Social Issues – Watcher of Weasels

The anti-prison movement will be a disaster . . . for criminals

November 24, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

Leftists, having placed pro-criminal prosecutors across America, are now doing the same with judges. Criminals will not like what’s coming. At Power Line, Paul Mirengoff took note of the fact that George Soros, having managed to place leftist prosecutors throughout America, none of whom have the slightest interest in prosecuting [Read More]

Bookworm Beat 10/29/2020 — Quick links to really interesting things

October 29, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

This is a post full of quick links to things I’ve seen on the internet, but don’t have time to write about with any depth. Tonight is my “Instapundit imitation” night, although I’ll never match the wit and brevity that Glenn Reynold’s and his team bring to the table. Still, [Read More]

Do Inaccurate Polls Abet Voter Fraud?

October 5, 2020 Proof Positive Comments Off

One of the reasons I believe that polling is so overblown, consider Hillary over Trump in 2016, Biden over Trump in 2020, is to mask, to a certain extent, voter fraud. We have been treated to, in recent times, reports of precincts where more votes were cast than the number [Read More]

CNN is busy rewriting history to blame Trump for the riots

September 2, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

The polls show that the public hates the “mostly peaceful” riots, so CNN published a deeply dishonest “article” blaming Trump for the riots. On May 25, George Floyd, an overweight, violent ex-felon with serious heart disease, who took over three times the lethal dose of fentanyl, along with some other [Read More]

The Wuhan virus has accelerated existing trends

August 31, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

The Wuhan virus has sped up existing processes, such as hastening inevitable deaths, changing the business world, and exposing the left. You’ve probably read that 94% of Wuhan virus deaths happened to people who already had compromised health, whether from extreme age or diseases that were already putting stress on [Read More]

Agatha Christie — the Nostradamus of the year 2020

August 27, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

To rest from politics and riots, I’m reading Agatha Christie’s 1970 Passenger to Frankfurt. It’s a meh novel but is a superb 2020 prophecy. Agatha Christie was born in 1890, Torquay, England, meaning that she came of age in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Nevertheless, thanks to almost five decades [Read More]

Important: It doesn’t matter whether Jacob Blake was armed

August 26, 2020 Bookworm 1

It’s a myth that the police who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha acted righteously only if he was armed. They had a reasonable fear he was deadly. Democrats, anarchists, Black Lives Matter folks, and other Marxists are certain that the police who shot Jacob Blake were racists. That’s their justification [Read More]

Visions of America: videos from both left and right

August 19, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

There are several fascinating videos out there, so I thought I’d dedicate this post to them, along with a little moralizing of my own. First, Trump handles with incredible grace a question that only a hack pretending to be a reporter would ever ask: These Trump press conferences produce material [Read More]

Austin Abortion Eugenics Minority Report Crime

Austin is trying to deter crime the ‘Minority Report’ way

August 16, 2020 Bookworm 2

By shifting money from policing to encouraging abortions, Austin is fulfilling the eugenicists’ dream of a world in which no criminals exist. The Minority Report was a 2002 movie (based upon a Philip K. Dick short story). The premise was that law enforcement had moved to a point at which [Read More]

The WaPo romanticizes violent Antifa anarchists

August 11, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

Looking at the WaPo’s gauzy view of Portland’s Antifa anarchists helps clarify that the American media are truly America’s enemies. Andy Ngo posted this tweet: As Portland experiences more than 70 days of violent protests, riots, arson attacks, soaring homicides & shootings, @washingtonpost actually published a glowing photo essay on [Read More]

Wuhan virus — there are silver linings to this cloud

August 8, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

There are silver linings to Wuhan virus madness. The past seven months have brought a great deal of useful clarity that we should celebrate. The other day, I wrote about the fact that Trump’s candidacy promises a return to normalcy. Under the slogan Make America Normal Again, we could have [Read More]

Barbarians At The Gate?

July 29, 2020 Proof Positive 2

You know, I think it is long past time that we dust off another good word that has been little used for too long: barbarians. [ bahr-bair-ee-uhn ] noun a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person. a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine. (loosely) a foreigner. (in ancient [Read More]

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Murder Most Foul- Black Trump Supporter Murdered Execution Style

July 28, 2020 JoshuaPundit Comments Off

60-year-old Bernell Trammell owned a small store in Milwaukee. He was kind man, well liked in his neighborhood, a religious man who did some street preaching. He was also a Trump supporter. That got him murdered. This is a man who worshiped G-d and a man of faith. You can [Read More]

I’m finding mystifying the left’s war on re-opening schools

July 19, 2020 Bookworm 1

Teachers’ unions do not want to re-open schools. I can think of some benefits for them from this stance, but mostly I think closed schools will hurt them. I can think of three short-term reasons for leftists, in the form of teachers’ unions, to wage war on public schools: 1. [Read More]

Defund the Police: the speed of degradation

July 13, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

The speed with which the Defund the Police movement is breaking American cities is a dangerous harbinger of the totalitarianism that always follows anarchy. Entropy: A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system not available to do work. As a physical system becomes more disordered, and its [Read More]

A thought experiment about the NFL and the black national anthem

July 8, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

With the NFL preparing to play the “black national anthem” before The Star-Spangled Banner, it’s time for a thought experiment. The idea for this post is not mine. Instead, it comes from the poster embedded below. I’m just expanding upon it. As you know, starting with the no-talent Colin Kaepernick, [Read More]

Gettysburg- A Fourth of July Long Ago

July 6, 2020 JoshuaPundit Comments Off

(reposted by request) Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass.Let me work. – Carl Sandburg ; One hundred and fifty five years ago today, brave men fought in and around a small town in Pennsylvania to determine [Read More]

Bookworm Beat 7/3/20 — Ghislaine Maxwell and Black Lives Matter memes

July 3, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

I lied. These memes aren’t just about Ghislaine Maxwell and Black Lives Matter. They’re also about Antifa, Democrats, Biden, guns, the Wuhan virus, and more. If you’re worried about the polls:

Today is the day to talk about the blacks who didn’t riot

June 15, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

The media keeps the focus on blacks whom leftists have taught to hate. In America, though, there are probably more blacks who don’t hate. Here are 3 of them. I went to the gun store again today, which is always a pleasant way to pass time. (By the way, thanks [Read More]

Guns and police, and still more guns

June 14, 2020 Bookworm Comments Off

I spent a large part of the day talking about guns, thinking about police and guns, and handling guns. That’s what this post is about. Today was a gun day. It began when a friend who strongly supports the Second Amendment nevertheless wondered why police shoot people who end up [Read More]