Watcher’s Council results for August 1, 2014
The results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council vote. As you know, I always think the winners deserve their victories, but seldom more so than I do this week. If you haven’t already read the posts by JoshuaPundit and Noisy Room, please do. They’re both well-written, informative posts and subjects of primary importance, both foreign and domestic.
Council Winners
- *First place with 5 votes!–Joshuapundit–Obama Betrays Israel In A Last Ditch Effort To Save Hamas
- Second place *t* with 2 votes –The Noisy Room – The End Of Immigration Enforcement In America
- Second place *t* with 2 votes –The Right Planet – Blogging Pitfalls and the Dangers of New Media
- Third place with 1 1/3 votea – VA Right! – The Absence of Obamacare Credits in Federal Exchanges WAS INTENTIONAL – Designed to Force Compliance
- Fourth place with 1 vote – The Independent Sentinel – Armed BLM Gestapo Threatening Rural Citizens
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Strip Grind
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –The Colossus of Rhodey – Absolutely Beyond Parody
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Bookworm Room – For John Kerry, when it comes to an American ally and a deadly enemy, it’s 1971 all over again
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Nice Deb – Cruz: “Did President Obama Just Launch an Economic Boycott of Israel?” – Updated
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –The Razor – American Jews Need to Wake Up
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Simply Jews – Lisa Goldman and the art of clipped narrative
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 votes! – Fred Maroun – What Do Israel’s Critics Really Want? submitted bySimply Jews
- Second place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Matthew Continetti/ Free Beacon – Israel Can Win – If Obama Doesn’t Save Hamas submitted by Joshuapundit
- Second place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Thomas Sowell/NRO – Cease The Ceasefires submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –Sam Harris–Why Don’t I Criticize Israel? submitted byBookworm Room
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Matthew Vadum, FrontPage Mag –Bracing For Amnestysubmitted by Nice Deb
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –David Bernstein/Volokh Conspiracy – Some Israel-Gaza Notes submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –Michael Cannon/Politico – The Flip-Flopping Architect of the ACA submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fourth place with 1 vote–Kevin D. Williamson/NRO – Downscale; Big government is bad for the little guy submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes–Liberty Counsel – One Jew’s Open Letter to the Worldsubmitted by The Right Planet
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes– PowerLine – Hamas’s big plan disrupted submitted by The Watcher
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Mark Steyn –Holiday Memories You’ll Cherish Foreversubmitted by The Noisy Room
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Adam Garfinkle, American Interest –Malice or Incompetence? submitted by The Razor
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –Douglas Ernst – Jesse Jackson Sr. to go after Silicon Valley: Shakedown Rainbows never end submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
