Justin Katz
… that Anna Nicole Smith plays such a large role in these graphs, or that the 2008 election does. Anchor Rising is finally recovering from readers’ hangover from the last election. Can’t we all take some time to learn, consider, and argue matters more substantial than Playmates and political gamesmanship?
It occurs to me that there’s a gruesome consistency to Senator Joshua Miller‘s activities thus far. His first two acts in his first year as a public servant were: To promote abortion in his place of business To push forward legislation of symbolic opposition to further military action in Iraq. In the first case, he…
In part by the stark contrast to one of our newest state senators that it presents, Rev. Edward Wilson’s defense of his parish school’s lunch policy (which recently slipped across the national wires for its lunchtime behavior policy) is remarkable: At its frenzied peak, news coverage and commentary defaulted to cultural stereotypes of ruthless Catholic…
With the intention of making reservations, I GoodSearched my way to Trinity Brewhouse’s Web site, last night, but what I found there gave me reservations. I can only assert that I’m wary of slipping into the role of easily offended Catholic Christian, and my literary and artistic background gives me wide latitude to excuse, on…
I won’t address John St. Lawrence’s letter to the Providence Journal on the merits, because (frankly) finding them would require a creativity that I lack. I will, however, observe that such overt anti-Americanism seems to be in resurgence, lately. Is it that Democrats’ recent successes have signaled the end of obligatory “sensitiveness” post–September 11? Or…
Although I’ll resist the temptation to offer snarky comments about the qualities of “serious” columnists, I will acknowledge that they aren’t apparent in Froma Harrop’s lunge into the minimum wage debate: There is a conservative worldview that people who don’t make serious money aren’t serious people. Economic incentives are for entrepreneurs. For the low-of-wage, you…
Glenn Reynolds notes another incident of the sort that, in aggregate, have led me away from Google when I, um, google: The Google property has recently banned the popular atheist commentator Nick Gisburne. Gisburne had been posting videos with logical arguments against Christian beliefs; but when he turned his attention to Islam (mirror of Gisburne’s…
Just to offer a hear, hear to the Projo’s editorial on education in RI: These proposed reforms are all excellent ideas. He also announced that he, House Speaker William Murphy, Senate President Joseph Montalbano, and representatives of labor, business, local government and other interests will work together to formulate what he called “Rhode Island’s 21st…
There’s something disconcerting about the cynical use of the democratic process to make political statements, rather than advance a sincerely supported cause: An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. Initiative 957 was filed by the Washington Defense of…
As a general rule, I think it best that legislators resist penning bills if they find themselves writing around the thing or quality that motivated them to put pen to statehouse stationary in the first place. Consider the proposed legislation (PDF) to which Marc linked earlier. It defines “marriage” as “the legally recognized union of…
