Month: June 2013

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Judith Levy
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A native New Yorker, Judith Deborah Levy has been li
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Claire Berlinski has a long piece up at The Tower that is well worth reading. Her tone, passion, and rage here remind me of Wartime, Paul Fussell’s extraordinary memoir/history of WWII. These are Claire’s final few paragraphs:

A few loud sound bombs go off about a street away from me. At least I hope they’re just sound bombs, but by this point I’m so tired that for all I really care they could be H-bombs. All I want to do is sleep. A Christian cemetery in Şişli has somehow been damaged in all of this, details unclear.

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Rachel Lu
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I live with four males. I’m married to one of them. I gave birth to the other three. It’s a very “boy” household, filled with cars and tools and sporting equipment, and I decided a long time ago that it wasn’t worth stressing too much about the placement of the toilet seat. I would like […]

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My daughter came to me in tears. Through sniffles and sobs, she mumbled something about her ex-boyfriend.

“What did he do to you?” I asked, assuming the little cretin had hurt her.

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Jim Lakely
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Jim Lakely is Vice President of The Heartland Institute, editor-in-chief of Heartland's blog, Somewhat Reasonable, and executive producer of the Heartland Daily Podcast.   Prior to joining Heartland in 2008, Lakely spent 16 years in daily-deadline journalism. A former White House correspondent for The Washington Times, he covered Capitol Hill and the re-election campaign of George W. Bush. Lakely has appeared on C-SPAN, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, and many national and local te… [more]
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Political analysis by my friend Ben Domenech (a Ricochet regular) was included Ross Douthat’s latest piece for the New York Times titled “Democrats Get a Gift From the Roberts Court.” I’ve enjoyed Douthat’s work as a movie reviewer at National Review, but as a “conservative” columnist at the NYT, there is too-often little to laud. The […]

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Joan of Ark La Tex
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"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom." Ecclesiastes 9:10 O
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Why are more and more Ricochettis avatars being removed and replaced with their scratched handles? Wondering when it is going to happen to mine too. Preview Open

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mark alesse
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Former small business lobbyist in NYS, now retired and living on the seacoast in Maine. 
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Sorry, but it had to be posted. I didn’t write this, nor do I completely agree with it, but herein is a compelling case for trying harder to get this bill right. The chart comparing existing law with this bill’s provision is enough to make you gag. Illegals will be free to do stupid things […]

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Dave Carter
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Dave Carter is a former cross country truck driver, retired military veteran, private detective, and radio show host. As a Security Forces member and Senior Historian in the US Air Force, he deployed throughout Asia, Europe & the Middle East. Author of over 40 volumes of Air Force histories, he also accompanied aircrews on combat missions in order to record combat events from a participant's perspective. Dave is a Contributor for Ricochet, The Federalist, Conservative Review, the host of The… [more]
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“War Is Not The Solution!” announced her blue bumper sticker, though her aggressive maneuvers on I-5 in Los Angeles yesterday betrayed a philosophy that was more in keeping with the words “Allahu Akbar!” than anything even remotely peaceful. She reminded me of the lady with the “Coexist” bumper sticker just south of Oakland a couple of days ago. Such was her kind tolerance and happy coexistence that she cut me off on the interstate before opening her sunroof and tossing out some trash for the benefit of my truck, firmly establishing her credentials as a serenely tolerant, cheerfully coexisting environmentalist moon bat. Come to think of it, she reminded me of a young lady in a church youth group many years ago who stuck a weed in her hair one day and announced to my Dad that she was a “flower child.” “Yes,” smiled Dad, “a blooming idiot.”

From time to time, I enjoy jotting down random thoughts for your consideration and, having spent the last week traveling up and down California like a yo-yo, soaking in the sights and listening to the news, a great number of impressions have formed. So with your kind permission, or perhaps entirely without it, I’m going to unload a few: 

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First off, I'm a woman. Let's just get that straight. I don't know why it's so improbable that a woman would be a chauvinist when we have dogs and cats waxing eloquent on politics and culture on the site. I was a liberal bliss-ninny well into my thirties until certain events (having two daughters (they're chauvinists too!) and 9/11/2001) changed my mind about nearly everything. Now it's faith, family, and country for me -- in that order. God Bless America!
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This post is not about nutrition. Can we just agree that nutritional needs vary from person to person depending upon maturity? I’m a woman over 50 years-old, so, of necessity, 20% of my daily caloric intake comes from chocolate. Preferably Costco chocolate covered almonds, m’kay? There are categories of food we all need in various […]

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Man With the Axe
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The Paula Deen kerfuffle is an example of something much more insidious that is going on in our society. At issue is who gets to control what we are allowed to say in polite society without being ostracized, fired, or released from contracts for what amounts to “moral turpitude.” In Deen’s case, she admitted to […]

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Salvatore Padula
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B.A. in Economics: UC Santa Barbara/University of Edinburgh J.D. Notre Dame Law School I'm from La Jolla. I go by Sal.
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… because Obama has placed Joe Biden in charge. From the Atlantic Wire: Up until this point, the search for Edward Snoden has been carried out behind the scenes by low-level diplomats and CIA agents. But things have changed within the last 24 hours, apparently, because the Vice President is the one making the calls […]

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Mike Rapkoch
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Wednesday, on the Fox News roundtable “The Five,” Greg Gutfeld opined that the decision in Windsor, is a Conservative ruling that will ensure the sociological benefits of marriage to homosexual couples because, he seems to argue, marriage makes people better. Gutfeld said that when he got married he became a better person, dropping much of […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. After Windsor, The Federal Corporate Tax Must Go

Adam Freedman
By Adam Freedman
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I've been writing about law, politics, and language for some years now.  My book on states' rights, A Less Perfect Union, is published by HarperCollins.  My book on constitutional originalism, The Naked Constitution, came out in 2012.
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The Windsor decision has been hailed as a victory for federalism, with cheers coming from such respected scholars as Randy Barnett. Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion goes to great lengths to point out that marriage is a creature of state law. Indeed, the “whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife, parent and child, belongs to the laws of the States,” and not federal law, according to Kennedy. DOMA represents a “federal intrusion on state power” because it puts “a thumb on the scale” and influences how a state might structure its marriage laws.

You know what else is a creature of state law? Corporations. And yet the federal government imposes a complex tax scheme on these state franchises. A thumb on the scale? Federal corporate tax law (like all other tax laws) is designed to affect behavior as well as to raise revenue. The tax code offers the usual bag of definitions, deductions, and credits, which surely must have a profound influence on the way states organize and treat corporations (and other limited liability entities).

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Blue State Hostage
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C.S. Lewis penned these words about human nature: “[S]urely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a […]

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RushBabe49
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Born & raised in WA, work in aerospace industry. I play violin.  I'm Business Survey Chair of ISM-Western WA.
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Here are a bunch of talented youngsters. They were competing in the “Variety” category. Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration 2013-Kids in Competition Preview Open

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Is Winston Churchill’s maxim that, “History is written by the victors” true? If the history that has been taught since the end of World War II in American schools is any testament, probably not. It’s arguable that the history of the last seventy years seems to have been written by those inspired or at least […]

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Kauffman, Stuart A. Investigations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-512105-8. Few people have thought as long and as hard about the origin of life and the emergence of complexity in a biosphere as Stuart Kauffman. Medical doctor, geneticist, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, MacArthur Fellow, and member of the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute […]

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If not, read Wikipedia, or better yet, read the actual decision.

Done? Lovely. Now read this. The barbs and sarcasm contained in the following excerpt are, of course, entirely justified:

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