Justin Katz
Well, RI General Treasurer Frank Caprio sold his $350 million in bonds today: General Treasurer Frank Caprio announced today that the State of Rhode Island raised $350M from the sale of Tax Anticipation Notes (TANs). Just over $25M was sold directly to Rhode Islanders. In a rare retail push of TANS, Bank of America and…
The notions of the mainstream media and its demagogue and the transformation to something hardly recognizable as the United States of America spark an imaginative exercise. Admittedly, one begins to edge toward the line from analysis to creative writing with this stuff, but a few threads in current events point to an interesting tangle. Picture…
Surely we’ve all had experiences with those deceitful practices that get us every time. Perhaps you’ve had the lover whose word you, for some reason, take every time he or she promises not to cheat again. Perhaps you’ve had the boss whose nakedly arbitrary and false deadlines always manage to ratchet up the stress. Well,…
David Anderson, who’s running for the 4th representative district seat in the General Assembly is closer to the necessary strategy than Edward Mazze: If elected I will sponsor or support legislation aimed at: Lowering taxes on businesses and individuals. The state must spend less to lower taxes. Let’s cut unnecessary government activities while making essential…
Julia Steiny recently heard a speaker whose conclusions point to the same problem in education, but from a different aspect: University of Chicago Prof. Charles Payne spoke recently on the subject of his book So Much Reform, So Little Change. … “Because you have institutions in which the adults fail to cooperate. Grown-up people unable…
Edward Mazze has a commentary piece in the Providence Journal business section today (that doesn’t appear to be online) that completely reverses the order and emphasis of the steps that Rhode Island must take: Here are 10 ideas for job creation our legislators should consider: Recruit Rhode Islanders, specifically business leaders, to serve as ambassadors…
Even as San Francisco contemplates legalizing prostitution, people who pay attention to such things in Rhode Island — where prostitution is already legal — say the regime attracts the sex-slave industry: But in fact, said Wells, slavery is occurring now in neighborhoods around Rhode Island, in the form of the forced prostitution of women and…
Something has seemed tellingly erroneous about liberals’ declarations of conservatives’ desperateness and their premature schadenfreude related to the presumed outcome of the election. Liberals misapprehend something very basic in the conservative philosophy, which, although it varies in form and degree across the right-wing spectrum, is partly definitive. Those perplexed by the partisan or ideological happiness…
Mark Levin is concerned that media brazenness and the various vague endorsements of Obama indicate that “this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue”: I’ve been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we’d see such…
It’s becoming unremarkable to remark upon the lack of substance in the latest round of Obama endorsements. Saying he’ll bring “change” or be “transformative” means little. As Thomas Sowell points out, recent pages of history have their share of stories about transformation toward something worse. Of course, as Sowell notes elsewhere, a con man’s “job…
