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Ricochet: DOJ Was Right to End the Battle Against the Redskins

6/29/2017

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Great news for football fans, free speech warriors, and 90 percent of Native Americans: Due to a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Trump administration has ended Obama’s silly attack on the Washington Redskins.
The Justice Department sent a letter to a federal appeals court Wednesday afternoon conceding that a Supreme Court decision last week in favor of an Asian-American band calling itself “The Slants” means that the NFL’s Redskins will prevail in the battle over efforts to cancel the team’s trademarks on the grounds that the name is disparaging to Native Americans.

​“The Supreme Court’s decision in Matal v. Tam [the Slants’ case] controls the disposition of this case,” Justice Department Civil Division attorney Mark Freeman wrote in the letter to the Richmond-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. “Consistent with Tam, the Court should reverse the judgment of the district court and remand the case with instructions to enter judgment in favor of Pro-Football.”

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Ricochet: Bret Stephens “Forswears” Twitter for All the Wrong Reasons

6/24/2017

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Bret Stephens doesn’t like Twitter, so he decided that you shouldn’t either.

​His reasoning is lax, but the New York Times columnist blames the social media platform for “pornifying” politics. “Twitter is the political pornography of our time,” Stephens claims, “revealing but distorting, exciting but dulling, debasing to its users, and, well, ejaculatory. It’s bad for the soul and, as Donald Trump proves daily, bad for the country.”

As someone who spends too much time on Twitter, I couldn’t disagree more. Twitter — as with books, television, podcasts, or any other medium — is what you make of it. You can visit the library to check out Dostoyevsky or Danielle Steele. Go on YouTube for the BBC’s “Civilisation” documentaries or to see skateboarders getting popped in their yam bags. Download podcasts from Ricochet, or from some horrible, lesser audio network.


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Ricochet: But It’s a Dry Furnace

6/19/2017

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The temperature just hit 115° F and my power went out. Welcome to summer in Phoenix. Today’s high is projected to be 117°, while tomorrow’s is 120°. Mercifully, a cold wave rolls in Wednesday and temps plummet to 118°. Hopefully the power will be up by then.

​The show “King of the Hill” best expressed non-Arizonans’ view of the Valley of the Sun.

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USA TODAY: Trump's Cabinet is full of suck-ups, believe me

6/17/2017

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President Donald Trump opened the first meeting of his full Cabinet with characteristic humility.

"Never has there been a president, with few exceptions,” he announced to the reporters assembled, “who has passed more legislation, done more things."

So, Trump sings his own praises on occasion, despite having few legislative accomplishments to boast of. But the event became more unnerving when he invited each member of his executive team to sing his praises.


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RICOCHET: Don’t Blame Trump for Obamacare’s Collapse

6/12/2017

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Sarah Kliff loves Obamacare. Despite being a journalist for the Washington Post and now Vox, Kliff boosted the program harder than anyone not on the DNC payroll. For years she pushed headlines assuring voters that the ACA was on the brink of success:
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  • “Don’t believe the hype: Health insurers think Obamacare is going to be fine.“
  • “How Obamacare could save Detroit.”
  • “We’re in a health jobs slump. And it might be good news!“

​Alas, the longer we live with the Byzantine legislation, the harder it is to cheerlead for it. Since November, Kliff has abandoned her PR duties, unable to spin the increasingly dire news:


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ARIzona Republic: Think things are bad now? Actually, they're really good

6/2/2017

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Everything is terrible and nothing works. Or so the reporting goes.

American politics has devolved into a war of all against all, some defending the president, others attacking him, and many who are content simply to attack his attackers. Republicans blame the dominant GOP for accomplishing little while Democrats blame them for turning America into a hybrid of “The Man in the High Castle” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

​Zoom out the camera lens to the wider world and the headlines are still worse. Russia is undermining democratic institutions in the U.S. and Europe, the Syrian civil war unleashes another atrocity every few days, and terror attacks continue to pile up their grisly body count.

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