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This is pretty far off-topic, but you folks seem smart about this stuff. Working on a novel and have a quick detail to verify. My protagonist is talking to a state senator, who is hostile for reasons and doesn’t want to answer. The next step in the plot is to go talk to the senator’s […]

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The UK Spectator has had enough with the Princess of Woke, who is causing stress and chaos in the Royal Family. The British Royals have supplied us with quite a bit of entertainment over the centuries, and I think we should give serious consideration to their plight. Preview Open

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. ‘If True…’: It’s Lucy and the Football, Again and Again

 

Since the announcement that a whistleblower said Trump had a conversation with the Ukrainian president in which something might have been said about Joe Biden, the punditsphere has been full of speculation about what it would mean “if true.”

Actually, the Dems rarely add that phrase—they just assume the worst is true and keep going—so I’m really talking about the sane Right here.

If true, impeachment would be warranted.”

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This article is intended as a template to help conservative opinion writers the next time the “mainstream” news reports a scandal involving conservatives. It’s not directed at leftists, because they don’t care. (Or as the Red Queen Kathy Griffin usually says, “Off with their heads!”) WASHINGTON — Recently we were disturbed at a video released by […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. It’s Time to Uncouple Health Insurance from Employment

 

It’s a little-known fact in the great outside world — although probably widely known among Ricochet readers — that employer-paid health insurance is an artifact of the Roosevelt administration.

When employers were prevented by law from raising their employees’ salaries, they compensated by offering benefits, such as health insurance, to make it more desirable to stay on as employees.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. How Happy Do We Have to Be about Trump?

 

Michael Walsh of PJ Media asks “What, Exactly, Is the #NeverTrumpumpkins’ Problem?

It’s a serious problem, it seems, because he doesn’t just call people “NeverTrumpumpkins” (is that hashtag a thing?), but “Vichycons — the collaborationist #NeverTrump crew whose views are increasingly indistinguishable from the hard Left.”

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Back when we were much younger, when GOP-candidate Trump was only a scarcely believable possibility, Kevin D. Williamson and Jonah Goldberg disputed the merits of candidates Sweet Meteor of Death (SMOD) and Cthulhu, the monster of HP Lovecraft’s 1926 story, “The Call of Cthulhu.” The main difference between the two is that SMOD solves all […]

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When I heard that George H.W. Bush was going to vote for the Democrat this November, my first thought was, “That’s funny. They’re all Democrats.” I soon learned that his definition of Democrats wasn’t the same as mine. So be it. I’ve never taken marching orders from GHWBush and won’t start now. Preview Open

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The idea that Donald Trump might be running for president as a stalking horse for Hillary Clinton never rang true for me. Even though there were those photos of Donald and Melania hobnobbing with Bill and Hill. Even though there were all those donations to Clinton and Clintonistas, as well as to the Clinton foundation. […]

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As I listened to the stripped-down version of the Comey hearings (Thanks, Lawfare), I wanted to raise my hand and ask a question. Q. Mr. Comey, you say that Secretary Clinton knew she would be sending and receiving classified information as part of her job as Secretary of State. Preview Open

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