The Watcher on Sep 03 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
I get the news I need on the weather report. Oh, I can gather all the news I need on the weather report The only living boy in New York – Simon and Garfunkel After reading this week’s winning entries, it’s not hard to understand that you really might get all the news you need [...]
The Watcher on Aug 27 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Don’t know much about history (What a) Wonderful World – Sam Cooke In an essay 27 years ago, Deep Down we’re all alike, right? Wrong., Charles Krauthammer wrote: Its central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the [...]
The Watcher on Aug 20 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Sharif don’t like it Rock the casbah (He thinks it’s not kosher) Rock the Casbah – The Clash This week’s winning council entry, The Razor’s The Rage Beneath The Surface, examines the Left’s tolerance for intolerance as it explores the issue of the Ground Zero Mosque: Should we subject ourselves to Islamic fundamentalists today simply because [...]
The Watcher on Aug 13 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
First of all thank you very much to JoshuaPundit for handling the submissions while I was away on vacation. When you know as well as me You’d rather see me paralyzed Why don’t you just come out once And scream it Positively 4th Street – Bob Dylan This week’s council vote ended in a tie [...]
The Watcher on Aug 06 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender Adrift in a world of my own The Great Pretender – The Platters Reuters, the once great news service, has fallen on hard times lately. Our winning Council entry, Mere Rhetoric’s After Lebanon Border Ambush, Reuters First Out Of The Gate With Demonstrably False Anti-Israel Propaganda, shows how badly [...]
The Watcher on Jul 30 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else Spend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselves Victim of this, victim of that Your momma’s too thin; your daddy’s too fat Get over it – The Eagles This week’s winning Council entry, The Razor’s True Bigots takes a shot at our nation’s professional victims. To [...]
The Watcher on Jul 23 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
Every whisper Of every waking hour I’m Choosing my confessions Losing my Religion – R.E.M. Though the lyrics seem to confirm what lead singer Michael Sipe said that the song is about unrequited love, Wikipedia says that the expression “losing my religion is an expression from the southern region of the United States that means [...]
The Watcher on Jul 16 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
This week’s winning entries illustrate different ways that the government is out of touch, kind of like the congressman in “Summertime Blues. Well I called my congressman and he said Quote: “I’d like to help you son but you’re too young to vote” Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran, The Who, Alan Jackson In the Razor’s council [...]
The Watcher on Jul 09 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood Don’t let me be misunderstood – The Animals In his winning council post this week, Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona (Updated) Wolf Howling writes: Invoking preemption in the present context is a dangerous game indeed. It is critically important to [...]
The Watcher on Jul 02 2010 | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken!
How was I to know She was with the Russians, too? Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon This week’s winning posts were both about recent Supreme Court decisions concerning the second amendment and the funding of religious organizations. Hey, we’ve got lawyers, guns and money this week! Wolf Howling, in his triumphant return to [...]
