The 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

• A worthwhile read: Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd. Like the warnings about Hugo Chavez, I wonder how many will take this wakeup call seriously, and how many will simply hit the snooze button yet again.
• Nice to know that

Via Michelle, we find…

Another hero of the Greatest Generation passes:

Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86. Lindberg

KJL at The Corner says:

There is something deeply unAmerican about the Center for American Progress’s plan for dealing with the Left’s inability to compete on talk radio — we have an editorial on it today, here.

But you

The John Robert’s  Supreme Court recognized the First Amendment, and weakened the McCain/Fiengold attempt subvert it. 

WASHINGTON -(AP)- The Supreme Court loosened restrictions Monday on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, weakening a key

More news from FOJ, Friends of Jimmy:

The military wing of Hamas today released an audio message from Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier it kidnapped after a cross-border raid a year ago, in which he claimed he was

The sale would give Mr.

Here we go….

CARACAS, Venezuela —AP- President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at

Alex Knapp at OTB this morning:

In a dialogue with one of his readers, Andrew Sullivan argues that if Clinton manages to win the Presidency, it will hardly be a victory for feminism.

Hillary Clinton had a chance to pioneer

And so we go, dear friends, once more into the breach, to that bastion of fair play and common sense, the Huffington post, wherein we find…

So now we’re six and a half years into Bush and everyone from

An interesting situation, up to the other day, which went mostly unnoticed by the press. Herein,Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, slips up, and admits that the “Palestinians” came to the region when the arabs invaded, and are not an aboriginal

Right, senator.  Fences don’t work.  That’s why no ranches use barbed wire, why no prisons are surrounded by high walls, why pricey residential communities never have security gates, and why there aren’t traffic barricades to protect government buildings from car

Oh what a losing canidate will do when he gets desparate. Earlier this month I commented, a plain ordinary comment, on Barack Obama’s poor attempt to play the race card.   Having misplayed the race card, Obama now proceeds to misplay

Tune in this weekend, as FOX News Channel presents the documentary the Public Broadcasting System didn’t want you to see.

It’s a film about the difference between moderate Muslims and the radicals who want to kill us. It asks where

Rusty Shackleford and his lady are expecting, and she’s due to be induced on Monday. Congrats from all here, Rusty. Give that lady a hug.

Oh, wait… that’s how this stuff got started in the first place, isn’t it?
Ummm…