Justin Katz
Same-sex marriage advocates can make erroneous emotional appeals to Americans’ sense of equality, but the pattern that Connecticut’s Supreme Court further solidified will have broad and oppressive consequences: Striking at the heart of discriminatory traditions in America, the court — in language that often rose above the legal landscape into realms of social justice for…
Have I mentioned that I’m glad to see Mark Steyn columns again? With his latest, I laughed: Gaze into the giant zero of the Obama logo, the hole in the star-spangled donut, the vast fathomless nullity that is the gaping keyhole to the door of utopia. To a sad shriveled Republican cynic, there’s nothing there…
This has been floating around my inbox for a few weeks because it’s worth noting, but I’m not sure how much there is to say about it: Saying that the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission is not effectively doing its job of implementing and enforcing reasonable rates for consumers, Sen. John J. Tassoni Jr. (D-Dist.…
Soon-to-be-former Town Councilor Brian Medeiros (who isn’t running to maintain his seat) expresses a potentially alarming notion about governance: Government is supposed to help us all do things we can’t do individually. If he’s talking about communal defense against plausible military attack, then I’d agree. If he’s talking about making teachers into an unaccountable class…
John’s comment to my “Not a Trick Question, but Close” post is well worth a read: Let me use a real life, real RI example to rebut your argument. Let’s assume that your theoretical factory owner in fact owned a jewelry factory. Now let’s look at what happened to his economics over the past decade.…
No doubt, many of us find ourselves impeded by the finer points of legalistic legerdemain, but is it possible to see the argument put forward by the RI House of Representative’s lawyer on the matter of Separation of Powers and the Coastal Resources Management Council as anything other than specious? Lawyer Sandra Lanni, representing House…
Yeah, I gotta vote “no” on this one: Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials. Treasury officials say the just-passed $700 billion bailout bill gives them the…
Asks Matt Jerzyk in a comment to a previous post: Is it too much to ask for that American workers who work full time be paid a living wage with affordable and accessible health insurance? Well… yes. The reality is that we can’t just wish and make it so. Like it or not, every job…
RI Supreme Court, according to script: The state Supreme Court has deferred a decision in the case brought by Stephen D. Alves in West Warwick’s Senate District 9 until Oct. 23, according to Armando E. Batastini, lawyer for Alves’ Democratic primary opponent Michael J. Pinga. The court denied the identical request for a new primary…
Putting aside my biases, I truly do wonder: Do folks who are voting to unionize — as have five Providence-region Head Start faculties — ever ask themselves from where the money will come, or do they just decide that they need an organization protecting their interests, without giving much consideration to the hows and wherefores?