It's official - Chas Freeman will be in charge of filtering and evaluating the intel that President Obama sees. He'll be using the same kind of analytic nuance that led him to once declare that "Israel excels at war... it has shown no talent for peace." And in case you didn't know - that little piec...

Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 points! - Joshuapundit - “60 Minutes” Libels Jews And Israel Second place with 1 2/3 points - (T*) - Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Fair Treatment of Prisoners Second place with 1 2/3 points -......

I wasn't going to write about this tool again, but duty calls. The Council runner up from a few weeks ago was The Provocateur, writing about the vapid press coverage that's allowing Obama to channel his campaign thuggishness into a historically unprecedented Executive powergrab. The top non-Council ...

The council has spoken. The winning entry this week JoshuaPundit's "60 Minutes" Libels Jews And Israel, which effectively skewers another "60 minutes" critique hit piece about Isreal. Tied for second place were # Cheat-Seeking Missiles'- Fair Treatment of Prisoners about the loud silence that we hea...

There's a very long post to be written about the erosion of the public sphere - cultural, journalistic, academic, and democratic - under the Obama administration. The populist rush to embrace Obama - driven by rhetoric of "unity" - is one side of the coin. The other side has all of the concrete step...

JoshuaPundit's second-place Council post from a few weeks ago - tied with the one that I had about Britain's surrender to political Islam - highlighted the domestic and international dynamics that prevented Israel from finishing the job in Gaza. That's depressing enough: political pressure was broug...

This week's Watcher's Council submissions are UP! Israeli Missile Defense Group Emphasizes Need, Technological Feasibility Of Anti-Missile Systems - Mere Rhetoric writes about a group of Israeli military experts who argue that Israel's ability to fight missile attacks successfully requires a missile...

The council has spoken. The winning entry this week, was the Razor's The physician shortage and the free market, in which he examines the factors that make it difficult for doctors to serve in certain geographic areas. The runner up as JoshuaPundit's satirical It's hard out there ... On the non-coun...

Turns out that Dianne Feinstein, per Bookworm Room's post, thinks it'd be pretty sweet if Obama unilaterally dismantled the US's nuclear arsenal and de facto gutted American national security. I was thinking of using that as the anchor for a post about how the left is trotting out all of their faile...

As of this morning I'm a full week behind. Again. Nonetheless last week's winners are worth calling to your attention. The posts from Council runner-up The Razor and non-Council winner David Keyes both focused on the constant shelling of Sderot - the often daily war crimes that Hamas has been commit...