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Weekend Open Thread

| January 30, 2026 | 71 Comments
Weekend Open Thread

Most people using logic and common sense would not take a gun with them to a counter-law enforcement event that could lead to an alteration and detention with law enforcement. What happens when a confrontation occurs which results in the armed person’s being detained by law enforcement officers and receiving a call to disarm? Videos […]

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Weekend Open Thread

| January 23, 2026 | 100 Comments
Weekend Open Thread

A good sign that someone is easily media manipulated is to see how they react to reported events. How far will the Democrats go to attack President Donald Trump and his supporters? As far as it is required, even if it means taking positions that Democrats would’ve found abominable in other situations.  The trade imbalance, […]

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Holiday Open Thread

| January 19, 2026 | 102 Comments
Holiday Open Thread

Dr. Marthin Luther King had a dream that different groups of people would sit at the table of brotherhood and be judged by the content of their character. Commenters on this website do this very thing. Plenty of folks get judged by the content of their character here. Sometimes, this evaluation comes in the form […]

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Weekend Open Thread

| January 16, 2026 | 88 Comments
Weekend Open Thread

January 6 to February 17 is 2026’s Carnival/Mari Gras season. After the 12 days of Christmas comes the days of Epiphany. Officially, those days end on the first Sunday after January 6. Informally, the season runs from the 6th through Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday. The King Cake replaces the Christmas Cake for […]

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Weekend Open Thread

| January 9, 2026 | 90 Comments
Weekend Open Thread

Plenty happened since the last weekend open thread. Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the U.S., two tankers were boarded, the Somali fraud in Minnesota continued to receive coverage with Somali fraud elsewhere in the U.S. mentioned, the list goes on. The Russians didn’t want us to board one of those tankers, but we […]

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Weekend Open Thread

| January 2, 2026 | 33 Comments
Weekend Open Thread

The holidays are not over yet! Christmas season, as we recognized it in the last century, is increasingly disappearing into the Christmas shopping season. The actual Christmas season runs from December 25 through the first Sunday after Three Kings Day (Epiphany). Every day of the Christmas season is considered a “holy day” thus “holidays.” Today […]

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Holiday Open Thread

| January 1, 2026 | 52 Comments
Holiday Open Thread

Happy New Year! The new year has arrived on the East Coast. Thank you for being with us through these years. We’ve completed a quarter of this century, and 2030 is just 4 years away. The United States will achieve a major milestone this year, celebrating 250 years. This site will also celebrate a milestone. […]

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Midweek Open Thread

| December 31, 2025 | 22 Comments
Midweek Open Thread

New Years countdown! If you’re going to do some drinking tonight, use the water back method. Drink a volume of water for every volume of alcoholic beverage you take. This is just a minimum, it’s better if you drink more water per volume of alcoholic beverage. The water back method helps mitigate the chances of […]

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