Soccer Dad: Submitted 04/04/2007

April 5, 2007

Submitted 04/04/2007

Every week the members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote on their own submissions and submissions of the best stuff they've seen around the internet. Here are my synopses of this week's submissions by my fellow Watchers.

In Securing the Food Supply, The Glittering Eye addresses the pet food recall and the limitations of the FDA.

Colossus of Rhodey.Felix questions the Seattle School Board's definition of insitutionalized racism and its prescription for curing the problem in Question any excuses ...

Eternity Road views the same problem from a wider angle in The Scourging. It's not just that a school district is racist; the whole society that is wrong to some ways of thinking. And if anything is corrected; it's time to move the goalposts and pretend that nothing's been fixed.

In A Miracle for Pope John Paul II, Rhymes with Right clarifies misconceptions surrounding the process of canonization and outlines the differing views towards canonization that the two most recent popes have (publicly) held.

Big Lizards synopsizes and annotates Arthur Herman's recent article in How to Win/Lose in Iraq. He lays to rest the mistaken that there can be no military solution to conflict. Indeed there is always a military solution as long as there's the political will to deploy it.

In not the End of the World, Done with Mirrors looks at how the Bush administration plays politics, and it is ugly. But that doesn't make it wrong. I would venture that this is an argument where the end justifies the means: in the end, if the president is successful in Iraq it will justify the steps he's taken to get there.

Cheat Seeking Missiles examines the threat to Iranian repression represented by a doll in Barbie vs. the Mullahs. FWIW, the concept of the corrupting influence of Barbie sounded familiar and I discovered one way its influence is being fought elsewhere in the Middle East. (h/t Debbie Schlussel.)

In leftist media bias Israeli Style, Bookworm Room goes over the history of the Israeli rescue of the hostages at the Entebbe airport in Uganda and the efforts of some to question Yoni Netanyahu's - brother of former PM Binyamin Netanyahu and the only Israeli commando killed in the raid - leadership. The post concludes showing that a number of those involved have spoken and restored Lt. Col. Netanyahu's reputation. This is hardly the only example of the Israeli leftist media bias. There is more than one reason that Ha'aretz is called the "New York Times of Israel." I'd been aware of this campaign against the elder Netanyahu brother, but thought it only went back about ten years as it was an attempt to undermine the political career of his brother Benjamin. Incidentally, Israel's new CoS, Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi was involved in the raid on Entebbe.

The Education Wonks highlights Newt Gingrich's recent pronouncements on making English, America's national language in Newt criticizes bi-lingual education gets nuked.

JoshuaPundit shows how attacks on Jews are often preludes to attacks on others (whether in a paricular society or in the global society) in First Israel, then Britain - the chickens come home to roost. (This is similar to Iran takes a lesson from Hamas and Hizbollah by Daled Amos. It's a point too infrequently made.)

Right Wing Nuthouse is concerned that the Brits Ready to Stick It to the Iraqis To Get Their Hostages Back. The implied concessions in the British statements to appease Iran cannot be so readily dismissed. They stand as potentially damaging Iraq in order to mollify the Mullahs.

Other rundowns of the Watcher's Council Nominations are at JoshuaPundit and the Glittering Eye.

Blogdigger tags: Watcher's Council, Iran, Iraq, Education Policy, Britain, Entebbe.