Soccer Dad

Submitted 02/18/09

This week's Watcher's Council nominations are up.

Conversation with a Marine - The Razor writes about an e-mail exchange he has with a Marine who sometimes wonders what he's fighting for.
MSM Yawns As NY Muslim Beheads Wife - Cheat-Seeking Missiles notes the MSM lack of curiosity regarding the killing of Aasiya Hassan by her husband. Apparently reporting comprehensively on the case would cause some people to perceive Muslims in a bad light, something her husband fought to counter. Also see Mark Steyn and James Taranto.
Figures: Obama's List Of Pre-Screened Questioners Emerges One Day After Media Celebrations Of How Obama Doesn't Pre-Screen Questioners - Mere Rhetoric writes about how the President is manipulating press conferences.
Stacking the Deck - The Glittering Eye observes that baseball analyst turned political analyst, Nate Silver bats from the Left.
A Double Standard - Rhymes With Right shows the dishonesty of those who blame talk radio for hatred.
Unwillingness of the good to serve evil - Right Truth catalogs many of the challenges facing us.
Obama's Model - And No, It's Not FDR - Joshuapundit looks at President Obama and sees another young, charismatic leader with strong socialistic tendencies.
A Battle For Small Government in Cheboygan County, Mi. - The Provocateur presents the strange case of a man who seeks a job that he wishes to fire himself from.
What could be worse than Hamas? - My post this week compares the Washington Post's approach to the election of Hamas to Israel's most recent elections. The Post's editors fear Israel's democracy more than Hamas's terror. See related thoughts at Daled Amos.

My non-council nomination was Doug Ross's Journal's Star Trek: The Stimulus Doomsday Machine. It's huge. Don't you think I know that?!

Last week I didn't have the opportunity to post the submissions. So let me do it here, though without commentary.

* Bookworm Room - Economic incest
* Joshuapundit - "60 Minutes" Libels Jews And Israel
* The Provocateur - ACORN and Alinsky Rule #13
* Rhymes With Right - MSNBC Host Calls For Gagging, Deporting, GOP Dissenter
* The Razor - Spending Bill: $200,000 per job
* Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Fair Treatment of Prisoners
* The Glittering Eye - Why What, When, and How Matters in a Stimulus Package
* The Colossus of Rhodey - "Hate speech" definition expanding again
* Right Truth - Battle for the soul of America
* Soccer Dad - Voting for war
* Mere Rhetoric - Austrian Jews Too Terrified To List Their Children As Jewish (Plus: Europe Reaches An Anti-Jewish Tipping Point)

Read. Enjoy. Be informed.

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