It was an interesting week at the Watcher's Council!

Winning Council Submissions

•  First place with 3 points! – Wolf Howling -  AP Goes APE Over Texas School Book Changes 


• Second place  *t* with 2 points – American Digest -  The Plague of Locusts Presidency


• Second place *t* with 2 points - The Razor – The United States of Venezuela


• Third place  with 1 1/3 points - Mere Rhetoric – Confirmed: Anti-Israel Jewish Groups Scapegoat Israel For Obama’s Manufactured Crisis 


•  Fourth place with 1 point - Bookworm Room - God and Gaia; or, the difference between a religion that serves man and one that serves Nature 


• Fifth Place with 2/3 point - The Provocateur - The Untold Story of Non Profit Hospitals


• Sixth Place with 1/3 point - Joshuapundit - The Prince And The FOX 


• Sixth Place with 1/3 point - Right Truth -  Violence Against Israel, Blame It On Obama, Biden, and Clinton 


• Sixth Place with 1/3 point - The Colossus of Rhodey – On the Texas textbook controversy

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First Place with 2 1/3 Points – Walter Russell Mead’s Blog-The American Interest - Is this Lobby different from all others?


• Second place with 2 Points - Melanie Phillips – The Obama Intifada Submitted by JoshuaPundit


• Third Place *t* with 1 1/3 Points - Riehl World View – Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife? Submitted by Rhymes with Right


• Third Place *t* with 1 1/3 Points – The Lunatic’s Asylum – Reason # 11,206 Why Your President is an Asshole… Submitted by Right Truth


• Third Place *t* with 1 1/3 Points – The New Ledger - Obamacare’s Two Americas Submitted by American Digest


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  Fourth Place with 1 Point - Pillage Idiot Retirement – Joe Biden works his magic in the Middle East submitted by The Watcher
  
  


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  Fifth Place *t* with 2/3 Point - David Thompson - But Left Equals Virtue . . . Submitted by Wolf Howling
  
  


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  Fifth Place *t* with 2/3 Point - Pajamas Media - Ruben Navarrette Jr – It’s Time for Republicans to Up Their Game Submitted by The Razor
  
  


• Sixth Place with 1/3 Point – Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic Monthly Blog – Andrew Sullivan Revises History (Again) Submitted by Bookworm Room

Congratulations to all the Winners!

As an aside -- my non-council submission caused a lot of discussion amongst the council members this week. I submitted it because I considered it to be among the more notable and controversial items to have been floating around the blogosphere. Frankly, I didn't agree with it and did not vote for it -- its satire came at the wrong time and on a subject that I think was inappropriate. To my fellow members of the Watcher's Council (and anyone else) who took offense at its submission, I offer no apology for having submitted it, and note that it placed third in the voting even without either of my votes. Obviously there were members of the Watcher's Council who saw it as having greater merit among the submissions than I did.