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February 27, 2018 By Fausta

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A history professor wrongly claims the Founding Fathers loved gun control

How To Stop Mass Shootings In America

FBI Focuses on Millions of “Mishandled” $$$ Funneled from Australian Gov to Clinton Foundation


The peculiar case of David Hogg exposes media incompetence *UPDATED*

Democrats and Illegal Aliens versus the NRA and the Second Amendment

China Kills US Intel Assets In 2010; NYT Ignores The Obvious Question About Hillary

A Must Read – The Untold Eyewitness Story Of The Paris Bataclan Killings

Bookworm Beat 2/22/18 — our Second Amendment illustrated edition

A Twitter Honey Pot of ‘Russian Bots to Trap Conservatives? #TwitterLockout

Reagan CPAC Speech [1988]; Trump CPAC Speech [2018] (videos)

It’s time to check out What Business Thinks once again *UPDATED*

Does Anyone Actually Teach Conservatism Anymore?

Happy Birthday, George Washington, America’s indispensable man!

Ingraham: Guns, God and the Grace to Listen (Opening Monologue)

Forum:When Does The Mueller Investigation End? With What Result?

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January 23, 2018 By Fausta

The Watchers Forum: What Are Some Of Your Favorite Fictional Characters?



Every week on Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question
: What Are Some Of Your Favorite Fictional Characters?

Fausta Rodriguez Wertz : So many fictional characters to like!

In literature:

Jane Austen’s Emma, “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the original. When other kids were reading Nancy Drew, I was reading Sherlock.

Amor Towel’s Count Alexander Rostov of A Gentleman in Moscow. A man to love.

Guy de Maupassant’s George Duroy of Bel Ami, spiritual ancestor to Mad Men’s Don Draper and Bonfire of the Vanities’ Peter Fallow.

On film:
The entire cast of Casablanca. Every character stands out.

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Leave out the action scenes and you find a human being.

On TV:
Emma Peel of The Avengers as interpreted by Diana Rigg. She took care of Mr Steed in great style. I want to be Emma Peel when I grow up.

Rob Miller : OK, here we go…the short list…Bart Simpson, Alice Kramdon, Chaplin’s Tramp, Odysseus, Vulcan sex kitten T’pau as played by Jolene Blaylock, Rufus T. Firefly (Duck Soup), Bugs Bunny, Yojimbo (in the Kurosawa film of the same name), Edwina and Patsy from Ab Fab, Sherlock Holmes, Guy Hamilton and Jill Bryant (Aussie journo and his love object  in The Year of Living Dangerously), James Bond (the book one, not the movies), Larry Darrell in ‘The Razor’s Edge’ (book version) Jay Gatsby (ditto, the book), Ian Rankin’s detective John Rebus, Suzy Wong (both the book and the film) The Man With No Name, Col. Jock Sinclair (Tunes Of Glory), Chio Chio San from Madama Butterfly, Lucy Warriner in The Awful Truth.

Dave Schuler : I couldn’t name any one favorite and I’m afraid my favorites are pretty lowbrow. Here are a few of my favorites
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January 21, 2018 By Fausta

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If an Obama scandal is revealed but the media ignores it….

(Video) What British Muslims Really Think

Trump and Sessions Must End the California Nullification Crisis Sooner Than Later (UPDATED)

Has Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Own Racist History Comes Back To Bite Him?

MAGA 4,The Year America became Great Again…June-September

Bookworm Beat 1/19/18 — the Tide Pod illustrated edition

GOP Lawmakers: ‘Intel Comm. must release classified memo on FBI/DOJ #FISAabuse to public

Forum: How Would You Deal With The DACA Issue?

Pope Francis wants illegals to be welcome to the party

Early 20th C. eugenics still predominates in Progressive abortion circles

Only TWO Senators Attended Jeff Flake’s Anti-Trump Speech on Senate Floor

Despite media pressure, I don’t care about these things

Tucker Carlson Tonight: NJ governor’s priority is illegals, not his citizens (video)

Google Must Be Destroyed

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November 15, 2017 By Fausta

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The Persecution Of Judge Roy Moore Shows Why The GOPe Must Be Defeated

Venezuela: Restructuring debt?

Where Sheep May Safely Graze…in Northern Virginia

[VIDEO] The Left uses sex scandals to wage war against all men

Mahmoud Abbas’s Lies On Israel And The Balfour Declaration, Debunked

Judge Roy Moore Receives Multiple Standing Ovations; GOPe Pissed.

Jesse Watters Crashes Liberal ‘Scream at the Sky’ Event (video)

The Roy Moore drama escalates but I’m not convinced *UPDATED*

Veterans Day – In Honor of Our Vets.

[VIDEO] Michael Medved tells the real story of the Pilgrims

Why Trump was served tea in China’s Forbidden City treasure hall?

Once again, a hypocrisy check, this time about Judge Roy Moore

A Must Read – The Untold Eyewitness Story Of The Paris Bataclan Killings

A Common Sense Solution to Illegal Guns


CNN Fake News from Tokyo



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October 24, 2017 By Fausta

The Watchers forum: Favorite filmmakers

Every week on Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the WoW! Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: Who Are Your Favorite Film Makers? Why?

Fausta Rodriquez Wertz: Joel & Ethan Coen.

My first Cohen Bros. movie was Fargo, followed by The Big Lebowski, and I’ve been a big fan since.

I haven’t watched all their films, but I greatly enjoyed, in addition to the above,
– their musical version of The Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
– Miller’s Crossing‘s gloominess
– No Country For Old Men, with Bardem as the scariest villain this side of the Rio Grande
– Burn After Reading, which made me laugh out loud
– Bridge of Spies on the Cold War
– and Hail Caesar! on the Hollywood communists.

Bookworm Room : I don’t have a favorite director, but I do have a favorite producer: I love musicals made under Arthur Freed’s aegis. Here are just a few of the dazzling movies he produced during Hollywood’s golden years:

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Good News (1947)
The Pirate (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
Words and Music (1948)
On the Town (1949)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Royal Wedding (1951)
Show Boat (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Silk Stockings (1957)
Gigi (1958)
Bells Are Ringing (1960)

While I don’t have a favorite director, I definitely have a least favorite director. I hate Steven Spielberg movies, which I find clunky, predictable, and subordinate to special effects and fancy camera work. I also invariably dislike his characters and their thought processes. I’ve been watching at HBO production about Spielberg and it’s given me an insight into why I dislike his characters: I don’t like him.

The one good thing about Spielberg is that his Holocaust work has been exemplary. I don’t like how he directed Schindler’s List, but it educated a generation about the Holocaust. His Shoah project is also something very important and I admire his complete commitment to that work.
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October 21, 2017 By Fausta

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[MUST-SEE VIDEO] Gen. John Kelly’s press briefing is essential viewing

Trump Politicizing Our Military? The Real Story

Tucker Carlson Tonight: Peter Schweizer, Nancy Soderberg on Obama Admin, Clintons’ Russia Uranium One Deal

Bowe Bergdahl Pleads Guilty To Desertion And Misbehavior

Bookworm Beat 10/18/17 — the illustrated edition

Fame to Blame for Lynyrd Skynyrd Airplane Crash October 20, 1977

Two reports yesterday highlight Trump Derangement Syndrome

John Kelly blasts Frederica Wilson for eavesdropping on Trump’s call to Soldier’s widow & attacks.

Must See Video: Roger Stone Gives An Amazing Speech On Tour With Milo

Why the Lights Are Still Off in Puerto Rico (video)

Dear Men, I truly love you, but I don’t necessarily trust you

A rotating cast of stock-players in the Weinstein scandal — guest post by Lulu


Is the Sisterhood Choreographing the Harvey Weinstein Reflex?

Argentina: Where is Santiago Maldonado?

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September 30, 2017 By Fausta

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A Palestinian speaks the truth at the UN — the shock is palpable

Unmasking ‘Taking The Knee’…The Real Issues At Stake

Which Women Were Given Hope? 

 Bookworm Beat 9/29/17 — the Attack of the Stupid Leftists edition 

 It’s Official: #Blacklivesmatter Is Above The Law 

 [VIDEO] South Park takes on identity politics and race 

 The EU, Jews And Hypocrisy

 The Latest: Trump Wins, NFL Caves

 Progressives’ crude political commentary about North Korea [NSFW] 

 AG Sessions at Georgetown Univ.: ‘Free speech and thought under attack on college campuses’

 Swamp dweller, Karl Rove, reacts to Judge Roy Moore’s AL-Senate runoff victory.

The Latest: Trump Wins, NFL Caves (Updated) 

 The Ghost of Trayvon Martin Takes a Knee 

 Bookworm Beat 9/26/17 — the Progressives on Parade edition 

 Are food allergies an analogy to breaking the NFL habit?

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September 27, 2017 By Fausta

The week at WoW! Mag

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Unmasking ‘Taking The Knee’…The Real Issues At Stake 

Judge Roy Moore Rally in Alabama Featuring: Steve Bannon, Phil Robertson and Nigel Farage 

The German Elections: Dead Man’s Curve 

The NFL Knee Battle : A Yuge Wager In The Culture War (Edited & Updated With An Op-ed By A Black U.S. Army Officer) 

[VIDEO] Prager U asks “Does Israel Discriminate Against Arabs?” 

Mining “What Happened” for Hillary’s unintentionally humorous moments 

The Leftist habit of elevating theory over facts infects everything 

An American In Babylon – Trump’s UN Speech

Donald Defends America when NFL Won’t; the Larger Lesson 

The Bookworm Beat 9/25/17 — another NFL illustrated edition 

Mexico City: Israel Is There when Disaster Hits 

On cognitive privilege and other animals 

Puerto Rico: The centennial of my grandfather’s house

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