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Student lap dances of Kentucky school employees should result in arrests.

By Justin Katz | October 28, 2021 |

So, yeah… the statement that the school employees involved in this event didn’t know the details is no excuse: The superintendent of Hazard Independent Schools said “appropriate disciplinary action has been taken” after photos surfaced showing students giving lap dances to staff and wearing scant clothing Tuesday as part of Hazard High School’s homecoming week…

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The General Assembly’s “Recommendation Portal” is misleading in a way that shows RI’s problems.

By Justin Katz | October 28, 2021 |

The Rhode Island General Assembly is calling its page for information about ideas and proposals related to its federal COVID handout the “American Rescue Plan Act State Fiscal Recovery Fund Recommendation Portal.”  The Associated Press article about the portal maintains that framing: Rhode Island’s legislature has created a website to post the proposals it’s receiving…

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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 &…

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Moderna side effects for under-30s are too much for Sweden.

By Justin Katz | October 27, 2021 |

It’s not alarming that different countries might come to different conclusions, but stories like this one paired with the zealous refusal to humor doubts about COVID vaccines in the United States make for a distrusting society: Sweden has extended its pause of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 30 and younger due to heart-related…

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Hate Crime Statistics and Dysfunction on the Campus

By Justin Katz | October 27, 2021 |

Founding broad, university-wide policies in ideological imperatives that make little pretense to a factual basis, academic institutions are convincing young Americans that they live in a society that does not actually exist.

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Time for the counter-offensive of raisingmore statues.

By Justin Katz | October 27, 2021 |

I like John Steigerwald’s idea (via Instapundit): Instead of waiting for liberals to attack the Founders by attacking the statues that memorialize them, Republicans should be looking for places to put new ones, while, in the process, educating people about how Jefferson, who was born into slave ownership, helped to create the country that ended…

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This is a really bad time to have an anti-energy-independence administration.

By Justin Katz | October 27, 2021 |

While reading this article by Katabella Roberts for The Epoch Times, keep in mind that it has proven to be possible for the United States to be an energy exporter very quickly. The world is facing a “real shortage of energy” that could lead to social unrest, according to Blackstone Inc. co-founder Stephen Schwarzman. “We’re going to…

National Grid outage map for RI

Tired of living in a Third World state, yet?

By Justin Katz | October 27, 2021 |

The featured image for this post is the power outage map for National Grid at 7:00 a.m.  Power is out across the entire state. It doesn’t have to be this way.  Wires could be put underground, except that our government squanders as much money as it can so as to charge us additionally for basic…

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Concern about COVID and kids has to be put in perspective.

By Justin Katz | October 26, 2021 |

I read somewhere not long ago that the thing with alcohol isn’t so much that it lowers inhibitions as that it narrows one’s focus.  Having fun in the moment, touching base with your high school friend at 4:00 in the morning, anger at that guy looking at you funny across the bar… these things become…

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Fathers and honesty are powerful forces.

By Justin Katz | October 26, 2021 |

This is such a great story, out of Louisiana: These guys for President. All of them. pic.twitter.com/xfdLgI7Ayp — Heath Mayo (@HeathMayo) October 23, 2021 A big part of what makes it powerful is the simple, plain honesty.  Men simply have a way of being that can affect an atmosphere positively, especially if they’ve been conditioned…