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William Kristol wrote an essay in his magazine, the Weekly Standard.  It is well written and worthy of comment. Kristol’s thesis is that when we renounced the world badge and beat, we ended up with 9/11.  But Kristol confuses the Cold War with the post-war era.  I certainly agree with him that we were too [...]

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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. 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 tallies [...]

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Every week on Monday morning , the Council and invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: What grade would you give Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech? The Noisy Room: Many will disagree, but I give Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech an [...]

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For those on the left that are trying to spread the “you took Obama out of context” line, his ‘you didn’t build that’ comment is even worse when you consider the context. If Obama’s logic were right, we would all own businesses. His point in context is that we have Government to thank because without [...]

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You have probably seen the Barack Obama campaign commercial by now in which Obama spikes the football again and again wanting his “props” for ordering Seal Team 6 to execute Osama bin Laden. Which for many was a step too far, especially after the left criticized former President George W. Bush at the mere sight [...]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher’s Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. Perception frequently comes from which end of the telescope you’re looking through, as this week’s winner, The Mellow Jihadi for Me and a Pakistani [...]

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I was amused about the comments of a US general who was fired for inappropriate comments in public about the Afghan government: In a recent interview with the website Politico, Fuller characterized Afghan leaders as erratic, ungrateful and isolated from reality. The interview quotes him as saying Afghan leaders don’t fully recognize America’s sacrifices on [...]

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  The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week’s winner focused on an important news story almost ignored by the media and its very troubling implications.style=”font-weight: bold;”>Joshuapundit’shref=”http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2011/07/most-dangerous-story-in-news-today.html” target=”_blank”>The Most Dangerous Story In The News Todaytook an anonymously [...]

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Thaddeus McCotter is a congressman from Michigan; I heard him speak on C-SPAN at one of the 2010 political events and found him intriguing.  He plays guitar and was recently on the Huckabee show playing with the band.  I like him very much. Now Thaddeus McCotter has entered the Presidential race yesterday; his five points [...]

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On the heels of a May jobs report showing “anemic” growth and higher unemployment, Gallup writes today, “[H]iring remains seven to eight points below early 2008. That is, current job creation has not returned to its levels of nearly 3 ½ years ago, when the recession got underway. On an absolute basis, job creation in [...]

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/15/2011 are out! The news this week is that Ben Tribbit’s Not Larry Sabato was replaced at the #3 slot (overall) by Bart Hinkle’s Barticles. Tribbet’s blog falls to #4. Barticles has been climbing of late and Not Larry Sabato has been in a gradual decline for some time, [...]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results of these week’s contest are inscribed in the Great Kozmic Archives This week, when America is focused on Osama bin-Laden, it’s oddly fitting that this week’s winning post, The Abandoned by The Razor dealt with the friendship between dogs and man, something anathema [...]

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Update: Here is the story from Reuters: (Reuters) – A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday. The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is [...]

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/8/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is The American Civil War improving 102% over last week! That equates to 16 spots in the standings (from #71 to #55) for the winner’s spot! This [...]

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results of these week’s contest are inscribed in the Great Kozmic Archives This week of course, everyone’s mind was on the killing of Osama bin-Laden in Pakistan, and this week’s winner, Joshuapundit took a look at our rather troubled relationship with that country,why it [...]

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(graphic cheerfully swiped from Doug Ross) 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 [...]

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In the “I, Me My” press conference after the killing of Osama Bin Laden one would have thought that President Obama was pure testosterone laden leadership, to hear him describe the events. Sadly, the truth now comes out. As usual, this president is indecisive, and even killing Bin Laden took an agonizingly long time – [...]

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Cantor: “Many Virginians were directly affected by the devastating attacks on the Pentagon on September 11th and the bombing of the USS Cole homeported in Norfolk and those lost will never be forgotten.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Eric Cantor (VA-07) last night issued the following statement regarding the news that Osama Bin Laden has been [...]

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Can you imagine the phone call that interrupted President Obama’s golf game? “We have Osama Bin Laden! What do you want to do with him?” So, think this through. Obama promised to close Gitmo. So he couldn’t put him there without offending his far left supporters who want the place closed down. Bringing Bin Laden [...]

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