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There are actually two falsehoods within pro-abortion alarmism.

By Justin Katz | June 26, 2021 |

Charlotte Pence Bond emphasizes one in her recent essay on The Daily Wire.  She quotes the much-promoted speech of a Texas high school valedictorian: The speaker, Paxton Smith, had originally planned to speak to attendees of Lake Highlands High School’s graduation about the role of media in the world but decided to change it, unbeknownst…

Marc Archambault receives treatment

Let’s hope this Rhode Islander is at the leading edge of Alzheimer’s treatment.

By Justin Katz | June 26, 2021 |

Marc Archambault of South Kingstown has become the first human being to begin treatments with the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm (aducanumab): Marc Archambault, a 70-year-old real estate broker from South Kingstown, was treated at Butler Hospital with aducanumab, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 7. Aducanumab, which is sold…

Sakonnet River Bridge lights 6/24/21

Does the use of rainbows have to be reevaluated?

By Justin Katz | June 25, 2021 |

Progressive Democrat State Representative Michelle McGaw tweeted something last night that raises an interesting question few discuss but many probably ponder.  As shown in the featured image for this post, she posted a picture of the Sakonnet River Bridge, apparently taken from the bike path, showing that its changeable lights were shining in a rainbow.…

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The FBI’s new surveillance techniques will eventually come for you.

By Justin Katz | June 25, 2021 |

Nobody should be upset that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies arrested hundreds of international gang members in the Trojan Shield operation, but everybody should concerned about the methods used toward that end.  Mike Corder of the Associated Press describes them: The seeds of the sting were sown when law enforcement agencies earlier took…

Map of best and worst run U.S. cities

Where Providence is run poorly is where it matters (and Warwick, too).

By Justin Katz | June 25, 2021 |

On first look, Rhode Islanders might not be inclined to despair that our capital city ranks 89 among 150 cities reviewed for on the WalletHub list of “2021’s Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America.”  Our state has been run so poorly for so long that being (roughly) middle-of-the-pack on a list is something of a…

Map of states' civics and history standards

A Fordham study of states’ civics and U.S. history standards flunks Rhode Island.

By Justin Katz | June 25, 2021 |

As Rhode Island’s progressive and education establishments go to war with parents over their plan to indoctrinate children with critical race theory (CRT), a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute gives Rhode Island a D for civics and an F for U.S. History, with five pages of blistering analysis, summarized thus: Rhode Island’s civics…

Apartment buildings

Despite the lessons of the pandemic, the Left marches on toward the destruction of suburbs.

By Justin Katz | June 24, 2021 |

One might have thought Leftist Democrats would take a pause on the project to destroy the suburbs — if not to genuinely reevaluate things in light of the lessons about density learned from COVID-19, then at least to put some distance between their activism and the pandemic’s uncomfortable questions.  One would have been wrong. Annie…

RI’s $13 billion budget shows government always makes out.

By Justin Katz | June 24, 2021 |

While Rhode Islanders are still trying to get their heads around the fact that their state government’s budget is poised to cross the $13 billion mark in the year beginning July 1 when it was under $10 billion as recently as 2019.  How does a global pandemic and economic collapse wind up with the government…

Jeremy Palmer's arrest in Chariho

Urban parents should take note of the suburbs.

By Justin Katz | June 24, 2021 |

A major theme currently peppering my news feed from across the country is suburban parents being arrested while speaking out at school committee meetings.  John DePetro has video of one such man, Jeremy Palmer, at a school committee meeting in the Chariho district.  Another parent in that district, Kelly Sullivan, describes the multiracial opposition to…

Clown face in a pinball machine

These days, it’s a marker of privilege to be able to live by a reasonable standard.

By Justin Katz | June 24, 2021 |

I almost feel the need to apologize for keeping on this story when nothing new has really been added, but the key moral of the thing — which nobody is talking about — is right there screaming at us. Ted Nesi of WPRI tweeted out a letter that the president of Bailey’s Beach, Alexander Auersperg, reportedly…