Tag: Membership Drive

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Why I Am a Reagan Member of Ricochet

 

I have been a member of Ricochet since it started. I signed up for a free test drive through their Facebook membership. By the time that expired I was hooked and signed up. At the time, the hook was a free membership for NR digital. I have let that lapse and I am still here. National Review used to be my go to page for conservative news, but those days passed somewhere during Obama’s second term. Ricochet is where it is at!

The main feed has news and commentary by contributors. It is not comprehensive by any means, but reflects a broad spectrum of conservative and libertarian thought. I am not sure if it is all “center-right” but I am not sure what that means. I do know that I see, intelligent, topical posts by leading individuals. I don’t always agree, sometimes I do, and sometimes it is just worth a laugh. The gems on the Main Feed, though are not from the professionals, they are from the Members.

The Ricochetti (as we call ourselves) are a diverse group of conservatives and libertarians (with a few brave liberals, God bless ‘em), who do the majority of the posting here. That is where the real action is. Following the Member Feed is a full time job, but that is OK, Ricochet allows you to follow your favorites. For me, anytime one of 103 Members I follow makes a new post, I am alerted to go read it. Not all are prolific, and not all are people with whom I agree most of the time. All of them are people who have something to say that I value. I hope that is the case of the 49 people who follow me.

Member Post

 

I went to post not too long ago and found that I was no longer a member of Ricochet. Now, I was spending more w/ the podcasts than the site, but I had an automatic monthly charge going to my credit card. It didn’t occur to me that when my card was reissued the old one […]

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Ricochet Membership Week: John Yoo

 

img-john-yoo-new-hr-scholar-image_101107300961-e1413392070695All this week, Ricochet contributors are telling you why they choose to make the site their online home — and why they’d encourage you to join us by becoming a member. Today a message from longtime Ricochet contributor John Yoo, Professor of Law at the University of California—Berkeley and Richard Epstein’s partner-in-crime on our Law Talk podcast:

I wake up in the morning, surrounded by redwoods, chirping birds, and the smell of coffee. I am ready to charge out the door and engage with the great issues of the day. But then, like Sheriff Rick in The Walking Dead, I realize that something is very, very wrong. There are no conservatives about. The coffee has been lovingly hand-washed after being plucked from the droppings of Central American bats and is accompanied by stern glances at my use of paper cups.

O tempora, O mores, I have woken up in the People’s Republic of Berkeley, California.