Another absolutely stellar collection of Watcher’s nominations

I swear to you, I just don’t know how it is that, week after week, the Watcher’s Council manages to put forward such high quality work from all over the blogosphere.  Here are this week’s entries, both Council and non-Council, with every one of them worth the read:

  1. Obama’s 8 Years As State Legislator Makes Him Better Qualified
    The Colossus of Rhodey
  2. More On Jokes
    Done With Mirrors
  3. This Deal Keep Getting Worse and Worse
    Soccer Dad
  4. The Supreme Court: Originalism, Activism, and America’s Future
    Wolf Howling
  5. The Rising Price of Oil: How High Is Up?
    The Glittering Eye
  6. Surreal Logic *UPDATED*
    Bookworm Room
  7. Fireworks and the Nanny State
    The Razor
  8. Patriotism
    Hillbilly White Trash
  9. Witch Hunt For “Obama’s A Muslim” E-Mailer
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
  10. Iraq Sues Over Oil-For-Food… And There’s an Obama Connection
    Joshuapundit
  11. Principal Confirms Kids Sipped Margaritas
    The Education Wonks
  12. Impeach Anthony Kennedy
    Rhymes With Right

Non-council links:

  1. Yellow Science
    The Wall Street Journal
  2. Heavyweight Physics Prof Weighs Into Climate/energy Scrap
    The Register
  3. Reverberations of Al-Dura
    ShrinkWrapped
  4. Sun King Rules Still Apply in French “Journalism”
    Dave’s World
  5. Sacramento Host Breakfast
    365 and a Wakeup
  6. “THE TALK” — On Patriotism
    Thought You’d Never Ask
  7. How’s This for an Example of Obama’s Judgment?
    Betsy’s Page
  8. Sarko Wants to Give Dublin the Mugabe Treatment
    The Brussels Journal
  9. Lost in Translation
    The Paragraph Farmer
  10. Demographic Conquest
    Gates of Vienna
  11. The New “Fairness” Doctrine
    Big Lizards
  12. Honestly, Is John Aravosis a Piece of Excrement Or What?
    Right Wing Nut House
  13. The Leaders of Africa Fail To Live Up To Their Sister Souljah Moment On Mugabe
    Neo-Neocon
  14. Let Obama Be Obama & McCain Be McCain
    The Anchoress