The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Our Rules of Engagement in Iraq by American Future, and Congressman Conyers and Islam by Daled Amos.  Here is a link to the full results of the vote.

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The March of Folly by Joshuapundit, and Why Intellectuals Love Defeat by TCS Daily.  You can find the full results of the vote over at Watcher of Weasels. 

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Irony so Thick You Can Bathe In It by Right Wing Nut House, and The Demand for Perfection by Rants and Raves.  Here is the link to the full results of the vote. 

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Female Genital Mutilation in Georgia: Who is the Perp? by Gates of Vienna, and Isis' Guide to Sensible Islam Posting by Smart and Final Isis.  Here are links to the full results of the vote

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are A Liberal Manifesto and Other Halloween Frights by Right Wing Nut House, and Archaeological Temple Artifacts Drive PalArabs Crazy by Elder of Ziyon.  Here are the full results of the vote.

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Trauma, Passivity, & the Fear of Aggression by ShrinkWrapped, and Prison Jihad? by The Weekly Standard.  Here is where you can see the full results of the vote.

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are "As Long As We're Talking, We're Not Shooting At Each Other" by Right Wing Nut House, and Is Islam Waging War on the World? by Reconquista.  I have linked to both winning entries and to the full results of the vote.

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are "Peace" and War on an Autumn Afternoon by Gates of Vienna, and Observations on Arabs by Rants and Raves.  Here is a link to and to the full results of the vote.  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Unhinged or Calculated by Soccer Dad, and Fear and Loathing in the Land of the Pure by Isaac Schrödinger.  Here are the full results of the vote

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are ‘You'll Never Know What We DidÂ’ by Done With Mirrors, and Just Outside Westminster Cathedral Today... by Joee Blogs -- A Catholic Londoner.  Here are the full results of the vote.

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Results are in -- and a pair of excellent posts were the winners in this week's voting by the Watcher's Council.

The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Your Chance of Dying in a Terrorist Attack by Socratic Rhythm Method, and And At Night, I Dream Of You... by Villainous Company.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
2  2/3	Your Chance of Dying in a Terrorist Attack Socratic Rhythm Method
2	Three Strands Not Easily Broken Soccer Dad
2	9/11 Ambiguities ShrinkWrapped
1  1/3	A Little Journalistic Arrogance Rhymes With Right
1	Pronoun Trouble Done With Mirrors
2/3	Bush Only Confessed to a Crime, if You DonÂ’t Actually Read the Law. Or a Calendar. The Sundries Shack
2/3	9/11, Five Years Later Joshuapundit
1/3	The Terrorist Attacks of 9-11: Views from the Classroom The Education Wonks
1/3	The Danish Face in the NATO Picture Gates of Vienna
1/3	America Does Diplomacy The Glittering Eye
1/3	Angel M. Pabon and the 2996 AbbaGav
1/3	The Tears No Longer Come Right Wing Nut House

Votes	Non-council link
1  2/3	And At Night, I Dream Of You... Villainous Company
1  1/3	Ten Reasons Why the West Will Lose the War on Terror (the pessimistÂ’s view) TMH's Bacon Bits
1  1/3	Countdown To 9/11: My Days With the Dead Greetings from the French Hill
1  1/3	The Shadow of Our Hand The Belmont Club
1  1/3	A General Theory of Just About Everything Cross-Currents
1	38 Years of Terrorism Alpha Patriot
2/3	9/11 + 5, Part II American Future
2/3	One Brave Little Girl Electric Venom
2/3	Off the Net (and Off the Mark) In From the Cold
2/3	9/11 and News Reporting on Jihadist Terrorism Counterterrorism Blog
2/3	The Disunited States of America Chicago Boyz
1/3	Proportional (Mis)Representation Discriminations
1/3	The Gods of the Copybook Headings Canker

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This just in from the Watcher's Council!

the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are ItÂ’s Not a War. ItÂ’s a Trendy Buzzword! by The Sundries Shack, and Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win by Mere Rhetoric.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  I actually had to break a three-way tie in the council category this week...  I thoroughly enjoyed Rick Moran's piece about the utter refutation of the wacko 9/11 conspiracy theories, and I also enjoyed reading Freedom Fighter's pessimistic take on the troubles Jews are having in Western Europe, but Jimmie Bise's spirited defense of Bush's "Islamic Fascism" riff ultimately won me over.  Socratic Rhythm Method was the only member unable to vote this week, and the only member affected by the 2/3 vote penalty.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
2  2/3	ItÂ’s Not a War. ItÂ’s a Trendy Buzzword! The Sundries Shack
1  2/3	It Is Time for Jews to Think About Leaving Western Europe Joshuapundit
1  2/3	9/11 Tin Foil Hats Are Melting Right Wing Nut House
1  1/3	Condi's Civil War Done With Mirrors
1  1/3	Reasons for Optimism: Part V ShrinkWrapped
1	Students Swearing In Class: Tolerating The Intolerable? The Education Wonks
2/3	The Law's Power to Combat Implicit Bias Socratic Rhythm Method
2/3	Translating Khatami -- Don't Worry, He's Moderate AbbaGav
1/3	New Orleans, One Year After The Glittering Eye

Votes	Non-council link
2  2/3	Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win Mere Rhetoric
1  1/3	Friday, September 01, 2006 Gideon's Blog
1  1/3	Repeal McCainFeingold Going to the Mat
1	UN: No Right To Self-Defense In International Law Daled Amos
1	MFers Tea Party Tom Rants
1	The Smell of Death Winds of Change
2/3	Friday in Jerusalem Izfone
2/3	Discontinuities, Positive and Negative, Great and Small Dinocrat
2/3	Carleson on Welfare Barone Blog
1/3	America Online: Making a Race Issue Where There Isn't One The Colossus of Rhodey
1/3	UN Report Denies "Right" of Self Defense Alpha Patriot

It was a great week with some great nominees, so congratulations to all who participated.

And if you want a chance o be nominated this week, take a look here for the Watcher's offer of Link Whorage.

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Without further ado, here are this week's results!

And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Empire and Apocalypse by Gates of Vienna, and Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage by Kobayashi Maru.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  I actually had to break a tie in the non-council category this week...  Ms. Cornelius made an interesting comparison between high school and Dante's concentric Circles of Hell, but I ultimately cast my lot for Kobayashi Maru's bleak analysis of our struggle against Islamofascism.  Two members were unable to vote this week...  but The Sundries Shack was the only member affected by the 2/3 vote penalty.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
2  1/3	Empire and Apocalypse Gates of Vienna
2	Targeted Killings, Moral Consideration Soccer Dad
2	Meanwhile, in Darfur... Joshuapundit
1	Say Anything AbbaGav
2/3	Flag Flapped In Colorado The Education Wonks
2/3	Valid Pedagogical Purpose -– Poor Pedagogical Methodology Rhymes With Right
1/3	Save the Electoral College! Right Wing Nut House
1/3	Pluto Struck Down As Unconstitutional Socratic Rhythm Method

Votes	Non-council link
3	Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage Kobayashi Maru
2	When Teaching School Is Like... A Divine Comedy A Shrewdness of Apes
1  1/3	Shaw's "But" Proves Him an Ass Caerdroia
1	Anchoress Called on to "Retract" Support for Rudy The Anchoress
1	Niall Ferguson on the 21st Century The Belmont Club
2/3	The First Scene of Ehud Olmert's Last Act Israel Matzav
2/3	All the News ThatÂ’s Fit To Blackout Blue Crab Boulevard
1/3	Walking Among the Tent Camps Publius Pundit
1/3	A Greek Tragedy: Glass Half-Empty Pixane
1/3	NYTimes Watch: It's Not Easy Being Blind Villainous Company
1/3	"Melting Pot" of Victims Shows Depth of Muslim Integration Point Five

Congratulations all around -- especially to my Non-Council nominee, Ms. Cornelius.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Iraq: Quit or Commit by Right Wing Nut House, and Bad Faith by 3AM Magazine. 

Please click the link for the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are A Questionable Assumption by ShrinkWrapped, and Muslim Musings on British Muslims by Eteraz. 

Here is where you can find the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are They're Not What You've Been Told, They're Our Neighbors' Kids. by AbbaGav, and A Difficult Lesson by Treppenwitz. 

Here are the full results of the vote.

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The New York Times has decided. Twenty-six days of war is too much.

It is now 26 days since Hezbollah and Israel began their latest combat — a very long time for the world to allow such a deadly conflict to rage in the Middle East powder keg. Yet the fighting still continues. Diplomats still dither over cease-fire details. Innocent people still keep dying.

Enough. This is the week that the international community must impose a truce, to be followed, in short order, by a political settlement and the dispatch of a robust international force to patrol LebanonÂ’s oft-violated border with Israel.

The Israeli government needs to thell the international community "Thanks, but no thanks." There has been an international force in Lebanon for three decades, and its presence has done no good. Israel has repeatedly had to enter Lebanon to stop attacks taking place from the very shadow of UNIFIL facilities, while hezbollah and other groups have operated with impunity. Indeed, the last UN resolution on the issue of southern Lebanon required the disarming of Hezbollah and disbanding of its military forces. That did not happen, leading to the current situation.

The time has come for Israel to complete the job at hand -- and to say that the UN is incompetent and incapable of bringing peaces to the region.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are A Perspective on Tribes and Anti-Semitism by ShrinkWrapped, and Mayhem at the Defend Hizballah Rally! by Solomonia. 

Click here for the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are When History Bites Back by Joshuapundit, and Wither the 'Democratization Strategy'? by TigerHawk. 

And here is a link to the full results of the vote.

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This week I have three bits of information for you regarding the Watcher's Council.

First, the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Bleeding Iraq by Right Wing Nut House, and Singing Out of the Flock. by Iraq the Model. You can go here for the full results of the vote.

Second, The Watcher is making his regular offer of link whorage for those interested in submitting a post for consideration in the Non-Council category. Details here.

Third, Dr. Sanity is leaving the Council due to time constraints (she is writing a book). That leaves us with an open seat. Information on how to apply for that seat can be found here.

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Tthe winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The Wild, Wild West(ern Europe) by Gates of Vienna, and Declaration of Independence: A Fisking by Outside the Beltway. 

You can find the full results of the vote here.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The Dance of Escalation and Reaction by ShrinkWrapped, and It's an Islamic Jihad, Stupid by Townhall.com. 

Here is a link to the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The Iraqi Insurgency Has No Central Command by The Glittering Eye, and The Jihadi Network's Fatal Flaw by The American Thinker. 

Here is where you can find the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Spinning Their Way to Defeat in November by Right Wing Nut House, and One LiberalÂ’s Argument for Still Staying in Iraq by A Newer World. 

Here are your links to the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Abolish the "N" Word by ShrinkWrapped, and Why Does the Unhinged Left So Hate Jeff Goldstein? by Ace of Spades HQ. 

Here is where you can find the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Who Do You Trust With Your Constitution? by New World Man, and "Guest Workers" Are Destroying the US by MaxedOutMomma. 

Here is where you can find the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Let Us Make Them All Welcome by Gates of Vienna, and The Essential President Bush by The Anchoress. 

Here is where you can find the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Public Virtue by Done With Mirrors, and You Dissin' My God! by Vox Poplar Is Right About Everything & Don't You Forget It!. 

Here is where you can find the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are White House Rules by Done With Mirrors, and Republicans and the Flight of Opportunity by Cato Unbound. 

Here is where you can access the full results of the vote.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are decided.

The top Council entry was The Last Boat Out of Liverpool by Gates of Vienna, with You're-being-mean-to-me Liberalism by New World Man making a strong showing in second place.

Similarly, Non-Council entry Can America Still Win Wars? by Villainous Company was selected as the winner this week, hotly pursued by Of a Fire in a Field from American Digest. 

Having linked to both winning entries and their runners up, here is the full results of the vote.

Congratulations one and all!

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Defend Dissent: Punish the Leakers by Right Wing Nut House, and The McCarthy File by In From the Cold. 
Here is where you find a link to the full results of the vote.

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Well, I find myself posting another set of Watcher's Council results with a combination of pride and humility.

The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Arrogant District Refuses To Protect White Students by Rhymes With Right, and Do We Need Religion? Part 1 by Wolfgang Bruno. 

I have included links to both winning entries and to the full results of the vote.

And may I express my most humble thanks to my fellow members of the Council for again giving me this great honor.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are No Relation to Reality, Indeed by Dr. Sanity, and April 2006 Message from Dan (copied here) by Dan Simmons.

Here is the link to the full results of the vote.

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I WON! I WON!

Ahem! Sorry for the burst of spontaneous gloating. I simply have not won before, though I have come close. once or twice.

Without further ado, here is the regular Watcher's Council post.

The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Immigration Protests By High School Students by Rhymes With Right (That's me, folks!), and On the Return of History by American Digest. 

The full results of the vote are available at Watcher of Weasels.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are A Slap in the Face by Right Wing Nut House, and Open Letter To Reformist Muslims by Unwilling Self-Negation. 

The full results of the vote may be found here.

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Every week, Watcher of Weasels sponsors a contest among posts from around the blogosphere. The winning entries are determined by The Watchers Council.

The Council cast their votes for< last week's nominees.

Council Member Entries: The Education Wonks, won for the excellent post Autum Ashante: Child Prodigy Or Something Else?

Non-Council Entries: Florida Cracker received the most votes forWhat Did You Do in the Great Gulf War II, Grandpa?

Congratulations to both excellent winners!

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Every week, Watcher of Weasels sponsors a contest seeking the most notable posts from around the Blogosphere. The winning entries are determined by The Watchers Council.

The Council has cast their votes for last week's submitted posts.

Council Member Entries:
Gates of Vienna won first place with King Solomon and the Roe-Men.

Non-Council Entries:
NHS Blog Doctor was victorious with The Crippen Diaries (Week 11).

The Watcher's Council has one vacant seat. Get additional info right here and application guidelines from the Watcher.

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Members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around the blogosphere. The most recent winning winning council post is The Bloody Borders Project by Gates of Vienna, and the most recent winning winning non-council post is Ex-Taliban at Yale: Another Changed Mind? by Neo-neocon. The full list of results for the latest vote is here, and here is the full list of all the nominees.

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Each week, Watcher of Weasels seeks out the best posts from around the blogosphere. The winning entries are determined by a jury of 12 writers (and The Watcher) known as "The Watchers Council."

The Council have submitted their choices from among last week's nominated posts.

Council Member Entries: Done With Mirrors took first place with Our George.

Non-Council Entries: Michael J. Totten garnered the most votes with his post from Iraq called The Beginning of the Universe.

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The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are The "Happy Warrior" Is Weeping In His Grave by Right Wing Nut House, and How Does the Modern World Look When You Have Done Nothing To Help Create It, and Innovation Is a Threat To Cherished Beliefs? by Dinocrat.  And, of course, here are the full results of the vote.

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