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Treatment options are another thing we don’t hear about often enough when talking COVID mandates.

By Justin Katz | November 5, 2021 |

This seems like good news: An inexpensive antidepressant drug has been found to reduce the risk of hospitalization in high-risk adults recently diagnosed with COVID-19 by over 30 percent, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health. Shouldn’t it be the case that available treatments factor into decisions about whether public health outweighs…

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Tuesday’s Lesson – Change Starts Locally

By Marc Comtois | November 4, 2021 |

We’ve said this around here, well, forever. Justin even gave it a shot in Tiverton and exposed the depth of depravity of the true political insiders.  But that the road can be tough shouldn’t dissuade conservatives and moderates from seeking elected office and making some local change. As Stephen Kruiser writes: It’s important for more…

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New England progressives are schizophrenic when it comes to Asians.

By Justin Katz | November 4, 2021 |

I’ll admit that WBUR’s tweet calling the campaign for mayor of Boston on Tuesday caught my eye for reasons of humorous wordplay: RACE CALL: Michelle Wu (@wutrain) makes history, as the first woman and person of color elected to lead the city of Boston. Get it? What excites them is, in large part, her race,…

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Can it be more obvious that environmentalists liked the COVID lockdowns?

By Justin Katz | November 4, 2021 |

It takes a certain level of fanaticism among journalist and our global elites to so obviously lament the world’s going back to productive activity after a year of pandemic-driven lockdowns: With 2020’s dramatically clean air in cities from India to Italy, some people may have hoped the world was on the right track in reducing…

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The choice many felt they were making in Virginia.

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

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,…

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Progressive activists wanted for false flag operations.

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

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…

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School closures hurt kids for nothing.

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

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…

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A hot-take that’s sure to be unpopular across the political spectrum.

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

Stephen King could write an incredible novel if he were willing to imagine something demonic in wokism.

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People’s interests (and economic reality) have to be considered in public policy (like mandates).

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

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…

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Roger Kimball dares to call January 6 an “insurrection hoax.”

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

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…