Watcher Winners: Rock Stars and Pariahs Edition

First Place, Council: Wonderful: Iraqis Permanently Scratch Out Ancient Hebrew Inscription On Biblical Prophet's Tomb @ Mere Rhetoric

Let's put the Palestinian Authority in charge of Jewish and Christian holy sites. Sure they're actively destroying Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount and in Hebron, to say nothing of how they desecrated Joseph's Tomb and turned it into a mosque. In fact this "tombs to mosques" thing is in danger of becoming something of a pattern. But respect for non-Islamic faiths is an integral part of practicing "real Islam." I read that somewhere. So let's take a chance.

First Place, Non-Council: The Post-COIN Era is Here @ zenpundit.com

Spending $60 billion annually on Afghanistan, a nation with a GDP of roughly $ 20 billion, for the next 7 years, is not going to be in the cards. Not at a time of 10 % unemployment, when the Congress will be forced to cut Medicare, education, veteran's benefits, eliminate COLA's on Social Security or raise the retirement age and income taxes. Who is going to want to "own an ambitious "nation-building" program at election time?

Complete results below:

Winning Council Submissions

• First place with 1 2/3 points! – Mere Rhetoric - Wonderful: Iraqis Permanently Scratch Out Ancient Hebrew Inscription Biblical Prophet’s Tomb
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – with 2 points! – American Digest - Obama: Working the Enemies List
• Second place with 1 1/3 points – Bookworm Room - Obama’s Self Love
• Third place with 1 points – (T*) – Joshuapundit - Lexington And Concord Revisited – The Brown Upset and What It Means
• Third place with 1 points – (T*) – The Razor - Obama Vs. The People
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Soccer Dad - Profile of an international first responder
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Right Truth - The London Conference on Afghanistan and Yemen – Look who’s coming to dinner!

Winning Non-Council Submissions

• First place with 3 points! – Zenpundit - The Post-COIN Era is Here
• Second place with 2 1/3 points – Victor Davis Hanson - Let Me Be Perfectly Not Clear
• Third place with 1 points – Bob McCarty Writes - Terror, Travesty and Tales of Suppressed Evidence
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Founding Bloggers - A Challenge For Pro-Life Conservatives
• Fourth place with 2/3 points – (T*) – Commentary Contentions - From Disgusting to Odd
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Gateway Pundit - Heartless Progressives Send Message to Tim Tebow: We Wish You Were Never Born
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – Andrew Klavan - Inglorious Malarkey
• Fifth place with 1/3 points – (T*) – The Truth According to Mark - The Republicans’ Dilemma

Posted by Vanderleun at January 29, 2010 3:50 PM