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Politics This Week with John DePetro: Pointing Out the Blinders

By Justin Katz | November 8, 2021 |

John and Justin discuss the position that the establishment and the Left have gotten themselves in.

Racial conflict fist as a green light

The purpose of critical theory in public schools is to make children unhappy.

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

Episode 49 of James Lindsay’s The New Discourses podcast, titled “The Birth of Identity Marxism as Critical Theory’s New Proletariat,” is well worth the hour and a half to listen to it, although it may leave you worried that you’re becoming a conspiracy theorist. As the title suggests, Lindsay reviews some leftist intellectual writing from the…

A water drop and ripples

The choice many felt they were making in Virginia.

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

Jordan Chamberlain very succinctly framed the feeling that many parents are bringing into the voting booth with them: watching the VA gov race feels like i’m waiting to hear if my daughter will be taught math or transgender hormone therapy The responses citing relatively good math scores in Virginia kind of miss the point.  Indeed,…

A water drop and ripples

Progressive activists wanted for false flag operations.

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

Things are getting humorous (and obvious) out there.  Over the past few days, we’ve all had a good laugh at the Democrat activists (one of them Black) who dressed up as white supremacists to try to tar Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin.  More recently, I noticed local Democrats in Rhode Island gleefully fixating on the story…

Fox News Virginia and New Jersey election maps

Could a GOP wave come to Rhode Island?

By Justin Katz | November 3, 2021 |

A red map might be possible in Rhode Island next year or in 2024, but however quickly it happens, repaired political infrastructure and a willingness to work together are prerequisites both to win and to accomplish anything positive after the election.

A water drop and ripples

Roger Kimball dares to call January 6 an “insurrection hoax.”

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

Are we even allowed to express such opinions?  It seems more common for even conservatives to verbalize disclaimers like, “it was a horrible thing that happened and people should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” and so on. Notwithstanding all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, two critical…

A water drop and ripples

We’ve entered the Molotov cocktails through business windows phase of the revolution.

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

Weird. The attacker doesn’t look like a suburban parent upset about critical race theory and transgender ideology in the schools.  Presumably this is the next step from lawyers throwing Molotov cocktails at police cars phase.

Governor Dan McKee and Sgt. Pete Philomena

McKee’s administration has no patience for people whose jobs the governor destroyed.

By Justin Katz | November 2, 2021 |

For weeks, John DePetro and I have been discussing Democrat Governor Dan McKee’s response (or lack thereof) to the protesters upset that they’ve lost their jobs based on a mandate for healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 that he implemented, and they had their closest interaction yet over the weekend. What strikes me, in…

The state picks a pot dealer by lottery

The state’s selection of marijuana dispensaries was more representative than many appreciate.

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

Anchor Rising cofounder Andrew Morse retweeted the photo from ABC6’s Doreen Scanlon that I’ve used as the featured image of this post with the following commentary: Literally and figuratively: How big decisions are made by Rhode Island government. This is the sort of observation a conservative makes when seeing a campy lottery-style method for giving…

Fingers crossed

An archetype of a “benefit corporation” has emerged.

By Justin Katz | October 27, 2021 |

Sometimes watching public policy is like a society-wide 4D puzzle, with the fourth dimension being (of course) time. I remember in 2013 when I had to explain to folks behind the scenes why legislation to create a new type of corporation — the public benefit corporation — belonged on the RI Center for Freedom &…