Justin Katz
No political strategist am I, but Jonah Goldberg’s suggestion for the McCain campaign strikes me as wise: As many have noted, it’s ironic that Obama supporters who profess to want bipartisanship are indisputably voting for the wrong guy. There’s next to nothing in Obama’s record that suggests he’s better equipped to reach across the aisle…
Without gainsaying my own potential culpability, I have to admit that a recent business-section column by URI business administration professor Edward Mazze left me confused. He asserts five myths of varying persuasiveness, but his explanations don’t consistently jibe. He and I agree on the first myth, which he states as follows: First, without financial incentives…
Mark Patinkin’s column takes a massive military analytical document as a springboard to declare the “incompetence of those” who put our troops in harm’s way: Up to now, that second point has mostly been made by those labeled war critics. But this week, the Army itself came out with a major report essentially saying the…
Marc and Matt Allen had a bit of back-and-forth about John Adams on Anchor Rising’s Wednesday spot on Matt’s radio show (segment streamable by clicking here, or download)
I don’t have much to say on the topic, but it’s really quite a spectacle to see Matt Jerzyk — he of the don’t-cut-social-service-spending or union benefits brigade — attack Governor Carcieri for vetoing an expensive courthouse construction project: Does Gov. Don Carcieri know how to sow division among the branches of government or what?!?…
Local law student and IT worker Brian Mekdsy offers a summary of the recent Second Amendment ruling by the Supreme Court on his new (to me) blog, Libertarian Observer.
Some small-government types in Tiverton support an all-day referendum, instead of the financial town meeting, to handle the town’s budget on the grounds that it would give the average working citizen more opportunity to vote and would diminish the out-in-the-open pressure power of such vested interests as public-sector unions. While both of those points are…
The typical left-right pronouncements are being made with regard to Bob Barr’s intention to run for president under the Libertarian banner: On the ballots in 30 states so far, Barr has the chance to be a spoiler for McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, in several states, among them Alaska, Colorado and Georgia. Barr’s campaign advisers…
As evidenced by his use of the phrase “mistaken imperial war,” Chris Powell and I are hardly simpatico, but he makes an important point, here: Oil and oil products are hardly the only things whose prices have soared lately; nearly all commodities are up sharply, with the Commodity Research Bureau index reporting an increase of…
Think we’ll hear repeated ethics complaints about this? (Emphasis added.) The state Senate returned to a darkened Assembly chamber yesterday for a one-day session to confirm the appointment of a new District Court judge and two new magistrates, including the Senate president’s chief of staff and the sister of the Judiciary Committee chairman. In unanimous…
