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Responding to contrasts of treatment of Ashli Babbitt’s killer and cops who’ve killed Black men…

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

… noting that the “country would be on fire” if the skin colors (and ideologies) were reversed, Glenn Reynolds asks, “So why isn’t it?” Well, apart from the fact that conservatives are more law-abiding and not trying to undermine the country, the establishment has displayed the rules since January 6.  Left-wing rioting is just free speech. …

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Wow. Devastating because it’s entirely onpoint.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

pic.twitter.com/v82VdZ123o — Lara Logan (@laralogan) August 26, 2021

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Seriously, what is going on with Biden?

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

Biden Says Quiet Part Out Loud: “The First Person I was Instructed to Call On…” https://t.co/a7yL63K3mH pic.twitter.com/iHugZ4xX1e — RI Tea Party (@riteaparty) August 26, 2021

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It’s becoming more and more important to put things in historical context.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

That’s why I love when Marc makes use of his advanced history education.  We wouldn’t be having the social troubles we’re having if we were teaching history like we should.  History has points like this, about how the Pequots attacked and harried the English settlers’ Saybrook Fort: Lessons learned during the siege of Saybrook escalated…

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Wouldn’t it only be news if the state’s pension fund was at record lows?

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

I keep seeing these headlines about RI General Treasurer Seth Magaziner announcing record highs for the pension fund, but shouldn’t that always be the case?  Unless the workforce is shrinking, even keeping up with inflation should produce record highs.  It seems to me mainly an indication that we have too many people in PR in government.

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Nicole Solas’s APRAs are bearing fruit.

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

Why would your “equity auditor” have to be “fluent in critical race theory” if CRT isn’t in the schools? On Twitter.

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Why is the State Department turning away military interpreters from rescue?

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

With the caveate that chaos makes it hard to know what’s going on and easy to get a partial story, this seems like a travesty. The original story comes from the New York Times, but reading some of the implicitly pro-Biden replies to the linked tweet trying to cast doubt on it raises an important point: …

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Comedy Central’s version of Toby Flenderson Cancels ‘Diversity Day’ from its The Office re-runs

By Marc Comtois | August 25, 2021 |

According to Daily Wire (first discovered by Barstool), Comedy Central doesn’t find a particular episode of the sitcom The Office funny after all. The episode is famous for its politically incorrect storyline which features boss Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) forcing the paper company staff to participate in a racial diversity seminar where he speaks in…

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I’ve been listening to Billboard Top 100 playlists from the ’80s and ’90s.

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

Something really strange happened in 1990.  There are some stand-outs, but mostly, pop/rock music fell off a cliff for a year.

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The scandal is more Mayor Lightfoot’s than the priests.

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

She must have known a non-Catholic in a lesbian marriage shouldn’t take the Eucharist.  Incredibly disrespectful… and at a police officer’s funeral. (Autumn Jones reports for Catholic News Agency.)