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We’ve entered the Molotov cocktails through business windows phase of the revolution.

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

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.

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When you say, “let’s go,” go with Southwest.

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

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…

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Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity may explain our current predicament.

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

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.

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Doesn’t RI have more fundamental financial needs than high-speed rail and an aquarium?

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

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…

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Let’s Go Brandon (LGB)

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

This is just awesome.

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The numbers should be the story with many COVID studies, not a comparison of them.

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

I’m not sure whether pro-COVID-vax people or anti-COVID-vax people will be more enthusiastic about a finding in Israel that COVID vaccines become less effective over time.  Does that reinforce the need for regular boosters, or prove that they aren’t worthwhile? What strikes me is that such a finding is framed this way in the first…

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Is this “bullpen” story from PETA a diversion?

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

Want proof that there’s no depth of silliness that radical activists won’t plumb and that the news media won’t take seriously? With the World Series underway, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on Major League Baseball to stop using the term “bullpen.” According to PETA, “bullpen” references the holding area…

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America is increasingly encouraging Brandon!

By Justin Katz | October 29, 2021 |

This guy is great: On October 20, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran foiled an attempted armed robbery in Arizona. Video of his heroic efforts has since gone viral. … In recognition of his actions, the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office presented James Kilcer with the Citizen’s Valor Award “for extraordinary heroism and exceptional courage while voluntarily…

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Alex Cannon has a realistic plan for climate change.

By Justin Katz | October 29, 2021 |

Brown Daily Herald reporter Michael Seoane has published a straight-news article on the Republican candidate for the 3rd district senate seat in the state General Assembly, Alex Cannon. After a few paragraphs of agreement with the Cannon’s policy proposals, I braced for the worst when the article inevitably turned to climate change, but this seems…

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Always consider the complexity of any large-scale public policy, like government-funded vaccines.

By Justin Katz | October 29, 2021 |

Conservatives tend to emphasize reliance on the market not because it is a white patriarchal system designed to funnel money to them (which is so comical widespread belief in that proposition should be sufficient evidence that young adults are being maleducated).  Rather, the value of the market is that it is an independent mechanism to…