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I hold truth, common sense, logic, efficiency, and integrity in high esteem, so therefore I am conservative in my politics. My hero is Ronald Reagan, though when he first ran I nearly voted for Mondale. At the time, I was just transitioning from darkness to light both spiritually and politically. (Perhaps one's political views reflect their spiritual state). Nonetheless, Providence guided my finger to the correct lever and I've been a conservative ever since. Many moons ago, I ran for NY State Senator on the Right to Life ticket and lost. But I did garnish 1% of the vote (not bad for New York). I enjoy listening to Ricochet podcasts, especially Mark Steyn, Pat Sajak, James Lileks, Andrew Klavan, and Peter Robinson. And Rob Long too, because some viewpoint-stretching is healthy. I appreciate the engaging, eclectic Ricochet writers who also challenge me to expand my scope of thinking (though I have zero tolerance for RINOs, especially the squishy ones). I am an aspiring writer (which means I actually don't write) and am currently unemployed as a professional organizer and now work for free. I have seven children and four grandkids, all beautiful of course.


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Marlene Cowan
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Re: Marbles

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Good for you, Peter: Never too busy to smell the roses or shoot the marbles.

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Humza Ahmad: If Romney cannot adequately respond to Santorum, easily the least well-read and least well-spoken of the bunch (yes, I believe Ron Paul is much more on his game all-around than Santorum), then how is he supposed to respond adequately to a highly intelligent and very effective debater like Obama?

Please tell me you're being sarcastic here!!??

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The first start of production hobbit movie video

Got it, thanks Claire!

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Stephen Dawson

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The Rope with Jimmy Stewart. An Alfred Hitchcock movie with the strongest pro-life message I've ever witnessed in a drama film (and of course anything with Stewart HAS to be good).

[snipped] · Dec 30 at 3:45am

This movie is also a technical marvel. It was done in ten unedited shots, most between seven and ten minutes. Considering the size of a Technicolor camera, incredible! · Dec 30 at 4:20am

Interesting! Directors from a generation or two ago really had to rely on their own artistic imaginations and limited technological devices to produce a great movie (and there were several). Today many directors count on sensory overload hoping to distract audiences from the movie's lack of creativity and originality (and there are several of those)!

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This post is great! I'm jotting down many of these movies after just lamenting to my husband that Hollywood rarely ever produces anything worth watching these days. So here's my contribution: 

Horror Hotel with a very young Christopher Lee (one of the best actors of all time in MHO). It is the quintessential B&W horror movie complete with creepy people walking around a obscure foggy Massachusetts town, a coven of witches engaging in satanic rituals, and the ultimate defeat of them by the Cross of Christ. The first time I saw it I was a mere child and it left quite an impression on me. 

The Rope with Jimmy Stewart. An Alfred Hitchcock movie with the strongest pro-life message I've ever witnessed in a drama film (and of course anything with Stewart HAS to be good).

Clash by Night with Barbara Stanwyck (and a very young Marilyn Monroe) about the consequences of adultery.

Bright Eyes: I absolutely love this Shirley Temple movie. It's like a Goofus (Jane Withers) and Gallant (Shirley Temple) dramatization. And she sings the classic: Good Ship Lollipop song. Adorable!!

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Wow, what a great discussion, worth the price of joining Ricochet alone! And the best comment comes when James asks, referring to the GOP presidential candidates: "Who is going to rescue America?" Douglas brilliantly, and rightly answers: "I will tell you who will rescue America, America will rescue America." Amen, brother! The answer to our dilemma is not found in politicians. It begins and ends with the people, the American people. For within all people there is the innate desire to be free, to be free to provide for one's family, to be free to own property, and to be free to enjoy the rights given to us, not by government, but by God: The right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. What will it take for Americans to wake up and rekindle these values? I don't know, but I do have faith in that indomitable American spirit that made our country great. 

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One writer I KNOW is conservative and darn good: Andrew Klavan. 

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"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness." Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation: A Day Of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer in the The United States Of America on April 30, 1863

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"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)

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Didn't curiosity kill the cat?

Edited on Nov. 10 at 4:05am
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So which one is the lefty- Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers?

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Loved it! I have been missing Mark Steyn on the Ricochet podcasts so these guys will definitely fulfill my need for conservatism articulated in proper English.

Edited on Oct. 25 at 8:14am
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Speaking of giving God glory, the folks at Westboro have much to learn about that. Soli Deo Gloria!

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Give Peas A Chance.

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It hasn't been the same without Mark Steyn. Glad he's back!!

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