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Hospital beds

COVID death reports remain highly misleading and insufficient for fear-mongering.

By Justin Katz | December 18, 2021 |

The United Kingdom gives a good example of the problem with this constant reporting of COVID numbers as if they should be scary, especially when the metric is people with COVID, not people who have been assessed to have been harmed by it. Here’s the underlying data, which shows that the United Kingdom has had…

A water drop and ripples

Representative democracy is lost inch by inch.

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2021 |

What can one say?  John’s questions are exactly on point, but nobody is surprised about what’s going on: Why is an unelected official making all the Covid decisions?  Governor Dan McKee seems content to allow Dr. Nicole Alexander Scott to make all Covid decisions including decisions that are different than Massachusetts. Why is testing so…

School board member decked in CT

Parents’ rage is simmering nationwide.

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2021 |

This is exactly the sort of environment the education system in Rhode Island and other places around the country are inviting as they seek to impose ideological radicalism as guiding lights and institutionalize a system of lying to parents.  At the link, Rod Dreher supplies video of the emotional testimony and accusations of Jessica Konen,…

The China Virus

United States of America, Meet Gina Raimondo and Her Communist-Associated Husband

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2021 |

During her time as governor, Rhode Islanders periodically would hear rumors that Gina Raimondo had the backing of powerful financial interests.  Indeed, she typically received the large majority of her campaign donations from people with out-of-state addresses.  As I asked in 2017, what were they buying with their money? At the time, the answer seemed…

A water drop and ripples

Anybody old enough to remember when Biden botched an Afghanistan withdrawal?

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2021 |

This is worth remembering, especially because so many people charged with keeping an eye on things want to forget it: We found out about the 14,000 abandoned Americans almost two months ago, of whom the State Department only shows 900 exfiltrated thus far. We also knew that the US had abandoned tens of thousands of…

A water drop and ripples

It’s still amazing to me that some folks malign GOP representatives for this.

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2021 |

Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert visited the men being held in prison for involvement in January 6 and released a report of their findings. That this isn’t a subject of interest much more broadly is mind blowing.  In fact, much of the commentary I see treats it as somehow inappropriate of Greene…

A room with pealing paint

Corruption is the point of sexual radicalism.

By Justin Katz | December 17, 2021 |

Memory is hazy, and I missed early punk by about a half-generation, and I couldn’t quickly find the clip, but I remember seeing a punk rocker being interviewed on a mainstream television show, looking very much the emaciated junky and saying, essentially, we have control over your children.  Even not being a parent at the…

Cash under a medical mask

Even the stuff state lawmakers are proud of is wrong.

By Justin Katz | December 16, 2021 |

Sometimes I have to wonder whether I’m one of only a few people in the state who read about the policy doings of legislators and the governor and see the wall-to-wall violations of good government… and propriety. The waves of borrowed cash that the federal government has injected into the veins of our incompetent and…

A water drop and ripples

Is Rhode Island too small for its own citizens’ good?

By Justin Katz | December 16, 2021 |

One part of my diagnosis of Rhode Island’s problems is that it’s just not big enough for opposing factions to build up and keep each other honest in state-level government.  Pushback against the New York governor’s mask mandate at the county level brough that to mind: At least 13 counties in New York state are…

A dragon statue & medical mask

States of emergency shouldn’t be used to manage viruses.

By Justin Katz | December 16, 2021 |

Rhode Island Republican House Minority Leader Blake Filippi lays out the simple steps of his argument that Democrat Governor Dan McKee is acting outside of his authority by continuing the COVID state of emergency: A thread on the lawlessness of @GovDanMcKee’s emergency powers: §30-15-9 used to allow the Governor to declare an emergency with no…