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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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, there is no permanent opening on the council at the moment, so if you would like to submit your blog for permanent membership, but if you would like to self-nominate one of your posts for competition in the Non-Council category, you will find the instructions for that at the Watcher's site" in the right hand side bar.

As always, this week's nominations present an eclectic mix of thought-provoking reading To the extent there is an overriding theme in the Council submissions this week, it appears to deal with the decline in effectiveness of the race card.

Do enjoy them all:

Council Submissions

Wolf Howling - An Overdrawn Race Card

The Provocateur - Saul Alinsky and Dr. Anna Chacko

Rhymes With Right - Shirley Sherrod: Dissent Equals Racism And A Desire To Return To Slavery

Right Truth - Conservative Republican Agenda

The Razor - True Bigots

Snapped Shot - The Happy Little Mosque… of Rage

The Colossus of Rhodey - Oh, but of course! Captain America can’t be a “flag waver”

Bookworm Room - How Journolist and Oliver Stone each serve to highlight the other’s insanity

The Glittering Eye – What Went Wrong?

Virginia Right! – Frankly my dear, charges of racism have lost their impact

Joshuapundit – The Age of Obama – Government By Diktat

Non – Council Submissions

Brits At Their Best - Recalling The Men Who Fought Naporleon submitted by Wolf Howling

Gaper’s Block – Sex Trafficking in Chicago submitted by The Provocateur

Riehl World View – Sherrod: “We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle Toms …” submitted by Rhymes with Right

Israelly Cool - The Day In Israel: Tuesday July 27th, 2010 submitted by Right Truth

Jeffrey Laporte at Standing Firm via Fleming and Hayes - Message from the White House on Racism submitted by The Razor

The Jawa Report - Zach Chesser Indicted for Material Support of Terrorism submitted by Snapped Shot

Common Sense Political Thought - Duplicity in editing, innuendo in reporting, and a deceived readership submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey

Noisy Room – Socialist “Journolistas” submitted by Bookworm Room

The Moderate Voice – Oliver Stone: Hitler is Misunderstood Due to “Jewish-Dominated Media” (UPDATED) submitted by The Glittering Eye’

The Other McCain – Brilliant: U.S. Gives Pakistan $1 Billion; Pakistan Helps Our Enemies Kill Us submitted by Virginia Right

RightChange/PJTV – Same As It Ever Was submitted by JoshuaPundit

The Hashmonean – Undiplomatic Solution: Strike Options Targeting Iran Go Top Shelf submitted by The Watcher

Friday, July 9, 2010

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. And the results of this weeks voting are in:

This weeks winner was my post, Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona (Updated), that looks at both the substance and dangerous ramifications of Obama's attempt to overturn Arizona's recently enacted law targeting illegal aliens. There was a tie for second place between Right Truth's analysis of the book, A World Without Islam and the Glittering Eye's analysis of the state of our economy, Foundations of Sand. Both are excellent posts. Let me also make special mention of Mike Volpe's post this week, Mark Clements and Chicago’s Culture of Torture. You can go to his site and follow the link to read his article of the same name. It is as well written as you will find anywhere. I highly recommend it.

In the non-Council category, the winner was Caroline Glick's exceptional look at the state of Euro anti-semitism, – Standing down the hanging jury. There was a three way tie for second place between Patterico’s Pontifications's Feinstein on Judicial Inexperience, Then and Now, Zenpundit's Reality, Strategy and Afghanistan: Some Questions, and Israel Matzav's Who is orchestrating a US rapprochement with Hezbullah and Hamas?.

There were some great entries this week. You can find them all, as well as the full results of the voting at the Watcher's site.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Last Week's Winners

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. And the results of last weeks voting are in:

The winner in a run-away was Bookworm Room for her brilliantly ironic post, Redefining the word racist so that it suits ME. It really is a good read that take's the race baiting industry to task for both throwing the race card with no basis in fact and pursuing policies that hurt minorities. Coming in second place was my post, The War On Religion. Of note, and complimentary to Bookworm's post, is one from the Collossus of Rhodey, “You have to trust your gut,” which is as fine an explanation of the bankrupt critical race theory as I have seen anywhere.

In the Non-Council Category, the winning post was Cato Unbound's The Rise of the New Paternalism. Coming in second place was Victor Davis Hanson's Next Battle: Immigration

There were some great entries last week. You can find them all, as well as the full results of the voting at the Watcher's site.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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 in the post here.

This week's nominations are on a wide array of topics - Iran, Health Care, Acorn, Gitmo, and a humorous look at the virulent lethality of Gorian poetry.

Do enjoy them all:

Council:

Joshuapundit - WAPO’s Ezra Klein Accuses Joe Lieberman Of Genocide
American Digest - December 31, 2010: Defused Lethal Poem Released by Government. “Safe but Still Sucks” says President
Right Truth - Gitmo coming To America
Wolf Howling - Ringside Seats To A Revolution
Bookworm Room- Press Secretary Gibbs perfectly exemplifies nanny state thinking
Rhymes With Right - Is Barack Obama A Ninth Grader?
Soccer Dad - Goldstone’s Innumeracy
The Colossus of Rhodey - A word from the Angry Left
The Razor - Obama versus Carter
Mere Rhetoric - HRW: We’re Not Sure About Marc Garlasco’s Nazi Obsession, But There’s Definitely A Coordinated Jewish Cabal Of Liars Attacking Us
The Glittering Eye - The Jungle
The Provocateur - The Harshbarger Report:A Microcosm of the Right’s Wilfull Misinterpretation of the ACORN Story

Non-Council Submissions

Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Jason Maoz/Commentary - How Richard Nixon Saved Israel—but Got No Credit
Submitted By: American Digest– The Belmont Club - The Monkey Trap
Submitted By: Right Truth – The Anchoress - Pondering and rating Obama
Submitted By: Wolf Howling – EU Referendum - A Busy Man
Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Zomblog - Why America Hates Universal Health Care: The Real Reason
Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – Common Sense Political Thought - the Jobs Summit
Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Doug Ross & Journal - Are pro-choice Democrats ready to turn over control of their bodies to a political ‘Health Choices Commissioner’?
Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Yourish - The War President’s Peace Prize
Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Iowahawk - Fables of the Reconstruction (Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick)
Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Pam’s House Blend - GOProud calls for President to speak out against Ugamda’s execute gays bill
Submitted By: The Razor – The Brussels Journal - The Anti-Globalist Agenda Behind The Climate Conference
Submitted By: The Provocateur – Powerline - Is deregulation to blame?

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations

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.

We are happy to welcome to the Council Gerard Van der Luen, proprieter of the American Digest, a blog I have been following for years. Mr. Van der Luen has had a storied career as an editor, publisher and author. He brings a unique style and wit to the Council. I, for one, could not be happier that he has joined the Council.

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 in the post here.

This week's nominations are on a wide array of topics - Afghanistan, Climategate, Fistinggate (shiver), Islamists at Ground Zero, Islamist rhetorical devices, the origins of Chirstmas, and a descent into madness brought on by Billy Joel. Do enjoy them all:

Council:

Joshuapundit - Latinos And ObamaCare
American Digest - Drain Bamage: I Guess It’s Going to Be “All About Soul” Forever
Right Truth - We must do something about … Leprechauns
Wolf Howling - Obama Fails His First Test As Commander In Chief
Bookworm Room- Reason to be grateful Obama appointed gay porn-purveyor Jennings as Safe Schools Czar
Rhymes With Right - When You Normalize the Aberrant, The Unthinkable Becomes Thinkable
Soccer Dad - The ongoing refuge of the refugees
The Colossus of Rhodey - Stereotypes are bad — except if you wanna criticize Tiger Woods
The Razor - The President’s Deaf Ear
Mere Rhetoric - West Point Speech – Rhetorically Sublime Modern Day Lincoln Said “I” 40+ Times, “Win” Or “Victory” 0
The Glittering Eye - Can Congress Reduce Healthcare Costs?
The Provocateur - Dr. Chako on Big Government

Honorable Mention

Pond’rings - An Encounter With Terrorism
Dinah Lord - A far grander vision: an Islamic center near Ground Zero
Shyspeak - A Letter to Obama From “The Greatest Generation”
Common Cents - “Hide the Decline” – The Great Global COOLING Coverup

Non-Council Posts

Submitted By: The Watcher – Gateway Pundit- Fistgate II: High School Students Given “Fisting Kits” At Kevin Jennings’ GLSEN Conference ( Photo)
Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Robert Avrech/Big Hollywood - Lupe Velez: When Shame, Abortion and Suicide Collide
Submitted By: American Digest– Finemrespice - Their Charms Proved Irresistible
Submitted By: Right Truth – GrEaT sAtAnS GiRlFrIeNd - Twisted
Submitted By: Wolf Howling – The Plumb Bob Blog - 56 World Newspapers: “Scandal? What Scandal?”
Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Big Government - Obama colluding with Left to subvert his own Afghan war policy
Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – Biblical Archeology Review - How December 25th Became Christmas
Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Virgil Speaks - Why I’m not a Liberal any more
Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Dalad Amos - Muslims Both Initiated and Funded The Goldstone report – Which Explains A Lot
Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – New Ledger - View From West Point:We Are Not The Enemy
Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Jonathan Tobin/Commentary Contentions - Blame America First — World War II Edition
Submitted By: The Razor – Covert Ratining Blog - Let Us Shun The Obese This Holiday Season
Submitted By: The Provocateur – Big Government - Was Dem health Care Strategy Written In Prison?

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations

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.

There is an opening at the Council if you would like to nominate your blog for the Council. If you go to the Watcher's site, you will find instructions on how to apply on the right-hand sidebar.

Terry Trippany plays the role of Watcher of Weasels. Do visit the Watcher's Site for his theme of the week. This week, Joshua Pundit is guest hosting, and has posted on Sarah Palin.

This week's nominations are:

Concil:

The Provocateur - How Bonds Work (and How Current Policy Will Wreck Them and the Economy With It)

Right Truth - Pride Or Lack Thereof

Rhymes With Right - In Re: Palin

The Glittering Eye - Haeckel and the Development of Nations

Mere Rhetoric - Prominent Jewish Democrats Double Down On Obama.Unpersuasively.

Wolf Howling - The Pot Simmers

Soccer Dad - Extra! Extra! get Your Paper

Bookworm Room - The Declaration of Independence . . . and chickens?

Non-Council Submissions

Submitted By: Right Truth – Star Parker - When Color Trumps Christianity

Submitted By: The Provocateur – Ralph Peters - The Moscow Giveaway

Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Reclusive Leftist - Feminists and the mystery of Sarah Palin

Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Diana West - Allies Don’t Declare Victory Over Each Other”

Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Michael Totten - The Real Quagmire in the Middle East

Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Rick Richman / Commentary - The Coming U.S. Peace Plan

Submitted By: Wolf Howling – Seraphic Secrets - The Great Obama Moscow Give-away

Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Rubin Reports - The Middle East is a place where wishfulthinking gets people killed but makes careers for politicians, diplomats,academics, and journalists

Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Investor’s Business Daily - Canada’s Single-Prayer Health Care

Watcher's Council Results

Each week, the Watcher's Council holds a contest for best post. The Council members submit a post they have written and one post by someone outside the Council for consideration. The Watcher tallies the votes and announces the winners each Friday.

There is an opening on the Council. If you would care to submit your blog for consideration, please visit the Watcher's site. You will find instructions on the right side bar for applying to join the Council.

You can find the results of the weeks voting and the Watcher's cogent commentary on the submissions here. This week's winners were:

Coming in first place this week was The Razor's post, Settlement, a philosophical musing on the setteling of his mother in law's estate. Coming in tied for second place were Right Truth, with her post, LIFE, and The Glittering Eye's post, Affording Everything.

In the Non-Council Category, first place went to First place with 2 1/3 points! – Fausta’s Blog for her post, Responses to “Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup”. Coming in second was Christina Hoff Sommers exceptional essay, Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship. My submission from EU Referendum, Rigging The Debate, tied for third place.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations & An Opening

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.

There is an opening at the Council if you would like to nominate your blog for the Council. If you go to the Watcher's site, you will find instructions on how to apply on the right-hand sidebar.

Terry Trippany plays the role of Watcher of Weasels. Do visit the Watcher's Site for his theme of the week. This week, it is the disasterous cap and trade bill just passed unread in its entirety by the House:

As you know the House passed the Waxman-Malarkey cap-n-tax global warming bill thanks in part to 8 sellout Republicans that took money from environmental whackos in return for a vote that will cost American’s millions of jobs, further erode our nation’s competitive standing and suck more of the hard earned money you make from your family so it can be siphoned to friends of those in Congress.

But don’t believe me. The Heritage foundation took a look at the figures from both the EPA and the CBO and found that they vastly under estimated their numbers. These are the numbers being peddled as fact for your reference.

Today’s liberals however see the Heritage numbers as a conservative ploy. . . .

Terry continues on, noting that the real culture of corruption lies on the left. Do read his entire post.

This week's nominations are:

Concil:

The Razor - Settlement

Rhymes With Right - How A Real President Responds

Joshuapundit - Masquerade In iran

The Glittering Eye - Affording Everything

Mere Rhetoric - Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster

Wolf Howling - Politicized Science

Soccer Dad - Diehl me out

Bookworm Room - All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others

The Provocateur - The Libertarians Downfall: Conspiracy Theories

Right Truth - LIFE

Non-Council

Submitted By: The Watcher – Forbes.com – Karl Gaard - Waxman-Markey Flunks Math

Submitted By: The Razor – Financial Times - Obama is Choosing to be Weak

Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Delaware Liberal - Should Sanford Resign?

Submitted By: Joshuapundit – Diana West - “Role of Women in Iran Protest Kindles Hope”…OF WHAT?

Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – The League of Ordinary Gentlemen - Iraq June 30th

Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Kaplan / Washington Post - Iran’s Struggle, and Ours

Submitted By: Wolf Howling – EU Referendum - Rigging The Debate

Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Fausta’s Blog - Responses to “Coup in Honduras – Correction: This is NOT a coup”

Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Christina Hoff Sommers - Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship

Submitted By: The Provocateur - George Will - On Race The Long Hard Slog Continues

Submitted By: Right Truth - American Daughter - Religion and Politics Don’t Mix — Monday, June 29,

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Watcher's Council Results

Each week, the Watcher's Council holds a contest for best post. The Council members submit a post they have written and one post by someone outside the Council for consideration. The Watcher tallies the votes and announces the winners each Friday.

There is an opening on the Council. If you would care to submit your blog for consideration, please visit the Watcher's site. You will find instructions on the right side bar for applying to join the Council.

You can find the results of the weeks voting and the Watcher's cogent commentary on the submissions here. This week's winners were:

Coming in first place this week was my post, Obama On Iran: A Broken Moral Compass, A Distorted Perception Of Reality. In it, I take Obama to task for prioritizing talks with the murderous theocracy over support for the protesters in Iran. Coming in second place, The Provocateur's Too Good To Check: How the Conservative Media Unwittingly Smeared ACORN and Handed Them a Gift. Coming in third was Soccer Dad with The njdc’s ledge.

In the Non-Council category, the winner was the greatest smackdown of a pompous fool possibly ever written, Christopher Badeaux Through the Looking Glass With Andrew Sullivan. Coming in second was the Dry Bones cartoon, Obama’s 3 AM Phone Call. And coming in a close third was my offering this week, scientist Roger Pielke Jr.'s Obama’s Phil Cooney And The New CCSP Report.

For full results of the weeks voting, please visit the Watcher's site.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations & An Opening

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.

There is an opening at the Council if you would like to nominate your blog for the Council. If you go to the Watcher's site, you will find instructions on how to apply on the right-hand sidebar.

Terry Trippany plays the role of Watcher of Weasels. Do visit the Watcher's Site for his theme of the week. This week, it is the techniques of propaganda being employed by the one:

Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (…) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (…) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses.

Those aren't actually Obama's words - nor Terry's, for that matter, they're Hitler's. Terry quotes liberally from Mein Kampf to show that Obama's techiniques in fact have well trod historical antecedents. Do read Terry's entire post, When President's Tell Yarns: A Culture Of Deceit.

This week's nominations are:

Concil:

The Provocateur - Too Good To Check: How the Conservative Media Unwittingly Smeared ACORN and Handed Them a Gift

Joshuapundit - Obama’s Press Conference: The Fiction Starts To Crack

The Razor - Iran and the Seasons of 1989

Rhymes With Right - NY Times Buries Important Detail In Promoting Another Law Limiting Second Amendment Rights

Wolf Howling - Obama On Iran: A Broken Moral Compass, A Distorted Perception Of Reality

The Glittering Eye - Thought Experiment: the Great De-Leveraging

The Colossus of Rhodey - Why does the Left accept the legitimacy of “elected” dictators so quickly …

Right Truth - The Fence Sitter

Soccer Dad - The njdc’s ledge

Bookworm Room - An Open Letter to the Iranian People

Mere Rhetoric - It’s Official: Obama Policy Triggers “Most Tense Encounter” In Years Between US And Israel (Plus: Can You Guess MR’s Blind Item?)

Non-Council

Submitted By: The Provocateur – National Review - Misremembering Reagan

Submitted By: Joshuapundit and Rhymes With Right- Dry Bones - Obama’s 3 AM Phone Call

Submitted By: Wolf Howling – Roger Pielke Jr.’s Blog - Obama’s Phil Cooney And The New CCSP Report

Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Christopher Badeaux / The New Ledger - Through the Looking Glass With Andrew Sullivan

Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – Oliver Kamm - Reaching out to ‘the Muslim world’

Submitted By: Right Truth – AP – AINA - Unrest could hinder Tehran’s regional goals

Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Instapundit - Why worry about an EMP attack?

Submitted By: Bookworm Room – The Futurist - Eight Ways to Supercharge the US Economy

Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Christopher Hitchens - Persian Paranoia

Submitted By: The Watcher – Michelle Malkin - Who’s funding the Obamacare Astroturf campaign?

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Watcher's Council Results & An Opening

Obama is not being asked to do anything, he is just being asked to say something. As we’ve noted before, though, Obama believes his words are the equivalent of acts. God-like, he believes that, if he were to say “let there be . . . something (such as light),” that means that there will be this . . . something (such as light). For this reason, he believes that his taking a Reaganesque posture and speaking out openly against evil, corruption, and antidemocratic impulses is identical to the physical act of placing a bomb under the Mullahs and lighting the fuse. In his own mind, his powers of speech are so tremendous that thought and deed are inseparable. . . .
What this means is that Obama, though his silence is in fact meddling, because he’s taking sides. Without creating a light of freedom to shine the way for Iran’s oppressed masses, he is casting his (and America’s) whole weight on the side with the guns. There is no middle ground here. You’re either for freedom or you’re against it, and if you refuse to raise your voice for freedom, you’ve loaded another bullet in the oppressor’s gun.

Coming in Third place with 1 1/3 point – Soccer Dad - The campaign’s the thing, expressing the fact that Obama's support of Israel is wholly superficial and, in particular, taking Obama to task for adopting the Palestinian position that Israel's claim to its land extends back to the holocaust, not to biblical antiquity:

Well it seems that whatever positions President Obama took during the campaign regarding Israel were mostly for show. Pro-Palestinian groups are very encouraged by the administration's approach so far. . . .

Unfortunately when President Obama spoke in Cairo his main focus of "honest" talk was about settlements. And when he made the case for Israel's legitimacy, he failed to emphasize the historical case, instead making the case that it was the result of the Holocaust. Given his audience that was problematic. But it also reflected the advice he received and, I think, where his sympathies lie.

In the Non-Council category, coming in first place was Michelle Malkin's Obama’s AmeriCrooks and cronies scandal:

President Obama promised he would end “Washington games.” But his abrupt firing of the AmeriCorps inspector general is more of the same. The brewing scandal smells like the Beltway cronyism of the Bush years. And the apparent meddling of First Lady Michelle Obama in the matter smacks of the corruption of the Clinton years. If Obama keeps up with this “change,” we’ll be back to the Watergate era by Christmas.

Coming in tied for second was Christopher Hitchens's Don’t Call It An Election In Iran, making the point that the original election in Iran was itself a sham, irrespective of the sham of vote fraud on a grand scale:

I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have been all about. Lots of splotchy boys who can't get a date are given guns and told they're special. . . .

Iran and its citizens are considered by the Shiite theocracy to be the private property of the anointed mullahs. This totalitarian idea was originally based on a piece of religious quackery promulgated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and known as velayat-e faqui. Under the terms of this edict—which originally placed the clerics in charge of the lives and property of orphans, the indigent, and the insane—the entire population is now declared to be a childlike ward of the black-robed state. Thus any voting exercise is, by definition, over before it has begun, because the all-powerful Islamic Guardian Council determines well in advance who may or may not "run." Any newspaper referring to the subsequent proceedings as an election, sometimes complete with rallies, polls, counts, and all the rest of it, is the cause of helpless laughter among the ayatollahs. ("They fell for it? But it's too easy!") Shame on all those media outlets that have been complicit in this dirty lie all last week. And shame also on our pathetic secretary of state, who said that she hoped that "the genuine will and desire" of the people of Iran would be reflected in the outcome. Surely she knows that any such contingency was deliberately forestalled to begin with.

Also tied for second place was The Hashmonean's Coup D’etat: The Revolutionary Guards In Control of Iran Had Nothing to Fear From Obama Biden (Link Update I), a good article also on the nature of Iran as it currently exists - it is evolving from a theocracy into a military dictatorship:

The Theocracy is invested in Ahmadinejad because the Revolutionary Guard are invested in Iran. When I say invested I mean literally and figuratively. Over the last number of years the Revolutionary Guards have instituted a near full takeover of Iran. Wielding incredible power internally they have utilized Iran’s great wealth and their positions as the upper crust of Iranian society or access to it, to seize power across the board. The relationship between the guards & Khameni is symbiotic, as much as the Guards need Khameni, the Supreme Leader needs the guards.

Coming in tied at third place were MidEastAnalysis.com's What Happened in Iran?, The New Republic's - Narrative Dissonance, and and the Wall Street Journal - What If Israel Strikes Iran? Others receiving votes were: The Last Crusade - CNN, FOX NEWS TURN BLIND EYE TO UPRISING IN IRAN; Legal Insurrection / Hot Air Greenroom - What About The Right Not To Wear Head Covering; Liberty Chick - ACORN Part III; and NewsBusters - Schultz: I ‘Absolutely’ Believe Cheney Wants Americans To Die

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominationas & An Opening

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.

There is an opening at the Council if you would like to nominate your blog for the Council. If you go to the Watcher's site, you will find instructions on how to apply on the right-hand sidebar.

Terry Trippany plays the role of Watcher of Weasels. Do visit the Watcher's Site for his theme of the week. Normally, he chooses a single topic on which to write, but he today gives voice to a reality that also struck me in the past week - the vast amount of hot topics that are innundating us today. His thoughts on it are worth repeating:

One thing is certain however, each topic usually has two things in common, Barack Obama, and a corrupt media failing to provide the oversight and insight necessary to adequately educate the people they seek to ~~inform~~ influence.

Regardless of the topic you will usually find that Barack Obama is at the root of the problem, not as some sort or problem solver but as an antagonist or an agitprop. Whether it is the Obama administration’s missteps on Iran by failing to support democracy and liberty over tyranny and oppression, the illegal firing and subsequent smear campaign against former AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin or the further degeneration of the mainstream media as ABC teams up with the White House to promote the Democrats plan to get their hands on the Health Care industry and all the dollars that go with it, Barack Obama is a central figure in each of these problems.

Do read Terry's entire post.

This week's nominations are:

Concil:

Joshuapundit - Iran ‘Election’ Update

The Razor - The Coward in Chief

Rhymes With Right - Obama Should Fire Panetta For Cheney Smear — But Supports Him Instead

The Glittering Eye - Dammit They Did What I Said

Wolf Howling - Iran 6/16 - The Fire Still Burning

The Provocateur - ACORN and Ratner: Alinsky Would be Proud

Bookworm Room - Obama’s belief in the power of his own rhetoric

Right Truth - When the unbelievable becomes true

Soccer Dad - The campaign’s the thing

Colossus of Rhodey - John Rosenberg shreds the “disparate impact” theory

Mere Rhetoric - Liberal Foreign Policy Experts: This Ahmadinejad Reelection Was Just So Unpredictable!

Non-Council:

Submitted By: Joshuapundit - Christopher Hitchens - Don’t Call It An Election In Iran

Submitted By: Rhymes With Right - NewsBusters - Schultz: I ‘Absolutely’ Believe Cheney Wants Americans To Die

Submitted By: The Glittering Eye - MidEastAnalysis.com - What Happened in Iran?

Submitted By: Wolf Howling - Michael Ledeen @ PJM - So How’s It Going In Iran?

Submitted By: The Provocateur - Liberty Chick - ACORN Part III

Submitted By: Bookworm Room - The New Republic - Narrative Dissonance

Submitted By: Right Truth - The Last Crusade - CNN, FOX NEWS TURN BLIND EYE TO UPRISING IN IRAN

Submitted By: Soccer Dad - The Hashmonean - Coup D’etat: The Revolutionary Guards In Control of Iran Had Nothing to Fear From Obama Biden (Link Update I)

Submitted By: Bookworm Room - Wall Street Journal - What If Israel Strikes Iran?

Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric - Legal Insurrection / Hot Air Greenroom - What About The Right Not To Wear Head Covering

Submitted By: The Watcher - Michelle Malkin - Obama’s AmeriCrooks and cronies scandal

Submitted By: The Watcher - National Review Online - Obama’s Choice is Not to Choose on Iran

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Watcher's Council Results & An Opening

Each week, the Watcher's Council holds a contest for best post. The Council members submit a post they have written and one post by someone outside the Council for consideration. The Watcher tallies the votes and announces the winners each Friday.

There is an opening on the Council. If you would care to submit your blog for consideration, please visit the Watcher's site. You will find instructions on the right side bar for applying to join the Council.

You can find the results of the weeks voting and the Watcher's cogent commentary on the submissions here. This week's winners were:

Coming in first place was Mere Rhetoric's The WH’s Eight-Step Plan For Detonating The US-Israel Relationship, a look at how Obama is subtly but surely taking actions that undermine the "unbreakable bonds" between the U.S. and Israel. Coming in a distant second was my post on the many problems with Obama's Cairo speech, Obama’s Cairo Address: What We Needed, What We Got.

In the Non-Council catgory, coming in first place was an article from Ralph Peters also on Obama's questionable Cairo speech, What Obama Taught Me- Wonderful Arabs, American Slavers, Wicked Jews. Coming in second place was a Victor Davis Hanson post at PJM, The Reckoning.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations & An Opening

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.

There is an opening at the Council if you would like to nominate your blog for the Council. If you go to the Watcher's site, you will find instructions on how to apply on the right-hand sidebar.

Terry Trippany plays the role of Watcher of Weasels. Do visit the Watcher's Site for his theme of the week. This week, its "The Benjamin Button Society" - pondering the The 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story and the devolution of our society. It's a good post I highly recommend.

This week's nominations are:

The Provocateur - ACORN’s Past Due Taxes

Bookworm Room - Seasick Warriors

The Glittering Eye - The Perversity of the Publishing System

The Razor - A Conservative Case for Animal Rights

Right Truth - British National Party (BNP) - Are they racist? Anti-semitic?

Soccer Dad - The cairo context

Joshuapundit - Live In Cairo - The Lap Dance Of The Seven Veils

Mere Rhetoric - The WH’s Eight-Step Plan For Detonating The US-Israel Relationship

The Colossus of Rhodey - A tale of badly misplaced priorities

Wolf Howling - Obama’s Cairo Address: What We Needed, What We Got

Non-Council Submissions

Submitted By: The Watcher - Marc Epstein at City Journal - Not Worth the Paper . . .

Submitted By: The Provocateur - Real Clear Politics - Geithner Brings the Laughs in China

Submitted By: Bookworm Room - Jewish World Review - Frank Gaffney: America’s First Muslim President

Submitted By: The Glittering Eye - Pajamas Media - The Reckoning

Submitted By: The Razor - The Jacksonian Party - Straw, Stuffing and Notation

Submitted By: Right Truth - StratFor - West Bank Settlements and the Future of U.S.-Israeli Relations

Submitted By: Soccer Dad - The optimistic conservative - The next phase of WWIV part 2

Submitted By: Joshuapundit - Ralph Peters - What Obama Taught Me- Wonderful Arabs, American Slavers, Wicked Jews

Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric - Christopher Hitchens - When the Extreme Becomes the Norm

Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey - The New Humanist - Free Market Faith

Submitted By: Wolf Howling - Big Lizards - Sonia “Banana Peel” Sotomayor Slips Again - and Again - and Again…

Monday, June 8, 2009

Watcher's Council Results & An Opening

Each week, the Watcher's Council holds a contest for best post. The Council members submit a post they have written and one post by someone outside the Council for consideration. The Watcher tallies the votes and announces the winners each Friday.

There is an opening on the Council. If you would care to submit your blog for consideration, please visit the Watcher's site. You will find instructions on the right side bar for applying to join the Council.

On to the results. This week's winners were:

Coming in first place in a runaway was Mere Rhetoric exceptional post, Abbas: Olmert Offered Us The West Bank And The Right Of Return, But It Wasn’t Good Enough. Way down the list coming in second place was my post, A Bit Of Honesty From Speaker Pelosi, dealing with how a variety of leftist groups intend to use control over carbon emissions to vastly expand government's role in our life. There were a number of ties at third place, including The Provocateur's Wade Rathke’s Management Council, The Colossus of Rhodey's Yet another reason why the News Journal is sinking, Bookworm Room's Murderer or Martyr — the George Tiller killer, and lastly, Joshuapundit's Race Carding Sotomayor.

In the Non-Council competion, coming in first place in a runaway was Michael J. Totten's The Mother of All Myths, accurately to my mind pointing out that Salafi Islam is the problem in the Middle East, not the Israeli Palestinian issue. Coming in second place, in a three way tie, was the Day by Day Cartoon Amusement Park (do see this one), Asia Times Online's Wrong venue for Obama’s Muslim speech, and Megan McArdle's The War On The War On Abortion. Tie for third place were Reason Online's Nostalgianomics and Gawker's Oh, Keith.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations & An Opening

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.

There is an opening at the Council if you would like to nominate your blog for the Council. If you go to the Watcher's site, you will find instructions on how to apply on the right-hand sidebar.

Terry Trippany plays the role of Watcher of Weasels. Do visit the Watcher's Site for his theme of the week. This week, its "Six Months and Counting - You Voted For Them" - or to put it another way, caveat emptor, America.

This week's nominations are:

Council Submissions

The Provocateur - Wade Rathke’s Management Council

Joshuapundit - Race Carding Sotomayor

The Glittering Eye - Progressives Aren’t Liberals

Rhymes With Right - Sonia Sotomayor: Free Speech Douchebag

The Colossus of Rhodey - Yet another reason why the News Journal is sinking

Bookworm Room - Murderer or Martyr — the George Tiller killer

Right Truth - Know The Enemy and Destroy Him

Soccer Dad - Where hugo’s huge

Wolf Howling - A Bit Of Honesty From Speaker Pelosi

Mere Rhetoric - Abbas: Olmert Offered Us The West Bank And The Right Of Return, But It Wasn’t Good Enough

Non-Council Submissions

Submitted By: The Provocateur - Real Clear Politics - What’s Keeping Obama Up

Submitted By: Joshuapundit - Michelle Malkin - Crunching the numbers: Dealergate & cronyism continued

Submitted By: The Glittering Eye - Commentary Magazine–Michael J. Totten - The Mother of All Myths

Submitted By: Rhymes With Right - Power Line - Sotomayor’s 60 Percent Reversal Rate

Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey - Reason Online - Nostalgianomics

Submitted By: Bookworm Room - Day by Day Cartoon - Obama World

Submitted By: Right Truth - Asia Times Online - Wrong venue for Obama’s Muslim speech

Submitted By: Soccer Dad - Day by Day Cartoon - Amusement Park

Submitted By: Wolf Howling - Megan McArdle - The War On The War On Abortion

Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric - Gawker - Oh, Keith