Political Thought

Ideology and mental health chart

It’s important to acknowledge the correlation between “liberalism” (meaning “progressivism”) and mental illness.

By Justin Katz | May 29, 2021 |

Writing in Evie magazine, Elizabeth Condra highlights a finding using Pew Research data: The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even “very liberal.” What’s more, white women…

X-Ray of an OK sign

What’s surprising is that more people don’t feel trapped in work for healthcare.

By Justin Katz | May 27, 2021 |

A recent survey of Americans, as reported on Newsmax, finds that one in six “U.S. adult workers have stayed at their jobs because they don’t want to lose employer-sponsored health insurance.”  That’s especially true for lower-income workers and minorities. Tying healthcare with employment is one of the more wrong-headed policy decisions our country has made in…

Norman Rockwell's Freedom to Worship

Comparing the Equality Act with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act shows which side is actually interested in a pluralist country.

By Justin Katz | May 26, 2021 |

In a brief explainer from Heritage, Thomas Jipping lays out clearly how claims that the so-called Equality Act would restrict other rights are another example of progressives’ insisting that we deny what is obvious in service of their ideology: [The] Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) … provides that a person whose exercise of religion has…

Sermon on the Mount by Karoly Ferenczy

Yes, the Democrat establishment is gung-ho on the Great Replacement of the population.

By Justin Katz | May 26, 2021 |

Glenn Reynolds is right: The strategy of promoting a racial shift for political gain is “odious, and Democrats have been openly gloating about it for years.”  As Ann Althouse writes, noting the careful parsing of a New York Times article on the subject: The “Great Replacement” theory is referred to elsewhere in the article, here: “Contrary…

The Declaration of Independence

Conservatives have to give some deep thought to how to save the country.

By Justin Katz | May 25, 2021 |

And in this case, by “conservatives,” I just mean anybody who thinks our country is worth saving.  In particular, I have in mind a couple of tweets from conservative pundit Jesse Kelly that Glenn Reynolds posted on Instapundit a few weeks ago (but that are not available on Twitter anymore): REMINDER: You cannot laissez-faire your way…

Children in tug of war

Weingarten gave the game away with her call for elected school boards.

By Justin Katz | May 24, 2021 |

Not a lot of time is required to understand how collective bargaining is supposed to work.  In the private sector, management has incentive to increase profits and squeeze savings out of workers, so employees coordinate their efforts so they have leverage as a group to protect their own interests.  Given that they are bound together…

A shadowy man on the phone

The media’s trick is to make the persecution of the opposition seem ordinary.

By Justin Katz | May 23, 2021 |

Even as evidence of Biden corruption is ignored as if it’s non-news, we’re seeing stories like this, by Solange Reynder for Newsmax: Rudy Giuliani says half of the documents the ”unethical, corrupt” Justice Department seized Thursday in a federal raid of his Manhattan home and office involve his representation of former President Donald Trump. ”When I…

A sheep at a blackboard with 1984 math

The American variant of socialism is going to be so much worse.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

Reacting to increasing outbreaks of woke math in the United States, Katya Rapoport Sedgwick explains on Legal Insurrection why she believes “socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where [she] grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.” The main reason woke math is on the march is simple: the woke destroy. That’s what they do.…

A more-descriptive restroom sign

Sure we’re struggling and Providence schools are collapsing, but at least we’ll have non-gendered single-use bathrooms!

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

Seriously.  With all that is going on in the world and in Rhode Island, why would legislators wade into this degree of virtue signaling, as Christian Winthrop reports for The Newport Buzz? The House of Representatives today approved legislation introduced by Majority Floor Manager John G. Edwards (D-Dist. 70, Tiverton, Portsmouth), that would make single-user restrooms…

Per capita property taxes by state

Rhode Island’s per Capita Property Taxes are 7th Highest in the U.S.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

According to the Tax Foundation’s relevant tax map, government entities in Rhode Island collect the equivalent of $2,431 from every man, woman, and child in the state in property taxes. Of course, many of those men, women, and children live on the same property (and some have more than one), so the per family amount is…