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The Council has Spoken 031210

Congratulations to JoshuaPundit for this week’s winning entry Obama Tells Israel They Have No Right To Their Religious Shrines. As Vice President Biden leaves the Middle East, Jennifer Rubin observes, regarding a comment he made to PM Netanyahu:
“… it is precisely the sort of ill-conceived, bullying message that certainly must convince the Israelis not to place [...]

Public Sector Uselessness

Still on the road. Wanted to get the votes up however. Congratulations to First place council winner – Wolf Howling – with the winning council entry: Public Sector Unions: A Toxin, A Crisis & An Opportunity
On the non-council side is a submission by Chicago Boyz with the winning article : – Why Alternative Power [...]

Whispers That Expose Liberal Weirding

Winning council member Soccer Dad takes on the liberal weirding crowd that has enveloped themselves so much in the fake science of global warming that they have elevated junk science to the point that contradictory example are constantly being made to support their nefarious claims about global warming.
In science there is a concept of falsifiablity. [...]

Life 2.0 – Turning Hindsight Into Foresight

Congratulations to winning council member Joshua Pundit. After surviving a heart attack last week JP penned a retrospective of what is important in life, to him, you, me and others.
Having a heart attack has a funny way of making people look back on what is important in life. In the world of politics we [...]

Imaginary Friends and The Trick of the Tail

The winning entries are in and the image and first line appearing in Winning Member American Digest’s entry pretty much says it all. In Barack Obama: Imaginary Friend of Democrats. Cause and Cure Venderleun wrote:

Atheists, like songwriters, are always seeking lines more glib than true. Glib is golden because it obscures the fact that deep [...]

What Do Heinrich Himmler and Yahoo Have in Common?

The answer is easy. Apparently both have allied themselves with Palestinians that view Jews as the common enemy as exemplified by the two winning entries in this week’s Watcher of Weasels contest.
Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes on Yahoo by noting that someone at Yahoo went to the extraordinary measure of removing the Israeli town [...]

Rock Stars and Pariahs

Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes a look at the reports coming out of Iraq that claims as accident an event where Iraqi workers erased an ancient Hebrew inscription from the tomb of biblical prophet Ezekiel while renovating a nearby mosque. Mere chance that Muslims renovating a mosque would mistakenly sandblast a Hebrew inscription from [...]

The Council Has Spoken!

It’s Friday, and that means that as always Watcher’s Council has picked from amongst some of the best and most scintillating items in the blogosphere for our weekly winners…
In the Council category, the winner this week was The Razor with Obama The Weak Horse:
A friend who voted for Obama last year (and regrets his [...]

The Council Has Spoken- The Affirmative Action President And a Detainee Circus

Another week has passed, and the Council has spoken!
In the Council category, the winner this week was Bookworm Room with The Perils Of An Affirmative Action President:

My argument is that Barack Obama is one of the number of useless, mediocre people who, thanks to affirmative action, have been elevated to a position far above their [...]

The Council Has Spoken…Jihad Comes To America With A Venegance

Another week has passed, and the Council has spoken. Both of this week’s winning entries concerned the recent attack at Fort Hood and what it signifies.
In the Council category, the winner was Joshuapundit with Death By A Thousand Cuts :
For all our protestations and manipulation to avoid war,to forget, to appear humane and civilized, to [...]