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The state Democratic Party in Rhode Island recently sent out a fundraising email saying: We’ve got just over a year to reach and talk to as many voters as possible. We know the GOP is already doing its best to beat us up and down the ballot, and we can’t let that continue. Are there…
As he so often does, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds states briefly a key takeaway from the media and public handling of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial: The goal of the left is to create an environment in which its people are encouraged to be violent without consequences, while their victims are denied the right to respond.
John DePetro has another photo of a group of young people disembarking from a plane at Quonset airport and boarding a bus in the dead of night. He asks good questions: A flight arrives shortly before 1:AM from Kansas? Who got off the C130 in Quonset? Why are they arriving late at night or early…
It shows you the power of the mainstream media to dictate what world people think they live in that even paying as much attention to this stuff as I do, I missed the second of three election-related stories the mainstream media downplayed, according to Ben Johnson: The legacy media celebrated India Walton, a self-described socialist…
Roger Simon asks Republican Congresswoman (and pharmacist) Diana Harshbarger a question pondered often in this space: So she was a perfect person to ask why she thought the Democrats—aka “The Party of Science,” or so our learned president tells us—ignores natural immunity in favor of taking a militant stand on mandates. Rep. Harshbarger’s reply: “When it…
Further to points about needing to find common ground, wouldn’t it be nice if our political environment were such that we could settle on areas of agreement, like this guy deserves jail time? Scott Fairlamb, a former mixed martial arts fighter from New Jersey captured on video punching a police officer in the head at…
At Ivy League Yale University, according to Mike LaChance on Legal Insurrection, administrators outnumber faculty and match undergraduate students one for one. This development was predictable. The government poured money into the industry. Competent faculty members were already not difficult to find, so the money was able to go elsewhere, and administrators making decisions about unneeded…
Stephen Green shares a truck driver’s explanation of just how slow the problem will be to solve. Green sums up the problem well, with this: We’ve over-invested in red tape, under-invested in infrastructure, and taught at least two generations of young people that jobs like trucking are somehow beneath them. The government can try to…
In a healthy society, not only would this sort of statement be disqualifying, but a presidential administration would know not even to put such a nomination forward: Saule Omarova, Democrat President Joe Biden’s Marxist-friendly nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said earlier this year that she wants oil and gas…
Note this closing paragraph, reported as fact, at the end of Melanie DaSivla’s WPRI report on Rhode Island officials’ glee at the anticipated influx of borrowed money for infrastructure from the federal government: The transformational legislation will also create millions of good-paying, union jobs across the country, reduce inflationary economic pressures, and ease supply chain…