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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.“ –Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I really feel like like the 100 years is balanced precariously on what happens in the next few days. Our Lady of Victory pray for us. Preview Open

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Amy Coney Barrett is about to be confirmed as the newest Justice on the US Supreme Court. At this moment, voting is still open, but Republicans have secured 52 votes. Regardless of the outcome of the coming election, President Trump and the Senate have remade the Federal judiciary for a generation or more. Preview Open

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I expected lies from Biden Thursday night. The guy’s whole career is a fiction. But the line about no one losing their private health insurance was, to me, the whopper of the night. My lovely bride and I lost our private health insurance under Obamacare. So did millions of others.

If you recall, Obamacare regulations required that all insurance policies provide at least a fixed set of coverages. Those included maternity care and pediatric vision and dental care. Surprisingly, as people over 55 with grown children who had their own insurance, our plan did not offer maternity or pediatric coverage. But for the things we needed it offered excellent coverage. No matter, our plan was cancelled.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Apple Plays Scrooge with ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

 

Apple is evil.

Charles Schultz’s iconic seasonal television “Peanuts” specials will not air on broadcast TV this year for the first time since 1965. And Apple is to blame. They announced that since Apple TV+ acquired exclusive rights to the entire library of Charles Schulz’s animated specials, the holiday trio of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will only be available on Apple TV.

Apple is especially tone-deaf since the central theme of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is the misguided commercialization of Christmas. To quote from the character Lucy, “You’ve been dumb before … but this time you really did it.” Is there nothing good in America that big tech won’t despoil?

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The Democrat argument for why America should vote for Biden is the assertion that Trump is bad. Fair enough (as far as it goes). Even we will admit he can be a [redacted] at times. But in the wake of the Hunter laptop China bagman story, I have a new slogan for the Biden camp. […]

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The limited reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop indicate that the computer repair shop saw “disturbing images” among other items in the Biden laptop. Just now, Maria Bartiromo is reporting that one of the FBI agents who eventually contacted the computer repair shop – she identified the agent by name – had been working on […]

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It seems clear that the family business of both the Biden and Clinton families was and is influence peddling. It should be obvious that elected office and corruption go hand in hand. Why else would someone spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get a job that pays 400,000 dollars a year? Is this a […]

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The closest analogue to “Medicare For All” is the Canadian healthcare system. That system is plagued by shortages. Wait times for treatment in Canadian are at near record levels. It’s not hyperbole. The following is from the Fraser Institute- Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document […]

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“So, let us brace ourselves, the task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus.” — Keith Olbermann

The current crop of Progressives is genuinely frightening. ‘Cancel culture’ is only the beginning. Like their CCP mentors, if they come to power they’ll consolidate control of society through big tech and ‘social credit’ coupled with prosecutions for ‘violent hate speech’ — remember, speech is violence. The pandemic has provided the precedent for authoritarian government in the name of a public health emergency. And can there be a greater emergency than the ‘existential threat’ of climate change?

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October 7th. The Roman Catholic Church has designated today the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. But that’s now. The day’s original designation was the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. On October 7, 1571 a Christian fleet achieved an unexpected victory over a numerically superior Moslem fleet at the battle of Lepanto. While […]

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On October 1, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Gibson, passed away. He was 84. It was also 52 years to the day that Gibson struck out 17 batters in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series. It is a postseason record that still stands.

Gibson’s 1968 season with the Cardinals was absolutely unbelievable:

From June 6, 1968 through July 30, 1968, Gibson made 11 starts.

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September is a momentous month in the history of Western civilisation. In September of 490 BC the Greeks defeated a Persian army at Marathon. Ten years later, in September of 480 BC the Greeks defeated a massive Persian invasion at Thermopylae, Atremisium and Salamis. When the Persians were finally ousted the next year at Plataea, […]

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New Brunswick NJ Sunday 1AM Just outside Rutgers University, there was a dispute at a house party. Some one or some group objected to paying the $7 entry fee. A few minutes later a car pulled up outside. Four individuals jumped out and opened fire. Seconds later, 8 party-goers were shot…2 fatally. The shooters hopped […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. August Group Writing – Reel Tears

 

Crying at the Movies

Field of Dreams. Ok, I know. It’s a summer cliche. And it’s hokey. And kind’a dated. But I must have watched it a hundred times. At least three times in the theatre when it came out. And if I come across it on TV … I’m watching it. Even if it’s already somewhere in the middle; 10 seconds and I’m hooked. And what’s worse, I cry at the end every time. Every time, guaranteed. I’m a sucker for that scene near the end where Kevin Costner’s character is having a catch with his back-from-the-great-beyond Dad. I’m tearing up now just writing about it.

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