Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time

Oh yes, welcome to the first post-election week Watcher of Weasels event.

In 1971 David Bowie released an album called “Hunky Dory” that contained a relatively low profile song that started out as a parody. Bowie was surprised at the cult like status the song reached after its 1972 release as a single despite staying out of the top 40. From that point on however “Changes” became a crowd favorite. The song that had been rejected by the mainstream took on a cult like following prompting David Bowie to state “I had no idea it would become such a popular thing.”

Sixteen years later another cult like force brought an era of change to America as Barack Obama became the first black man to be elected President of the United States. A majority of Americans voted for change, any change, that would distance themselves from the Bush years.

Now that change is upon us our work is just as hard if not harder. We are facing an unprecedented attack on free speech as Democrats float another stab at the Fairness Doctrine to shut down talk radio. But that could be the first step in a larger move to stifle political dissent across the internet.

Please enjoy this week’s submissions:

Council Submissions

• The Colossus of Rhodey – That ‘ol “kindred spirit” argument
• The Glittering Eye – A Prospective Obama Administration (Updated)
• Bookworm Room – Reaching new demographics
• Mere Rhetoric – Noted Democratic Shill Begs Nutroots Not To Viciously Attack Emanuel For Being Too Jewish
• Hillbilly White Trash – The Great GOP Civil War
• Soccer Dad – Overcoming idiocy
• Joshuapundit – From The Beginning
• Cheat-Seeking Missiles – Valor and Patience
• The Razor – Return to First Principles
• The Provocateur – Fraud, Corruption, and Power: What Our Bailout Tax Dollars Are Really Going To
• Rhymes With Right – Something That Must Be Said

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey
  damnum absque injuria
  Sore Winners
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye
  The Next Right
  Change.gov and the Contradiction of the Postmodern Left Netroots
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room
  Seraphic Secret
  Israel: The One Bomb State
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric
  Danger Room
  Defense Chief: Give Us New Nukes, or Else
• Submitted By: Hillbilly White Trash
  Big Lizards
  The Great Leap Forward: How the Heck Can We Win Anyway?
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad
  Seraphic Secret
  Israel: The One Bomb State
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit
  Dr. Robert Zubrin/Pajamas Media
  We Can Solve the Financial Crisis by Destroying OPEC
• Submitted By: Cheat-Seeking Missiles
  Real Clear Politics
  A Few Post-Election Thoughts
• Submitted By: The Provocateur
  Dick Morris
  President Obama: Conservator in Chief
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right
  Right on the Left Coast
  Agency Fee Rebate

“There is no situation so bad that panicky politicians can’t make worse.” – Professor Michael Munger, Duke University

This quote from Professor Michael Munger is the stark reality we are faced with this morning as panicked politicians play a political face saving game to prop up failing banks. The decisions that congress makes today on a bailout of Wall Street, if any, will affect our lives for generations to come. Never forget that today’s debt is tomorrows tax increase.

Keep this in mind as you read this weeks winners in what will no doubt go down in history and be reviewed by our children’s children in a classroom of the future as a lesson in greed and corruption in the quest for political power and financial wealth. God help us all.

Council Winners

• First place with 1 2/3 votes – The Glittering Eye – Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
• Second place with 1 1/3 votes – The Razor – A Lack of Clarity
• Third place with 1 vote – (T*) Hillbilly White Trash – Knowing the Left
• Third place with 1 vote – (T*) Cheat-Seeking Missiles – Obama’s Bizarre List Of 40 “Probing” NYT Stories
• Third place with 1 vote – (T*) Bookworm Room – Are Americans Really Racists?
• Fourth place with 1/3 vote – Wolf Howling – Palin’sanity

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 2/3 votes Submitted By – Joshuapundit: The Jawa Report – Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them
• Second place with 1 vote – Submitted By – Hillbilly White Trash: Private Papers – Palin and Obama: What Really Is Wisdom?
• Third place with 2/3 votes – (T*) Submitted By – The Glittering Eye – Commentary Magazine: Al Qaeda’s Defeat in Iraq
• Third place with 2/3 votes – (T*) Submitted By – Soccer Dad: Doug Ross – Any questions?
• Third place with 2/3 votes – (T*) Submitted By – The Razor: The Jacksonian Party – On Honor
• Third place with 2/3 votes – (T*) Submitted By – Bookworm Room: Michael Yon – Death in the Corn : Part III of III
• Fourth place with 1/3 votes – (T*) Submitted By – Wolf Howling: New York Times / Steven Holmes – Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
• Fourth place with 1/3 votes – (T*) Submitted By – The Colossus of Rhodey: Dennis Prager – Liberals’ Warnings About Obama Loss May Prove Self-Fulfilling

* – T denotes a tie