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

• Good lord, is this weekend a slow one. I’ve seen more traffic in the graveyard at 2am in the dead of winter. Not unexpected, given we’re in high summer, and we’re in a big movie release cycle…  and I’ve

Mike Kaminski has posted a great video.  Ok it is a parody, and fiction.   However it is pointed and relevant.

Mike, I am a vet and I thank you.

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

Hat photo:  IMDB

Just a few shots that struck me as interesting. As always, drill the pics for the full view.

This was taken at Selkirk Shores, NY, from the base of the light house, there.  Something about the anticipation of going into

Steyn, today:

How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?

No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.

What? You haven’t heard about them?

Odd that, isn’t it? But they’re there. For

From Fox’s Political Grapevine:

A follow-up on Thursday’s item about that so-called “mystery” earmark request from John Murtha: the Pennsylvania Democrat was awarded $1 million for the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure — which it turns out does not

RALEIGH, North Carolina -AP—

Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion- dollar evangelism empire and then watched it collapse in disgrace, has died. She was 65.

Elsewhere, stocks in mascara and lipstick

Would the election of democrat, Mrs. Clinton, Barack Obama or John Edwards, mean the destruction of the State of Israel?  Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, seems to making that suggestion.

It follows that if Iran is hell bent on acquiring nuclear

WHEN I looked at the numbers last month, the Gallup Poll showed President Bush’s job approval was at 32 percent, and Congress was at 24 percent. Could things get any worse?

Diana West at TownHall.com:

Somehow, American war goals have become a secondary consideration when America wages war. As Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger put it to The Washington Times: “We could absolutely crush every one of (our enemies in Iraq),

For the many long months that Mrs. Sheehan was the leftards’ mascot and darling, she reported no threats on her life.  Now that Mrs. Sheehan has declared her intent to run against Mrs. Pellosi, she is now reporting attempts on

William Kristol , in an article due out in the 7/30 edition of the Weekly Standard:

Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, emerged on the American political scene two years ago. Distraught and unstable,

So, George Stienbrenner isn’t happy with “The Bronx is Burning”?

(Shrug )

Yeah, well, about that….. I’ve got a suggestion for ya, Georgie…. How about putting a real team together?

A team that isn’t routinely getting its lazy backside kicked

You have to wonder sometimes what liberals are using for brain power.  Ross Doutahat, for example:

I’m fed up with the President’s messiah complex, and I don’t bloody well want to hear any more about Bush’s “theological perspective” that freedom

Funny, how we’re not seeing much made of this, given what we saw aimed at Rush Limbagh just recently…

LAGUNA NIGUEL, California —FOX- Al Gore’s son faces up to three years in prison if convicted on felony drug-possession charges and