Soccer Dad

Submitted 05/14/09

This week's Watcher's Council nominations are UP!

Barack Stewie Obama - Right Truth examines the President through the lens of "South Park."

The Nightmare of Dr. Shirley Pigott - The Provocateur tells a disturbing story about the misuse of power in the medical community.

The inevitable result of identity politics - Bookworm Room concludes that the logical outcome of insisting on granting victim status to different groups is that members of those groups must also accept the terms of their victimhood, with no deviations permitted. See Rhyme with Right's and Wolf Howling's entries below.

Star Trek as Socialist Utopia - The Colossus of Rhodey muses about the political system in the time of Star Trek.

Left-Wing Sluttification Of Conservative Women - Rhymes With Right condemns the shabby treatment accorded to Miss California for saying what she believes in.

Joe Schuler: The Boy Who Made Good - The Glittering Eye celebrates the life of his great-grandfather.

Cheney Gets It - But the GOP Doesn't -The Razor argues that Republicans should be unapologetic about what they stand for, like Vice President Cheney has been.

Casual Marxism & Supreme Court Nominees? - Wolf Howling takes issue with the notion - that seems accepted in certain liberal circles - that it is wrong for a liberal to befriend a conservative and that such a friendship marks a betrayal of one's principles.

The Two State Fallacy - JoshuaPundit shows why a Palestinian state is a phony construct and why would be a source of instability in the Middle East, not a bastion of peace.

The purple prose of cairo - My entry this week is about the problems inherent in President Obama's choice to address the Muslim world from Cairo next month and the biggest problem of all: what can he say?

My non-council nominee this week is Charging the Chokepoints at the Optimistic Conservative. It's a look at Iran's (apparent) master plan for extending its influence through the Middle East.

Read. Enjoy. Be Informed.