Keeping an eye on the weasels of the world

Tweet This week’s Head to Head examines the following question: Is the Obama Administration’s changing of policy of to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military both justified and wise during wartime? This cage match pits the Council’s Dave Schuler at The Glittering Eye, making the case for the Obama Administration’s new policy versus [...]

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Tweet (Graphic cheerfully filched from the legendary Iowahawk) 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 [...]

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Tweet By The Political Commentator Via Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts: Is this breaking news or the stating of the incredibly obvious? The results of a poll conducted by Reuters indicated what most of us already knew. A stunning 36% of those asked to assess President Obama’s performance as Commander-in-Chief said that they would [...]

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Tweet The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week, a number of Council members saw fit to weigh in on President Obama’s blithely taking us into a war based on a UN resolution without even consulting Congress. [...]

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Tweet Today, we’re happy to bring you a brand new WoW feature…Head To Head! Each week members of the Council and/or guest debaters will challenge each other in a no-holds-barred cage match discussing the issues making the headlines today. This week’s matchup pits Greg from Rhymes With Right against Council Alumnus Soccer Dad, as they [...]

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Tweet 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 [...]

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Tweet by The Political Commentator via Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts After weeks of delay, the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of force in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi! Using the analogy of a warehouse fire which is in no way trying to trivialize the situation, it’s almost as if the inferno in the [...]

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Tweet We had quite a week here at the Watcher’s Council! As more than one member remarked, picking whom to vote for this week was extremely difficult because the entries, both Council and non-Council were really that just good. And to top it all off, yours truly was faced with an internet outage that took [...]

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Tweet 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 [...]

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Tweet Crossposted At Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts by The Political Commentator The Al Jazeera Children’s Channel is coming to a neighborhood near you? That’s the current plan! Sometime in 2012 Al Jazeera hopes to launch an English-Language children’s channel to penetrate this vast market in North America (H/T BNI). For the liberals (very [...]

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