The Council Has Spoken

The Council has spoken! Here are the results of our weekly Watcher's Council contest.

This week's council winner was Bookworm Room with a wonderfully ironic must-read piece Redefining the word racist so that it suits ME. Here's a sample:

I’m a racist because, in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s, I saw non-English speaking Asians fresh from the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the prisons of Vietnam, and the horror of the Great Leap forward all arrive in America and immediately begin working and studying, so that their children could enjoy the American dream — and I believe that only liberal condescension and paralyzing social programs stand in the way of both blacks and Hispanics making the same strides.

Our non-Council Winner was Cato Unbound’s The Rise of the New Paternalism a cautionary tale about how government intervention starts out small but metastasizes like a cancer.

Here are the full results:

Winning Council Submissions

First place with 4 points! - Bookworm Room - Redefining the word racist so that it suits ME

Second place with 2 1/3 points Wolf Howling - The War On Religion

Third place with 2 points – The Colossus of Rhodey – “You have to trust your gut”

Fourth place with 1 1/3 points Rhymes With Right - A Constitutional Convention?

Fifth place with 2/3 point – Mere Rhetoric – Anti-Israel WH Officials Targeting American Jews With “Leaked” Dual Loyalty Smears

Sixth place *t* with 1/3 point – Joshuapundit - A Change Of The Guard Is Badly Needed In The GOP

Sixth place *t* with 1/3 point – The Provocateur – The Politics of Self Esteem

Winning Non Council Submissions

First place with 2 points! – Cato Unbound – The Rise of the New Paternalism Submitted by The Glittering Eye

Second place with 1 2/3 points - Victor Davis Hanson - Next Battle: Immigration Submitted by JoshuaPundit

Third place *t* with 1 1/3 points - Questions and Observations – “Everyone deserves health care” Submitted by Rhymes with Right

Third place *t* with 1 1/3 points - Big Lizards - “Repeal and Replace” – Filling In the Outline Submitted by Wolf Howling

Third place *t* with 1 1/3 points – Rhymes with Cars and Girls – The Cult Of Superman’s Father Submitted by American Digest

Fourth palce with 1 point – Judy’s World, Judy Mandelbaum - What motivates female suicide bombers? Submitted by Right Truth

Fifth place *t* with 2/3 point – The Sundries Shack – Maybe the Surgeon General Could Issue a Warning for Presidential Q&As Submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey

Fifth place *t* with 2/3 point – Big Lizards - The drumbeat grows louder: Petraeus for President Submitted by Bookworm Room

Fifth place *t* with 2/3 point – Legal Insurrection – What If Palestinians Were Settlers? Submitted by The Watcher

Sixth place with 1/3 point – The Truth According to Mark - The Obama Crash Submitted by The Razor

Council Note: We currently have a seat open for a qualified blogger on the Council up for grabs. If you're interested, you may apply here...or e-mail me for details.

As always, congratulations not only to the winners but to the participants.

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