Two weeks worth of Watcher’s winners
Between preparing for vacation and actually going on vacation, I’ve given the Watcher’s Council short shrift — which was a real disservice to all of you, because of the usual volume of excellent stuff emanating from that august body. I’m including in this post the winners from last week (in which I participated) and from this week (in which I did not participate). Read, learn and enjoy!
First, from last week:
Winning Council Submissions
- First place with 2 points! – Joshuapundit – “60 Minutes” Libels Jews And Israel
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – Cheat-Seeking Missiles – Fair Treatment of Prisoners
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – Mere Rhetoric – Austrian Jews Too Terrified To List Their Children As Jewish (Plus: Europe Reaches An Anti-Jewish Tipping Point)
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – The Razor – Spending Bill: $200,000 per job
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – The Provocateur – ACORN and Alinsky Rule #13
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – The Glittering Eye – Why What, When, and How Matters in a Stimulus Package
- Fifth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Bookworm Room – Economic incest
- Fifth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Rhymes With Right – MSNBC Host Calls For Gagging, Deporting, GOP Dissenter
- Fifth place with 2/3 point – (T*) – Soccer Dad – Voting for war
- Sixth place with 1/3 point – The Colossus of Rhodey – “Hate speech” definition expanding again
Winning Non-Council Submissions
- First place with 2 points! – Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media – Conventional versus Non-Conventional Warfare and Why Israel Did Not Lose in Gaza
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – American Thinker – Change: The First Three Weeks
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – Nat Hentoff/Cato Institute – Th eCost Of Criticizing Jihadists
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Roadsassy – Truth Be Told: Calling a Spade a Spade
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Norm Geras – One-Eyed in Gaza
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – (T*) – Reason.com – The Next Catastrophe
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – TCS Daily – Multiplier Madness
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Augean Stables – Time Magazine and Palestinian Sources: On the Origins of Modern Blood Libels
- Fifth place with 1/3 point – Debbie Schlussel – What Would Lincoln Do?: Celebrating Eternal Welfare Queen John Dingell; Anti-Israel Rep. Doesn’t Live Up to the Daddy My Grandpa Knew
And now from this week:
Winning Council Submissions
- First place with 2 points! – Joshuapundit – Obama’s Model – And No, It’s Not FDR
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – Soccer Dad – What could be worse than Hamas?
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (T*) – The Provocateur – A Battle For Small Government in Cheboygan County, Mi.
- Third place with 1 points – Cheat-Seeking Missiles – MSM Yawns As NY Muslim Beheads Wife
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – The Glittering Eye – Stacking the Deck
- Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Right Truth – Unwillingness of the good to serve evil
- Fifth place with 1/3 points – Rhymes With Right – A Double Standard
Winning Non-Council Submissions
- First place with 2 1/3 points! – American Digest – A House Divided A Century and a Half Later: What Lincoln Would Say Were He Speaking Today
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – Bat Yeor in the NRO – Geert Wilders and the Fight for Europe
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – NewsBusters – Left-Wing Radio Host Mike Malloy: Republicans are ‘Domestic Terrorists’
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – Counterterrorism Blog – Iran’s New Satellites: The Pasdaran in Space
- Fourth place with 1 points – (T*) – The New Ledger – Deconstructing Paul Krugman
- Fifth place with 2/3 point – Doug Ross’s Journal – Star Trek: The Stimulus Doomsday Machine
