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Bill Whalen

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
· 2 hours ago

President Obama went home today -- "home", in this instance, being the little Irish town of Moneygall, population an estimated 300.

According to locals, who believe the President's great-great-great grandfather was baptized at a nearby church, Obama can claim 5% Irish heritage.

I won't bother asking if you think O'Bama is "Irish".

But I am curious as to what you consider to be his genuine "home" -- not a mailing address or what he files on his tax returns, mind you, but his true "old sod".

Is it the White House, which at best is eight years of temporary lodging?

Is it the house back in Chicago that he and the family seem to rarely visit (something I find curious, given he has two daughters who were removed from their friends and neighbors).

Now that we've put the birther controversy to rest, is Hawaii the President's real home?

Or is "home" the one place, anywhere in the world, where this President seems most at home -- and that's sately nestled behind a TelePrompter. ...

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Comment (7), Edit, UnfollowFollow (1) EmailDiane Ellis, Ed.

Seattle Considers Banning Paper Cups
· 3 hours ago

I, for one, can't think of Seattle without thinking of Starbucks, which first opened its doors in the city in March of 1971. And what is Starbucks without coffee? (I should confess that I really like their oatmeal, but Starbucks pastries are another story altogether.) And what is coffee without, well, a cup out of which to enjoy that piping hot grande latte for which you forked over a month's worth of a Ricochet Membership?

Answer: a major inconvenience. An inconvenience so big, that you, and I, and everyone we know would make far fewer stops at Starbucks.

But that's no skin off Karin de Weille's back. This weekend, the enviro-statist launched a campaign to push Seattle to eliminate its use of paper cups.

"I think Seattle can push the frontier," [Ms. de Weille] said at Green Festival, the two-day celebration of eco-friendliness where the effort got its official start.

Harmless enough if it's just one raving hippie calling for the encroachment of other peoples' freedom. Less harmless if the City Council President is on board with this egregious assault on liberty. ...

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Comment (27), Edit, UnfollowFollow (3) EmailAndrew Klavan

Charles Krauthammer Slapdown
· 4 hours ago

There's a reason Charles Krauthammer has a name like a Norse god... Charles, Hammer of the Krauts... it's because he can strike you down like lightning. He was on Inside Washington, broadcast on government-funded-and-thus-pro-expansive-government PBS stations, when government-funded-and-thus-pro-expansive-government PBS commentator Mark Shields began to do the typical lefty routine of warning Republicans not to nominate a conservative presidential candidate or it could be "a problem." Krauthammer's wonderful response: "See, what Mark wants is a Republican nominee who is a squish and then he’ll vote against him anyway." Bingo. Here's the video.

Every candidate has weaknesses and sure, I can see problems with conservative candidates like Palin or Bachmann or Rick Perry - but the problems have nothing to do with their policies... which I don't think would be a problem at all.

H/T to the excellent Noel Sheppard at the likewise excellent Newsbusters.

Comment (12), Edit, UnfollowFollow (6) EmailRob Long

The Washingtonian's Bad, Bad Timing
· 5 hours ago

Sometimes, the logistics of printing a magazine get you into trouble. This month, the Washingtonian magazine has a glowing, laudatory profile of Dominique Strauss Kahn.

You've heard of him, right?

In between sending the issue to the printers and getting it to newsstands and subscribers, there was a little incident at the Sofitel in Manhattan.

The piece was quickly amended online, but it's worth reading the whole thing. It smacks -- in light of recent events, and especially in light of his past history -- of the kind of puff-piece, sucking-up pseudo journalism that a lot of leftist, bien pensant world figures get treated to. The profile was meant, in the editor's words:

...to introduce Strauss-Kahn’s neighbors here in Washington to a man considered one of Europe’s leading politicians—a man, as we say in the article, who might well be standing next to you in line at Whole Foods.

Sometimes bad timing tells you more than good timing.

Comment (18), Edit, UnfollowFollow (3) EmailEmily Esfahani Smith

Would You Wish This Lifestyle on Anyone?
· 5 hours ago

The lifestyle of a freelance writer, that is:

Freelancing means walking from the West Village to the Upper East Side and back because you don't have enough money for the subway. Freelancing means being so poor and so hungry for so long that you "eat" a bowl of soup that's just hot water, crushed-up multivitamins and half your spice rack (mostly garlic salt).

Even though he was getting published in the New York Times, Playboy, and the Wall Street Journal, this is how Richard Morgan, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, lived for seven years. He details his years as a freelance writer here:

There was just one day in all these seven years that I had an actual job, at Gawker; I quit after the first day, an event that ended up becoming good anecdote for someone else's story in the Sunday Times. I get invited back to my journalism school to speak to the class about "how to be a successful freelancer" and "the art of freelancing."

I once got paid $100 a word. ...


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Comment (9), Edit, UnfollowFollow (2) EmailDiane Ellis, Ed.

Calling All Truckers
· 5 hours ago

Our friends Marco Beghetto and Peter Carter (who sport the most delightful Canadian brogues I've ever heard) over at Today's Trucking have introduced a new podcast called Dispatches about all things trucking. The latest episode (beginning at minute 17) features an interview with our own Dave Carter. In his interview, you'll discover what possessed Dave to become a trucker, how he got involved with Ricochet, and why you should never, ever try to smuggle a can of Beanie-Weenies across the border.

Comment (5), Edit, UnfollowFollow (3) EmailRob Long

Thank God for the USMC
· 6 hours ago

It's not a slow news day, of course, but before I post something meaty I thought I'd post something cheerful.

Justice served, USMC-style. From a local paper in Georgia, and I wish I had a link:


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T-Paw's Video Launch
· 7 hours ago

Somebody needs to learn to mix music with video, but not a bad start. Better than the book video.

Comment (11), Edit, UnfollowFollow (2) EmailMollie Hemingway, Ed.

World Still Ending, Environmentalists Warn
· 8 hours ago

IowaHawk tweets this morning:

We now return you to our regularly scheduled apocalypse. Remember to buy carbon credits if you want to be with Gaia on Judgment Day!

Followed by:

Diff between Harold Camping and enviromentalists: 1. He pays for his own apocalyptic fantasies. 2. Camping doesn't get do-overs.

Seriously, if you read some environmentalist predictions about global warming, it makes Harold Camping sound downright sober. But there's another difference between Camping and "climate change" alarmists: one is supported by the government, media and Hollywood. The other, not so much.

In related news Chicago, the New York Times reports, is dramatically altering the city and its plants to "adapt" to "climate change" predictions for 100 years from now.

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Greatest Athlete of All Time?
· 8 hours ago

I've noted here before that I'm no fan of team sports. But that doesn't mean I don't appreciate athleticism.

Here's my nomination for greatest athlete of all time. Anyone care to argue?

Comment (64), Edit, UnfollowFollow (5) EmailMollie Hemingway, Ed.

Giving Comfort To The Enemy
· 9 hours ago

CNN reports that former six-term U.S. congresswoman Cynthia McKinney "slammed U.S. policy on Libyan state TV late Saturday and stressed the 'last thing we need to do is spend money on death, destruction and war.'"
You remember McKinney. She's the one who assaulted a Capitol police officer about five years ago. She ran for president on the Green Party ticket. She's won many awards from the left, including one "because she was willing to challenge the Bush administration and called for an investigation into 9-11 when few others dared to air their criticism and questions." She attempted to run a blockade in 2009 to deliver supplies to Gaza.

So she goes on a Libyan station that is fiercely loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and her interview was spliced with pro-Gadhafi propoganda. She also denounced President Obama and his economic policies.

I know that going on an enemy television show and denouncing the U.S. is probably what she does every Saturday, but I'm curious about the U.S. reaction to such stunts -- and whether it's changed over time. ...


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Comment (9), Edit, UnfollowFollow (3) EmailJudith Levy

All Right, Let's Get This Obama-Israel Thing Sorted Out
· 11 hours ago

I confess to having felt a pang of sympathy for President Obama this morning when I read that Hamas had attacked him (verbally, I hasten to add; their rockets don't reach that far) for clarifying his position on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations to AIPAC. Every time he opens his mouth on the subject, somebody clobbers him. Guy can't catch a break.

I've heard tell that Obama was urged before his Thursday night speech (the first one, the one that referenced the 1967 borders) to for God's sake keep his mouth shut about Israel and the Palestinians and stick to the promoting-change-in-the-Arab-world-hearkening-to-the-voices-of-the-people-as-they-defy-tyranny playbook, but that he insisted on wedging his oar in. Conversely, there's chatter that he didn't want to touch Israel with a ten-foot pole (to which his photo ops with Bibi would attest) but was strong-armed into doing so by Hillary Clinton, the video of which one hopes will show up one day on YouTube.

The response to the speech runs the gamut from "take it easy folks, nothing new here, move along" (the Berlinski view) to "Obama is Arafat incarnate" (the Danon view). So which is it, Ricochet readers? Who's right? ...

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Comment (23), Edit, UnfollowFollow (4) EmailPaul A. Rahe

The Last Man Standing
· 12 hours ago

I learned something the other day. I learned it while reading a post on Ricochet and the attendant comments, and I was appalled. Apparently, back in 2010, when I was not adequately paying attention, the Republican National Committee quietly changed the delegate-selection rules in imitation of Barack Obama’s Democrats. In the past, at least in the primaries, the arrangement was winner-take-all. Now, if I have this right, the delegates will be allocated in proportion to the percentage of votes received in the primaries and caucuses. What this means is that the distribution will be fragmented and that the final decision will be delayed (perhaps until the national convention) – which gives Barack Obama, who has the Democratic nomination sewed up, a tremendous advantage. He is already raising money; he will not have to spend it on the caucuses and primaries of his party; and he can go after the Republicans late next Spring and in the early summer with everything that he has got, softening them up for the kill while they pummel one another.

That is one problem. There is another, and it may be worse. ...

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Comment (89), Edit, UnfollowFollow (6) EmailClaire Berlinski, Ed.

This Just In: Spanish Socialists Join Generallissimo Francisco Franco
· 12 hours ago

The only thing I love more than seeing socialists clobbered at the polls is thinking about how much it must hurt over there at the Guardian to have to report the details:

Spain's ruling Socialists have suffered stinging losses in local and regional elections and now face a balancing act between voter anger over high unemployment and investor demands for strict austerity measures.

A week of protests by Spaniards fed up with the stagnant economy and the EU's highest jobless rate preceded Sunday's elections, which left the Socialists out of power in most of the country's cities and almost all the 17 autonomous regions.

They were wiped out. It was their worst showing since Franco died. They lost everything--Seville, Barcelona, even Catalonia. The headlines are reading "trounced," "thrashed," "obliterated."

Zapatero was, obviously, gloomy. "Today, without doubt, they expressed their discontent," he said.

So, let's all recall how we got here, shall we? ...

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Comment (6), Edit, UnfollowFollow (2) EmailDiane Ellis, Ed.

Welcome Joshua Treviño
· 17 hours ago

Please join me in welcoming Joshua Treviño, this week's Guest Contributor. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Joshua is the Vice President for Communications at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Preceding his work at the Foundation, Joshua founded Treviño Strategies and Media, co-founded RedState, was a speechwriter in the Administration of George W. Bush, and served in the United States Army. You can follow Josh on Twitter here.

Comment (7), Edit, UnfollowFollow (1) EmailClaire Berlinski, Ed.

Darkness at Noon
· 20 hours ago

I first read Arthur Koestler's masterpiece, Darkness at Noon, when I was too young fully to understand it. I was perhaps fourteen, and how can a fourteen-year-old grasp what such a book really means?

I picked up a copy of of the book at a flea market long ago; it had been on my shelf, unread, for ages. Yesterday, rushing out to embark on a long boat ride, I grabbed it off the shelf. I began reading in the taxi, and quickly became so absorbed that I barely noticed the boat ride, barely looked up at the sea and the glowing Bosphorus skyline.

I see now what I didn't see as a teenager: This is an unrivaled masterpiece; as a novel it is more accomplished than 1984. Rubashov is immensely more complicated and interesting a character than Winston Smith. It's the work of a complete master of the novelistic form, someone who uses to great effect every device and technique the novel permits. It's flawless. It is also deeply troubling.

It would be good for it to be translated into Turkish: It might succeed, when reason fails, in suggesting that the Ergenekon prosecutions have a distinct historic precedent.

Comment (24), Edit, UnfollowFollow (4) EmailBill McGurn

The Down Side of More Than One Wife
· 21 hours ago

Maybe having every woman you want isn't all it's cracked up to be. If this is true, the late Mr. Bin Laden better hope he has better luck with the 72 virgins:

THE three widows of Osama bin Laden are turning on each other in custody, with two older Saudi women blaming a much younger Yemeni wife for leading American intelligence to their hideout....

Although the compound where bin Laden hid for five years was large, the three wives were all cooped up in the same house. The older two lived on the second floor and the youngest one on the top. Their husband alternated between them. Pakistani officials who have been debriefing the women portray life in the compound as an Islamic version of Desperate Housewives.

"It's a well-known fact that when you have two older wives and then this young one comes along half their age, they don't like it," said one.

The wives even dispute who tried to protect their husband in the raid. The youngest was reported to have attempted to save him, sustaining a bullet wound to her calf. But the older wives say they were the ones who rushed to shield him.

Comment (10), Edit, UnfollowFollow (2) EmailMollie Hemingway, Ed.

Nick Kristof Proof Texts The Bible
· 22 hours ago

Proof texting is when you cite a particular verse of the Bible without keeping in mind the context of the passage or how it relates to the entirety of Scripture. It's generally frowned upon as very poor scholarship.

Nick Kristof has one of those columns in the New York Times today where he proof texts his way to arguing that the Bible loves nothing more than gay sex and killing unborn children (or something).

He does this in the form of a quiz so Biblically illiterate that Harold Camping is shaking his head at him in embarrassment. Take the first question:

1. The Bible’s position on abortion is:

a. Never mentioned.

b. To forbid it along with all forms of artificial birth control.

c. Condemnatory, except to save the life of the mother.

The answer, according to noted theologian Nick Kristoff? A, of course. Gosh, if abortion is never mentioned, isn't it odd that so many Christians worked so hard to stop it 2,000 years ago? Continuing on until today? Why would they do it if abortion is "never mentioned"? ...

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Comment (20), Edit, UnfollowFollow (4) EmailMollie Hemingway, Ed.

The Interviewer Gets Interviewed
· 23 hours ago

As a reporter, I have to admit that there's a lot of safety in being one. When you're asking the questions, you're in control. But perhaps the best thing any reporter can have happen is to be the subject of an interview every now and then. It reminds you how difficult it is to answer a question the way you want to and how easy it is to misspeak or forget an important detail.

The tables were turned on me this week when a local reporter profiled me for the Washington Examiner's "Credo" page, where they ask locals about their religious views. Thankfully, reporter Leah Fabel was a total pro and asked great questions, which made the whole process easier to handle. In any case, if you're interested, here's the write-up. We discuss what it's like to be religious and a reporter as well as a bit about Lutheran teachings.

Comment (2), Edit, UnfollowFollow (2) EmailBrian Bolduc

John Adams, Lovable Grouch
· May. 22 at 1:30pm

My recommended biography for our second president will come as no surprise to many of our readers: David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize–winning volume, John Adams.

With his simple, direct prose, McCullough portrays the Founding Father brilliantly. Consider his description of the 40-year-old Adams:

Dismounted, he stood five feet seven or eight inches tall—about “middle size” in that day—and though verging on portly, he had a straight-up, square-shouldered stance and was, in fact, surprisingly fit and solid. His hands were the hands of a man accustomed to pruning his own trees, cutting his own hay, and splitting his own firewood.

In such bitter cold of winter, the pink of his round, clean-shaved, very English face would all but glow, and if he were hatless or without a wig, his high forehead, and thinning hairline made the whole of the face look rounder still. The hair, light brown in color, was full about the ears. The chin was firm, the nose sharp, almost birdlike. But it was the dark, perfectly arched brows and keen blue eyes that gave the face its vitality. ...


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James Lileks Please, by all means, push the frontier. By which I mean, topple into the ocean.

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Pawlenty's a pretty good candidate, but people still don't really know who he is yet. The longer the primaries drag on, the more time Pawlenty has to establish himself. ...




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When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
· 2 hours ago

President Obama went home today -- "home", in this instance, being the little Irish town of Moneygall, population an estimated 300.

According to locals, who believe the President's great-great-great grandfather was baptized at a nearby church, Obama can claim 5% Irish heritage. ...

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Communism was built on a house of cards to a certain extent. Socialism is much more entrenched in the world and in our very own federal government. ...

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Seattle Considers Banning Paper Cups
· 3 hours ago

I, for one, can't think of Seattle without thinking of Starbucks, which first opened its doors in the city in March of 1971. And what is Starbucks without coffee? (I should confess that I really like their oatmeal, but Starbucks pastries are another story altogether. ...

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Paul A. Rahe Father B.: I wonder what your thoughts are on a point that I made earlier about our new Republican primary rules: The Democrats went through a long primary in 2008, yet it didn't really damage them in the general election. ...
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Rob Long AmishDude: I just wanted to comment on your deft use of bien pensant, Rob.

It's one of my favorite phrases in the last few years.

It really captures the Zeitgeist. · May 23 at 11:32am


I'm glad somebody noticed. Too often, my bon mots go unnoticed.

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Charles Krauthammer Slapdown
· 4 hours ago

There's a reason Charles Krauthammer has a name like a Norse god... Charles, Hammer of the Krauts... it's because he can strike you down like lightning. He was on Inside Washington, broadcast on government-funded-and-thus-pro-expansive-government PBS stations, when government-funded-and-thus-pro-expansive-government PBS commentator Mark Shields began to do the typical lefty routine of warning Republicans not to nominate a conservative presidential candidate or it could be "a problem." Krauthammer's wonderful response: "See, what Mark wants is a Republican nominee who is a squish and then he’ll vote against him anyway." Bingo. Here's the video.

Every candidate has weaknesses and sure, I can see problems with conservative candidates like Palin or Bachmann or Rick Perry - but the problems have nothing to do with their policies... which I don't think would be a problem at all.

H/T to the excellent Noel Sheppard at the likewise excellent Newsbusters.

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Denise Moss What I really love about your quote, Rob, is the belief that standing in line at Whole Foods implies some sort of moral and intellectual superiority. Give me Trader Joe's any day.

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You are also correct in stating that many Mormons support Romney because he's a Mormon - I include myself in this group but for reasons other than you offer. ...

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The Washingtonian's Bad, Bad Timing
· 5 hours ago

Sometimes, the logistics of printing a magazine get you into trouble. This month, the Washingtonian magazine has a glowing, laudatory profile of Dominique Strauss Kahn.

You've heard of him, right? ...

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If you can show me that I am wrong, I am prepared to eat my words. I have had to do so on occasion in the past. · May 23 at 8:34am


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Would You Wish This Lifestyle on Anyone?
· 5 hours ago

The lifestyle of a freelance writer, that is:

Freelancing means walking from the West Village to the Upper East Side and back because you don't have enough money for the subway. ...


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