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Yes, everyone it’s May Day! The festivities used to look like this : But now….change! Maybe it’s May Day in more than one sense. Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. This is [...]

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Need I even mention whom this week’s contest is dedicated to? Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written [...]

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This is enough to make you ill. My friend Shaun Kenney has a new post up over at Bearing Drift with the sordid details. Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia Democratic Party should be ashamed to condone Pedophiles and some are even advocating making these child molesters a “protected” class and are calling pedophilia a “sexual [...]

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Tyranny always wears a face of mocking, condescending faux concern on the Left, as Democrat dominated Blue States compete to see who can can come up with the most egregious laws to make an ordinary citizen exercising their constitutional Second Amendment rights expensive, difficult and even shameful. New York’s law actually banned non-existent magazines and [...]

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National Journal has must-read story today titled, “The Secret Republican Plan to Repeal ‘Obamacare’ And why the fight is far from over.”   National Journal’s Chris Frates writes, “A few minutes after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding President Obama’s health care law last summer, a senior adviser to Mitch McConnell walked into [...]

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Alea iacta est…the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. Ah, the problem of education and the Left…or as progressive icon Adolf Hitler once said, “Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state.” This week’s winner, The Noisy Room’s [...]

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U.S. Senator John Hoeven Delivers Weekly Republican Address ‘President Obama has been traveling and giving interviews on the consequences of the sequester…The fact is: Republicans in Congress, right now, will provide the flexibility to make the necessary spending reductions and address our deficit and debt, instead of going through the sequester. In fact, House Republicans [...]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a decent amount of knowledge is a real safety factor. This week’s winner, The Right Planet’s So, You Bought a Gun, Huh? is packed full of [...]

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Hardly a week passes without new reports on more negative consequences of President Obama’s expensive, unpopular health care law.   On Tuesday, the Orlando Sentinel reported, “Universal Orlando plans to stop offering medical insurance to part-time employees beginning next year, a move the resort says has been forced by the federal government’s health-care overhaul. The [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports today, “Prices at U.S. gasoline pumps have climbed for 32 consecutive days to a four-month high, as refinery closures cut output and higher crude prices raise costs. The national retail gasoline price has risen 43 cents, or 13%, to $3.73 a gallon since Jan. 17, according to the Automobile Association [...]

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Republicans have been saying for some time that the spending cuts in the sequester are not ideal, and should be more targeted so that spending is still reduced by the same amount but our military is not hit as hard with cuts. House Republicans have passed measures to do just that and yesterday Sen. Kelly Ayotte [...]

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“If they hold firm…things may be changing for the better in Washington.” ALEXANDRIA, Va. – ForAmerica Chairman L. Brent Bozell III today released a statement in response Speaker John Boehner’s opposition to replacing any of the spending cuts in the sequester.  “Finally, Speaker Boehner and the House Republicans are starting to sound like a majority,” Bozell said. “When [...]

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Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell again made the case that now is the time for Congress to tackle our out-of-control federal spending. “A few weeks ago, President Obama reportedly said that America doesn’t have a spending problem. Well, he’s wrong. This is completely at odds with what independent experts tell [...]

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Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole [...]

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No, actually British Prime Minister David Cameron promised a referendum by 2017.  But it might as well be 2040!  I wish I had said there would be a total solar eclipse in the USA before there is a British EU referendum for I might have been right (There will be such an eclipse on August [...]

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The Council has spoken, the tribal votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. Even taking into consideration the normal high level of quality in both the Council and Non-Council entries, this was a tough call with some exceptional pieces to choose from, and the close vote [...]

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It seems like a million years ago but GOP nominee Mitt Romney was roundly criticized just before the Olympics essentially for meddling into something not his business (but something he knew about):  Olympic security.  (I wish he’d criticized pro athletes in the Games but can’t have everything!)  Practically run out of the UK on a [...]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. With the headlines going to the Fiscal Cliff and the Left’s attack on the Second Amendment, not many people are really looking at foreign policy too closely these days. Mrs. Clinton’s fortuitous concussion and [...]

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Alea acta est…the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. The Obama Administration’s empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood has had some interesting ramifications, among them the changes in the status of long standing U.S. clients and allies in the region. This week’s [...]

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