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When it comes to public opinion, it’s tough to know what’s real and what’s a social media echo chamber, but this letter, signed by five pediatricians in the name of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, seems to be stirring up folks who want to force masks onto the faces of…
Mark Patinkin wrote an interesting profile article about Rhode Island restaurants that are struggling to find employees. Head chefs and owners are washing dishes and tending bars, which is only shocking to people who buy into the progressive/socialist narrative around employment. Leadership means being the one who takes ultimate responsibility for getting things done. Progressives…
William Jacobson is on to something when he suggests, on Legal Insurrection, that the National Education Association of Rhode Island’s lawsuit to stop release of public records in Rhode Island “smells collusive”: Whether there was “collusion” in the sense of active cooperation or not, I can imagine a scenario in which there is no real dispute…
The amazing thing, when government officials establish a religion, is that everything becomes clear and easy. Through a clerisy, their god (even if it is an undefined Great Progressive Spirit) tells them what is right and wrong, and they simply conform the law to those requirements. Anybody who believes differently has to put their beliefs…
Two Woonsocket residents are suing Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt with the help of the ACLU for deleting their posts on and blocking them from her Facebook page: Greg Duhamel said he was banned last November when he made a post challenging Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt’s attempt to claim credit for the building of a skate park.…
Panic! Panic! >cue dramatic music< The Delta variant is here! COVID-19 cases are spiking again! We’re all going to die! … oh, wait, no, we’re not, contrary to the strong impression created by irresponsible “news” outlets. The survival rate for COVID-19 continues as sky high as it was from the beginning. Nor are hospitals being…
This portion of Ramona Bessinger’s experience with the shift toward critical race theory (CRT) in Providence Public Schools may be the most fundamental to danger the ideology actually represents: What saddened me most was that I would not be teaching the Holocaust any longer. The Holocaust unit included one of the following: either Anne Frank,…
Mairead McArdle has been writing about conservative areas around the country that have been trying to break away from their progressive municipalities, and today’s essay asks, “How Could Conservative Pockets Break Away From The Liberal Local Governments That Control Them?” McArdle directs readers to a summary of procedures collected by the Carl Vinson Institute of…
TheDaily Wire’s Ben Zeisloft reports something that’s not apt to get the wall-to-wall mainstream coverage something so implicitly scandalous deserves: The University of Pittsburgh proposed harvesting the bodies of aborted babies under the guidance of racial quotas. … The Center for Medical Progress notes that “if the fetus’ heartbeat and blood circulation continue in a labor…
An article bylined by Alexandra Leslie and Melanie DaSilva for WPRI is a perfect illustration. The headline is, “McKee signs multiple bills supporting women’s health, equity.” No ambiguity. No clarification that this is politicians’ intention. It’s presented as a simple fact about the press conference. The article summarizes five pieces of legislation without offering a…