Ah, primary season is in full swing..

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

This week’s contest is dedicated to Isabella Santorum and little Elli – get well soon, we’re pulling for you sweethearts.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion, The Independent Sentinel and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – If you didn’t know this was coming by now, you’re living in a cave
• Joshuapundit-The New Egypt – Bankrupt And Sinking Fast
• The Noisy Room – Tantrum on the Tarmac
• Simply Jews – Wayne Madsen drops another… bombshell: Barack Obama outed as CIA creation
• New Zeal – Russia Today Hires WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange- Will the Kremlin Be Pleased?
• The Political Commentator – In a debate would John King ask Obama about this…? (Video)
• VA Right - Senator Janet Howell ‘Rectal Avenger’
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – The Saudi Persian War
• The Mellow Jihadi – Parading Vets: St Louis Vs. New York
• Bookworm Room – ObamaCare, the Catholic Church, and mandatory abortion payments
• The Razor – The Twisted Memory of Newt Gingrich
• Rhymes With Right – Presidents Are Not Kings; Americans No Obliged To Appear When He Beckons
• Right Truth – What’s In A Name?
• The Right Planet – GOP: On Whose Side?
• The Glittering Eye -The History of Spaghetti and Marinara

Honorable Mentions

• The Independent Sentinel – Obama Signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty & Ceded Our Internet Rights to the UN
• Ask Marion – Hillary Leaving as Obama’s Eligibility Trial(s) Move Forward… Coincidence?
• Capitalist Preservation – A hiss is just a hiss, a lie is just a lie…

Non-Council Submissions

• Smithsonian.com – Revisiting the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Alisina.org – What Is My Identity? submitted by Joshuapundit
• Michelle Malkin –For Santorum submitted by The Noisy Room
• Terry Glavin – It’s Not Funny Anymore submitted by Simply Jews
• American Thinker – The Civilized Man vs. the MTA Savages submitted by New Zeal
• Caroline Glick -The Zionist Imperative submitted by The Political Commentator
• Investor.com – Media Act As Though Only Republicans Misbehave submitted by VA Right
• The Reserve Officer – New Defense Strategy submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• The Kitchen Dispatch –Aloha, Sarge Charlie. Until We Meet Again submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Bill Whittle-The Vote Pumpsubmitted by Bookworm Room
• Via Meadia –Beyond Blue Part One: The Crisis of the American Dream submitted by The Razor
• Frontloading HQ – I’ll see your white knight and raise you a filing deadline. Why It’s Too Late for Entry in the Republican Nomination Racesubmitted by Rhymes with Right
• Blogbat -The Moon Is Made of Cheese, You Know submitted by Right Truth
• Bob Owens/PJ Media – New Emails Suggest Eric Holder Perjured Himself submitted by The Glittering Eye
• American Thinker – Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis submitted by The Right Planet
• Gates of Vienna – Breivik: Al Qaeda’s Man in Oslo? submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, Liberty’s Spirit, The Independent Sentinel, Ask Marion and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – What the Gingrich South Carolina victory could mean
• The Political Commentator – Doing away with the Electoral College! One man, one vote and majority wins!
• The Noisy Room – Revolution Moves Into The Overton Window
• Simply Jews – Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey vs FUKUS
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Going All The Way
• Bookworm Room – War is not, and should not be, sporting
• Right Truth – Making Sausage
• The Right Planet – Are We a Democracy?
• The Razor – A Tale of Two Disasters: The Titanic and the Costa Concordia
• VA Right - Will Newt Survive His Ex-Wives With Knives?
• The Mellow Jihadi – Lance Corporal Donald Hogan, Marine Hero
• Rhymes With Right – Am I Wrong To Be Troubled Here?
• The Glittering Eye -You Be the Judge
• Joshuapundit-Obama’s State Of The Union – The Hollow Man
• New Zeal – Kyrsten Sinema: Communist Connected Arizona State Senator to Run For Congress

Honorable Mentions

• Liberty’s Spirit – Abbott and Costello Discuss Unemployment
• The Independent Sentinel – Obama Reduced Our Dependence on Foreign Oil & I’m the Easter Bunny
• Ask Marion – Tic… Tic… GOP Toc… or Rather Talk
• Capitalist Preservation – The Fallacy Of The Minimum Wage Part Four

Non-Council Submissions

• The Foundry – 1,000 Days Without a Budget: Facts on the Senate’s Failure submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Family Security Matters -Muslim Children in America are Being Taught to Hate submitted by The Political Commentator
• Sultan Knish –So You Want a Revolution… submitted by The Noisy Room
• Yourish.Com – TANSTAAFL submitted by Simply Jews
• The Compass – An Iran Attack Would Succeed, Then What? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• The Anchoress-Pro-Lifers and the Truth-Phobic Press submitted by Bookworm Room
• Gay Patriot -SOTU: Obama’s last chance to change tone submitted by Right Truth
• Chicago Reader – What Makes Obama Run? submitted by The Right Planet
• Zero Hedge –Obama Puppetmaster Warren Buffett Biggest Winner From Keystone Pipeline Rejection submitted by The Razor
• Creeping Sharia – Colorado Muslim arrested on terrorism charges submitted by VA Right
• Right Wing News –The Worst People In Politics Aren’t Racists submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Polipundit – Why Newt should not be the nominee submitted by Rhymes with Right
• James Taranto/Best of the Web – The Genetic Fallacy submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Mark Steyn – The Sinking Of The West submitted by Joshuapundit
• Accuracy In Media – The FOX News Feminists submitted by New Zeal
• The New Atlantis – The Global War Against Baby Girls submitted by The Watcher
• Cabinet – The Behavioral Sink submitted by The Watcher

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Seventy years young yesterday…rumble young man, rumble!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, The Independent Sentinel, Crazy Bald Guy and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Political Commentator – Achtung! Antisemitismus, immer präsent doch in der Regel unter dem Radar, ist jetzt immer häufiger offene und ist in das Licht der Welt erscheinen!
• The Noisy Room – Don’t Worry… Nuthin’ Bad’s Gonna Happen…
• Joshuapundit-“I Got Bin Laden” – And Why Obama’s Big Boast Might Have Been A Huge Mistake
• Simply Jews – De Nada Ilse
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Preemptive Or Preventive
• The Right Planet – The Talking Points Meme
• Right Truth – Handcuffed, arrested, and now faces three and a half years in jail for firearms possession – for the crime of being unaware that the Second Amendment does not apply in New York City
• Bookworm Room – San Francisco Chronicle columnist warns city’s rational thinkers not to roll in the mud with one specific fringe group
• The Razor – In the Belly of the Swan
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Oh, no!
• New Zeal – DSA Marxists Take Over the Occupy Movement: Plan “Spring Offensive,” With Widespread Occupations of State Capitols, Schools and Workplaces
• The Glittering Eye -Citizenship Skills
• The Mellow Jihadi – Move, Vets Coming Through!
• Rhymes With Right – In Which I Argue That Scott Brown And Elizabeth Warren Don’t Understand The First Amendment
• VA Right! - Ron Paul Flying First Class on Taxpayer Dime

Honorable Mentions

• The Independent Sentinel – Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban – the Crime of the Century?
• Crazy Bald Guy – Mr. Electability
• Capitalist Preservation – Venture Capitalism Explained

Non-Council Submissions

• Melanie Phillips -The West’s Useful Idiots submitted by The Political Commentator
• Mark Steyn –Ron Paul beckons GOP to Fortress America submitted by The Noisy Room
• Allen West – Mr. President, please don’t play the race card in 2012… submitted by Joshuapundit
• Israellycool – There’s Something About Perry submitted by Simply Jews
• Wings Over Iraq – Let’s Review submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Rush Limbaugh – Washington, DC, Law Forces Exterminators to Capture and Relocate Rats submitted by The Right Planet
• Big Government -EXCLUSIVE:Former Bush Counternarcotics Advisor: We’re Losing the Drug War Because of Government Bureaucracy submitted by Right Truth
• Godfather Politics -Urinating on the Dead: Marine Performance Art? submitted by Bookworm Room
• Nile Gardiner –Why are Barack Obama’s critics so smart? submitted by The Razor
• Defining Ideas – The Death Of Honesty submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Accuracy In Media – AIM Interview with Craig Shirley on Pearl Harbor, Ronald Reagan and Today’s Politics submitted by New Zeal
• Inside Higher Ed – Price of Success submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Maggie’s Farm –Understanding The Wuterich Haditha Court Martial submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• The Blaze – More ‘Embarrassing’ Ron Paul Newsletters Emerge on Race, Israel, & More submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Liberty’s Spirit – The Real Story of the Lebanese Civil War submitted by The Watcher
• Robert R. Reilly – Why “Invent” The Palestinians? submitted by The Watcher
• SE Cupp – Newt Gingrich, Natural Woman submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Think of us as your private window of some of the very best of the blogosphere.

Council News:

This week, The Independent Sentinel, The Grouch, Liberty’s Spirit and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s take a look at what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Sunlight Down The Spider Hole
• The Political Commentator –
  A one-picture metaphor for the Obama regime plus a lot of words!
• Joshuapundit-The Tale Of The Swine
• New Zeal – Blinded by the Left: How Marxists Wrote Ron Paul’s Defense Cuts Plan
• Simply Jews – Richard (Dickie) Silverstein: a blogging dupe of the century?
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Reckless
• The Right Planet – Is Matter Made of Waves?
• Right Truth – The Unintended Consequences Begin
• Bookworm Room – Which agenda really serves women’s rights?
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Is Liberalism Killing Comics?
• VA Right! - Meet Mitt Romney: Corporate Raider and Vulture Capitalist
• The Glittering Eye -What Creates Opportunity?
• The Razor – Is The Republican Party Stupid?
• The Mellow Jihadi – My Harvard Story
• Rhymes With Right – At What Point Does A President Lose His Legitimacy As Our Nation’s Leader And Become A Tyrant?

Honorable Mentions

• The Grouch – Romney? Electable? Hoax?
• Liberty’s Spirit – Apartheid in the Middle East
• The Independent Sentinel – ICE Changes Detention Policies on Illegals & We Can’t Afford It
• Capitalist Preservation – The fallacy of the minimum wage: Part Three

Non-Council Submissions

• Sultan Knish –Ron Paul’s Soros Defense Plan submitted by The Noisy Room
• Yid With Lid -Why is Obama’s favorite Middle East leader an anti-American Islamist? submitted by The Political Commentator
• Liberated – Why Do Muslims Despise Jews So Much? submitted by Joshuapundit
• Allen West Republic – America is Good submitted by New Zeal
• Elder Of Ziyon – Egptians to block ‘Zionist’ visitors to rabbi’s tomb submitted by Simply Jews
• Abu Muqawama – In Praise of John Nagl submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• American Thinker – Obama: The Mask is Off submitted by The Right Planet
• Karen Holt – Historic American Examiner -Taking matters into his own hands submitted by Right Truth
• City Journal -The New Authoritarianism submitted by Bookworm Room
• Hired Intelligence – Threats and The School-as-Family submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Yid With Lid – JEWICIDE! Organization of Orthodox Jews Celebrates Appointment of Jack Lew submitted by VA Right
• Rand Simberg/PJ Media – The Lunar Yellow Peril submitted by The Glittering Eye
• American Digest –The Gun School submitted by The Razor
• DaddyBear’s Den –A Damn Shame submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Matthew E. Miller — Race 4 2012 – It’s Good To Be A Conservative Again submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Doug Ross – Tehran TV’s Iranian Idol: Ron Paul submitted by The Watcher
• Sarah Honig – Good manners and high morals submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, The Independent Sentinel, The Grouch,Crazy Bald Guy, Knowledge Creates Power and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – 2011 – Turning Our Backs on the Gods of the Copybook Headings
• Simply Jews – Hugo Chavez Reflects
• The Right Planet – Agony In The Garden
• Joshuapundit-A Bridge Too Far: CAIR Versus Bare Naked Islam
• The Political Commentator – Is it the Obama administration or Iran in charge of U.S. foreign policy?
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Civilization Continues to Crumble
• Bookworm Room – A tour de force post taking us from Google interviews, to self-esteem, to dancing men
• Rhymes With Right – Where Non-Discrimination Principles And Aiding Students Conflict
• The Glittering Eye -The American Ant Tribe
• VA Right - Why the Iowa Caucus Is (Almost!) Irrelevant
• The Razor – Israelis Stand Up to the Haredi
• The Mellow Jihadi – I Gotta Move to Texas
• Right Truth – Taliban to Gitmo: Bye-Bye!
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Kick It
• New Zeal – Communist Party Targets Veterans for Recruitment: How Will Their Skills be Used?

Honorable Mentions

• The Grouch – A Caucus? A Primary? A Mess?
• Crazy Bald Guy – The Idiocy of Iowa
• Knowledge Creates Power – The Race for the White House 2012… Perhaps Not All Horses to the Gates
• The Independent Sentinel/strong> – How An Online University Pays For A Football Bowl & Scams Vets With Federal Dollars
• Capitalist Preservation – The fallacy of the minimum wage: Part One

Non-Council Submissions

• Daily Mail/Dominic Sandbrook –The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory submitted by The Noisy Room
• Confessions of a Closet Republican – After Christmas Day Bombings Boko Haram Tells Nigerian Christians They Have 3 Days To Get Out submitted by Simply Jews
• Palestinian Media Watch – In newest Zayzafuna, “Palestine” still replaces all of Israel submitted by The Right Planet
• Gates Of Vienna – Driving Out The Infidel submitted by Joshuapundit
• Sultan Knish -The Year We Lost Afghanistan, Etc. submitted by The Political Commentator
• The First Street Journal The Muslim Brotherhood Wins With an Assist submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Jon’s Deep Thoughts-Military Intelligence is an oxymoron? I think not. submitted by Bookworm Room
• Wolf Howling – Obama Signs On To Silencing Criticism Of Islam submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Alex Knapp/Outside The Beltway – Ron Paul Versus The Fourteenth Amendment submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Pajamas Media – Video: #OWS Loons Try to Disrupt Romney Speech in Iowa, and Fail submitted by VA Right
• National Review Online –Repo Men submitted by The Razor
• Seraphic Secret –Rise of the Killer Drone submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Small Wars Journal – Thinking the Unthinkable about Napalm and Flamethrowers submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Liberty’s Spirit -Big Tent Mythos submitted by Right Truth
• Powerline – Keynes Was Right–About the Jews? submitted by The Watcher
• Jay Cost – Still Romney’s Race To Lose submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

The New Year fast approaches and 2012 is just around the corner..the year of the Dragon, a time of energy, change and important decision in Chinese Astrology.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion and The Pagan Temple took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Wicked Writ of the Midwest
• The Political Commentator –
  The 2012 presidential election still incredibly bares the taint of Bush’s past!
• Simply Jews – Another Christmas At The Guardian
• Joshuapundit-Iran’s War Games: ‘An Important Message..Especially To The Colonialist Powers’
• The Colossus of Rhodey – This is O.W.S. thinking at its finest (worst)
• Right Truth – Christian Majority and Minority – Christmas 2012
• The Right Planet – Biden: “The Taliban Per Se Is Not Our Enemy”
• Bookworm Room – A case regarding citizen journalists proves, once again, that bad facts make for bad law
• The Razor – A Box Of Legos
• The Glittering Eye -Ch-ch-ch-changes
• VA Right! - Virginia May Have Improperly Excluded Signatures From Perry, Gingrich.a Recount May Be Needed!
• Rhymes With Right – What Is The Proper Measure Of A Congress?
• The Mellow Jihadi – It’s Working Women’s Day In Pakistan!
• New Zeal – US Communist Leader Lays Out Strategy for 2012: “Big Progressive Change is Closer Than We Think”
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Xian Nakbah

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Simpler Times…
• The Pagan Temple – Support Lowes

Non-Council Submissions

• Victor Davis Hanson –A Vandalized Valley submitted by The Noisy Room
• Melanie Phillips -A Fearful Symetry submitted by The Political Commentator
• Daled Amos – Jews And Chinese Food On December 25th submitted by Simply Jews
• Dorothy Rabinowitz – What Ron Paul Thinks of America submitted by Joshuapundit
• Powerline – Fighting Stereotypes in the U.K. submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Karen Holt/ Historic Americans Examiner -The power of a simple, ‘Thank You!’ submitted by Right Truth
• The Daily Caller – President Obama’s top 10 constitutional violations submitted by The Right Planet
• Bill Whittle -Three Years Under Obama submitted by Bookworm Room
• A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days – Apologists For Communist Totalitarianism: I Hate Those Guys submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Redstate – Did the VA GOP change the rules on primary ballot access in November 2011? submitted by VA Right!
• Race 4 2012 – The Ron Paul Newsletter Decision Tree submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Big Peace –The Economic Factors Behind Arab Spring Revolutions and Why Mubarak Was Right submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Accuracy In Media – Ron Paul Under Fire for Praising Accused Traitor submitted by New Zeal
• Small Wars Journal – This Week At War submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Propublica – How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission submitted by The Watcher
• Mark Steyn – Silent Night submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, freedom and victory is upon us again.Those who wish to find out a little more about what this holiday is about can visit here. A hearty Hag Hanukkah Sameach to those of you whom celebrate!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

This week’s contest is humbly dedicated to those Americans spending the holidays serving overseas far from home.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion, The Independent Sentinel, Maggie’s Notebook and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – Rick Perry’s proposed constitutional amendments — the good and the not-so-good
• The Political Commentator – Why was this man in Vienna for the OPEC meeting?
• The Noisy Room – Syria – The Tipping Point Into Hell
• Simply Jews – Hamas senior got lost in the tunnels
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Ardennes Day
• Joshuapundit-An Open Letter To Rabbi Abe Foxman And The ADL
• Right Truth – Newt Romney vs Mitt Gingrich
• The Razor – Calling Out Attorney General Eric Holder
• Bookworm Room – Facts are stubborn things . . . but Leftist ideologues are even more stubborn
• The Right Planet – Bullies
• The Mellow Jihadi – President Obama Faces Possible Challenge from a Democrat?
• VA Right - The State of America Upon Leaving Iraq
• Rhymes With Right – A Segregationist Dog-Whistle In The Gingrich White Paper On The Judiciary
• The Glittering Eye -Some Products Are Too Bad to Stamp Out
• New Zeal – Arlington Texas Tea Party to Launch Online Newspaper

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Big Brother Alert: Your face and Movements are Being Tracked
• Maggie’s Notebook – Ron Paul Panic Setting In? Gingrich Defies Gravity?
• The Independent Sentinel – Saying Merry Christmas Is Worse Than Killing Someone
• Capitalist Preservation – Ron Paul says accused traitor Bradley Manning is a hero

Non-Council Submissions

• Buckhorn Road – Bill of Rights eviscerated on their anniversary submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• The Brussels Journal -A Brief History of Liberty for the OWS Crowd submitted by The Political Commentator
• Michelle Malkin –Nancy Pelosi, Down and Dirty submitted by The Noisy Room
• The Contentious Centrist – Tango Hanukka submitted by Simply Jews
• The Last Stand – Ya Know… submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Caroline Glick – Tom Friedman’s Losing Battle submitted by Joshuapundit
• Sultan Knish -Mr. Islam’s Blindfold and Machete submitted by Right Truth
• Powerline –The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel submitted by The Razor
• Danny Ayalon-The truth about the refugees: Israel Palestinian Conflict submitted by Bookworm Room
• The Daily Bell – Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America submitted by The Right Planet
• Doug Ross –New EPA rule will cost each taxpaying American $280 submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Creeping Sharia – Washington parents say no to terror-linked CAIR’s school lesson plans submitted by VA Right
• Urban Grounds – Heartbreaking Story (and pictures): Can You Help an Abused and Neglected Great Dane at PAWS of Austin? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Joy McCain/The Conservatory – R.I.P Christopher Hitchens submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Iowahawk – Is This Hell, Or Is It Iowa? submitted by The Watcher
• Jon Hall/American Thinker – Voter Fraud for the Complete Idiot submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion, 912 Super Seniors, Maggie’s Notebook and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – Looks like U.D. still hasn’t fully learned its lesson
• The Political Commentator – The Captured U.S. RQ-170 drone in Iran! Why is Jimmy Carter smiling?
• The Noisy Room – A Square Deal in a Round Hole
• Simply Jews – History (n.), historians (n.)
• Rhymes With Right – Another Dumb-Ass Rick Perry Comment
• New Zeal – Communist Economist John Case Praises Obama’s Osawatomie Speech
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Art Of Containment
• The Right Planet – To Obama: Good Resentment v. Bad Resentment
• Right Truth – Beans And Rice
• VA Right - Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays
• The Razor – Higher Education Bubble: Trades Under Pressure from Illegal Immigration
• Bookworm Room – My Mother’s War, Courtesy Of Pearl Harbor
• The Glittering Eye -Whatever Happened to Dystopia?
• Joshuapundit-Can Men And Women Be Just Friends??
• The Mellow Jihadi – Fracking Butter and the EPA’s Fracking Report

Honorable Mentions

• 912 Super Seniors – American Jobs and Energy Sacrificed to Obama’s Political Ambitions
• Maggie’s Notebook – Barack Obama John Drew: Obama Missing Link – Obama Ardent Marxist Leninist
• Ask Marion – The DNC’s Christmas Gift to Newt Gingrich
• Capitalist Preservation – Considering Our Choices

Non-Council Submissions

• Discriminations – Graduate School Administrators Unwittingly Parody Themselves submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• Melanie Phillips -The Algorithm of Malice submitted by The Political Commentator
• Mark Steyn –A future looted to bribe the present submitted by The Noisy Room
• Harry’s Place – Did The Guardian’s Seumas Milne spend his gap year training at a PFLP camp in Beirut? submitted by Simply Jews
• The Volokh Conspiracy – Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Ban Editorials About Candidates or Ballot Measures by Nearly All Newspapers submitted by Rhymes with Right
• JR Nyquist – The Mafia That Rules Russia: An Interview With Luke Harding submitted by New Zeal
• Wings Over Iraq – Well, it’s official: The Beast has been captured submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• The Ulsterman Report – There Is A Very Uneasy Peace Between President Obama And The American Military submitted by The Right Planet
• HyScience -Obama Administration Giving Islamists a Say Over Our Right to Free Speech submitted by Right Truth
• Yid With Lid – MMFA’s Chief Jew Hater MJ Rosenberg Becomes a Self-Parody submitted by VA Right
• Powerline –Was Fast and Furious All About Gun Control? submitted by The Razor
• Wall Street Journal/Bret Stephens-A Lesson Before Dying submitted by Bookworm Room
• William Voegeli/NoLeftTurns – Osawatomie’s Dichotomies submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Barry Rubin – Middle East: We’re Going to Have a Revolution and We Can Do it the Hard Way or the Easy Way submitted by Joshuapundit
• Bayou Renaissance Man –Self-defense: things happen so fast! submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Liberty’s Spirit – Obfuscated History submitted by The Watcher
• Jihad Watch – Muslim students threaten, force resignation of prof who quoted from Islamic texts submitted by The Watcher

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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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

This week’s contest is dedicated to the fallen…and to the living, who endured, preserved our beloved Republic and provided us with a path and an example for these times.

Council News:

This week, Liberty’s Spirit, 912 Super Seniors, The Independent Sentinel , Arthur Hu and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – Education Must Read
• The Noisy Room – Apocalypse Nowish
• Joshuapundit-Heart Of Darkness; Obama’s Campaign To Make Israel A Scapegoat And Fool America’s Jews
• The Political Commentator – Obama children Malia and Sasha are going to be just fine!
• Simply Jews – The Left The Right And The Supreme Court
• The Right Planet – Soros And The Euro
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Great Britain’s Iran War Coalition
• Right Truth – Minority Rules Again – In The Military
• New Zeal – Communists Work on a New Improved, Pro – Obama “Occupy” Movement
• The Glittering Eye -Chinese Menu
• Rhymes With Right – The Question No One Is Asking
• Bookworm Room – Newt Gingrich and “the vision thing”
• The Mellow Jihadi – Faced with Draconian Budget Cuts, the Air Force Drafts Gisele Bundchen’s Son Into the Flight Program
• The Razor – The Civics Lesson
• VA Right! - Discussion: George Allen’s Record Examined in Detail

Honorable Mentions

• Liberty’s Spirit – It’s Official: Obama Administration is Farbissen about Israel
• 912 Super Seniors – Disabling the Electoral College before 2012 Election?
• The Independent Sentinel – The Volt Has Caught On Fire
• Arthur Hu – Newt Gingrich Stands Up To Enemies of US and Israel
• Capitalist Preservation – Bryce and Buffy Snodgrass: The winners of dinner with Barack and Michelle

Non-Council Submissions

• The New Criterion – Commune plus one submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• FrontPage Magazine –Obama Administration’s Threefold Slap in Israel’s Face submitted by The Noisy Room
• Andrew McCarthy – Fears And Smears submitted by Joshuapundit
• American Thinker -You can’t be pro-Obama and pro-Israel submitted by The Political Commentator
• UN Watch – Hillary Clinton to address UN tomorrow while UN rights chief Navi Pillay headlines event with anti-Semitic “Gaddafi Human Rights Prize” group submitted by Simply Jews
• American Spectator – Back To The 1930′s submitted by The Right Planet
• The Wire – What to Expect from Putin After His Party’s ‘Reset’ submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Wired Danger Room -U.S. Built Its Own Secret Pakistani Spy Service submitted by Right Truth
• Melanie Phillips – The earthquake in the Arab and Islamic world submitted by New Zeal
• Zenpundit – Do Oligarchies Create Insurgencies? submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Michael Berry – Party At Planned Parenthood? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• PJ Media-Gingrich plan on immigration a good starting point submitted by Bookworm Room
• Bring the Heat, Bring the Stupid – Demolitions submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Michael Totten/American Interest –A Leaner, Meaner Brotherhood submitted by The Razor
• Atlas Shrugs – US MIlitary Jihad: Rep. Peter King to hold fourth round of hearings submitted by VA Right!
• Mark Steyn – Egypt’s Descent submitted by The Watcher
• Discovery – Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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 whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, The Independent Sentinel, The Grouch, and Capitalist Preservation took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – To Be Taken With A grain Of Galt
• The Colossus of Rhodey – O.W.S. still craving a Kent State moment
• Simply Jews – A short history of another bullsh*t scoop
• The Political Commentator – Comrade Russia is screwing the U.S. yet again!
• Joshuapundit-Rats in the Kitchen: A Parable
• The Right Planet – Climategate 2.0 Updates Are ‘Fast & Furious’
• Right Truth – Politico Writes A Book – Will they admit their hatchet job on Herman Cain?
• Bookworm Room–Minority employees and “making it” in America
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Syrian Coup d’état
• New Zeal – Congressman Hansen Clarke and the Michigan Marxists
• The Glittering Eye -Is Paul Krugman’s Wife Crazy?
• VA Right! - Richmond TEA Party Spite Tax Auditor Cynthia Carr Has Lost Her Privacy – Thanks, Mayor Gollum!
• The Razor – Fragility
• Rhymes With Right – “There Is No Virtue In Being Compelled”
• The Mellow Jihadi – The Navy, Anthony Weiner, and Mustaches

Honorable Mentions

• The Grouch – More Medicare “CUTS”. Let’s Just Push Old Folks Off a Cliff
• The Independent Sentinel- The Death of the Western Currencies – Who Will Be the Last Man Standing
• Capitalist Preservation – GOP Candidate Linden Borden scores key endorsement from Diogenes’ Middle Finger

Non-Council Submissions

• Sultan Knish –The Myth of the Arab Spring Underdog submitted by The Noisy Room
• The First Street Journal – When Western multiculturalism and sexual equality meets with Arab culture submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• The Passing Parade – OWS IT GOING, AND IT SHOULD GO FASTER submitted by Simply Jews
• Caroline Glick -Calling Things By Their Proper Names submitted by The Political Commentator
• LATMA – Arab Times Are A Changin’ submitted by Joshuapundit
• Daily Mail – Lib Dems should be more Oxfam says Nick Clegg submitted by The Right Planet
• Wired Danger Room -Hero Marine Sues Defense Giant After Sniper Scope Fight submitted by Right Truth
• Victor Davis Hanson/Pajamas Media-Why Not Pay Higher Taxes? submitted by Bookworm Room
• The Long War Journal – US, Pakistan differ on events leading to Mohmand strike submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Accuracy In Media – The War On Police submitted by New Zeal
• Sense of Events – What to say to the grieving submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Pat Dollard – “STOP THIS!”: Eric Holder Demands Daily Caller Stop Publishing “Fast And Furious” Stories submitted by VA Right!
• Via Meadia –Occupy The Plantation? Blacks Shun OWS submitted by The Razor
• Thurber’s Thoughts – You’re not a ‘victim’ if you’re shot while committing a crime submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Neptunus Lex –Lawsuit submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Law Blog – Thanks to the Internet, We Are All Now Criminals submitted by The Watcher
• American Thinker – Tebow, Palin, and the Pain of Remorse submitted by The Watcher

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