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A by-the-way note to conservatives on illegal immigrants.

By Justin Katz | September 25, 2021 |

Tucker isn’t wrong in this analysis.  There’s a reason our borders are open and buses and planes are distributing all comers across the country.  But here’s an important point that’s often ignored:  If newly arrived residents are here, and if they’re going to be voters, they might vote with you! That doesn’t mean pandering, and…

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Reality’s scriptwriter has it out for the Democrats.

By Justin Katz | September 25, 2021 |

Just a few days ago, we were seeing headlines like, “Former USA National Team Gymnasts Testify Against the FBI Over Botched Larry Nassar Investigation.” Today the news is that “the FBI is investigating a group of male Afghan refugees after they assaulted a female U.S. soldier in New Mexico.” Notice how all the threads are…

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The state Department of Health really wants healthcare workers to be on the lookout.

By Justin Katz | September 25, 2021 |

Talk about cultivating a hostile environment! John DePetro reports that the state Department of Health is encouraging healthcare workers to tattle on coworkers who remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 (whether or not they have acquired immunity through prior exposure).  Center for Professional Boards and Licensing Chief Ellen Balasco ends a recent notice about vaccination requirements thus:…

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Today on Flip the Parties: Biden’s tax evasion

By Justin Katz | September 24, 2021 |

Calls of hypocrisy can go too far, but it’s simply too easy to imagine (meaning “to know”) how differently this sort of news would be handled if Biden were a Republican: [Rep. Jim] Banks, the Republican Study Committee chairman, was responding to the New York Post’s report on the findings of the nonpartisan CRS showing…

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Entitlement is an illness of government overindulgence.

By Justin Katz | September 24, 2021 |

On one hand, I sympathize with Alexis Santoro, of Cumberland: Santoro first raised the issue in an email on September 1 to Cumberland school officials. “Each year there has been a bus monitor/crossing guard for the bus when the bus has stopped at this location since pound road has a lot of blind spots and…

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College professors provide more evidence that critical race theory is not meant to help students or professionals excel.

By Justin Katz | September 24, 2021 |

Professors from multiple states have signed on to the argument that “success and merit” should not be goals of a university, but rather that they’re “barriers,” according to Kate Anderson on Campus Reform (via Instapundit): “Admitting that the normative definitions of success and merit are in and of themselves barriers to achieving the goals of justice, diversity, equity…

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Freedom and religion go hand in hand.

By Justin Katz | September 24, 2021 |

The headline from a Dennis Prager commentary in the Epoch Times evokes two distinct ideas.  Here’s the headline: “As America Has Become More Secular, It Has Become Less Free.” The first idea is along the lines that Prager emphasizes: Freedom permeates the Old Testament: The Bible begins with the story of Adam and Eve, a story…

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What genre should a writer choose for the tale of Police Chief Ronald Landry?

By Justin Katz | September 24, 2021 |

It’s difficult to know whether to read this Lauren Clem story in the Valley Breeze as a comedy or outrage-driven drama. Ronald Landry worked his way up to the rank of captain in the Woonsocket police department, retiring in 2007.  At that point, presumably, he took his pension along with a promotion of chief just across…

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We’re going to be addressing the problems cause by COVID lockdowns for decades.

By Justin Katz | September 23, 2021 |

Sometimes I wonder how many of the most-aggressive anti-COVID crusaders have children.  It would be interesting to see a study of attitudes toward our response to the pandemic and having children in the home.  As somebody with children spanning from early grades into college, I can testify that things have become much, much harder. Stories…

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Critical Race Theory Comes to Portsmouth in a Misleading Mask

By Justin Katz | September 23, 2021 |

Parents who haven’t been following the controversy around critical race theory (CRT) and “anti-racism” might think these sessions have something to do with “college and/or career” readiness for their children.  They do not.