Justin Katz
It’s too bad today’s Dilbert cartoon wasn’t published in closer proximity to the percentage of a percentage debate here on Anchor Rising. Although, the stink eye is much less effective in the comment sections than in a boardroom.
It appears that Rhode Island has made the national diversity news feed. Here’s Roger Clegg: Portuguese business owners in Rhode Island are upset with a proposed state law that would strip them of their official “minority” status — and the contracting set-asides that go with it. There are no heroes in this story, however, which…
Charles Krauthammer broached a chilling subject yesterday: The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitability going to break down. The inevitable has arrived. … The “international…
Jay Nordlinger brought up another familiar name in his review of a joint concert of classical violinist Hilary Hahn and folkish singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, to whose album The Animal Years a friend and coworker directed my attention a couple of years ago. Jay had a reaction similar to mine to the song “Thin Blue Flame,”…
Almost as if it’s a coordinated emphasis on ignorance, the criticisms of my op-ed have done two things: 1) doggedly held to 2005 data, and 2) insisted that I haven’t proven causation. The argument is that people aren’t leaving, and there could be other explanations for their flight. Well, contradictions happen. The reality is that…
I see that the following news item on the legendary Brigitte Bardot caught Jay Nordlinger’s eye, as well: The headline was arresting: “Brigitte Bardot on trial for Muslim slur.” She had incited “racial hatred.” Oh my goodness, how? What did she say? I prepared for the worst. BB had said, “I am fed up with…
It would seem that a confession of my naivété is in order, because I was actually surprised at the response to my recent op-ed on Rhode Island taxpayer flight that the Poverty Institute’s Ellen Frank offered as a letter to the editor. Either she is being deliberately deceptive, or she did not manage to understand…
Brown student Sara Sunshine’s article on the local region of the blogosphere is a worthy offering — much better than I’d feared, having been forewarned of Crowley’s involvement. What better comment on the quirky, intangible power of blogging could there be than Ms. Sunshine’s inclusion of a quotation from the post in which I mentioned…
Perhaps the most ear-catching thing that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Stephen Alves (D, West Warwick) said to Dan Yorke yesterday afternoon was that we, the taxpayers of Rhode Island, “don’t pay [legislators] enough money to sit there and spend all hours of the night up there” — as if being a state legislator is a…