Justin Katz
Before giving six reasons that the West is worth defending, George Weigel writes: In his book, “Without Roots,” Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life: a tendency to see in the history of the West only “the despicable and the destructive.” The…
There are basically two general theories about what is going on in Rhode Island. Tom Sgouros enunciates the leftward (vested interest) explanation more succinctly than most of his compatriots (paragraphs reprinted out of order): So this is the situation: The Assembly and Governor have together created a tremendous budget crisis. The crisis was caused by…
If you needed any further evidence that National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg is a left-wing double agent tasked with distracting and immobilizing thirty-something conservatives, look no farther than this post, into which he slyly slips a link to 100 classic Nintendo games playable online. Well, I suppose it has been awhile since I won CastleVania.
Having recently stood, almost alone, against fascist attempts to mandate no-fee gift certificates, I couldn’t help but chuckle — or, more accurately, to “pffft!” — as I filled out my car registration renewal today: Since when, I guess, has a meddling oligarchy thought it worth the time to meddle with itself? (Dirty-minded readers need not…
Come an idle Saturday night (“idle” being a very relative adjective in my case), our referral logs led me to a September post by URI professor Michael Vocino, in which Professor V. voices some misconceptions about Anchor Rising, specifically, and conservatives in general. The minor one, first: If you go to the spokespeople for the…
The point’s a little bit of a tangent from poverty advocates’ request for more workers to make food stamps easier to claim and disperse (which always raises questions about the responsibility of the government to promote its handouts), but this closing quotation illuminates one of the indistinct areas in which liberals and conservatives move toward…
There’s surely an explanation for this that would have merit in less strapped times, but as far as I can see, it’s difficult to justify given current circumstances: Steve Kass, a former radio talk-show host and governor’s director of communications, is now the spokesman for the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency. At $126,541, Kass will…
Well, the memo’s gone out. The You Tube videos are in production. The party line: McCain’s got a temper! Watch the video over on RIFuture. Watch as the Senator rips a chair right out of the floor of the bus like Sam Kinison and pins the reporter’s note-taking hand in the overhead storage compartment. Actually,…
There may be a bit of the old chicken and egg between the push for renewable energy and the Rhode Island government’s lust for power. Whatever the case, when one sees Senate President Joseph Montalbano’s name attached to a legislative initiative claiming to “spur economic development” by “sparking” environmentally friendly energy development, a game of…
Unsurprisingly, many invested in the current education system object to proposals to tie graduation to discrete, measurable testing requirements: Dozens of speakers last night said they were worried about a provision that would make the English and math scores of statewide standardized tests students take at the start of 11th grade count toward one-third of…