Watcher’s Council winners for August 17, 2012
I’m always so very honored when my fellow Council members select mine as the top blog post for the week. As you’ve no doubt discovered from reading the weekly submissions that come through the Council pipeline, these people are heavy hitters: amazingly well-informed, thoughtful, impassioned, and excellent writers. So, I’m kvelling a little here:
Council Winners
- *First place with 2 1/3 votes! Bookworm Room –Other than all that, what has Paul Ryan ever done for us?
- Second place with 2 votes – Joshuapundit – The ‘Ending Medicare’ Myth And How It Turns The Issue In Favor Of The GOP
- Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – VA Right!- No Mr. President. BUSH Tried it YOUR Way and it Didn’t Work! Now Let Romney-Ryan Fix Your Progressive Mess!
- Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – The Independent Sentinel- Barack Obama Is Destroying Our Weapons And It’s Going Well
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Political Commentator – A Republican Jew from New York’s story on growing up Democrat!
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Razor-The Bleeding Heart of the Cynic
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – Simply Jews- The delights of Inspire Magazine by Al Qaeda
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – At Least the NY Times Public Editor Recognizes It
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – Optimism for a Change
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Gay Patriot – An Obama victory in 2012 would undermine Obama’s 2008 rationale for his election
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Right Planet – Obama Goes Full-On Marxist: ‘Prosperity Is Shared’
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye –The War on Algebra
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Mellow Jihadi – Forgive Me, I Am Downloading Steve Earle. Again. . .
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 3 1/3 votes! – Sultan Knish-The Most Divisive Campaign in American History submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place with 2 2/3 votes – The Onion –Admit It, I Scare The Ever-Loving S**t Out Of You, Don’t I? submitted by Bookworm Room
- Third place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Mark Steyn –Mark Steyn: Obama the great disabler submitted by The Noisy Room
- Fourth place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –Michael Moynihan/Foreign Policy – Leftist Planet submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fourth place *t* with 1 2/3 vote – Flashpoints – China’s Growing Long-Range Strike Capability submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes – Wayne Allyn Root/The Blaze –Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’ submitted by The Razor
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Bob Owens –How long before one of Obama’s cultists goes the “full Moore?” submitted by Rhymes With Right
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –CNS News –Obamacare Reg: Health Plans Must Sterilize 15-Yr-Old Girls for Free submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Israel Hayom –Israeli intelligence cracks massive Hezbollah bomb plot submitted by VA Right!
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion –Whistleblower asserts state employees coerced to attend Pelosi, Jesse Jackson political event submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Ruben Navarette– U.S. Olympic athlete, Mexican flag? submitted by The Watcher