Justin Katz
Hear Marc’s scream of frustration last night on the Matt Allen show, streamed by clicking here (or download). Really, what can be said about a handful of citizens requesting that their and our taxes to be raised?
Yes, that’s an organization composed mainly of teachers offering up unimaginative slogans that promote left-wing clichés:
Mac’s series on domestic energy policy continues in today’s Providence Journal: The attack on Big Oil is a witches’ brew of old-fashion demagoguery, economic ignorance and an apparent lack of historical perspective. To the degree that this attack is successful in punishing the oil and gas industry, it will ensure that Americans will be worse…
A letter from locally known Tivertonian Richard Joslin in last Wednesday’s Sakonnet Times let’s slip a mild frame of mind that, when metastasized, generates oppression and tyranny. The implication of positing a “Real Tiverton” (i.e., citizens who would naturally support the town’s original budget proposal) is that everybody else can and must be overruled by…
Thus is radical change forced upon a society via underhanded activism and deliberately skewed thinking. With an assumption as to what the society considers marriage to be, a court finds as follows: The appellate judges determined that there is no legal impediment in New York to the recognition of a same-sex marriage. The state Legislature…
My piece in today’s Providence Journal dwells on the collision of my affection and admiration for Providence Firefighter/EMT Lt. Michael Morse and his book and my opposition to public-sector unions.
Periodically, somebody on the Left will throw in some anti-corporate rhetoric and sneer about the “free market.” Mark Patinkin’s column on the state’s difficulty attracting doctors provides yet another example illustrating that one can hardly point to our problems in condemnation of economic freedom: I began by asking where he’d rank us nationally in fees…
Two items on today’s reading list have a disturbing link. First the tale of the Internet as a pimping tool for under-18 prostitutes: Well-known as a free online community bulletin board, craigslist has gained the dubious distinction of being a popular site for pimps to market young girls to customers, or “johns.” The young prostitutes…
A handful of items that are blogworthy, but not extensive, have been building up on my desk, so herewith, some quick hit thoughts: An objection was made, last week, to my mention of the exceedingly sparse Projo Jobs section that it was a holiday weekend and thus hardly representative. Well today’s Jobs section may (or…
There’s a certain wrongheadedness — an insecurity — to the feeling of which Rita Lussier’s expression is merely one example of many: “Yeah, the $4-dollar-a-gallon thing is hard to take,” he says as he puts the hose back on the hook and screws the cover on his tank. All the while, he keeps smiling, smiling,…