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Cambodia: The Times They Are a-Changin’

LC By LC
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Ideologue, nerd, former physicist, cynic, conservative, admirer of the US Constitution. I like to describe myself as a chick in her twenties that acts and thinks like a man in his fifties.
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Cambodia’s sixth general election came and went on July 29. Unsurprisingly, Hun Sen, the world’s longest ruling prime minister (33 years and counting) and the ruling CPP won in a landslide. The result was never in doubt given the crackdown on civil society and independent press leading up to the election. This culminated in the […]
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Censor Alex Jones If …….

Front Seat Cat By Front Seat Cat
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Grew up in Pittsburgh, lived in Boston, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and currently Florida. Background education includes graduate of Music Business Institute and community college majoring in Social Science. Worked in retail and various administrative positions from music school, log home company, corporate hi-tech consulting, outdoor recreation equipment and real estate. Currently self-employed managing vacation homes for part-time residents. Love to read, have a published children's book. Interests i… [more]
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@jamesmadison recent post on the company Google titled “Be Evil”, reminded me of the censorship and removal of talk show host Alex Jones. I’d never heard of Alex Jones until I stumbled on his Fox Network radio broadcast starting at 12:00 noon in my area during the 2016 presidential campaign. I am self-employed and drive around […]
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Quote of the Day: Masterful Character Sketching

CB Toder aka Mama Toad By CB Toder aka Mama Toad
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A cradle Catholic, I live in Toad Hall in New Paltz, NY with my Toad Prince and six tadpoles. We homeschool and run our own business. We wage unceasing war on dust, shoddy thinking, and grumpiness.
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“She sprang it on me before breakfast. There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha.” — The opening lines of Educating Young Gussie by P.G. Wodehouse

Wodehouse is doubtless familiar to many Ricochetti, but perhaps there are some among us who have not yet encountered the magic of the master. With these opening words, Bertie Wooster’s Aunt Agatha is perfectly captured. Even readers who have just met her for the first time understand completely the kind of woman she is. Energetic. Firm. Early rising. Filled with plans for improvement that require instant and utter submission. In short, a horror.

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Hillsdale Cruise to Hawaii-Hilo and Beyond

RushBabe49 By RushBabe49
Thatcher
Born & raised in WA, work in aerospace industry. I play violin.  I'm Business Survey Chair of ISM-Western WA.
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The best installment of our cruise to and around Hawaii with Hillsdale College is now posted over at RushBabe49.com. This is the one we’ve all been waiting for. Here’s a taste. More
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Saturday Night Classics

Randy Webster By Randy Webster
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BA History, Davidson College.  Law degree University of Tennessee.  Thought there were too many lawyers even then, and it's been almost 40 years.  Been in construction all the rest of my life.  C
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From the dawn of time: the Tremeloes Here Comes My Baby. More
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Discerning God’s Will in Responding to the Catholic Sex Abuse Calamity

Mike Rapkoch By Mike Rapkoch
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There is something going on among the Catholic faithful that, from a worldly perspective, seems exceedingly odd given the wide-ranging lay response to the recent Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on child sexual abuse and the cover-up by the Church hierarchy. The Catholic laity is appalled, furious, and unyielding in demanding that each and every bishop […]
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Three proposals to fix gerrymandering and create competitive districts

Gary Robbins By Gary Robbins
Reagan
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In an earlier OP, I asserted that in Arizona, the two best members of congress come from competitive districts and the two worst members of congress come from non-competitive districts where those members were 99.9+% locks to win. What to do? An excellent primer on how each state can be divided to favor the two […]
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Competitive districts elect the best members of congress, non-competitive districts elect the worst members of congress.

Gary Robbins By Gary Robbins
Reagan
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Competitive districts elect the best members of congress. Non-competitive districts elect the worst members of congress. There are not enough competitive seats in Congress. There are far too many seats which are a lock for one party or the other, and those seats attract the worst politicians. The races which are competitive attract the best […]
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No Media At Ocasio-Cortez Townhall? Boston University Probably Demanded It

Addiction Is A Choice By Addiction Is A Choice
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If I was Dean of Boston University and one of my former-students was on TV, constantly, prattling incoherently about the subject for which I gave her a Bachelor’s degree, I would dip into the endowment and pay off whoever I had to pay off to make sure no one connects her insipid blather to my […]
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Rating the Presidents of the Twentieth Century

Gary Robbins By Gary Robbins
Reagan
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It is far too early to rate Presidents of the last twenty years, so this question relates to the Presidents of the Twentieth Century. Who was the best President of the Twentieth Century? Who was the worst? Who is the underappreciated? Who has been over-appreciated? And why? The best. Ronald Wilson Reagan. He won the […]
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An open letter to Drew in Wisconsin

Fred Hadra By Fred Hadra
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Longtime fan of Ricochet, especially the podcasts, finally made the plunge and joined. 2009 Hillsdale College grad, stayed around for a few years to work in marketing, during which time I started and ran their Online Courses program. Now living in Atlanta, GA, with my wife. Oh, and I run Ad Sales for Ricochet.com and the Ricochet Audio Network. Feel free to send me a note with questions, comments, and even suggestions about this.
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At Drew’s request via PM, I am deleting this thread. More
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The Trump administration is different than the Clinton or Sanders administration would have been…

Dr. Bastiat By Dr. Bastiat
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I grew up on a hog farm in Ohio. I practice concierge medicine in Hilton Head, SC. I'm a bleeding heart conservative - I hate statism because it is heartless - it suppresses the potential of its subjects, it focuses on equal distribution of misery rather than maximizing potential for joy, and it tends to make liars and thieves of nearly everyone. I'm much more of an ideological conservative than a political Republican. I find the heterogeneity of the right stimulating, and the homoge… [more]
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The Trump administration has been heavily scrutinized, with good reason. It’s easy to find something to criticize, especially for those who fear disruptions to the status quo in Washington. Trump seems to create chaos, sometimes seemingly for its own sake. I’m starting to think this may be a rational approach. This chaos sometimes leads one […]
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Homily from my local pastor

PHCheese By PHCheese
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Married, father of three,grandfather of three,retired cheese exec,ba in history,political science and economics, graduated velvetta cappa.I am a serious person except when I am not.
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https://uploads.weconnect.com/mce/ef7de0b7dedde0a2722380a752fece7a2ccdd672/Fr.%20Marks%20Priest%20Scandal%20Homily%2019th%20Sunday%20in%20OT.mp3 This was the sermon giving by our Priest last Sunday. His name is Fr Mark Good. He was a practicing lawyer prior to becoming ordained. He is taking about is of a serious issue but he normally has a great sense of humor. I did not attend this mass, the sermon was recorded. Like […]
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Gender-Identity Politics: A Primer

M. Brandon Godbey By M. Brandon Godbey
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I am a high school (and sometimes college) English teacher, a rabid capitalist, and a libertarian.  The teacher in me reads Hemingway, Poe, Emerson, & Whitman.  The libertarian reads Ayn Rand, Thomas Sowell, Thomas Paine, John Locke, Milton Friedman, and of course, Jonah Goldberg.  (Liberal Fascism changed my life).  I'm here to edify and to be edified.
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If you’re striving to keep the “logic” of gender-identity politics straight in your head, here are a couple of helpful hints to keep that blossoming SJW from flinging his spaghetti noodle arms at you: 1) The notion of binary gender is construct (i.e. fantasy) invented by the while male patriarchy to confine biological “females” to […]
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Omarosa and the N-Word

Michael Ramirez By Michael Ramirez
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Michael Ramirez is a two-time winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and 2008 and a three-time Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalism Award winner. He is a Senior Editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow, an honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society, and has won almost every journalism award in addition to the prestigious UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the 2005 N… [more]
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Preparing for a Job Interview

Bartholomew Xerxes Ogilvie, Jr. By Bartholomew Xerxes Ogilvie, Jr.
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I was born. I grew up, got married, and had a career and a family. I grew old and died.
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Back in the early 1990s, during one of my job-hunting periods, I sat down and wrote a brief article summarizing some of the advice I’d learned about interviewing. I think these ideas are as valid now as they were then.

It’s always a good idea to research your prospective employer before interviewing for a job. You might be surprised how much of a difference it can make to go into an interview knowing, for example, the company’s name, or perhaps what it is they do.

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Exploratory Bite

Vance Richards By Vance Richards
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Never you mind about me.
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This week, a man in Cape Cod was bitten by a shark and is in critical condition. The untrained, like myself, might be tempted to use the phrase “shark attack,” but the experts tell us it is not an attack. In fact, “It’s nothing to get alarmed about.” This was not an attack but an “exploratory bite.”

OK, I get it … sort of. If the shark had wanted to eat the man he easily could have. Here on the Cape, we’re seeing more and more what Great White Sharks are doing to seals right off the shore.

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For Phil Turmel: I Was Right!

CB Toder aka Mama Toad By CB Toder aka Mama Toad
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I mean, thanks so much for dinner last night, @philturmel! Almanzo sat on a footstool by the stove, an apple in his hand, a bowl of popcorn by his side, and his mug of cider on the hearth by his feet. He bit the juicy apple, then he ate some popcorn, then he took a […]
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