Watcher’s Council

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting

The Quote of the Day, and from the be careful for what you wish department, comes from Hassan al-Bazam, 20, resident of the Gaza Strip,  in reference to his Fatah kidnappers:

“These people are real murderers, […] Even the Jews

If the armed forces are being mowed down in combat zones, wouldn’t sending 10,000 unarmed Americans into hostile territories to clean the drinking water seem like a kind of unworkable plan?

E. M. Zanotti, American Princess, reacting to John

Yesterday, Bit reported Paris Hilton was out of jail. 

Well today, I am reporting  Hilton was order back to jail to serve the balance of her sentence.  Story via TMZ:

Paris Hilton was just ordered back to jail in

An interesting, if slightly misguided article today, submitted by Dr. Charles Krauthammer.

In Britain, Canada and other civilized places, national elections are often called, run and concluded within six weeks. In America, election campaigns go on forever. It used

John Dowd represented Sen. John McCain in his darkest hour, the “Keating Five” scandal. He supported McCain the first time he ran for president in 2000 and signed up to be a major fundraiser for him in this year’s presidential

Interesting article on Che Guevara, today:

He’s the ultimate symbol of radical chic but was Che Guevara really a homophobic, racist square who personally ordered the jailing and executions of innocent men, women and children?

That’s according to Humberto Fontova,

-(Fox)-Power cables and even batteries might become a thing of the past using a new technique that can transmit power wirelessly to cell phones, laptops, MP3 players, household robots and other electronics.

Scientists lit a 60-watt light bulb from

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has announced, and thereby accepted, the endorsement on the only impeached congresscritter serving in the House, Alcee Hastings.

Corruption, perjury and impeachment, Hastings’ endorsement of Mrs. Clinton does seem all too appropriate.

Is Barack Obama cutting into

Here we go again, with this nonsensical “people on the Internet are vicious” routine.  This time the person involved as Brittany Gilbert.  However, I notice Oliver Willis, one of the hangers on from the left, spouting at Insta-Glenn… who by

John Hawkins gives some details about the death of the Shamnisty bill:

My source told me that he thinks this will kill the bill because the Senate has now voted against cloture 3 times and that means that if they