The Nominations Are Up

Each week, the members of the Watcher's Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for best post. The Watcher publishes the results each Friday morning.

If you would like to participate in the Council's activites, while there is no opening on the council at the moment, we invite you take part by submitting your own best post of the week through "link whorage." You can find out how at the Watcher's site.

As always, this week's nominations present an eclectic mix of thought-provoking reading.

Do enjoy them all:

Council Submissions

Wolf Howling - AP Goes APE Over Texas School Book Changes

Mere Rhetoric – Confirmed: Anti-Israel Jewish Groups Scapegoat Israel For Obama’s Manufactured Crisis

The Razor – The United States of Venezuela

Rhymes With Right – Why Is This Not A Major National Story?

The Colossus of Rhodey – On the Texas textbook controversy

The Provocateur - The Untold Story of Non Profit Hospitals

Right Truth - Violence Against Israel, Blame It On Obama, Biden, and Clinton

Bookworm Room - God and Gaia; or, the difference between a religion that serves man and one that serves Nature

The Glittering Eye - What Next?

Joshuapundit - The Prince And The FOX

American Digest - The Plague of Locusts Presidency


Non-Council Submissions

David Thompson – But Left Equals Virtue . . . Submitted by Wolf Howling

John Noonan / Weekly Standard Blogs – Obama Nominates Missile Defense Critic to Key White House Spot Submitted by Mere Rhetoric

Pajamas Media – Ruben Navarrette Jr – It’s Time for Republicans to Up Their Game Submitted by The Razor

Riehl World View – Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife? Submitted by Rhymes with Right

I find this post by Mr. Riehl so fundamentally lacking in decency and decorum that I do not intend to link directly to it. I blogged on Mr. Riehl's post here. That post also contains a link to Riehl's post which you can click on if so inclined.

The Evolutionary Review – On the Origins of Comics: New York Double-take Submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey

Chicago Tribune/John Kass – For Outfit’s Coffee Klaatsch Submitted by the Provocateur

The Lunatic’s Asylum – Reason # 11,206 Why Your President is an Asshole… Submitted by Right Truth

Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic Monthly Blog – Andrew Sullivan Revises History (Again) Submitted by Bookworm Room

Walter Russell Mead’s Blog–The American Interest – Is this Lobby different from all others? Submitted by The Glittering Eye

Melanie Phillips – The Obama Intifada Submitted by JoshuaPundit

The New Ledger - Obamacare’s Two Americas Submitted by American Digest

Pillage Idiot Retirement – Joe Biden works his magic in the Middle East submitted by The Watcher