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How many people even know it’s a question why the Brown student was shot?

By Justin Katz | January 29, 2024 |

I warned, when John DePetro and I discussed it some weeks ago, that we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that the Brown University student shot in Vermont was the victim of anti-Palestinian sentiment.  Now, fully aware how polarized we are, I wouldn’t assert that everybody should take Daniel Greenfield’s FrontPageMag article as proof to the contrary,…

A water drop and ripples

Maybe we’re being distracted from the genuine treason of the Democrats.

By Justin Katz | January 5, 2024 |

Elon Musk suggests Americans aren’t sufficiently aware of the rivers of illegal immigrants continuing to flood toward the United States: Cartoonist and author Scott Adams adds: “We are literally importing poverty.”  Poverty isn’t all.  We’re also importing illness, social disorder, political disfunction, and more. Americans, of all people, should not be anti-immigration, and legitimate arguments…

Excited man awards Car of the Year to a clunker

Politics This Week: Superficial Successes and Status Markers

By Justin Katz | January 2, 2024 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz review some of the inauspicious indicators of Rhode Island’s political scene going into the new year.

A water drop and ripples

The Nikki Haley Civil War flap reminds us about three things.

By Justin Katz | December 28, 2023 |

First, many Democrats truly believe (or at least are happy to claim to believe) there’s a big racist contingency among Republicans that I simply have not seen, at least in several decades. Second, progressive Democrats will happily take the conflicting position and insist that the Civil War actually had nothing to do with slavery when…

Dan McKee as a cartoon fantasy knight

Politics This Week: Living the Fantasies of the Powerful

By Justin Katz | December 27, 2023 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss various fantasies of the ruling class in RI and the U.S.

A water drop and ripples

Disruption of our lives is the point.

By Justin Katz | December 26, 2023 |

It may be tempting, if you come across images of protest actions around the country during the Christmas holiday ,to believe the protesters are generally being honest about their motivation. In their minds, a horrific event is happening in Gaza, and they feel compelled to act in opposition in whatever way they can. Personally, I…

Jose Clemente Orozco, The Clowns of War Arguing in Hell

Don’t ignore this telling statement from Brown University.

By Justin Katz | December 18, 2023 |

In the context of a young generation that thinks in terms of oppressor versus oppressed in a battle of mutual genocide, Brown University’s Otherization of everyday Americans is dangerous.

A pig with Communist branding smiles in the mud

Refuse to wrestle in the progressive mud.

By Justin Katz | December 12, 2023 |

Progressives set rhetorical trap after trap in a cynical bid for division and mutual disrespect. Adding barbs and traps from non-progressives is not the solution; truth and an insistence on a broader sense of community is.

A water drop and ripples

Why do we have to relearn the lessons of recent history?

By Justin Katz | December 8, 2023 |

This will look familiar to anybody with even a passing familiarity with the history of the Twentieth Century: Leftists are constantly provoking and agitating the public in their lust for power, and eventually people rebel, sometimes while being driven into the arms of the Far Right in an enemy-of-my-enemy way.  Socialism is a divisive, Satanic…

A mechanic stares down a destroyed machine

Politics This Week: The Era of Mismanagement

By Justin Katz | December 4, 2023 |

John DePetro and Justin Katz challenge the common wisdom in RI government, media, and higher education.