Soccer Dad

Submitted 06/12/08

The Watcher's Council submissions have been posted.

Omaha Beach
Done With Mirrors provides pictures of his uncle's encounter with history.
The Global Warming Cult
The Razor comprehensively takes apart many of the premises of the Global Warming religion and demonstrates the well-known Instapundit principle, "I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who keep telling me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."
Excellent Article On Parenting
The Colossus of Rhodey sees himself parenting in the Joseph Epstein mode. All I can say, it's not how I approach my children.
Quote of the Day: Gas Wars Edition
Cheat Seeking Missiles shows how  global warning and high gas prices are rich people's problems that are being foisted onto those of us with lesser means.
For Once, It Really Is About the Children
Bookworm Room shows how keeping fathers involved really does help the children. Fathers are more than just meal tickets
Caring Is Not Enough
The Glittering Eye critiques an op-ed that argues that America's health care system doesn't care enough and shows that "caring enough" would be prohibitively expensive. Those who care the most, don't care about who will be footing the bill. Not unlike the current state of environmentalism.
Remembering the Heroes
Rhymes With Right remembers the heroes of Normandy and reminds us that the threat we face nowadays is just as opposed to our lifestyles as was the Nazi enemy back then.
No Threat of Heterosexual AIDS
Hillbilly White Trash writes about one of the overblown health crises of our times. It's why, when we donate blood, we need to answer a set of invasive questions. I also suspect that this is the reasons we now have to certify that we haven't been in England more than 6 months, even though Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is nowhere nearly as prevalent as is AIDS.
The Chicken or the Egg?
Joshuapundit examines the nature of Islamic extremism and its lack of a period of enlightenment.
Dear Pakistan
Wolf Howling, like JoshuaPundit, focuses on Islamic extremism, except he gives it a specific address: the country of Pakistan our putative allies in the War on Terror.
The Carnival of Education: Week 174
The Education Wonks hosts a carnival. In his case it is the Carnival of Education, one of the longest running carnivals still going!

My entry I'm a Fuel, Fuel, Fuel for You was about the many ways Congress - mostly Congressional Democrats have contributed to the precipitous rise in gas prices - even as they vilified "Big Oil." Wolf Howling borrowed an excellent graphic to illustrate the point.
Unfortunately Larry Kudlow writes that McCain Is Exactly Wrong on Energy, still. (via memeorandum.)

My non-council submission is Obama and Khalidi -- What We Know So Far by Daled Amos, who skillfully weaves together sources to show that the Democratic nominee has terror ties other than Ayers and Dohrn.

Read, Enjoy. Be Informed.

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