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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…

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McKee & Alexander-Scott: COVID Didn’t Crash RI’s Healthcare? Let us Take a Whack!

By Monique Chartier | October 3, 2021 |

Hospitals, healthcare facilities and nursing homes around Rhode Island have been dutifully firing their valued, ESSENTIAL employees to comply with Rhode Island’s rigid edict that all healthcare workers must receive the COVID-19 vaccine or lose their license. Over ninety health care facilities, including Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam Hospital and dozens of nursing homes, were not…

Dr. Stephen Skoly's office building

The State of Rhode Island Comes for Dr. Skoly

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

A compliance order issued to Dr. Skoly on the basis of a Providence Journal report shows the state Department of Health looking to make an example of him.

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…

Road to Serfdom Step 6

This is how quickly factions of a free people can persuade themselves to take away freedom.

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

The road to serfdom couldn’t be much clearer than as illustrated by this Newsmax article headlined, “US School Board Group Asks Biden for Help Against Growing ‘Threat’“: As schools around the country face growing backlash related to pandemic safety measures and studies of race in America, school board members are asking for federal help from the president…

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Looks like the Russiagate investigation isn’t quite done, yet.

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

Frankly, I’m surprised powerful interests have even let get this far: The special counsel tasked with chasing down the origins of the Russia collusion conspiracy perpetrated against candidate and President Donald Trump reportedly has issued more criminal indictments in federal court. A federal grand jury convened by John Durham, the former Connecticut U.S. attorney, issued…

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School busing is a disaster waiting to happen in Rhode Island.

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

Pay attention to the budget of a Rhode Island school district for a few cycles, and you’ll learn that there are two companies providing busing, both with unionized workforces.  Districts are obligated by law to provide transportation (including mandatory bus monitors), so the lack of competition leaves them with little choice and leaves the public…

A water drop and ripples

Raimondo’s positioning is an unsettling thought.

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

My goodness.  How did the United States wind up with Gina Raimondo front and center as potentially the most significant trade war the century bubbles? Raimondo said Beijing is reneging on its phase one trade deal with the former U.S. administration in 2020. The deal, signed by the Chinese regime, aimed to vastly increase Chinese…

A water drop and ripples

Fauci is the chief misinformation officer of the United States.

By Justin Katz | October 1, 2021 |

Look, I’m vaccinated against COVID-19, and I’m hesitant-but-persuadable on a booster at some point, but the fact is that everything Anthony Fauci says has to be considered a convenient lie, at this point: “Ultimately I believe that the optimal regimen for the vaccine for the mRNAs is going to include that third booster shot,” Fauci,…