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A special interest coalition advocates for “Revenue for Rhode Island” via a slick mailer with quite the set up and pitch.
Any parent with children of both sexes who play soccer has seen the undeniable difference in the way boys and girls play the game. It seems the cultural and hormonal differences may be interwoven with an underlying acknowledgment of actual risks. According to the results of a recent study: The study confirmed findings from previous…
The structure of this “survey” is interesting, as Mark Tapscott describes it on Instapundit: AllSides recently showed a balanced sample of 2,000 people news stories produced by five news organizations but without their brand names, then asked them to read the stories and rate them according to where they would place them on the political spectrum.…
Keith Griffith’s summary for the Daily Mail of a study by Travis Campbell of changes in crime in cities that had Black Lives Matter protests is not surprising in one respect: A researcher has found that cities that had Black Lives Matter protests saw a significant decrease in police homicides, but a huge overall increase…
If your social media feed is anything like mine, you’ve been seeing clips of pro-Palestine (or anti-Israel) protesters attacking Jews in multiple American cities. Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby is exactly right when he responds to one of the videos as follows: If these Jews were being attacked by vicious white supremacist thugs, media interest…
A paragraph that Ed Driscoll quotes on Instapundit from a Glenn Greenwald Substack essay deserves consideration of its broader application: Let’s express this as clearly as it can be expressed. Any journalist who treats unverified stories from the CIA or other government agencies as true, without needing any evidence or applying any skepticism, is worthless. Actually,…
Reacting to increasing outbreaks of woke math in the United States, Katya Rapoport Sedgwick explains on Legal Insurrection why she believes “socialism in the U.S. is going to be worse than the USSR where [she] grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.” The main reason woke math is on the march is simple: the woke destroy. That’s what they do.…
Seriously. With all that is going on in the world and in Rhode Island, why would legislators wade into this degree of virtue signaling, as Christian Winthrop reports for The Newport Buzz? The House of Representatives today approved legislation introduced by Majority Floor Manager John G. Edwards (D-Dist. 70, Tiverton, Portsmouth), that would make single-user restrooms…
According to the Tax Foundation’s relevant tax map, government entities in Rhode Island collect the equivalent of $2,431 from every man, woman, and child in the state in property taxes. Of course, many of those men, women, and children live on the same property (and some have more than one), so the per family amount is…
Having high-school-aged daughters in this day and age, I’ve heard the issue of pay equity for female soccer players come up from time to time, in and out of a school-project context. Curiously, I’d never before heard the detail that Ashe Schow reports for The Daily Wire: … U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner dismissed the…