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Somehow my youngest child discovered the Netflix original cartoon series, Ridley Jones, and wanted to watch it. Being very wary of any children’s television programs produced within the past two years, I did some research. The premise is that Ridley watches over a museum with her mother and grandmother, and at night the exhibits come to…
According to Daily Wire (first discovered by Barstool), Comedy Central doesn’t find a particular episode of the sitcom The Office funny after all. The episode is famous for its politically incorrect storyline which features boss Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) forcing the paper company staff to participate in a racial diversity seminar where he speaks in…
Something really strange happened in 1990. There are some stand-outs, but mostly, pop/rock music fell off a cliff for a year.
She must have known a non-Catholic in a lesbian marriage shouldn’t take the Eucharist. Incredibly disrespectful… and at a police officer’s funeral. (Autumn Jones reports for Catholic News Agency.)
Here’s a problem I grapple with every day: I hate providing content for social media companies. They profit from it, draw attention away from other platforms, censor it, and use it to divide and conquer our civilization. But… a lot of you are there. Many people who don’t yet know they’re Anchor Rising readers are…
Reports from local staff members at the U.S. embassy in Kabul as Abigail Williams and Yuliya Talmazan report for NBC News. (Via Instapundit.)
Some municipalities were only just getting back to some semblance of the openness and transparency that citizens enjoyed prior to COVID. For a year, give or take, municipal bodies seized dictatorial control of their meetings, stomping on the public’s right to see and to participate. In towns like Tiverton, where the council leadership has palpable…
Remember everybody’s fascination with the COVID-19 projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) when this whole thing started? On April 8, 2020, I noted how the institute’s projections had a strange habit of not matching reality. That day, the scary proclamation was that Rhode Island had 21 days to peak daily deaths,…
Dan McGowan reports for the Boston Globe that the Glocester School Committee is going to consider suing the Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education over its implicit statewide mask mandate: Governor Dan McKee subsequently declared a new state of emergency related to Delta variant of the coronavirus, and issued an executive order requiring masks in…
Not so surprisingly, I haven’t seen much news concerning a lawsuit pro-life organizations filed in 2019 against the state’s new law “codifying” abortion into law in case Roe v. Wade is overturned. There has been a development, however, according to Brian Fraga of the Rhode Island Catholic reports: In its brief, which was submitted to the Supreme…