Virginia Right!

Several months ago I wrote a couple of blog posts on the little-known fact about abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison – he was jailed in Baltimore for criminal libel for calling out a slave trader. Garrison is my beau ideal as an agitator (The Liberator would surely have been a blog today.  Sometimes I look […]

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Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole […]

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Alea iacta est…the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. style=”font-size: large;”>I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word– Neville Chamberlain on Adolf Hitler, 1938 style=”font-size: large;”> I spoke personally […]

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First, I am embarrassed that I nearly missed another Waste Of Time, as I like to call UN Climate Conferences (Hey, where has YOUR mayor been lately?) and this one is in one of my favorite places I pray Jesus will allow me to go to:  Warsaw, Poland.  (I’d start first with the Ronald Reagan […]

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It may be very doubtful that Libertarian Robert Sarvis will win the governorship tomorrow, but if he ends up with 7 or 8 percent, while that is a great personal accomplishment, it will be a defeat.  He needs ten percent.  Let’s not repeat what happened to the Alternative for  Germany in September – so close […]

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Some may say:  Why vote for Sarvis?  He can’t win! First, Sarvis CAN win – he’s on the ballot.  But it is very unlikely he will win.  But there is a victory that is within reach and that is the 10% requirement to be a recognized political party in Virginia.  So, If you want to […]

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Graphic courtesy of the one and only Chris Muir over at Day By Day. Marine WWII vets after storming the Barrycade to the Marine Memorial in Washington DC. Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind […]

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Alea iacta est…the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. “Carthage delenda est” – Marcus Cato “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” – Sir Winston Churchill “No people in history have ever survived who […]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. “You can’t hit what you can’t see” – Hall of Famer Walter Johnson “Do not say the Dark Lord’s name!” – Professor Snape, in ‘Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix” by J.K. […]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast which trusted to his truth. – Lord Byron The first method for determining the intelligence of a ruler is […]

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Ten years ago, the original Watcher had an idea. Blogging carnivals, featuring posts from different bloggers were all the rage then, but our illustrious Founder had a different idea. Instead of a haphazard and changing bunch of contributors every week he put together the concept of a set membership, a Watcher’s Council that would promote […]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. But first, we have some important business to take care of, we do. We have an important day coming up, the birthday of our very own Courtney Messerschmidt!!! Yes, our very own GrEaT sAtAn”S […]

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The Steady Conservative has a great, must-read post up about who is behind all the money that’s being poured into Texas politics this year.  It’s the Houston trial lawyer, Steve Mostyn, that Saddleburr wrote about a week or so ago .   It’s truly eye-opening to see how one man is using his money pile to make a serious run at controlling Texas’ state government. Exit question: Why aren’t the mainstream media in Texas lamenting the influence of money on our political system? Exit answer: Because the influence of money is serving Democrats.

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They were all preceded by the perception of cowardice within our political class by our enemies. So says Bill Whittle over at PJTV in another outstanding segment of Afterburner.

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