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A water drop and ripples

The Nikki Haley Civil War flap reminds us about three things.

By Justin Katz | December 28, 2023 |

First, many Democrats truly believe (or at least are happy to claim to believe) there’s a big racist contingency among Republicans that I simply have not seen, at least in several decades. Second, progressive Democrats will happily take the conflicting position and insist that the Civil War actually had nothing to do with slavery when…

A water drop and ripples

Contrast the applications of rights to speech.

By Justin Katz | December 26, 2023 |

As we watch progressive activists disrupt life in America, apparently with impunity, progressive attorneys general are happy to provide contrary examples dependent upon political viewpoint: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is suing an increasingly active neo-Nazi group and two of its leaders for an escalating pattern of harassing, intimidating, and confrontational conduct at anti-immigration…

A water drop and ripples

Disruption of our lives is the point.

By Justin Katz | December 26, 2023 |

It may be tempting, if you come across images of protest actions around the country during the Christmas holiday ,to believe the protesters are generally being honest about their motivation. In their minds, a horrific event is happening in Gaza, and they feel compelled to act in opposition in whatever way they can. Personally, I…

Jose Clemente Orozco, The Clowns of War Arguing in Hell

Don’t ignore this telling statement from Brown University.

By Justin Katz | December 18, 2023 |

In the context of a young generation that thinks in terms of oppressor versus oppressed in a battle of mutual genocide, Brown University’s Otherization of everyday Americans is dangerous.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Here’s the scary thought, Rhode Island.

By Justin Katz | December 13, 2023 |

Nobody on your political bench can do much better than what you’re seeing now. Democracy has produced the government you actually wanted for so long that the bill is coming due.  I wrote about the “Four Horsemen of Rhode Island’s Apocalypse” 15 years ago, and the situation’s only gotten worse as people not in the…

A water drop and ripples

We have to stop rewarding incompetence with more money and power.

By Justin Katz | December 12, 2023 |

John is exactly right, here:

A pig with Communist branding smiles in the mud

Refuse to wrestle in the progressive mud.

By Justin Katz | December 12, 2023 |

Progressives set rhetorical trap after trap in a cynical bid for division and mutual disrespect. Adding barbs and traps from non-progressives is not the solution; truth and an insistence on a broader sense of community is.

A water drop and ripples

Any analysis that forgets housing is a store of value is worse than useless.

By Justin Katz | December 11, 2023 |

Progressive state representative Enrique Sanchez is entirely wrong, here: Housing is a store of value.  People will put up their own money for their own homes and for investment properties.  If they’re not doing so — especially as the demonstrable value climbs and climbs — then government is doing something wrong to prevent it.  This…

A water drop and ripples

Our attitude toward college students (especially at Ivy League schools) puzzles me.

By Justin Katz | December 11, 2023 |

Maybe I’m getting old and crotchety, but these performances just seem so silly, lately: They’re basically elitists passing through on their way to lives of privilege and entitlement, yet we act simultaneously as if they’ve got some long-standing right to dictate the actions of the institutions and that those institutions’ highest purpose is to give…

Dogs debating in town hall

People just don’t want to find ways to live together, do they? (We should try objective government.)

By Justin Katz | December 8, 2023 |

Silly and local as it is, this is one of those stories that makes me despair for the future: A few years ago, some folks petitioned for Tiverton to give some land next to the library to a group that wanted to put together a dog park. People using it are supposed to park across…