Jon Gabriel

The Japanese Imperial Navy began shelling Corregidor three weeks after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The Philippine island was the strongest fort in the Pacific, nicknamed ”

Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the former President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate and the longest-serving Senator in Utah history died today. It was announced late Saturday by his public policy organization, the Hatch Foundation. He was 88 years old. A member of the Senate for 42 years, Hatch ser…

A lot of websites and podcasts are sharing their year-end lists and I thought Ricochet members should have their own. Here are the categories; you can share your picks in the comments below. (Mine will be in the comments as well since I’m more interested in your choices than mine.) You can interpret…

Instead of jumping in the shower when I wake up, I have a bad habit of grabbing my phone and checking social media. It’s a great way to start off the day on the wrong foot. Here’s the first tweet that popped up Thursday morning. Bradley P. Moss … sorry … Bradley P. Moss, ESQUIRE, […]

A tough day all around. Veteran Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston announced Tuesday night that former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has died at age 82. Reid served as a US Senator from Nevada for 30 years, retiring in 2017. He led the Senate Democrats from 2005 until his retirement and was…

Our house is decorated, the Christmas tree is up, and all the presents have been bought. Well, almost all; I’m sure we’ll find some last-minute must-haves. Our holiday season is normal, outside of inflated prices and a deflated Santa that blew into our yard last night. But New York City, Washington …

A Chicago jury has found Jussie Smollett guilty of the first five counts of disorderly conduct for making false reports to police that he was a victim of a hate crime in early 2019. He was found not guilty on the sixth and final charge. Nearly three years ago, the “Empire” actor reported that he […]

New York Times columnist David Brooks is terrified. This time, it’s not due to a shabby Bordeaux or a deli owner using “who” instead of “whom,” but from the National Conservatism Conference held in Orlando two weeks ago. Called NatCon for short, the conference “brings together public figures, journa…

After five years in the wilderness, Huma Abedin is finally getting Beltway buzz again. Abedin has been Hillary Clinton’s shadow since 1996, controlling access, cleaning up gaffes, and plotting Hillary’s rise to the presidency. Huma was flattered with decades of beat-sweetening puff pieces by reporte…

Though barely mentioned in US media, 48 Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized or burned down in the past two months. The latest occurred Monday, when the St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey, British Colombia, was destroyed by fire. Since mid-June, five B.C. churches were set alig…

From taxpayer-funded abortion to suing the Little Sisters of the Poor, the dogma lives loudly in our very Catholic president. So, Tuesday morning, he’s popping into the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis. Never wanting to miss a photo-op, Team Biden asked that the president attend mass with the Ponti…