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The structure of this “survey” is interesting, as Mark Tapscott describes it on Instapundit: AllSides recently showed a balanced sample of 2,000 people news stories produced by five news organizations but without their brand names, then asked them to read the stories and rate them according to where they would place them on the political spectrum.…
Keith Griffith’s summary for the Daily Mail of a study by Travis Campbell of changes in crime in cities that had Black Lives Matter protests is not surprising in one respect: A researcher has found that cities that had Black Lives Matter protests saw a significant decrease in police homicides, but a huge overall increase…
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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…