Sten’s National Articles
The Founder and CEO of the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity and a former big-league baseball player with a degree in economics from Harvard University. Mike Stenhouse has been widely published in recent years by major news organizations.
Real Clear Energy
New England residents already pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country, as most regional state governments have respectively committed to reducing their carbon emissions by at least 80% by 2050. If this plan is not revised, residents and businesses can expect electricity rates to double, along with suffering from rolling blackouts, according to a new joint report completed by several of the region’s leading conservative think tanks.
RI’s Bogus Climate Lawsuit Will Only Cost Consumers
Washington Examiner
The Civil War-ending Battle of Gettysburg recently marked its 161st anniversary. Citizens of different states taking up arms against one another seems like an impossibility in the modern age. Yet if subversive lawsuits against energy companies are pursued to their natural end, history may repeat itself.
National Effort Thwarted, DHS Funds ‘Mary Poppins’-Style ‘Ministry of Truth’ in Rhode Island
Daily Signal
Not to be deterred by its embarrassing failure to carry out its 2022 national “Disinformation Governance Board” plan, the federal Department of Homeland Security has now resorted to funding a grassroots surrogate operation in Rhode Island.
Education Supremacists Adopt CRT-laden Social Studies Standards in Rhode Island
Real Clear Policy
America’s upcoming 250th birthday should be a patriotic celebration of our inalienable and constitutional rights and recognition of our American birthright of liberty. Instead, patriotism is systematically being de-institutionalized across our country.
Non-Citizen Voting Will Create a Constitutional Crisis in Rhode Island
National Review
For years, Rhode Island and its capital city of Providence have provided sanctuary for immigrants who have illegally entered America by shielding them from federal officials and by providing generous public assistance and schooling. And now, if some state lawmakers get their wish, Rhode Island could also become a sanctuary state for illegal voters.
No, It’s Not the Economy, Stupid GOP. For Urban Voters, It’s Schools and Parental Rights
Daily Signal
Many conservatives were disappointed by the 2022 midterm election results, both nationally and here in my home state of Rhode Island. It’s important to look in the rearview mirror a bit longer to understand what happened.
What Happened When Rhode Island Rushed to Make It Easier to Vote (and Cheat)
Daily Signal
Are corrupt election officials attempting to rig elections in Rhode Island? Or are the secretary of state and the Board of Elections utterly incompetent?
How Should Rhode Island Respond to the Great Barrington ‘Awokening’?
Daily Signal
In recent years, the woke left has taken control in the affluent small town of Barrington, Rhode Island, dominating the seats of power on both the town council and the school committee, secretly and defiantly imposing its radical and divisive agenda upon its own taxpayers, veteran groups, students, and teachers.
Daily Signal
What are we doing to our children? The leaked news that the Supreme Court may be about to overturn its controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has sent political shock waves across America. It’s also given new life to the left’s faux trope about “the right’s war on women.”
States Should Decouple From California’s Oppressive Emissions Policies
Daily Signal
In a “let them eat cake”-style speech given last month, President Joe Biden suggested that if motorists switched to electric vehicles, they could spare themselves from high gasoline prices.
Reparations Won’t Help Providence
National Review
The mayor of Providence, R.I., Jorge Elorza, is back on his reparations kick, seeking to spend about $10 million on reparations as a first step to try to “right the wrongs of the past” for the capital city’s black and indigenous populations.
How Rhode Island Stopped a Wrongheaded ‘Universal Vaccine Mandate’
National Review
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the political supremacists in seats of power cavalierly issued their edicts and their mandates, while the mainstream media cheered them on. Across America, the Big Media and their Big Tech and Big Biz allies have served as the official “hit men” for the Big Covid cabal.
Pro Baseball Players Rejected ‘Political Supremacists.’ Voters Should, Too
Daily Signal
The lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Badlands” have seldom been more relevant: “Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and the king ain’t satisfied ’til he rules everything.”
A Blatant, Corrupt Power Grab by Rhode Island’s Governor
National Review
After it looked like the legislature was finally about to reclaim its authority, Governor McKee plunged the state back into unilateral rule.
A ‘Reparations’ Plan Designed to Help the Activist Left, Not Minorities
National Review
It used to be referred to as the soft bigotry of low expectations: the unspoken bias among many liberals, who subconsciously believe that minority populations are not capable of succeeding on their own. For these liberals, this belief made it understandable, and therefore socially acceptable, for people of color to underachieve. This long-held bias was also their undeclared motivation for massive government-intervention programs.
Stenhouse: A Downgrade for America’s Commerce Is an Upgrade for Rhode Island
Breitbart
As commerce secretary, Raimondo’s confirmation can be described as nothing less than a stark downgrade for America when compared with the most recent secretary, Wilbur Ross, who from 2017–2020 led America to the greatest economic performance of any country in history.