Watcher's Council Nominations - April Fool's Edition

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 Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

This week, The People's Cube, Seraphic Secret, Maggie's Notebook and The Independent's Howard Jacobson earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won't be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It's a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let's see what we have for you this week....

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Grover Norquist - The Enemy From Within On The Right


• The Right Planet – Post-Mortem: Glenn Beck vs. Grover Norquist


• Don Surber – Norman Borlaug. He saved a billion lives


• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Forget The Nukes - Kill The Regime


• Joshuapundit-Cornell Dean: 'Why Yes, ISIS Is Welcome To Train Jihadis On Campus!'


• Bookworm Room – Jesus would have supported RFRA


• The Razor – Red Barchetta Coming to a Road - and Sky - Near You


• The Independent Sentinel – Lt Gen Flynn-'Incredible Policy Confusion' While There Is a 'Complete Breakdown of Order in the Middle East'


• VA Right! - Is Hanover School Superintendent Wilson Allowing Porn in School Libraries? You be the Judge!


• The Glittering Eye -Stability in Afghanistan and Other Oxymorons


• Rhymes With Right – Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District Dies Not With A Bang, But A Whimper


• Nice Deb – Pushing Back Against The Left's Attack on Religious Freedom

Honorable Mentions

• The People's Cube - Smear Here: The Official Ted Cruz Denouncement Thread


• Maggie's Notebook - Bowe Bergdahl: 8 Who Died Searching for a Deserter – Where’s Rose Garden Apology?


• Seraphic Secret - Obama’s Jihad Against Israel


• Howard Jacobson - Witness the final walk of a dog and know all you need to know of dignity in death... and life

Non-Council Submissions

• Sultan Knish –Obama's Two State Tantrum submitted by The Noisy Room


• Frank Gaffney, Jr./Center for Security Policy – Grover Norquist is No ‘Useful Idiot’ submitted by The Right Planet


• Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Exclusive: Virginia State Bar case against Israel trip falling apart submitted by Don Surber


• Alan Johnson/ World Affairs Journal – Iran’s Latest Bait and Switch submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Ayaan Hirsi Ali/WSJ – America's Academies for Jihad submitted by Joshuapundit


• Stately McDaniel Manor-Rape Investigation: Reality v. Narrative submitted by Bookworm Room


• Cathy Young/Real Clear Politics –The UVA Case and Rape-Hoax Denial submitted by The Razor


• Mychal Massie's The Daily Rant –Obamacare: Crutch for the Irresponsible submitted by The Independent Sentinel


• The Bull Elephant – Virginia State Bar Accused of Boycotting Israel; Media Relations Failure Ensues submitted by VA Right!


• The Diplomad 2.0 – Let's Hear a Big "Yemen!" for Obama's Foreign Policy! submitted by The Glittering Eye


• Ace of Spades HQ – The New Intolerance: We Are Now Required To Embrace Just About Everything, Except the Gutter Religion Christianitysubmitted by Rhymes with Right


• Ross Douthat/NY Times -Questions For Indiana's Critics submitted by Nice Deb


• Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner – The Left wages total war; and then plays victim submitted by The Watcher


• Victor Davis Hanson – The Putin Way submitted by The Watcher

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