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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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
John is exactly right, here:
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.
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…
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…
People just don’t want to find ways to live together, do they? (We should try objective government.)
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…