Showing posts with label The Watchers Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Watchers Council. Show all posts

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Submitted for your approval

The Watchers Council nominations are up for this week. If fact they were up a couple of days ago. One of the side effects of how full my schedule has been the past couple of months has been my slacking off on my duties to the Council.

One of my New Year's resolutions, which I am implementing early, is a promise to take my membership on the Council seriously and do the things which are required to keep the Council successful.

Now here are this week's submissions:

The Watchers Council wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Please enjoy this weeks submissions:

Council Submissions

Non-Council Submissions

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 10:53 AM |

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Monday, November 17, 2008

The Council has spoken

Here are the winners of last week's Watchers Council vote presented with the Watcher's commentary:

This weeks winners are in and it is clear that the overriding topics were concerned with the failure of the GOP and the new challenges we face going forward under an Obama administration.

Both winning entries discussed what must be done to rebuild the GOP going forward. This was echoed by many other posts. That topic alone will be a pressing issue going forward as conservatives look back on two consecutive defeats thanks to a lackluster leadership and the failure to reach independents.

Please enjoy this weeks’ winning entries:

Council Winners

Non-Council Winners

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 10:19 AM |

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Submitted for your approval

The Watchers Council nominations are up and the Council welcomes two new members bringing the total back up to the sacred number of 12.

The new members are Mere Rhetoric and The Provocateur, both excellent blogs as you will see when you read their submissions.

Council Submissions

Non-Council Submissions

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 6:10 PM |

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Friday, October 31, 2008

The Council has spoken

The Watchers Council has voted and these are the weekly winners.

Winning Council Submissions

Winning Non-Council Submissions

T* - Denotes Tie

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 11:09 AM |

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

And the winners are. . .

The winners of the weekly Watchers Council vote are as follows:

Winning Council Entries

Winning Non-Council Entries

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:49 AM |

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Friday, October 17, 2008

Submitted for your approval

The Watchers Council submissions are up (actually they have been up, I'm just late posting them). I can recommend all of these to you without reservation. Enjoy your reading.

Council Submissions

Non-Council Submissions

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:00 AM |

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

The Council has spoken

The Watchers Council has rendered their judgment for this week. Below are the winning entries:

Winning Council Entries

Winning Non-Council Entries

* - T denotes a tie

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:38 PM |

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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Submitted for your approval

The Watchers Council has made their weekly recommendations. I urge you to give them a look:

Council Submissions

Non-Council Submissions

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 5:55 PM |

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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Submitted for your approval

The Watchers Council has made its weekly nominations. Give these your attention and you will be rewarded:

Council Submissions

Non-Council Submissions

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:59 AM |

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Submitted for your approval

The Watchers Council have made their nominations:

Council Submissions

Non-Council Submissions

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 6:13 PM |

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Submitted for your consideration

The Watchers Council nominations are up. Most of them reflect the tsunami of excitement over Sarah Palin and the shameful way the extreme left-wing of the Democrat party and the mainstream media (sorry, redundant) have attempted to destroy her.

The watcher observes:

The media continues to attack Sarah Palin for a second straight week but it appears that those efforts may have actually backfired. The medias’ attempts to smear Sarah Palin has rallied the conservative base and sparked interest in her message, especially in the important white women demographic.

Adding insult to injury is the comments this evening by Barack Obama where he stuck foot in mouth with a very bad swipe at Palin. Obama appeared in a televised campaign event and said “You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It’s Still a Pig”. This is responsible for not one, not two, but three individual Memeorandum discussion topics. One for the event, a second for the defense by the left, and a third counter argument to defenders of Obama’s “slip”.

The week has been quite remarkable indeed. A fact that leads the Watchers Council to nominate the following articles for this weeks competition:

Council

1. The Glittering Eye - Waiting for the Takeover (Updated)

2. Soccer Dad - An exceptional choice

3. Bookworm Room - Beneath the Gobbledy-gook, an implied concession about taxes

4. The Razor - Dems Proving the GOP is really…

5. Joshua Pundit - The Game Changer - Duty, Honor, Country

6. Wolf Howling - Standing At The Crossroads - Identity Politics, Multiculturalism & The Melting Pot

7. The Colossus of Rhodey - Is the Philly Daily News Literally Going Nuts?”

8. Rhymes With Right - A Bad Political Dad From History?

9. Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Fight, Fight, Fight

10. Hillbilly White Trash - The new Reagan

Non-Council

1. Submitted by Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Beldar Blog - Don’t Confuse Republicans’ thrill over the Palin nomination with the Dems’ worship of Obama: A reply to Paul Mirengoff

2. Submitted by Bookworm - The QandO Blog: QandO’s Stupid Journalist Tricks

3. Submitted by Hillbilly White Trash - City Journal: Organizer in Chief

4. Submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey - La Shawn Barber: Americans Doing Jobs Illegal Aliens CAN’T Do”

5. Submitted by Rhymes With Right - The Anchoress: Over Palin; not “hypocrisy,” you never knew us

6. Submitted by Soccer Dad - Somewhere on AIA: Bad News for the Press… We’re going to see more of this.

7. Submitted by The Glittering Eye - Real Clear Politics: The Media’s ‘Due Dilligence’

8. Submitted by Joshua Pundit - Front Page Magazine: Interview with Alec Rawls at Frontpage

9. Submitted by Wolf Howling - EU Referendum: The Awkwardness Of Truth

10. Submitted by The Razor - The Truth According to Mark: A Convention Roundup

All of these, both Council and non-Council are excellent. Enjoy them all.

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 7:19 AM |

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Watchers Council

As some of you may have already been made aware The Watcher, the leader of the great and powerful Watchers Council, has retired due to health issues. I suspect foul play. Anyone who listens to talk radio or watches the cable news shows knows of the part that the Watchers Council played in the downfall of Hillary Clinton and we all have seen the video of her insane profane ravings to ever smaller audiences where she swears her vengeance upon her enemies.

In other words I think that the Watcher's doctors need to check for rician.

However life must go on and this week's Watchers Council vote is being hosted by Joshuapundit.

Here are the nominations:

Council

1.JoshuaPundit: Will Israel Attack Iran?

2.Soccer Dad:The Army's Top 10 inventions And The Legacy Of Harry Diamond

3.The Glittering Eye: Sen. Obama Re-States His Plan for Iraq

4.Cheat Seeking Missiles: Laundry Guilt

5.BookWorm Room:It's official: Obama doesn't flip-flop, he just does nuanced "rephrases"

6.Rhymes With Right: Ny Times Sides With Border Jumping Immigration Criminals

7.Wolf Howling: Critiquing The Obama Manifesto On Iraq

8.The Razor:What Can We Do To Reduce Oil Consumption?

9.Done With Mirrors: Poetry Matters

10The Colossus Of Rhodey:The Latest - Global Warming Causes Kidney Stones!

11.Hillbilly White Trash:What To Do About The Dollar

12.The Education Wonk: Texas Teacher Shortage?


Non-Council


1.Shrinkwrapped:Making People Better

2.Doug Ross & Journal: Let Me Put It In Pictures For Our Progressive Friends

3.Dan Drezner:"We are seriously concerned about this most serious outbreak of seriousness"

4.Power Line: Obama's Dishonest Op-Ed

5.Power Line:Setting the Record Straight

6.Harris County Criminal Justice System: A Good Man

7.EU Referendum:The Great Bio Fuels Con

8.Israel Matzav: Lebanon plans 'state ceremony' to welcome Kuntar

9.Melanie Phillips: Sleepwalking Into Islamization

10.7.62 Justice: Troop Drawdown

11.Seraphic Secrets: Comrade Obama Purges Website

12.Vox Popoli: Home and Garden hater

I apologise to my fellow council members because I was unaware that the vote was going on this week and so did not either submit any writings for consideration (one of my essays was picked for me - and it is the one I would have submitted) and I did not even see that a vote was being held until it was already too late to vote.

I will bring you the results tomorrow as usual and in future weeks I will hold up my end.

For now and in all seriousness let's all say a prayer for the Watcher's health. He is a good man and an asset to the blogosphere. May he have a speedy and complete recovery and be back among us ASAP.

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 8:47 AM |

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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Give these a look

This week's Watchers Council nominations are in.

Council links:

  1. Che Away
    Done With Mirrors
  2. Identifying Obama's Real Position on the Second Amendment (Updated)
    Wolf Howling
  3. You May Now Assume the Risk
    Soccer Dad
  4. American Whining and the Culture of Dependency
    The Razor
  5. Another Disgusting Philly Inquirer Op-Ed
    The Colossus of Rhodey
  6. Economic Illiteracy Venting
    The Glittering Eye
  7. Some Hope for the High Court
    Hillbilly White Trash
  8. Does Patriotism Matter?
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
  9. Narcissism In Another Color
    Joshuapundit
  10. Socialized Medicine
    Bookworm Room
  11. New Solution To An Old Problem
    The Education Wonks
  12. Obama Speaks -- Selectively -- Of His Faith Journey
    Rhymes With Right
Non-council links:
  1. My Shiny Iraqi Skyline
    Neurotic Iraqi Wife
  2. Is Gun Control Behind Our Loss of Civil Liberties?
    Bishop Hill
  3. MPAC Person "Bulldozed By Al-Jazeera"
    Judeopundit
  4. Do Liberals Love America Too?
    Right Wing Nut House
  5. Bush Made the World a Safer Place
    Oliver Kamm
  6. Liberals for 'Conservative' Grand Strategy?
    The American Strategist
  7. Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor
    Shooting the Messenger
  8. Chimpy McHitlerburton's Smirky Rodeo Ride Through History, 25: The Last Slice of Saddam Cake Eaten By Secret Greedy Killbots
    Protein Wisdom
  9. Former CIA Agent in Iran Comes In from the Heat
    Pajams Media
  10. None So Benign Apprentices
    Big Lizards
  11. Congress Approval At 9%
    Pondering Penguin
  12. There Oughta Have Been a Law!
    Classical Values
  13. Arguing Politics
    Neo-Neocon
  14. Obama's Flip-Flops =/= Kerry's
    Ace of Spades HQ

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 6:33 AM |

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Friday, July 04, 2008

The Council has spoken

The Council met this week in the nation's capital in order to participate in the 4th of July celebrations. I could not be present due to the pressures of work. Despite this my own entry was chosen to be this week's winner. When I wrote my short essay on patriotism I was not thinking about the proximity of the Independence Day holiday. I was, in fact, only responding to the news of the day. However since that news was about Barack Obama's Independence Day speech I guess it all worked out that way.

Here is a sample of my post entitled Patriotism:

Democrats act as though the issue of patriotism was infinitely nuanced and intricately complex it is not. Patriotism simply means that you love your country - just as it is and that you support your country - just as it is. Nothing more and nothing less.

If you hate your country and think that it is evil then you are not a patriot.

The winning non-Council entry was Sacramento Host Breakfast by 365 and a Wakeup. Here is a sample:

I didn’t grow up planning to join the Army. My father immigrated to the United States so that his children would have the education he was denied in Indonesia. Being the oldest of eight children, my goal was to be the first in my family to graduate college and set the example for my siblings. I studied two years at Cal State Los Angeles and then I decided that to get the full college experience I needed to attend a University with soaring architecture and ivy lined courtyards. I was so fixated on what I thought college was supposed to be like that I chose to give up my grants and scholarships and transfer out of State to the University of Colorado at Boulder. I was so excited at being accepted that I completely overlooked the trifling details… you know little things like tuition and housing. Needless to say I learned my first and most enduring economic lesson, always plan ahead. Within 3 months I was working double shifts as a gas station attendant to pay for tuition. Another 2 months later I was disenrolled from the University and kicked out of dorms for not paying my tuition in full. I remember the timeline pretty accurately, because the next day I celebrated my 21st birthday by moving into my supervisor’s basement. As I sat there trying to figure out how I could get back into school I heard a commercial on the radio mentioning the GI Bill. And that was how I found my way into the Army.

[. . .]

In my first duty assignment I learned why our drill instructors focused so intently on hardening us. I needed that strength when we secured mass graves in Bosnia. I needed it when we faced refugee camps so crippled with famine that the fluid flow of the human body was reduced to hard, angular lines. And I needed that strength when we in countries where the only rules were the brutal laws of physics and ballistics. Exposure to these harsh realities could have broken our spirit, but there were joys to counterbalance the pain. Sometimes we would find it in the sing song lyrics of children chirping in high pitch squeals we couldn’t decipher. Other times we found our solace in the serenity our presence brought to areas where civilization had been stripped to its animal core. But mostly we found it in each other, and in the simple knowledge that our actions proved that life could triumph over death, if only for a moment.

Go read the rest, it is very moving.

I thank my fellow Council members for honoring me this month and I will attempt to justify similar trust in the future.

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:15 PM |

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

I invite you to give these your attention

Here are the week's Watchers Council nominations.

Council links:

  1. Obama's 8 Years As State Legislator Makes Him Better Qualified
    The Colossus of Rhodey
  2. More On Jokes
    Done With Mirrors
  3. This Deal Keep Getting Worse and Worse
    Soccer Dad
  4. The Supreme Court: Originalism, Activism, and America's Future
    Wolf Howling
  5. The Rising Price of Oil: How High Is Up?
    The Glittering Eye
  6. Surreal Logic *UPDATED*
    Bookworm Room
  7. Fireworks and the Nanny State
    The Razor
  8. Patriotism
    Hillbilly White Trash
  9. Witch Hunt For "Obama's A Muslim" E-Mailer
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
  10. Iraq Sues Over Oil-For-Food... And There's an Obama Connection
    Joshuapundit
  11. Principal Confirms Kids Sipped Margaritas
    The Education Wonks
  12. Impeach Anthony Kennedy
    Rhymes With Right
Non-council links:
  1. Yellow Science
    The Wall Street Journal
  2. Heavyweight Physics Prof Weighs Into Climate/energy Scrap
    The Register
  3. Reverberations of Al-Dura
    ShrinkWrapped
  4. Sun King Rules Still Apply in French "Journalism"
    Dave's World
  5. Sacramento Host Breakfast
    365 and a Wakeup
  6. "THE TALK" -- On Patriotism
    Thought You'd Never Ask
  7. How's This for an Example of Obama's Judgment?
    Betsy's Page
  8. Sarko Wants to Give Dublin the Mugabe Treatment
    The Brussels Journal
  9. Lost in Translation
    The Paragraph Farmer
  10. Demographic Conquest
    Gates of Vienna
  11. The New "Fairness" Doctrine
    Big Lizards
  12. Honestly, Is John Aravosis a Piece of Excrement Or What?
    Right Wing Nut House
  13. The Leaders of Africa Fail To Live Up To Their Sister Souljah Moment On Mugabe
    Neo-Neocon
  14. Let Obama Be Obama & McCain Be McCain
    The Anchoress

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 8:47 PM |

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

The Council has spoken

The Watchers Council was once again able to meet in the open this week due to the fact that our intelligence operatives have determined that Hillary Clinton's agents are too busy trying to scrounge money to pay off her campaign debt to worry about taking vengeance upon the Council for its part in her defeat.

This weeks winning Council post was South Africa's Neville Chamberlain by The Razor. Here is a sample:

Thabo Mbeki has sat silently while his country is flooded with refugees fleeing the economic and social collapse of South Africa’s northern neighbor Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s liberator turned oppressor lost the parliamentary elections held in March, then scrambled his thugs to action to make sure that his loss wouldn’t be repeated in the run-off to be held Friday. While international pressure against Mugabe mounted, Mbeki resisted joining the chorus of condemnation and use the leverage his nation has over Zimbabwe to get Comrade Bob to relinquish power. Instead Mbeki pursued a “soft-softly” conciliatory approach, telling the rest of the world, in particular the US and the UK, to but out of what he considered to be an “internal matter.”

The winning non-Council post was Why You Should Apologize -- Ineffectively and Dishonestly -- For What You Didn't Do by Classical Values. Here is a sample:

I understand why people are emotional about slavery, especially if they read the chilling details of what their ancestors actually did. But -- notwithstanding the incessant demands of the guilt machine -- I see a major problem with any of them apologizing, for the simple reason that they can't apologize.

An apology is personal in nature. I cannot apologize for the actions of someone else -- not even my father or my mother. If they were to have hurt people, sure, I could acknowledge what they did and feel compassion for their victims, but I cannot apologize. This is further compounded when there are no living malfeasors, and no living victims. Suppose my great-great grandfather had murdered someone. I can't think of anything more absurd than hunting down the murder victim's descendants and telling them that I "apologize" for the crime of my great-great grandfather. Moreover, they'd be in no position to accept my meaningless apology. Any such apology by me would thus be an idle act, and a phony, disingenuous one, with a goal of alleviating nonexistent guilt.

Apologizing for what was not done by the apologist is thus an extreme form of dishonesty, because it is an admission of guilt that is not there, by people who did not do it, to people who are not their victims.

It makes about as much sense as demanding that "the Jews" apologize for killing Christ.

Such apologies are logically impossible and cannot erase guilt -- neither the original guilt attributable to the guilty parties, nor the phony guilt their descendants do not share. But because they don't work, a single apology would be one too many, while a million apologies would never be enough.

Once started, these apologies might become self-perpetuating, though.

Perhaps that's the whole idea.

In both cases go and read the rest.

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:30 AM |

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Give these a look

The Watchers Council nominations are in for this week:

Council links:

  1. More Quincy
    Done With Mirrors
  2. Moonbat Kucinich Wants to Impeach Bush
    The Colossus of Rhodey
  3. Left Continues Denigration of McCain's Military Service, POW Heroism
    Rhymes With Right
  4. South Africa's Neville Chamberlain
    The Razor
  5. Dick Morris Gets One Right
    Hillbilly White Trash
  6. The Whole Shebaa-ng
    Soccer Dad
  7. Gay Pride Week
    Bookworm Room
  8. Afghanistan Update
    The Glittering Eye
  9. My ANWR Photo Gallery
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
  10. Warped
    Joshuapundit
  11. And on the Seventh Day, He Rested
    Wolf Howling
  12. Paradise, Favorites, and the Evaluation Headgame
    The Education Wonks
Non-council links:
  1. "Declaring Independence from a 'Broken System' By Breaking a Promise..." [UPDATED]
    AmbivaBlog
  2. 'Not My Fault'
    The New York Times
  3. Is There A Pattern Here? If So, Is There A Name For It?
    Discriminations
  4. Alcoholism Progression
    Dean's World
  5. The Card
    Stop the ACLU
  6. Building Walls
    Shira bat Sarah
  7. Obama's Lack of Ordinary Modesty
    American Thinker
  8. Big Gains in Iraq?
    Abu Muqawama
  9. The Zimmerman Telegram and the Captured Saddam Documents
    Flopping Aces
  10. The Unconscious Roots of Media Bias
    ShrinkWrapped
  11. An Almost Unfathomable Ignorance of History
    Brits At Their Best
  12. Why You Should Apologize -- Ineffectively and Dishonestly -- For What You Didn't Do
    Classical Values
  13. Money Grubbing Tax Grabbers
    The QandO Blog
  14. Rep. Keith Ellison Brings Obama Back On Track
    Pondering Penguin

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:38 AM |

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Give these a look

The Watchers Council nominations are in for this week.

Council links:

  1. What the Free World Would Do Well To Emulate
    The Colossus of Rhodey
  2. My Mother-in-Law The Democrat
    The Razor
  3. Just Once
    Done With Mirrors
  4. The Cult of Global Warming
    Hillbilly White Trash
  5. Metaphorically Shooting
    Soccer Dad
  6. Say It Loud, Say It Proud: I Am a Racist! *UPDATED*
    Bookworm Room
  7. The End of Guilt?
    The Glittering Eye
  8. R. Kelly: I Believe He's a Platinum Predator
    Rhymes With Right
  9. Admitting Defeat in the Rhetoric War
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
  10. Judicial Activism Run Amok
    Wolf Howling
  11. A Rose By Any Other Name -- Tiptoeing Around Jihad
    Joshuapundit
  12. The New College Major: "Fat Studies"
    The Education Wonks
Non-council links:
  1. French Theory's American Adventures
    The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2. McCain Energy Heads-Up: End Moratorium on Offshore Drilling (Details Tuesday)
    Big Lizards
  3. Let's Get Something Straight
    Balloon Juice
  4. Why Irish Voters Rejected the Lisbon Treaty
    The Brussels Journal
  5. After the Charge
    Miserable Donuts
  6. They Never Change
    Confederate Yankee
  7. The Future of Russo-American Relations (Guest Voice)
    The Moderate Voice
  8. Obama and Taxes: An Unchanged Liberal Agenda
    Lone Star Times
  9. The Willful Blindness of Barack Obama
    Hugh Hewitt
  10. Serlo the Mercer and Magna Carta
    Brits At Their Best
  11. The United States Supreme Court Versus America: Awarding "The Privilege of Habeas Corpus To Terrorists"
    Townhall.com
  12. Who's To Blame For High Gas Prices? Look in the Mirror, America
    Right Wing Nut House
  13. Supreme Court: Supreme Overreach
    Neo-Neocon
  14. Obama Finds Bitter Voter Man
    Pondering Penguin

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 8:18 AM |

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

The Council has spoken

The Watchers Council met electronically again this week due to the fact that Hillary Clinton has gone underground. It is well known that she blames the Council for her humiliating loss to B. Hussein Obama in the Democrat primary and she is reported to have vowed to extract vengeance.

This week's winning council post was The Chicken or the Egg? by Joshuapundit. Here is a sample:

Unless you're in a coma, you've probably noticed that a great majority of the violent and barbaric acts in our modern world are done by followers of Islam.

In the Islamic world today, aside from homicide bombings, jihad and terrorism directed against dar harb ( the part of the world not ruled by Islam), honor killings, female genital circumcision and other forms of violence against women are commonplace,and homosexuals are routinely brutalized and murdered.Non-Muslims are treated as barely human in much of the Islamic world, if they're allowed to exist at all. Warfare carried out by Muslims is done with modern tools of the trade provided by the despised infidels, but is a relic of the good ol' primitive and tribal days. Hostages, beheadings and the deliberate killing of civilians are all fair game, and the language of jihad is essentially the same heady stuff used back in the 7th century against the infidel. And through it all, there remains the miasma of seething violent rage at things like the Danish cartoons that simply doesn't exist in other religious groups.

The question nobody wants to ask keeps floating to the surface: Is Islam to blame? Or, to put it another way, are the perpetrators simply bad Muslims or are they actually good ones who are simply more in tune with Mohammed's message than the majority? Does Islam itself promote violence? Or are the acts simply a product of primitive tribal society that persists in spite of Islam?

Actually, this is a trick question. I personally believe that Islam and the primitive tribal culture combined back in the day to sustain each other and can't be separated by their very nature...even though some valiant attempts have been made in the past, and are being made today.

Go read the rest.

The winning non-Council post was What Kind of War Crimes Trials Does Obama Plan? (Updated) by American Thinker. Here is a sample:

Barack Obama's plan for imposing unity on the nation after he takes office apparently entails a close look at war crimes trials for Bush administration officials. He has even said so in an interview with Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News.

This kind of change -- putting your predecessors on trial for their conduct of policy -- may not be what most Americans really want or expect from someone with Obama's gauzy rhetoric of unity. But unity has a dark side in the hands of people who regard their opponents as criminals. America has two centuries-plus of history lacking the totalitarian practice of jailing the predecessors when a new president takes office.

This is the sort of proposal one might expect from a man steeped in Marxism at his church, from his friends like Ayers, and as a member of the Alinsky Left. But I am surprised he let this slip.

Few on the right noticed (except for Rick Moran) and became alarmed, as the interview in question appeared on a Philadelphia Daily News blog,

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
At the time it was picked up only by the Huffington Post.

To me the terribly frightening phrase is the wish to avoid a "partisan witch hunt." When a Harvard-trained lawyer inserts a qualifier into a phrase, that is a signal of wiggle room being created. In this case, the obvious implication is that if you get Chuck Hagel or some other antiwar Republican on board, then you have cover for your "witch hunt."

Again, go read the rest.

As Always the full results can be seen here.

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 9:08 PM |

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Give these a look

The weekly Watchers Council nomination are in:

Council links:

  1. I'm a Fuel, Fuel, Fuel for You
    Soccer Dad
  2. Omaha Beach
    Done With Mirrors
  3. The Global Warming Cult
    The Razor
  4. Excellent Article On Parenting
    The Colossus of Rhodey
  5. Quote of the Day: Gas Wars Edition
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
  6. For Once, It Really Is About the Children
    Bookworm Room
  7. Caring Is Not Enough
    The Glittering Eye
  8. Remembering the Heroes
    Rhymes With Right
  9. No Threat of Heterosexual AIDS
    Hillbilly White Trash
  10. The Chicken or the Egg?
    Joshuapundit
  11. Dear Pakistan
    Wolf Howling
  12. The Carnival of Education: Week 174
    The Education Wonks
Non-council links:
  1. Obama and Khalidi -- What We Know So Far
    Daled Amos
  2. Shooting Down the Enemies of Progress
    Spiked
  3. Dear Mr. President
    Ace of Spades HQ
  4. When Worlds Collide
    The Weekly Standard
  5. Hillary Said... Oh, Who Cares!
    The Tygrrrr Express
  6. What Kind of War Crimes Trials Does Obama Plan? (Updated)
    American Thinker
  7. Have You No Shame, Sir?
    Winds of Change
  8. Arson Supected at Texas Governor's Mansion
    UrbanGrounds
  9. Wake Up and Smell the Soup!
    Melanie Phillips
  10. Krugman Tries the Race Card
    The QandO Blog
  11. Noted Imbecile Mark Morford: Obama Is a "Lightworker," an "Enlightened Being"
    Hot Air
  12. Air Is Free
    Eternity Road
  13. Jimmy Obama, Meet Barack Carter
    Big Lizards
  14. Senator John Cornyn Leads the Way
    Pondering Penguin

Posted by Lemuel Calhoon at 8:26 AM |

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