Justin Katz
What a wonderful thing is the Internet, on which a few minutes of catch-up browsing can bring both smear and counterpoint. RIFuture has the smear: Do you really think we will grow our IT and ET economies with a president [McCain] who doesn’t even understand how to use a computer? And Jonah Goldberg has the…
Among the factors that most impress me as indicative of the accuracy of the Roman Catholic faith is the mutual leaven of those influences that we are to consider when assessing the world in which we live. The individual conscience is sacrosanct, personal revelation possible, and compassion paramount, yet absolute truth exists, and organizational process…
I’m actually surprised that Froma Harrop would be this myopic (no permalink available): “Cocky whacko,” is what former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee called Sarah Palin yesterday during a speech in Washington. And Cocky Whacko is the general opinion around New England, even among Republicans and Republicans-turned-Independents like Chafee. We know that the Alaskan governor…
Monique took the Anchor Rising slot with Matt Allen on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO last night to talk about painted pigs. Stream by clicking here, or download it.
Here’s a theory — attractive more for the likely reaction than the likelihood that it’s correct: America’s liberals are preparing themselves for the possibility that McCain will win the presidency. That would explain why they’re salvaging the emotionally satisfying, if self destructive, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) that they’ve enjoyed for at least the past four…
Most workday mornings (especially if everybody in the house slept through the night), my drive over the Sakonnet River Bridge brings a wave of gratitude for the sights that fill my days. Similarly, the breeze off the water, whether warm or cool, as I cross the parking lot to church come a Sunday morning makes…
It may be that my estimate of the midyear budget review yielding a $150 million deficit was too optimistic. We’re apparently starting with a baseline gap that’s already one-fifth of that: The state ended its last budget year awash in red ink, according to a newly-released Aug. 29 report by state Controller Marc A. Leonetti.…
We’ve been having this conversation hereabouts, and Jonathan Zimmerman puts it well: Beneath all of this talk, of course, lies the fallacy of race itself. Although America is a richly diverse place, we’re told, people in any given race are the same — or should be. That’s why you still hear whispers in the African-American…
Put aside, for a moment, the very interesting fact that the article is one of an increasing number that place Obama in parallel with Palin and compare and contrast the pair’s responses to the question of government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama: “These entities are so big and they are so tied…
Tom Sgouros’s message must be mellifluous to public-sector ears. Everything’s cause and effect (no poor decisions on officials’ part), and vaguely unseemly of the citizens who initiated the latter. The story, in summary, is that all was demographically golden in the world back in the ’50s, until people started moving from Rhode Island’s cities to…