Just a reminder to our conservative friends: This guy is not Sam Adams. This guy is not Patrick Henry. And finally, this man is not Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or like any of our Founders. Sorry, but I voted for the leader of the Republican party in 2016 and 2020, [Read More]
Do you hate America? Do you despise everything it stands for? Do you want to destroy this country? Then division and polarization is how you do it. The Founders were pretty astute men, especially for their time. The country’s motto “e Pluribus Unum” was coined at its birth, as if [Read More]
Link to Iranian Air Force Commander Statement. I’ve followed Israel since the 1970s and visited there recently. While I wouldn’t say Israel isn’t afraid of Iran (you’ll get a lot of variance in attitudes among 8.7 million people, even in their government), I think they take the threat seriously and [Read More]
Were we divided prior to Trump’s election in 2016? The chart below shows presidential favorability percentages from Eisenhower through Obama. The source is a Pew Research article from January 2017 before Trump took office. The higher the bottom number, the less division. Note that prior to the Clinton era, the [Read More]
Good question. Unfortunately it’s a difficult one to answer because we have little information from the Carthaginians themselves. Nearly everything we know about them comes from Greek and Roman sources. Those provide a view from the outside, and a biased one a that. TLDR: The Carthaginians didn’t view the Romans [Read More]
Evidently some liberal decided to take offense at the post below. The question: Is it karma or Irony that John McDaniel, a vocal protester against the Governor of Ohio’s shutdown orders, has recently died of COVID-19? One wonders if it’s okay for conservatives to mock women who die during abortions, [Read More]
Scott Kerwin, writing at Quora, takes on a common revisionist theme – that the US was responsible for the war with Japan, and ultimately the atomic bombings were war crimes perpetrated against an innocent people. This question garnered over 20k views, 3 shares and over 400 upvotes before Quora took [Read More]
Scott Kerwin, writing at Quora, takes on the belief common on the Left that the African-American community supports gun control because they suffer from a disproportionate level of violence. But Kerwin points out that this same community also suffers a disproportionate level of state-sanctioned violence – racist actions by the [Read More]
Scott Kerwin writing at Quora answers the question, “Why do people not like cultural appropriation?” You may be too young to remember, but are you familiar with the Japanese PS2 game Katamari Damacy? If it wasn’t designed by the Japanese I’d say it was designed by two surfers tripping acid. [Read More]
Olzhas Yessenbayev isn’t white but gives an interesting defense for those who are when addressing the question, “What sucks about being white?” at Quora, a Google company. Olzhas writes: Quick disclaimer here: I am not White. I am not European. I am Asian, and I come from such a part [Read More]
Murphy Barrett confronts a question at Quora, “Do Americans have any idea their patriotism might be exaggerated from the point of view of foreigners?” His answer has been viewed over 40,000 times and has been upvoted almost 3,000 times. Read it here in it’s entirety. Do Americans have any idea [Read More]
Ashley Lande, writing at Quora, rises to the challenge to take on this common misconception about the Right. Here’s her answer, taken from Quora, a Google company. Let me ask you a question. Do you have one of those areas of experience you’re knowledgeable in because you’ve known it since [Read More]
The following is excerpted from Jon Davis’s reply to the question, Why are some Americans so sensitive to criticism of their country? on Quora. It is over 6000 words long, but is the best and most concise answer to the anti-American crowd I’ve ever read. It covers slavery, the extermination [Read More]
Mike Antol, a writer at Quora, has an in-depth look at the gun death statistics often cited by gun control advocates. He writes: There are 32,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. Average U.S. population 324,059,091. Do the math: 0.00987% of the population [Read More]
Hello Weasel Watchers! A mixed post by me, Terry Trippany, your old watcher! As of today I pass the baton off to council member Soccer Dad who will take over my duties as The Watcher. While this is a sad event for me it will certainly be exciting times for [Read More]
Still on the road. Wanted to get the votes up however. Congratulations to First place council winner – Wolf Howling – with the winning council entry: Public Sector Unions: A Toxin, A Crisis & An Opportunity On the non-council side is a submission by Chicago Boyz with the winning article [Read More]
Hi. I wanted to get these submissions up early because I will be on the road most of the day. Each week, the members of the Watchers’ Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest [Read More]
Winning council member Soccer Dad takes on the liberal weirding crowd that has enveloped themselves so much in the fake science of global warming that they have elevated junk science to the point that contradictory example are constantly being made to support their nefarious claims about global warming. In science [Read More]
Conventional wisdom says I am supposed to start this article by pointing out that John McCain is a war hero. Conventional wisdom sucks. There are some truths in the world and it is certainly a truth that a young John McCain was the hero we all knew him to be. [Read More]
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