If Carbon Dioxide is a Pollutant…

Then why hasn't the government outlawed carbonated beverages? Big drinks companies like Coca Cola and Pepsico use large quantities of CO2 daily in making your Diet Coke. And when you open a can of Coke or Pepsi, some of the CO2 escapes. Why haven't they forbidden SodaStream to sell its machines in the US? Their …

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Guest Blogger: Ricochet Member Jenna Stocker, on What Becomes of the Falling Man

This year marks 20 years since the terrorist attacks on September Eleventh. It is a day that looms grimly for those who witnessed with their own eyes the destruction, horror, and chaos of that day. It casts a shadow that creeps into the conscience of those who were not alive or old enough to understand …

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Lens-artists Photo Challenge #131-Emotions

My photography doesn't often include people.  I do mostly landscapes and nature.  This post will consist of photos from one day, yesterday, and one destination.  My husband and I went out shopping for a handgun for me, to be kept mostly at home for self-defense.  I am a 71-year-old woman, and there are just the …

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Are We and They Blind? Taking Media censorship to the next step

This morning, there is a story on Fox News about the congress-critter known as AOC (you know, that former bartender from Queens NY), advocating Government "reining-in the Press".  Others have advocated the Government taking control of the media, only allowing what the Government deems correct news to be seen by the American public. The conservative …

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Calling out the Wall Street Journal

I have been a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, both print and online editions since 1991.  In the past week, I have come to doubt their editorial and news policies.  We have been reminded that the News and Editorial parts of the Journal are entirely separate, and mostly that has been true.  Since the …

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Secondary Boycotts, anyone?

Below is a list of companies and organizations which are attempting to Destroy President Donald Trump and his supporters.  If we do not wish to live in a Leftist Communist country, we must fight back against the Big Tech, Big Media, and Big Corporate interests which are doing their level best to deny the Founding …

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Social Media Censorship begins in earnest

Today, Friday, January 8, 2021, the Social Media giants, Facebook and Twitter, have begun the largest campaign of Censorship of viewpoints they do not agree with, in history.  Never before have the Big Tech platforms been so out-front and public in their de-platforming of Conservative voices.  And this is just the beginning. Twitter permanently closed …

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When I was 71, it was a Very Bad Year. The Year of “Closed” and “Canceled”

...a year of record-low unemployment, and job opportunities for ex-prisoners and black and other minority workers...until it wasn't.  A year of thriving small businesses, after-work drinks at our favorite Chinese restaurant, and ample overtime work due to a full order book at my aerospace job...until it wasn't.  Quite quickly, 2020 turned into the Annus Horribilis. …

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Do you or your company use ZOOM for your online meetings? Beware!

This story in The Epoch Times shows how Communist China monitors online meetings held in The US, between participants in the United States. The Chinese Communist Party has put Zoom on a short leash, and has kept track of meetings here in the US, making sure that participants do not discuss issues that might be …

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