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How are Providence school results not the biggest, most-ongoing story in Rhode Island?

By Justin Katz | August 22, 2024 |

I mean, look at this: The scores were abysmal to start; the goals were obviously fictitious when considered in the absence of a practical plan; and the final results are offensively bad.  If these results aren’t causing outrage, it’s because nobody in the Democrat establishment or news media wants to address the underlying problems, which…

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A Warwick Schools moving contract provides a lesson in RI’s multiple layers of corruption.

By Justin Katz | August 21, 2024 |

On its surface, the controversy looks obvious.  I mean, the guy winning the no-bid contract had a relative in the relevant office of the school department: Astro of New England, a different moving company, first raised issues with the bidding process after Astro owner Chuck Lamendola said he noticed Jada had been awarded work in…

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Government subsidies are not “momentum.”

By Justin Katz | August 20, 2024 |

Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee tweets yet another area in which Democrats manipulate language to insinuate ideology: A grant from a government agency to another government agency is not “momentum.”  Momentum suggests that the entity or project is moving on its own.  Government subsidies are pushes… force.  Democrats’ language is (deliberately) manipulative and always to…

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Democrats think their supporters have a right to your money.

By Justin Katz | August 20, 2024 |

One can absolutely make the case that generous time-off policies have their benefits for employers and do right by employees, but we allow Democrats like Magaziner to throw around terms like “fundamental human right” far too easily: You cannot have “an absolute human right” to be given things by other people, no matter how nice…

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Electric Boat has financial incentive to go Queer.

By Justin Katz | August 19, 2024 |

Well, look, Electric Boat relies hugely on government funding in Rhode Island and Washington, D.C.: Radicals in the Democrat Party will hold a lack of such policies against Electric Boat, while even the most conservative Republicans who can possibly gain decisive power in government won’t hold it against them very strongly.  Barring discrimination lawsuits in…

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Faced with the feeling of political chaos, there are two basic frames.

By Justin Katz | August 19, 2024 |

Perusing Twitter or X (which I may henceforth call “TwiX”) often leaves me feeling panic at the state of our world and the hopelessness of recovering humanity’s footing. No doubt, this is at least partially the way it feels to have your attention manipulated, but stepping back, even that reality is just another contributor to…

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Public service announcement regarding RI registration renewals.

By Justin Katz | August 7, 2024 |

I was puzzled recently when I discovered that updated registration forms had somehow not made it into two of our cars.  The technician inspecting one of them told me many Rhode Islanders are accidentally throwing their registration forms out.  I chuckled along with him but wondered how that would be possible. A couple days later,…

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Be careful about the daily proclamations about Trump’s strategy.

By Justin Katz | August 6, 2024 |

I came across a quotation from Nassim Taleb’s book, Antifragile, suggesting that the more immediate your focus (e.g., hourly versus annually), the greater the noise-to-signal ratio.  That is, the effects from moment to moment are more likely to result from random or unrelated factors, while longer-term trends are more likely to reflect genuine changes.  The advice…

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To check in on Democrats’ understanding of our culture…

By Justin Katz | July 30, 2024 |

The Democrats’ appointed Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, kicked off a universal trend among Democrats to call straight, married men “weird,” while Transportation Secretary Peter Buttigieg, who is homosexual, told a call full of racially segregated white men that abortion makes life better for men, too.  See, that way, we don’t have to worry our sex…

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We need to get back to a society of mutual respect…

By Justin Katz | July 29, 2024 |

… but it’ll require a turn away from progressives’ insistence that everything must be politics.  This clip of Eric Weinstein and Nicole Shanahan discussing the “mind control at scale” we’re seeing at the national level is worth the four minutes of your time. It’s not only that our system has been coopted by the gaslighters,…