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Jordan Chamberlain very succinctly framed the feeling that many parents are bringing into the voting booth with them: watching the VA gov race feels like i’m waiting to hear if my daughter will be taught math or transgender hormone therapy The responses citing relatively good math scores in Virginia kind of miss the point. Indeed,…
Things are getting humorous (and obvious) out there. Over the past few days, we’ve all had a good laugh at the Democrat activists (one of them Black) who dressed up as white supremacists to try to tar Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin. More recently, I noticed local Democrats in Rhode Island gleefully fixating on the story…
As noted in this space recently, most of the drop in the standardized test scores in Rhode Island was among students whose schools were mostly virtual during the pandemic. Now a study out of Japan suggests all that harm was done with no benefit in controlling the disease: There is no evidence that school closures…
Stephen King could write an incredible novel if he were willing to imagine something demonic in wokism.
Further to my observation this morning about the McKee administration’s attitude toward people who lost their jobs thanks to his vaccine mandate, I note noises nationally from federal contractors that a similar mandate may force them to end their contracts with the government. Sundance writes: As we have continued to point out, a federal vaccine…
Are we even allowed to express such opinions? It seems more common for even conservatives to verbalize disclaimers like, “it was a horrible thing that happened and people should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” and so on. Notwithstanding all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, two critical…
Weird. The attacker doesn’t look like a suburban parent upset about critical race theory and transgender ideology in the schools. Presumably this is the next step from lawyers throwing Molotov cocktails at police cars phase.
I don’t travel much, particularly by airplane, but when I do, I’ve usually used Southwest Airlines. That habit developed for a number of reasons, with a key one being that unassigned seating seemed to me a touch of randomness that would dissuade would-be terrorists. (Granted, this felt like a more-pressing consideration some years ago.) Now…
This whiteboard video describing Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s explanation of how stupidity was to blame for the rise of Nazis in Germany seems highly relevant to our current experience.
Sometimes RI’s most essential problem (the failure of its insider class to recognize reality) comes at us from all directions. One example is the call from Joseph Paolino to use the feds COVID gift to Rhode Island government “to change our economy.” How? Let’s look at what our state really needs and invest in them…
