Blue v. Red

A sonogram.

Mendes’s problem is that she wasn’t pro-selling-baby-parts?

By Justin Katz | October 8, 2021 |

Providence Journal reporter Katherine Gregg has posted one of the social-media shares from state senator and Rhode Island Political Cooperative candidate for Lieutenant Governor Cynthia Mendes that has gotten her in trouble with her fellow progressives.  All she did was share a post from somebody else linking to one of the famous undercover videos of…

Pawtucket William Blackstone statue

WPRI promotes division, declaring a new holiday in solidarity with progressives.

By Justin Katz | October 8, 2021 |

Don’t bother looking on your calendar as you attempt to interpret this headline on an Eli Sherman article on WPRI: William Blackstone statue rally planned for Indigenous Peoples Day in Pawtucket By “Indigenous Peoples Day,” WPRI means Columbus Day.  It’s just that radicals looking to divide our nation have been insisting we change the name of…

Multiracial hands on a table

Clarity about what we’re being asked to believe about race is essential.

By Justin Katz | October 7, 2021 |

It’s been frustrating to listen to Charles Murray discuss his latest book, Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America, on conservative podcasts, like this episode of Andrew Klavan’s show.  The experience is of watching two friends have a disagreement when they’re missing some obvious common point, and you’re unable to jump in and point…

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The Oath Keepers hack is what progressives want for all of us.

By Justin Katz | October 6, 2021 |

One needn’t endorse or repudiate the Oath Keepers organization to observe that the hack and release of its internal communications raises disturbing questions at a time when state and federal government agencies are seeking more of a view into private donor lists and personal bank accounts: The emails were obtained by BuzzFeed News after an…

A water drop and ripples

Garland and school protests show how thoroughly corrupted our government has become.

By Justin Katz | October 6, 2021 |

This is one of those “wait, what?” items: “Attorney General Garland has a conflict of interest in bringing this investigation. Erika Sanzi of Parents Defending Education notes that ‘Parents are concerned over intrusive surveys and ‘screeners’ that ask 12-year-olds if they are pansexual or gender fluid. The surveys are often created/administered by’ Panorama Education. ‘Merrick…

A water drop and ripples

The unstable double standard won’t hold.

By Justin Katz | October 5, 2021 |

After presenting an alternative reality in which pro-lifers spoke in the manner of climate-change alarmists, Grayson Quay writes: Our progressive elites have no qualms about advancing their agenda through extralegal means. For them, illegal immigration, anti-police rioting, and even light eco-terrorism are all examples of what John Lewis would call ‘good trouble.’ If legal maneuverings…

A water drop and ripples

Vaccination has become a marker of social class.

By Justin Katz | October 4, 2021 |

Michael Morse reframes some of the more-strident pro-vaccination rhetoric to illustrate how it appears to the other side: You cringe when you hear one of them speak out, you shut them down, ignore them, and secretly hope they get sick, and with any luck, die. It serves them right. Probably Trump supporters anyway, and we…

Roger Williams: Non-Woke Need Not Apply

Roger Williams University’s Woke-Allegiance Pledge for Employment

By Justin Katz | October 4, 2021 |

Interested in a job with Roger Williams University as a prep cook, payroll specialist, baker, shuttle driver, retailer, plumber, or even sometimes-nude model for art students?  You might want to find yourself a woke consultant, because applications for all of these positions must include a cover letter with “information about how you would be able…

1987: I learned it by watching you!

Protest message to progressive government: We learned it by watching you!

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

If you’re too young or too non-Northeastern to immediately recognize the classic reference in the title of this post, see here. That’s what came to mind when I saw Rob Nesbitt’s tweet of video showing the vaccine mandate protesters blocking traffic in Providence. Protestors against the vaccine mandate for health care workers are now blocking…

A water drop and ripples

As progressives rally to take “the whole F!@#$%^ State House,” RI must consider the consequences.

By Justin Katz | September 29, 2021 |

You can insist it’s immoral or simply scoff as if these folks don’t count, but this is simply the sort of thing that happens when radicals seize control: A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say. If the center-left…