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The road to serfdom couldn’t be much clearer than as illustrated by this Newsmax article headlined, “US School Board Group Asks Biden for Help Against Growing ‘Threat’“: As schools around the country face growing backlash related to pandemic safety measures and studies of race in America, school board members are asking for federal help from the president…
Pay attention to the budget of a Rhode Island school district for a few cycles, and you’ll learn that there are two companies providing busing, both with unionized workforces. Districts are obligated by law to provide transportation (including mandatory bus monitors), so the lack of competition leaves them with little choice and leaves the public…
The Cranston dentist has simply stated that he will not be vaccinated: “I won’t be vaccinated by tomorrow,” Dr. Stephen Skoly, who has a practice in the Chapel View shopping center and provides services to several state agencies, told The Providence Journal on Thursday. … Among changes Skoly would like to see is a medical…
That dynamic has defined the disheartening turn of national politics over the past couple of decades, and as often happens, we can see the lines of the problem more clearly when they’re close up. When people aren’t able to win fair and square and have a reasonable go at changing things, they don’t change their…
Two very distinct news stories in my feed this morning seem to share something intrinsic. The first involves the challenge facing the (unelected) Federal Reserve: Resolving “tension” between high inflation and still-elevated unemployment is the most urgent issue facing the Federal Reserve right now, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday, acknowledging the central bank’s two…
The mainstream media — represented for this post by Brian Amaral of the Boston Globe — may not know what is to blame for the increase in violent crime across the country, but they sure know who: In 2019, a Rhode Island man released from a life crack-dealing sentence under the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform…
When I wrote this yesterday, I was speaking from personal perspective: … the price in a transaction between two people has to account for what they both value, and sometimes price and value can be inversely related. … The purity of [Jordan] Peterson’s currency won’t suddenly lead him to pay five times as much for…
To be honest, there isn’t much content to the topic, yet, but Rhode Islanders may find themselves triggered by the Epoch Times’ headline on a Reuters article featuring our former governor, Gina Raimondo: “US Commerce Chief to Push Investment in Domestic Economy.” “For America to compete globally, we must invest domestically—in American workers, American businesses,…
Providence middle school teacher Ramona Bessinger shared on her Facebook page a Planned Parenthood poster that she was “encouraged to post” in her classroom last school year. Here’s the main body of the text: Beyond the Birds and the Bees is a sexuality education program for high schoolers that is science-based, sex-positive, and affirming to…
For a recent episode of the Jordan Peterson Podcast, the host had a conversation with four Bitcoin enthusiasts: John Vallis, Richard James, Gigi Der, and Robert Breedlove. As befits a college professor and intellectual, Peterson leads them to cover the basics of the technology as well as to explore some of the more-profound implications of…