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Race-baiting cartoon by Revenue for RI

A Disjointed, Dishonest Pitch to Raise RI’s Income Tax

By Monique Chartier | May 23, 2021 |

A special interest coalition advocates for “Revenue for Rhode Island” via a slick mailer with quite the set up and pitch.

Soccer cleats in the air

Don’t be surprised when we find it was dangerous to open the door for boys in girls’ sports.

By Justin Katz | May 23, 2021 |

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…

Media logos

The “conservative” news organization is probably the most balanced.

By Justin Katz | May 22, 2021 |

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.…

Murders and property crime in BLM cities

Black Lives Matter protests are associated with more people being killed.

By Justin Katz | May 22, 2021 |

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…

An anti-Israel mob attacks Jews in NYC.

In Biden’s America, reaction to violence depends on identity.

By Justin Katz | May 22, 2021 |

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…

Meerkat tells a secret

It’s up to the reader to spot when journalists are merely passing along PR.

By Justin Katz | May 22, 2021 |

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,…

A sheep at a blackboard with 1984 math

The American variant of socialism is going to be so much worse.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

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.…

A more-descriptive restroom sign

Sure we’re struggling and Providence schools are collapsing, but at least we’ll have non-gendered single-use bathrooms!

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

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…

Per capita property taxes by state

Rhode Island’s per Capita Property Taxes are 7th Highest in the U.S.

By Justin Katz | May 21, 2021 |

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…

Girls playing soccer at night

You may not have heard a key variable in the women’s soccer pay inequity discussion.

By Justin Katz | May 20, 2021 |

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…