsthand the difference between what is, and what they were told." When... tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412394/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418938/posts In all the joy of the holiday season, sometimes journalists can miss out on stories involving Grinches and Scrooges. Shortly before Christmas Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) dropped one of the most outlandish statements of the year, if not the decade, and most in the press missed it. However, one member of the press has decided to agree with the crazy talk. Surprise, surprise… “They [the GOP] are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418938/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414595/posts A former Abington fifth-grade teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy hundreds of times has been sprung from house arrest to spend Christmas with her family. Brockton Superior Court Judge Thomas Connors gave Christine McCallum the OK to visit her mother in Rhode Island today and tomorrow, according to Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office. Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414595/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414206/posts First of all, SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE. You sir, and I say that with VAST qualification, are a SCOUNDREL and a BALD FACED LIAR. The people of your state will challenge you in 2012. Don't think, you smarmy RAT, that you will be forgotten. 2012 just gives us more time to prepare to oust you. This paragon of virtue put on his best TRIAL LAWYER'S FACE and spewed enough venom to wipe out a small city, saying that we AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES are desperate to `break' Barack Obama. No Senator, we are not desperate because Barry Hussein is breaking himself and he'll... Political Cortex http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414206/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:26:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412610/posts If you are in Washington, D.C. and talk about the simpleton from Rhode Island, you might automatically think of Patrick Kennedy. However, we can’t forget that Rhode Island has another simpleton in D.C.: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. In case you think my categorization is merely a partisan shot, it isn’t. While I disagree with other Democratic politicians, I wouldn’t question their intelligence. I would just recognize the fact that we see the issues differently. With Senator Whitehouse, there is a certain shallowness to his thinking, tinged with hyper-partisanship, and a heaping helping of smarminess. There have been many comments over the... Providence Conservative Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412610/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:19:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412226/posts Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he excoriated Senate GOP members for up holding the pending health care bill and accused their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. He started off by citing an editorial from the Manchester Journal Inquirer, which used insults like "lunatic fringe." The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412226/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411863/posts Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he excoriated Senate GOP members for for holding the pending health care bill and accused their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. Washingtontimes.com - Water Cooler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411863/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:17:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411252/posts 18 states allow for recall votes on US Senators. The 18 states allowing for recall are as follows: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. The Senate oath of office is: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411252/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407739/posts Three police officers were shot early Monday evening and a suspect injured during a drug raid at 12 Hollis St. in the city’s West End, the police said. Police Chief Dean M. Esserman said the officers were wearing coats and jackets labeled Providence Police and were making a forced entry at an address for which they had a search warrant. Two were shot just as they crossed the threshold, Esserman said from Rhode Island Hospital, where the police were gathering in droves in a show of respect for their injured colleagues. Providence Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407739/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:23:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402497/posts Governor Donald Carcieri is the Governor of Rhode Island and a Catholic Christian. He spoke to Rhode Island Radio Station WPRO and local reporters last week. He is facing the wrath of the militant Homosexual Equivalency Movement in Rhode Island. The Governor spoke the truth, defended a Catholic Bishop and offered to pray for Congressman Patrick Kennedy. Referring to Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s choice to have a public dispute with the Catholic Church he told the Press that the Congressman had made “outrageous statements about the Catholic church” and that Bishop Tobin had “no choice except to come back and defend... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402497/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:20:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398944/posts Patrick Kennedy’s announcement that he’s “not going to indulge in this debate any longer,” referring to his rejection of Catholic Church beliefs, was reminiscent of a strategy George Aiken floated at the height of the Vietnam War. “Declare victory and pull out!” the late Vermont senator suggested. Speaking at a Brown University forum Monday evening, Kennedy said he was pulling out, having milked his confrontation with Bishop Thomas J. Tobin for all it was worth after igniting it by indiscreetly disclosing a private communication he had received from the latter. Tobin had informed him it would be inappropriate to receive... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398944/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397149/posts PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University police forcibly removed a man attending a panel discussion about the politics of health care this afternoon after the man told Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy: ``You're not Catholic if you force Catholics into funding abortion.'' Kennedy was one of four panelists at the discussion. After each panelist made brief introductory remarks, the 200 people in the audience were allowed to ask questions. Christopher Young, a perpetual candidate for several public offices in Rhode Island, was the second person to take the microphone. As he made a loud and rambling statement about public funds being... Providence Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397149/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:59:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396460/posts "Let the healthcare bill allow for one sterilization for everyone of these whacked out females who are so intent on killing babies . . . Then . . . if these Femme-a-Nazis want to have a child, they can rent one." Reader comment posted on my Nov. 25 column Incendiary e-mails are still rolling in on Wednesday's column. It proves you can't write about abortion, women and Catholic bishops and not get heavy heat. Add universal health care to the conversation? Kaboom! It's OK. I've had great role models in taking heat. Jack Egan, for one. In the winter of... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396460/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:58:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395772/posts News broke this week that Thomas Tobin, the Catho lic bishop of Providence, RI, had in 2007 asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to refrain from receiving Communion because of the congressman's support for legalized abortion. The ensuing howls of protest almost universally missed the point. Some Catholic writers charged that Tobin was sowing division within the church and "politicizing" the sacrament. On the pro-choice left, Tobin was flayed for everything from "religious blackmail" to -- inexplicably -- violating the separation of church and state. Perhaps the strangest comment came from former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who predicted that if pols... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395772/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394164/posts Washington D.C., Nov 25, 2009 / 04:40 am (CNA).- A non-Catholic political expert says Bishop Thomas Tobin’s request that U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy refrain from receiving Holy Communion is “eminently reasonable” and an “appropriate” encouragement of the Congressman to examine his commitment to his faith.Rep. Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat and son of the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, was criticized by Bishop Tobin of Providence for his attacks on the Catholic bishops’ opposition to abortion funding in health care legislation. Recently, Kennedy revealed that Bishop Tobin had asked him to refrain from receiving communion because of his public contradiction... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394164/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:42:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392765/posts EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392765/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:56:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392658/posts On today's Morning Joe, Larry O'Donnell called the Roman Catholic bishop who barred Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) from taking communion a "political hack." Interestingly, Mika Brzezinski had a totally different take, arguing the controversy was not about the Church but about Kennedy publicizing the matter in a play to his base. Though Bishop Thomas Tobin sent his letter to Kennedy more than two years ago, its contents didn't come to light until Kennedy recently revealed them to a Rhode Island newspaper. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392658/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:59:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392588/posts Rhode Island’s top Roman Catholic leader issued a scathing remonstrance of U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy yesterday after his bombshell admission that the bishop barred him from receiving communion because of his pro-choice stance.“I am disappointed that the Congressman would make public my pastoral and confidential request of nearly three years ago that sought to provide solely for his spiritual well-being,” said Bishop Thomas Tobin in a strongly worded statement. “I have no desire to continue the discussion of Congressman Kennedy’s spiritual life in public.”Added the bishop, “At the same time, I will absolutely respond publicly and strongly whenever he... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392588/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:25:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392488/posts PROVIDENCE, RI (Catholic Online) - Senator Patrick Kennedy whose open defiance over the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life has resulted in a longstanding dialogue with his Bishop, reopened the public debate in an odd interview on Sunday. He gave a telephone interview to John E. Mulligan of the Providence Journal in which he told the reporter “...The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me Communion.” The telephone interview led to a Journal article entitled "Kennedy: Barred from Communion" which... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392488/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:45:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392492/posts WITHOUT A DOUBTDear Congressman Kennedy BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN 11/12/09 12:00 am Since our recent correspondence has been rather public, I hope you don’t mind if I share a few reflections about your practice of the faith in this public forum. I usually wouldn’t do that – that is speak about someone’s faith in a public setting – but in our well-documented exchange of letters about health care and abortion, it has emerged as an issue. I also share these words publicly with the thought that they might be instructive to other Catholics, including those in prominent positions of... Rhode Island Catholic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392492/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392263/posts Rhode Island's top Roman Catholic leader has asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop taking Communion over his support for abortion rights, the diocese said Sunday. In a statement issued Sunday, Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin said he told Kennedy in February 2007 that it would be "inappropriate" for him to continue receiving the fundamental Catholic sacrament, "and I now ask respectfully that you refrain from doing so." Kennedy is the son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and a scion of the most prominent Catholic family in modern U.S. politics. The Roman Catholic Church strongly opposes abortion, which has been... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392263/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:15:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391960/posts PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, significantly escalates a bitter dispute between Tobin, an ultra orthodox bishop, and Kennedy, a son of the nation's most famous Roman Catholic family."The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me Communion," Kennedy told the... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391960/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:35:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392047/posts Congressman Patrick Kennedy has been barred from receiving Communion by his Bishop in Rhode Island. Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred Patrick, the son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, because of his position on abortion rights. IrishCentral.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392047/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:30:15 GMT