One of my fellow members of the Watcher's Council noted that this week had a particularly fine selection of posts in both the Council and Non-Council categories. I certainly have to agree with him in that regard. Just look at the outcome of this week's contest, and the quality of the posts found from top to bottom in both categories.

Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! – American Digest - The Barrel of GoogleRands
• Second place with 2 votes – Wolf Howling - A Tale Of Two Conservative Parties – Part 1: The UK
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Bookworm Room – Getting a closer look at why liberals continue to feel that blacks should be held to a different standard
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – The Razor - The Mythical Primary Care Physician Shortage
• Fourth place with 1 vote – Right Truth - A Nation Dividing
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Mere Rhetoric - Obama Wrecking US Diplomatic Credibility, Squandering Diplomatic Capital In The Middle East
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Rhymes With Right - Can One Fairly Judge Yesterday’s Deeds By Today’s Standards?
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Glittering Eye - The Gold Rush
• Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Provocateur - China’s Currency Manipulation

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! – The Winds Of Jihad - Fitzgerald: The New York Times, and That Business At the Cathedral In Cordoba Submitted by Wolf Howling
• Second place with 2 votes – Belmont Club – I Want My MTV Submitted by American Digest
• Third place with 1 2/3 votes – American Thinker — Rick Moran – History and Ideology in Textbooks Submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote -Yid With Lid - Zbigniew Brzezinski Helped Create The Taliban, Now He Wants to Do It Again Submitted by Mere Rhetoric
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Noisy Room - Exhaustion from Anxiety : The true terrorism Submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Sense of Events - A world without nuclear weapons, part 2 Submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Chesler Chronicles - Jews Confront the Abyss. “The Absence of Outrage is Outrageous.” Submitted by Right Truth
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Melanie Phillips – Everyone Knows Submitted by JoshuaPundit

I strongly encourage you to take the time to read the winners and the various runners-up.