Justin Katz
Not to make light of others’ hardships (even if those hardships are relative), but this line from Local 1033’s “business manager,” Donald Iannazzi, on the layoffs of his walking-guard clients truly deserves highlighting: “Here we have 18 people from working-class families who are members of the Warwick community,” he said. “They care about our kids,…
I lack the interest to investigate every claim that Chairman and CEO of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) makes about teenagers, and some of them are indubitably positive, but this sort of thing is of dubious value: A survey of more than 2,700 middle and high school students revealed that most young people have a…
Of course, I’ve got to highlight the good sense of my townsman Stephen Miller (whom I don’t believe I know, by the way): The many issues facing Rhode Island today are not problems, they are symptoms of the real problem — us! Our extremely liberal, entitlement-based attitude permeates everything we do in Rhode Island. The…
My previous post cites the environment — global warming, specifically — as a religiously founded cause that allows believers to dismiss complications to their unrelated aversions, especially business. National Review‘s Rich Lowry argues that John Edwards is seeking to capitalize on that underlying impulse: It is rare indeed to hear a politician brag about his…
Paul Driessen’s op-ed in the first Providence Journal of the year is certainly worth a read. Regarding the U.N. Bali meeting on global warming: Meanwhile, respected climate scientists were barred from panel discussions, censored, silenced and threatened with physical removal by polizei if they tried to hold a press conference to present peer-reviewed evidence that…
Seasonality is likely a factor, but I’d been intending to offer the anecdotal testimony that the help wanted sections of various local and state papers are more sparse than I’ve ever seen them. Apparently, it isn’t just my impression: Job vacancies in Rhode Island declined from 10,949 in spring 2006 to 8,637 last summer, a…
My heroes so far in Disney Princesses on Ice: The things we endure as parents. Now if I can endure the demands for $10 snow cones during intermission.
What comes to mind when somebody declares the necessity of population control? Personally, my initial reaction is against a presumed totalitarian intent. Yeh Ling-Ling’s op-ed in the Providence Journal yesterday exacerbates that reaction, with its first paragraph urging presidential candidates to “learn from the Chinese experience.” And no, the piece isn’t about the dangers of…
In a tangential comment to Marc’s post about population loss, “Chalkdust” issued the following multipart critique of Anchor Rising’s comment sections: “Of course, once NOW stayed on its knees for Bill Clinton” Another reason (along with “brown babies”) that Anchor Rising MIGHT be an interesting place to debate issues, if one can manage to close…
The paper didn’t put it online, but my response to a recent letter to the editor by the NEA’s Pat Crowley is in the current edition of the Sakonnet Times. I just hope that I’ve done a little something to help clarity and truth foil the union’s plans.