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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…

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When you say, “let’s go,” go with Southwest.

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

I don’t travel much, particularly by airplane, but when I do, I’ve usually used Southwest Airlines.  That habit developed for a number of reasons, with a key one being that unassigned seating seemed to me a touch of randomness that would dissuade would-be terrorists.  (Granted, this felt like a more-pressing consideration some years ago.) Now…

Mount Hope High School

You must overlook the obvious when activists accuse Bristol Warren schools of racism.

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

There are two ways a contractor who’s trying to get a job with a public school district can respond when she hears that the school committee did not approve a proposal to hire her.  She can decline to comment and then seek to address the concerns of the hesitant school committee members, both in private…

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Doesn’t RI have more fundamental financial needs than high-speed rail and an aquarium?

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

Sometimes RI’s most essential problem (the failure of its insider class to recognize reality) comes at us from all directions.  One example is the call from Joseph Paolino to use the feds COVID gift to Rhode Island government  “to change our economy.”  How? Let’s look at what our state really needs and invest in them…

Mike Stanton tweets about Michael Flynn

Is Stanton a journalism professor or a town gossip?

By Justin Katz | November 1, 2021 |

Mike Stanton is a former Providence Journal reporter who now teaches journalism at the University of Connecticut.  He’s also something of a case study in how Twitter has exposed the ideological nature and lack of objective intellectual rigor in journalism these days. This time, the evidence he provides for this proposition has to do with one…

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The numbers should be the story with many COVID studies, not a comparison of them.

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

I’m not sure whether pro-COVID-vax people or anti-COVID-vax people will be more enthusiastic about a finding in Israel that COVID vaccines become less effective over time.  Does that reinforce the need for regular boosters, or prove that they aren’t worthwhile? What strikes me is that such a finding is framed this way in the first…

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Why doesn’t WPRI care about education in Providence?

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

This week a Providence public school teacher appeared on the highest-rated cable news show in the nation talking about the ideological revamping of her school’s curriculum and the retaliation she has faced for publicly objecting to it. Whether one thinks Ramona Bessinger is acting as an invaluable whistleblower (which is my view) or is part…

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Is this “bullpen” story from PETA a diversion?

By Justin Katz | October 30, 2021 |

Want proof that there’s no depth of silliness that radical activists won’t plumb and that the news media won’t take seriously? With the World Series underway, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on Major League Baseball to stop using the term “bullpen.” According to PETA, “bullpen” references the holding area…

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…