Month: February 2016

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Jason Turner
By Jason Turner
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This is my first post on ricochet, so I thought I would introduce myself to you all. I live in the state of Western Australia, I work as an Accountant in a small firm, I have my Accounting degree and am currently studying for my CPA. Preview Open

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Koolie
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This is both a Ricochet post and a memo to Rush Limbaugh, Mr. Conservative, who has surprisingly continued to cover for Donald Trump, focusing on Trump performances, antics, tactics, instead of Trump policies. Several takeaways from the last debate: Preview Open

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GFHandle
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I found this old handout on my hard drive. (I do not remember from whom I crimped it.) Thinking of Trump is what sent me searching for it. American writers appear to group themselves into two types, which Philip Rahv labels “paleface” and “redskin.” No love is lost between them. Henry James is the type […]

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Saint Augustine
By Saint Augustine
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I read and talk and write about philosophy for a living. I am also a Southern Baptist. I don't see any conflict between the two. I like things like my wife, good fiction books, good sci-fi television, the theory of hylomorphism, and a nice cup of tea. The closest thing I have to a personal website is my Academia.edu profile. I also run TeacherOfPhilosophy on YouTube, which probably has the best (and perhaps the only) collection of cartoons based on the dialogues and speeches of Plato and other g… [more]
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What nice things can those of us who oppose Trump say about him? Preview Open

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blood thirsty neocon
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http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/23/how-political-correctness-caused-college I’m a teaching assistant at a large public university. At some point in the last two years (around the Ferguson, BLM explosion of insanity), I noticed a change in my freshman students. They used to be kind of laid back and cool. Now they react hostilely to any little thing I say that could […]

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Leigh
By Leigh
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I regret being just young enough to have missed out on any memory at all of the Reagan presidency. I am saved by grace through faith in Christ. That comes first in my life.
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Yes, #NeverTrump — that is where I am too. But there’s a risk of premature defeatism here. I vote tomorrow, and it’s still not over after that. We have, maybe, only a couple weeks to turn this around — but we have that time; let’s use it, and may God help us to use it wisely. Meanwhile, […]

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Stoicous
By Stoicous
Stoicous Inactive
Formerly Naudious I'm a pretty straight-laced Libertarian, but I am a fan of Classical Liberalism in general and Fusionism. Likes: Frederic Bastiat, FA Hayek, Milton Friedman and the season Winter. Dislikes: Marx, Summer, and Minutiae (such as discussions of the exact qualifications that must be met before someone can call themself a libertarian, or which of the hundreds of schools of Socialism one falls into and why it is super important you not generalize by using the term 'socialist')
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An Appeal to Classical Liberals It is February 29th, and it seems as though God has had some mercy on us, and created an extra day for us to live in a world where Donald Trump isn’t the presumptive republican nominee. I suggest you open your windows and enjoy the natural light, before we start […]

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Lazy_Millennial
By Lazy_Millennial
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Born, raised, and live in Austin, TX. Masters from UT-Austin in Business Analytics (https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Master-of-Science-in-Business-Analytics). Currently posting on Ricochet when I should be crunching numbers my office job in downtown Austin.
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Bernie-Sanders-Sad-400x240A quick update from a Millennial who’s been watching the race on the other side: Bernie’s not going to win. He got shellacked Saturday in South Carolina, doing significantly worse than expected. When your expected margin is losing by 38.8%, it takes losing by 47.5% to qualify as “significantly worse than expected.”

Bernie’s loss in South Carolina follows his loss in Nevada. The latter was due to his lack of support among Hispanic voters*, while the former was due to his lack of support among Black voters. With Super Tuesday featuring the large, minority-heavy states of Texas and Georgia, Sanders is looking at another rough night, though the contests in Massachusetts and Oklahoma look close.

In the longer run, Sanders is facing the prospect of running behind Clinton right up to the nomination. The proportional delegate allocation means even in states he wins, Clinton will still pick up a significant number of delegates, making her superdelegate lead even harder to overcome. He’s said he’ll stay in until the convention, but unless Clinton gets indicted, it’s hard to see him changing the dynamics of this race.

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The Cloaked Gaijin
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In 1952, the state of Mississippi apparently found out that they had this thing called the Republican Party, so they decided to send an all-black delegation to the Republican convention in Chicago. The black Republicans decided to vote for Robert Taft. Preview Open

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Andrew Klavan
By Andrew Klavan
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Andrew Klavan is the author of such internationally bestselling crime novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Don’t Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas. His essays & op-eds on politics, religion, movies & literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
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Donald Trump had a little trouble avoiding the Caucasian of sin this weekend. He had a chance to take aim at the Ku Klux Klan but he wouldn’t fire until he saw the ayes of their whites. I’m thinking he didn’t hear the question properly — how about Jew?

I explain it all in today’s podcast.

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Richard Fulmer
By Richard Fulmer
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Mechanical Engineer turned computer jockey.  My hobby is economics.
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Every four years the Mainstream Media plays the same game. They give great press to their “favorite” Republican right up until he gets the nomination. And then they lower the boom. The guy that they just finished praising as reasonable and well-respected suddenly becomes a Nazi. This time around they’ve selected Trump as “their” guy. They […]

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Johnny Dubya
By Johnny Dubya
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Husband, father, banker, bassist.
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Some folks, myself included, have responded to the debacle of Donald J. Trump’s candidacy with calls for the formation of a Conservative party. Might this not ensure, though, a generation of progressive dominance by splitting the vote on the right? After all, we do not have a parliamentary system whereby power might be shared between the […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Identity Politics Have Infected the Right

Son of Spengler
By Son of Spengler
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Mild-mannered actuary by day. Intrepid barbershopper by night. Renegade Jew. Twitter: @spengjr
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In mathematics and computer science, a term, symbol, or variable with multiple meanings is called “overloaded.” Overloading can lead to confusion. One must understand the context in order to understand which meaning applies.

For better or worse, the term “conservative” has become overloaded. There is a conservative temperament; a conservative political philosophy; and a conservative political movement, all with some overlap but not the same things. Recent experience suggests that we can add another meaning of the word: “Conservative” has become an identity marker. Just as the Left has used identity — racial, ethnic, sexual, etc. — as a proxy for politics, the Right now does the same.

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rico
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As a conservative, Donald Trump knows a lot about 1 Amendments. It’s the one about fair speech and it’s the very first one. It says that we have libel laws for people who write purposely negative and horrible and false articles about him. So we need to elect Trump president so he can open up […]

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Egg Man
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My existence fulfills the need for a still, small voice, a voice of reason and compassion. ( http://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89ceggman.phtml )
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Just in case we need to make a hasty exit On March 16th, we should start thinking of a new party name now. We don’t want to get caught up in the naming process and lose precious time that has to be spent on petitions and fundraising efforts. (No doubt Ricochet readers will be among […]

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