With the city council overriding the mayor's veto of their bill making drastic cuts to the Seattle Police Department, and the number of homeless camps increasing all over the city, residents of Seattle may be worrying about the safety of themselves, their homes, and their children. Especially since for a few years now, Seattle police …
Continue reading It must be uncomfortable to live in Seattle these days
Today, we feature another of our Ricochet writers, Henry Racette. Please enjoy and respond to his post on filling the new Supreme Court vacancy brought about by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. About That Vacancy Now that the coronavirus crisis is essentially over but for the continuing economic disaster being wrought …
For the first eleven days of September, Hubby and I drove from our home in Washington State to South Dakota and back. We went through the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. The State of Washington has a state-wide "mask mandate", requiring all open businesses to require all their customers …
In the 1930s, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration sent crews to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the Little Missouri National Grasslands portion, and set them to work building infrastructure. By the side of the North Dakota highway, there is a turnout with a viewpoint, and a low wall demarcating the …
As I understand it, Negative Space in a photograph is the space around the subject, not the subject. The Wide Open Spaces of Montana and North Dakota supplied some excellent subjects on our recent trip across country.They don't call Montana Big Sky Country for nothing.The white barn almost disappears in the Big Sky, under the …
In violation of its own standards against so-called "hate groups", Facebook allows Rose City (Portland, OR) Antifa to recruit online, on its platform. You have, no doubt, seen all the news stories of the violent riots in Portland for the past 100+ days. Please read the linked article above, and then sever all ties you …
Tomorrow, Monday, August 31, will be my last working day at my current job, which I have held for 12-2/3 years. That's the longest I have ever worked at any job in my entire working life. My original goal in life was to work forever, and never retire. Well, the Wuhan Coronavirus put an end …
Another notch in your (well, I was going to say gun, but you abhor guns) billy-club. Congratulations, you have destroyed another small business in Washington State. Another livelihood ruined, lives put in jeopardy by your "Rule by Decree". We have to destroy it in order to save it. You're lucky that the Sheeple of Washington …
Just recently, a member of the US House of Representatives gave a speech. Ayanna Pressley called for unrest in the streets. Can someone tell me how this does not constitute inciting violence? As I recall, President Donald Trump has never called for unrest in the streets, but he sure has drawn such unrest, since even …
Continue reading Will someone tell me how this does not constitute “Inciting Violence”?
I admit that I copied this quote from George Will's book The Conservative Sensibility, from a friend's post over on Ricochet. He (George Will) said this better than I could. Conservatives’ task is to build a society that nurtures individuals to self-sufficiency, including independence from politics. Now more than ever conservatives need to be focused …
Continue reading He said it better than I could…Today’s Quote
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