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An anti-Israel mob attacks Jews in NYC.

In Biden’s America, reaction to violence depends on identity.

By Justin Katz | May 22, 2021 |

If your social media feed is anything like mine, you’ve been seeing clips of pro-Palestine (or anti-Israel) protesters attacking Jews in multiple American cities.  Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby is exactly right when he responds to one of the videos as follows: If these Jews were being attacked by vicious white supremacist thugs, media interest…

Meerkat tells a secret

It’s up to the reader to spot when journalists are merely passing along PR.

By Justin Katz | May 22, 2021 |

A paragraph that Ed Driscoll quotes on Instapundit from a Glenn Greenwald Substack essay deserves consideration of its broader application: Let’s express this as clearly as it can be expressed. Any journalist who treats unverified stories from the CIA or other government agencies as true, without needing any evidence or applying any skepticism, is worthless. Actually,…

A sheep at a blackboard with 1984 math

The American variant of socialism is going to be so much worse.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

Reacting to increasing outbreaks of woke math in the United States, Katya Rapoport Sedgwick explains on Legal Insurrection why she believes “socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where [she] grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.” The main reason woke math is on the march is simple: the woke destroy. That’s what they do.…

Mark Zaccaria and shredded Constitution

Yes, parental rights do still apply in the era of COVID.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

Mark Zaccaria hones in on a key question that seems like it’s been lost in the shuffle:  Can the state government and its subsidiaries selectively emancipate Rhode Island children from their parents for the purpose of deciding whether to be vaccinated against COVID-19? Hey, wasn’t it just a few years ago that the government was…

A more-descriptive restroom sign

Sure we’re struggling and Providence schools are collapsing, but at least we’ll have non-gendered single-use bathrooms!

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

Seriously.  With all that is going on in the world and in Rhode Island, why would legislators wade into this degree of virtue signaling, as Christian Winthrop reports for The Newport Buzz? The House of Representatives today approved legislation introduced by Majority Floor Manager John G. Edwards (D-Dist. 70, Tiverton, Portsmouth), that would make single-user restrooms…

Per capita property taxes by state

Rhode Island’s per Capita Property Taxes are 7th Highest in the U.S.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

According to the Tax Foundation’s relevant tax map, government entities in Rhode Island collect the equivalent of $2,431 from every man, woman, and child in the state in property taxes. Of course, many of those men, women, and children live on the same property (and some have more than one), so the per family amount is…

Girls playing soccer at night

You may not have heard a key variable in the women’s soccer pay inequity discussion.

By Justin Katz | May 20, 2021 |

Having high-school-aged daughters in this day and age, I’ve heard the issue of pay equity for female soccer players come up from time to time, in and out of a school-project context.  Curiously, I’d never before heard the detail that Ashe Schow reports for The Daily Wire: … U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner dismissed the…

Diverse men praying

Wokeness can be resisted, but preparation is needed.

By Justin Katz | May 20, 2021 |

In a recent New York Post column, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds offers three strategies for resisting the woke mob: Lesson one: Don’t panic — and don’t give in. … Never apologize, don’t act afraid, and, to borrow a phrase from Obama, “punch back twice as hard.” Call the mob out for what it is: a bunch of bad…

Policeman

Lincoln’s lowering standards for police officers is a trend worth watching.

By Justin Katz | May 20, 2021 |

If the development on which Nicole Dotzenrod reports for the Valley Breeze begins appearing in other communities, it could be a sign of a worrying trend.  In the town’s most-recent hiring effort, five applicants met the minimum standards, one chose a different career path, another didn’t pass the interview and background check, and one rejected policing…

Juan Carlos Martinez

Problems arise when we forget that putting people in prison protects the community.

By Justin Katz | May 20, 2021 |

John DePetro reports on the disturbing case of Juan Carlos Martinez: Martinez ( status unknown) was sentenced to forty years at the ACI but was let out in March without officials notifying I.C.E. Martinez is accused of luring female illegals into his house of horrors’ in Providence where he would sexually assault them. Martinez would…