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Johnny Dubya

Husband, father, banker, bassist.

| April 30, 2013

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…the apologists for the so-called Ground Zero Mosque said that name was a misnomer? The mosque isn’t anywhere near Ground Zero, they told us. Yeah, actually, it kind of is. Preview Open

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By katievs

katievs

Catholic girl. Married for 30+ years to the best man on earth. Mother of five + two, grandmother of 3. Perpetual student of philosophy (not a very diligent one, however), mainly in the school of Christian personalism.

| April 30, 2013

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Can anyone read this story and see those pictures and still maintain that Planned Parenthood is about “women’s healthcare”? Preview Open

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Conservatism’s Best

By Troy Senik

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Troy Senik

Troy Senik was a White House speechwriter for George W. Bush. He is the host of the Hoover Institution podcasts Law Talk with Epstein & Yoo; The Classicist, with Victor Davis Hanson; and The Libertarian, with Richard Epstein. Senik is the author of the forthcoming book A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.

| April 30, 2013

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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee has begun releasing the names of this year’s winners of the Bradley Prize. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the distinction, it’s something tantamount to the Nobel Prize of conservatism (which is to say not like the Nobel Prize at all). The award is traditionally given to the leading public intellectuals of conservatism, and past winners include Ricochetti such as Richard Epstein and Victor Davis Hanson.

Of the four annual awards, two have been announced thus far. One will go to former Indiana Governor, current Purdue University president, and friend of Ricochet Mitch Daniels. The other will go to the estimable Yuval Levin, Founding Editor of National Affairs and Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Penelope Awaits

By Judith Levy

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Judith Levy

A native New Yorker, Judith Deborah Levy has been li

| April 30, 2013

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Something troubling you? Penelope would love to help. Email her at AskPenelope@ricochet.com.

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By C. U. Douglas

Thatcher

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.

| April 30, 2013

17 COMMENTS

Usually I’ve been getting dangerous, but now I’ll do so in a bit of personal way* (totally CoC compliant I swear). I am curious about our members of faith — do you believe God has spoken to you in the past? Perhaps not directly, but in some manner, has He spoken to you? I have […]

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By Hammer, The

Hammer, The

| April 30, 2013

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Please pardon the departure into less obnoxious, short-and-to-the-point posting. It probably won’t happen again, but I am really, really annoyed and I’d like some feedback. I didn’t listen to the last podcast. I didn’t listen to the last EconTalk. I’ve been listening to NPR in my car and turning it off when the music stops […]

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By Richard Fulmer

Richard Fulmer

Mechanical Engineer turned computer jockey. My hobby is economics.

| April 30, 2013

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From today’s NRO: With international disarmament agreements, as with domestic gun control, nothing is easier than disarming peaceful people — thereby leaving them more vulnerable to people who are not peaceful, who can simply ignore the restrictions that others obey. Disclaimer: Thomas Sowell is not God nor does he play God on TV. His statements should not be confused […]

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By SPare

SPare

middle aged middle manager in telco marketing, with background in process engineering (fibre optics) and MBA specializing in manufacturing (typical twisted background for an engineer).

| April 30, 2013

8 COMMENTS

On this week’s podcast, there was a reference made to the epic posting on tolerance of homosexuality, and the point was made that so much of the dead end arguments in our politics today is as a result of the assumption of bad faith. Darn right it is, and the recent history would suggest that […]

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Eric Holder Vows to Protect Muslims from Backlash

By D.C. McAllister

D.C. McAllister

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| April 30, 2013

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Following the horrors of the Boston Marathon bombings, our stalwart Attorney General is fired up and determined to protect America no matter what it takes. He’s using every resource, employing every tactic, working from sunup to sundown to hunt down radical Islamists hiding in the shadows of our great country. He’s not going to let murderers obsessed with killing innocents in the name of Jihad take another American life, not under his watch.

He promises to guard and defend the American people, to protect the nation he loves, and to ensure that no life is ever lost again at the hands of Islamic extremists—and he’s not going to stop talking about it until every terrorist is dragged, kicking and screaming, from the holes they hide in.

Be a Famous Performer, Die Early

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.

| April 30, 2013

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Famous performers and sports stars die sooner, apparently. From EurekAlert:

Fame and achievement in performance-related careers may be earned at the cost of a shorter life, according to a study published online today in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine.

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By Biden Pure Demagogue

Coolidge

Biden Pure Demagogue

One infection to rule them all and one injection to bind them.

| April 30, 2013

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A new series of videos has debuted. They’re designed to annoy the White Cane Dark Sunglasses media as they continue to non cover the non trial of the non doctor Kermit Gosnell in, in, in,…. Where is that trial taking place again? Preview Open

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By skoook

skoook

retired geezer

| April 30, 2013

6 COMMENTS

Reince Priebus wants to fundamentally reform Republican Party marketing. He wants the Republican party to have the same kind of data based , get out the right votes organization, the Obama Campaign constructed over the last 6 years through trial and testing. It was funded by soft money and could only be used by the […]

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By Fredösphere

Fredösphere

Follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Fredosphere. Listen to my song "Abraham Lincoln Was an Invader from Space". Read my stor

| April 30, 2013

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You’ve read about the trend toward luxury dorms at universities, haven’t you? If not, do see this article and this slide show on some of the most extravagant examples. I’m thrilled to see my home town University of Michigan is no slacker in this important competition. So, we’ve designed our society such that every conceivable […]

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By DocJay

DocJay

| April 30, 2013

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What a show folks. There’s nothing like a president that knows every question ahead of time and has the notes ready. Even the final encore question on the gay NBA player, yes he came back on stage for us to swoon, was a rigged one. Has this ever happened before Obama? Does the press care? […]

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By Michael G Kelly

Michael G Kelly

| April 30, 2013

60 COMMENTS

Pictured here is a 30-year-old (yes, 30!) man who dropped $2,600 on a carnival game trying to win an Xbox Connect (retail price around $300, coincidentally how much he lost in the first few minutes). Instead, all he won was this Rastafarian banana. He got caught up in “having to win his money back” and […]

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By SkipSul

Coolidge

SkipSul

The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow, if I can. Still Round the corner there may wait Some new road or secret gate And though oft I've passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the moon, East of the Sun

| April 30, 2013

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Anyone here going to Houston this weekend for the NRA Convention? Anyone have any good recommendations as to where to visit or what to see in town? I am taking a half day to go visit the Battleship Texas, the sole remaining dreadnaught. Best part is that this is the first weekend away my wife […]

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By das_motorhead

das_motorhead

Cell biologist, biotech startup marketing guy. Christian, somewhere between Conservative and Libertarian. "Scrubs" and "Justified."

| April 30, 2013

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I know you’d all rather talk about Jason Collins, but spare a moment for MLB, if you would. Last night was the source of some great baseball, for several reasons: 1) The Rockies won. 2) The Dodgers lost. 3) The Rockies Beat the Dodgers, by ten runs. 4) The game was featured as the MLB.TV free […]

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Baking the Perfect “Child Cake”

By Carol Platt Liebau

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Carol Platt Liebau

Carol Platt Liebau is an author and commentator based near Manhattan. She has served as a guest radio talk show host for the nationally-syndicated “Hugh Hewitt Show,” for KABC in Los Angeles, and on 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis. Her book, “Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)” was released by Hachette Book Group (formerly Time Warner Books) in November of 2007. She has contributed to the editorial pages of papers including The Los Angeles Times, … [more]

| April 30, 2013

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Last weekend, The New York Times online ran “No Rich Child Left Behind” — an opinion piece by a Stanford professor of education and sociology. In it, Sean Reardon bemoans the fact that over the last few decades, “differences in educational success between high- and lower-income students have grown substantially.”

Reardon declares the widening academic gap is because “rich students are increasingly entering kindergarten much better prepared to succeed in school than middle-class students.” He argues that, in turn, is because the rich are spending more resources on their children’s “educational success.” He goes on to make the predictable lefty argument that the government should “invest much more heavily as a society in our children’s educational opportunities from the day they are born.” In other words, society should be trying to replicate the educational experiences of affluent children.

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By Hartmann von Aue