A friend and classmate of mine from Dartmouth, Maura Pennington may already be familiar to some Ricochet readers for her provocative writings on the Millennial Generation, which we've discussed here and here.  Though she dabbles in political writing (she has a weekly column over at Forbes), Maura's passion is fiction.  She's published a full-length novel, The Most Important Thing, and more recently Great Men Are Free, a short satirical novel about the young bureaucrats that populate the offices of the nation's capital.

Maura has just finished a year-long stint at Cato, where she experienced a political conversion over to the Right.  Mind you, this was no small conversion– when I met her in the fall of 2004, she carried around a water bottle covered in stickers that read "I Miss Bill."

Please join me in welcoming Maura Pennington to Ricochet as the coming week's Guest Contributor.

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Pseudodionysius
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Pseudodionysius

Salve, Maura.

Aaron Miller
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May '10
Aaron Miller

Welcome aboard.

Johannes Allert
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Dec '10
Johannes Allert

 Congrats on your conversion and welcome..!

Michael Tee
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Michael Tee

Hello there, and welcome.

Maura Pennington, Guest Contributor
Johannes Allert:  Congrats on your conversion and welcome..! · Dec 4 at 3:17pm

Thank you!  My way of celebrating is by tricking my friends who assume I'm liberal into conversations and then making them furious.

Pseudodionysius
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Pseudodionysius

Maura Pennington, Guest Contributor

Johannes Allert:  Congrats on your conversion and welcome..! · Dec 4 at 3:17pm

Thank you!  My way of celebrating is by tricking my friends who assume I'm liberal into conversations and then making them furious. · Dec 4 at 3:57pm

When I'm short on time I give out Kenneth Minogue's The Liberal Mind as stocking stuffers.

Goddess of Discord
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Goddess of Discord

Welcome! I look forward to reading you posts.

Pseudodionysius
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Pseudodionysius
Goddess of Discord: Welcome! I look forward to reading you posts. · Dec 4 at 8:13pm

My nominee for Member Name of the Week. Can I get an autograph?

dogsbody
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dogsbody
Goddess of Discord: Welcome! I look forward to reading you posts. · Dec 4 at 8:13pm

With a name like that, aren't you one of my ex-girlfriends?


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