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Diane Ellis is the Lead Editor of Ricochet.

Upon graduating from Dartmouth College where she majored in Russian, Diane worked as a research assistant for Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institution, and as the Associate Producer of Uncommon Knowledge.

She resides in Nancy Pelosi's district with her miniature spotted Australian Cattle Dog, Bee, and is an aspiring master of Mexican cuisine.


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Jimmy Carter

Мисс меня еще?

"Miss Me Yet?"

(Miss Ellis can accept or correct Bing's translator) · 52 minutes ago

Edited 3 minutes ago

LOLZ. My best guess (But Bill Walsh or Maura Pennington can come and correct me):

Ли уже скучаете по мне?

Diane Ellis, Ed.
Kervinlee: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” 
― C.S Lewis · 22 hours ago

Thanks for reminding me of this quote. It's a great one.

Diane Ellis, Ed.
Byron Horatio: I guess the key distinction I'm making is not about whether to hate sinners. Indeed, we would hate everyone. But can one be a consistent Christian if he hates monstrously evil people who murder and commit genocide? · 0 minutes ago

I don't know. As you've pointed out, there are certainly Scripture references that point to God hating the wicked, but I don't know if that provides justification for human hatred of other humans (just like we are not to seek vengeance because vengeance belongs to the Lord).

The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion. (Psalm 11:5)

And here is King David professing his own hatred toward fellow human beings.

I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the LORD. (Psalm 31:6)

And yet, there are also passages like this:

Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 97:10)

(Btw, I'm just looking all the verses about hate up on BibleGateway.com)

Diane Ellis, Ed.

"Hate the sin, but love the sinner" is not a matter of mere semantics. If we were to hate the sinner along with the sin, we'd hate everyone (Rom. 3:23).  Surely that has nothing to do with the Christian message.

Plus, in racking my brain I cannot think of one instance in the New Testament where we are commanded or exhorted to hate.  But there are plenty of instances where we are commanded to love.

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." (1 John 4:7-8)

Diane Ellis, Ed.
MMPadre:  If those worthies in SF want to help reduce, if not eradicate, this scourge, let them work to end all government sugar subsidies.  Indeed, all agricultural subsidies. 

And this, friends, is what a limited-government conservative solution to the problem of too much sugar on the market looks like.

Diane Ellis, Ed.
Pseudodionysius: Shouldn't they criminalize the harvesting of sugar beets and sugar cane too? · 6 minutes ago

Not CRIMINALIZE. Just REGULATE.  They really, really should.

Diane Ellis, Ed.

Misthiocracy: Re-reading Diane's original post, and I'm confused by the logic of one of her friends:

  • We need a ban on sugar because we don't know what's in our food.

Forget logic. It's so...ugh...18th century white male. Let's just argue in slogans!

My body, my choice!

Diane Ellis, Ed.

Oh my, CB. I was working up a post on this myself when you posted this.  Guess we got wrapped up in the same outrageous story together.

Diane Ellis, Ed.

I would like the San Francisco MUNI to better accommodate women if it meant the buses would be more sanitary and less malodorous.

Diane Ellis, Ed.
Blue Yeti: Mammograms aren't the same procedure as breast screening exams...

They are in the same way that squares are rectangles.  All mammograms are a type of breast screening exam (see here and here).  The other type, of course, is where the doc manually checks for lumps.

Blue Yeti:

Ending the screening exams and education programs won't save a single unborn life, but it may contribute to thousands of adult ones. Someone explain the logic of that decision to me, because I don't get it.  · 32 minutes ago

Let's please not pretend like Planned Parenthood is the only place where low income women can get breast screening exams. It isn't. And there are many, many charities, clinics, and mobile vans that offer free breast screening procedures.  So if the Komen Foundation—which, remember, is a private organization—wants to give to these alternative groups which do not  perform abortions and are not under government investigation, I say good on them. What's there not to get?

Diane Ellis, Ed.
Lucy Pevensie: You're lucky that your Facebook feed has messages in support. 

That would be because a few Ricocheteers and their kin have friended me on Facebook :)

Diane Ellis, Ed.

Fricosis Guy and Tom—

Sen. Santorum is impressed by the Ricochet community and has expressed his desire to stay true to our standards by engaging with individual Members.

Because his time is limited, however, he cannot interact in the comments section in as timely a fashion as some of these fast paced conversations require. Therefore, I have invited him to survey the comments at his own pace and to submit responses to Members as separate posts like he did here.

We can only hope that other presidential candidates will follow Sen. Santorum's lead in trying to connect with and understand intelligent and thoughtful conservatives like those here at Ricochet.

Diane Ellis, Ed.

Tristan–do you suppose that the stuxnet attack and the killing of individual Iranian nuclear scientists have been a workaround? They're obviously not as effective as a successful airstrike to nuclear facilities would be, but a) they don't require as many resources, and b) they allow for plausible deniability.

Diane Ellis, Ed.

Roberto:

Congratulations on the new addition to your family and as for suggestions, I've long thought Calvin was name I don't hear often enough these days. · 11 minutes ago

I second the congratulations! And I was going to also suggest Calvin, but Roberto beat me to it!

Diane Ellis, Ed.

I agree with the "junk science" report. And my anecdotal evidence consists of this:

I am incontrovertibility superior at a) finding parking spots in San Francisco, and b) parking in them than the soon-to-be Mr. Diane Ellis (and no, I'm not actually making him take my name) .

Diane Ellis, Ed.

GOVICIDE:

So, I guess my bubble isn't very thick. I can live with that. Oh, and it doesn't surprise me the Young Guns' numbers are so low: they often seem out of touch. · 9 minutes ago

Actually it was just mine that was low. The others were quite average for Ricochet.

I do have to admit that I had a different formative experience that I expect most Americans have. My mom was a Mexican immigrant nanny who raised rich peoples' children alongside her own and my dad a house painter. Mom got her citizenship in the 90s. But having a large Mexican extended family means that our gatherings and traditions are different. 

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