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The benefits of natural immunity should be a bigger part of the COVID story.

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

A new study (which appears to be out of Israel) confirms that natural immunity to the Delta variant of COVID-19 is even better than vaccine-driven immunity.  Breakthrough infections are 13 times more likely with a vaccine, versus a recent infection.  The number goes down only to 6 times for infections from longer ago. This study…

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Responding to contrasts of treatment of Ashli Babbitt’s killer and cops who’ve killed Black men…

By Justin Katz | August 27, 2021 |

… noting that the “country would be on fire” if the skin colors (and ideologies) were reversed, Glenn Reynolds asks, “So why isn’t it?” Well, apart from the fact that conservatives are more law-abiding and not trying to undermine the country, the establishment has displayed the rules since January 6.  Left-wing rioting is just free speech. …

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Highlander’s progress from special needs instruction to promoting critical race theory is instructive.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

That’s the subject of my latest article for Accuracy in Media. The Highlander Institute’s radicalism can be seen in a review of its Twitter stream. For example, the organization provided the only retweet for a tweet by Dinah Becton-Consuegra of the Kapor Center in Oakland, California, which says: “We are a country founded on racist ideas,…

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It’s becoming more and more important to put things in historical context.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

That’s why I love when Marc makes use of his advanced history education.  We wouldn’t be having the social troubles we’re having if we were teaching history like we should.  History has points like this, about how the Pequots attacked and harried the English settlers’ Saybrook Fort: Lessons learned during the siege of Saybrook escalated…

Engraving of the capture of Mistick Fort

If a cow-riding hermit like Rev. Blackstone is akin to Hitler…

By Marc Comtois | August 26, 2021 |

…then what do you call, for instance, the 200 or so Narragansett’s who helped wipe-out the Pequots at Mistick Fort? On May 23, a force of approximately 80 English (10 remained with the ships), 60 Mohegan and River Indians under Uncas, and 200 Narragansett marched 30 miles to present-day Mystic, Connecticut….Mistick Fort was engulfed in…

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Wouldn’t it only be news if the state’s pension fund was at record lows?

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

I keep seeing these headlines about RI General Treasurer Seth Magaziner announcing record highs for the pension fund, but shouldn’t that always be the case?  Unless the workforce is shrinking, even keeping up with inflation should produce record highs.  It seems to me mainly an indication that we have too many people in PR in government.

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The controversy over a William Blackstone statue on private property is a sign of a civilization that cannot last.

By Justin Katz | August 26, 2021 |

Whether there should there be a statue depicting Reverend Blackstone in Pawtucket is a question for the people making the investment of time and money and, to a lesser extent, the people in the area.  What should concern us all, however, is the way in which these public debates are being conducted. Let’s take a…

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Nicole Solas’s APRAs are bearing fruit.

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

Why would your “equity auditor” have to be “fluent in critical race theory” if CRT isn’t in the schools? On Twitter.

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No Specific Answers by R.I. Congressional Delegation on Afghanistan

By Monique Chartier | August 25, 2021 |

No member of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation responded to Anchor Rising’s questions or addressed the plight of potentially stranded Americans or Afghan allies.

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Why is the State Department turning away military interpreters from rescue?

By Justin Katz | August 25, 2021 |

With the caveate that chaos makes it hard to know what’s going on and easy to get a partial story, this seems like a travesty. The original story comes from the New York Times, but reading some of the implicitly pro-Biden replies to the linked tweet trying to cast doubt on it raises an important point: …