Justin Katz
Four student journalists from the University of Richmond (no, Rhode Islanders, that’s Richmond, Virginia,) are covering the ’06 Senate race in our little ol’ state at Rhode Island Senate Central: Voices in the 2006 Senate Election.
From Froma Harrop: Another reason for the silence [about addressing population growth] is that population has gotten mixed up in the abortion issue. Some abortion foes insist that that Roe v. Wade has produced a sharp population decline. Of course, there isn’t a population decline. Population is surging, and even native-born Americans are replacing themselves.…
… but could somebody explain what this paragraph — from a letter to the Providence Journal concerning same-sex marriage — is supposed to imply: The First Amendment protects the bishop’s right to express his opinion as it protects the rest of us from his opinions. At least it should.
Over in the Corner, Kathryn Jean Lopez takes up the call of pro-Republican conservatives: You’d just be a punk (I’m just borrowing Mona’s reader’s word ) if you actually care about issues like activist judges, abortion (today there is still not a ban on partial-birth abortion, still held up in court), marriage, but stay home…
The comments to my most recent post on same-sex marriage rapidly branched off into discussion of a Westerly Republican politician who is, apparently, homosexual. Having not researched the man for myself, I won’t presume to offer analysis; I’ll merely explain that the initial question posed by a commenter, Bryan, was: “How can a man who…
Over on the Autonomist, Rhode Island blogger D. Alighieri is seeing the reality in Iraq for himself. So far, he’s put up video of his bounce in Jordan and a first impression of Baghdad: Yesterday, a car bomb exploded a few miles from here. I watched the black plume boil towards the sky. This place…
This latest of a string of similar stories from Canada over the past few years ought to be taken into consideration as the individual steps toward Rhode Island’s undemocratic importation of same-sex marriage are taken: In 2003 [the Knights in Port Coquitlam, B.C.] discovered that their hall had been rented by a lesbian couple to…
While running errands on my way home from work yesterday afternoon, I heard Sheldon Whitehouse explain to Dan Yorke’s radio listeners that balance between the parties is important in the federal government (from part 2 of Yorke’s streaming audio): … right now the Republicans have a monopoly on power in Washington. They do not provide…
When one brushes away the rhetoric, one finds the contradictions beneath. In one post, RIFuture notes Charlie Fogarty’s new healthcare plan, which, I discovered after wading through the usual political policy mire, will be funded in part as follows: Rather than spending state tax dollars on tax cuts for the wealthy few, high-priced consultants and…
