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Squishy Blue RINO

| August 31, 2011

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That thump you heard was the sound of Palin’s One Nation tour bus rolling over Christine O’Donnell (and of Mike Murphy being vindicated yet again). From the Daily Caller, regarding Palin’s big rally: Preview Open

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By Vasant Ramachandran

Vasant Ramachandran

Vasant Ramachandran is a coterminal graduate student at Stanford University, where he received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in June 2011. He is also an opinion-editorial columnist at the Stanford Review and an alumnus of Raagapella, Stanford's South Asian focus a cappella group. http://www.linkedin.com/in/vasantramachandran www.twitter.com/vasantramachand www.vasantramachandran.com Interests : Religious study and practice--not to be confused with "critical analyses of representations… [more]

| August 31, 2011

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No stranger to embarrassing disclosures and revelations, the federal Justice Department recently saw the failed ‘gunwalking’ stings of Operation Fast and Furious end up at the top of Google’s News Search when the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms chief and the U.S. Attorney for Arizona resigned ‘amid fast and furious uproar‘ and a rapidly expanding internal […]

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By Tak

Tak

| August 31, 2011

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Check out this excellent profile of Florida Senator, (and to some people, potential next Vice President of the United States), Marco Rubio. The writer, Cal Thomas, asks us to consider Senator Rubio’s recent Reagan Library speech: The right philosophy is key and the Reagan Library speech proves that Rubio has the most important ingredient of […]

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By Andrew

Andrew

Surfer. Curmudgeon. Gardener. Dog-Lover. Conservationist. STL Cardinal fan.

| August 31, 2011

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It’s where I was born. That seems to mean something. It seems to mean more if your parents were born in the South as well. There is an interconnectivity and your birth is but a dot in a tangled web of relatives and friends. In Charleston, they say that there are two kinds of locals: […]

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By Casey

Casey

Quite Fancy.

| August 31, 2011

American Airlines said it is searching for a lost cat at New York’s JFK airport that apparently got loose while employees were scrambling to prepare for Hurricane Irene. The missing feline, named Jack, has reportedly been roaming around the American Airlines’ baggage center for the past five days Preview Open

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By Stuart Creque

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Stuart Creque

| August 31, 2011

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Rested and ready, he’s throwing himself back into the most pressing problems facing his re-election: President Obama Sets Two Hollywood Fundraisers (Exclusive)The Hollywood Reporter Preview Open

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By Pike Bishop

Pike Bishop

| August 31, 2011

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From the PJ Tatler (based on story in Washington Examiner): WANTED: Alcoholic Truck Drivers Turns out that recovering(?) drunkards are covered by the American With Disabilities Act (at least according to a very strained interpretation by the EEOC). Preview Open

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Calling All Romney Supporters

By Peter Robinson

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Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson, former Reagan speechwriter, wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan urged Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Peter Robinson is now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and hosts the interview program "Uncommon Knowledge." Peter is a co-founder of Ricochet.

| August 31, 2011

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I’m not doing this to needle you–honestly I’m not.  Romney’s not my choice, but we here at Ricochet have a big tent–well, a big-ish tent, anyway–and the supporters of the former governor of Massachusetts are not only welcome but among our shrewdest contributors.  Yesterday, though, Jonathan Last put up a post about Mitt Romney that’s biting and funny and that strikes me as pretty largely true.

How would you rebut it?

And the Favorite Tea Party Author Is . . . John Locke: The Father of our Fathers, part one

By Terrence O. Moore

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Terrence O. Moore

Terrence O. Moore teaches history at Hillsdale College. He grew up in Texas, studied at the universities of Chicago and Edinburgh, and served as a lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps. From 2001 to 2008 he was the principal of Ridgeview Classical Schools, a K-12 charter school in Fort Collins, Colorado. He currently helps set up classical charter schools through the Barney Charter School Initiative at Hillsdale College. Dr. Moore writes frequently on the topics of liberal education, limi… [more]

| August 31, 2011

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    Of course, I must mean the original Tea Party.  While Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter, and Glenn Beck are all doing well on the bestseller list, I could not find a single edition of Locke’s Second Treatise above #21,000 on Amazon.  That number is disturbing given that a large percentage of college students are returning to campus this week and buying their books for the semester.  More troubling is Howard Zinn’s People’s History (that is, the communist version of America) retaining an impressive rank of 625 as of a moment ago, having sold over 2 million copies since its publication.  The contributors on the College Feed side of ricochet are not exaggerating when they lament the unabashed leftist bent of their professors.

     While the Right is well supplied with good defenses in its non-fiction bestsellers, all or virtually all of talk radio, and insightful blogs like this one, there remains ample reason to revisit—or visit for the first time—the classic writers on liberty, be you a college student, a Tea Party participant, or a person who makes a living at politics and political commentary.  And the classic author who definitely belongs first on the list is John Locke.

Walter Lippmann Corrects Milton Friendman

By Paul A. Rahe

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Paul A. Rahe

Paul A. Rahe is Professor of History at Hillsdale College, where he holds an endowed chair, and last year he was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992) and of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (2008), Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the … [more]

| August 31, 2011

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A week ago today, Mark Wilson posted on Ricochet a piece entitled Electing the Wrong People, or Why We Shouldn’t Mourn Paul Ryan (and Mitch Daniels). In this connection, he included the video that you will find below – in which Milton Friedman suggests that it really does not matter whom you elect to Congress. What matters are the incentives under which they operate.

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By Damian Penny

DrewInEastHillAutonomousZone

Damian Penny

Damian Penny is a lawyer based in Bedford, Nova Scotia. He maintains a blog about legal issues at http://damianpenny.wordpress.com.

| August 31, 2011

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Via Mediaite, this video is probably the saddest thing you’ll see today. <span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: small; ” mce_fixed=”1″><iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/28171399?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”400″ height=”265″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/28171399″>Twin Tower Cameos</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/danmeth”>Dan Meth</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p></span> Preview Open

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By DrewInEastHillAutonomousZone

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| August 31, 2011

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I’m already grumpy this morning, so this sort of pushed me over the edge. Politico reports: Preview Open

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By Jonathan Werner

Jonathan Werner

I am a management-side labor and employment attorney in southern California, husband, father of three, Little League coach and part-time political junkie.

| August 31, 2011

I’m sure if asked, Brian De Palma will protest that he’s an artist who can’t be blamed for what people do with his work.  But the fact remains, an Al Qaeda terrorist was inspired by that work to murder two American servicemen in Germany: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_18794573 Preview Open

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By Glenn the Iconoclast

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Glenn the Iconoclast

I don't do pictures, so this is one the third ex-wife snapped back in, I dunno, 1981? Cigar, jug of booze, old car, sweatband - it's kind of current. I'm a full-time student and work part-time cleaning public toilets. It's not as glamourous as it sounds. I have a whole raft of nieces and nephews. Soldier Joe was killed in Afghanistan in September 2009. Marine Ian is currently Stateside. I don't web log, and have no financial interest in any links I attach.

| August 31, 2011

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Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park’s head scarf ban; 15 arrests made http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/new-york/muslims-police-scuffle-rye-playland-over-amusement-park-123309825.html I think she’s right; it’s because they’re Moslems, unwilling to accept the rules.  Indeed, determined to flaunt the rules. Preview Open

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Old and In the Way

By Rob Long

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Rob Long

Rob Long, Hollywood writer and producer, started his career as a screenwriter for the TV show "Cheers." You can find his musings on National Review, Newsweek International, and the Los Angeles Times. Rob's weekly commentary "Martini Shot" is broadcast on L.A.'s KCRW and can be found on iTunes. Rob is a co-founder of Ricochet.

| August 31, 2011

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Sonia Arrison, in her book “100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith” says that in the near future, living to 100 — and even a little beyond — won’t be so unusual.

From WSJ.com:

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By Doug Kimball

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Doug Kimball

First posted in August 2011 and I've been subjecting the Ricochetti to my conservative opinions for a long time. I also contribute as my alter ego, El Colonel, with offerings of poetry, stories and even serialized novels. Peter Robinson and I attended Dartmouth together, but I'm two years his senior, not nearly so genteel, and did not know him at the time. I abandonned my BA in English, got an MBA and pursued commerce with modest success. Ricochet has provided a kind and like minded audience and… [more]

| August 31, 2011

Obama’s recent attempts to bypass a recalcitrant legislature and enact policies that were clearly rejected remind me of an old Monty Python line about agnostics: “There is nothing you can’t do if you don’t know if you believe in anything or not.”  This is clearly Obama’s view of governance – there is nothing he can’t […]

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More on the High Intellectual Seriousness of Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas

By Peter Robinson

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Peter Robinson

| August 31, 2011

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Earlier this week, our own Paul Rahe commented, astonished, on the Jeffrey Toobin profile of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the current issue of The New Yorker.  “Liberals are accustomed,” Paul wrote, “…to treat…[Justice Thomas] as nothing more than a safe vote for whatever Justice Antonin Scalia has in mind. It will be very hard for them to digest  and come to grips with what Toobin has to say, and it is no less remarkable that a hardcore left-liberal  such as Toobin is willing to say it.”

Today, Michael Barone writes with similiar astonishment in the Washington Examiner:

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By C. U. Douglas

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C. U. Douglas

Born and raised in Oregon, I've lived most my life on the West Coast, save three years near Minneapolis, Minnesota. I survived four years in the hellish paradise that is Santa Rosa, another two in a land where "Keep Portland Weird" is the first commandment, and I am happily married and living in Utah. I am an electrical designer, Protestant, and a huge nerd. I am a brand new father, and I can't shut up about it. I abuse ellipses with wild abandon.

| August 31, 2011