Watcher’s Council Nominations – Under Surveillance 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.

Council News:

Ch-ch-ch-Changes: Council Members Gay Patriot and The Independent Sentinel have departed the Council due to the need to concentrate on other pursuits, although they will still remain members of the WoW community. We’ve greatly enjoyed having them as part of our group and wish them well in their future endeavors.

But hey, just looky what we have here!

This week marks the stellar debut of Liberty’s Spirit and Nice Deb, two awesome writers we’ve been fans of for some time. They’re definitely going to add something special to the Council mix… check out their submissions this week and see if you don’t agree.

This week, Ask Marion, Right Truth and The Pirate’s Cove took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some great pieces.

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.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6 PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then just return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out 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, without further ado, let’s see what we have this week…

Council Submissions

The Political Commentator – Connecting the radical dots in Boston!
Simply Jews – More fun and games with Alice Walker
The Noisy Room – Samantha Power: The Hand That Rocks A Nation
Liberty’s Spirit – Autism-Meme as Political Insult
The Razor – The Power of Islamic Propaganda
Joshuapundit – The Anniversary Of A Miracle – Israel’s Victory In The Six Day War
The Colossus of Rhodey – Poll Shows Support for Affirmative Action Dwindling
Nice Deb – National Organization for Marriages John Eastman RIPS Democrats At IRS Hearing + Proof IRS Leaked Confidential Donor List to Political Rival
GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Beirut Is The Next Benghazi
The Right Planet – What Are Some Good Liberal Books?
Bookworm Room – Game of Thrones and how the things that we watch reveal something about who we are and what we’ve become
VA Right! – NSA Leaker Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
The Glittering Eye – Weasels
Rhymes With Right – A Long Distance Dedication To Obama Voters
The Mellow Jihadi – My First Fist-Fight in the Navy

Honorable Mentions

Ask Marion – NSA Whistleblower Snowden in Exile as the Obama Scandals List Grows
Right Truth – Soldier Who Read Conservative Books Faces Charges…
The Pirate’s Cove – Bummer: NY Times Admits To 15 Year Pause In Global Warming

Non-Council Submissions

Zero Hedge – Are Central Bankers Losing Control? submitted by The Political Commentator
The Texas Scribbler – Our Creepy President submitted by Simply Jews
Sultan Knish – We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here submitted by The Noisy Room
This Ongoing War: A Blog – Will Appeasing Hezbollah Work Better Now Than it Did With Nazi Germany? submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
Victor Davis Hanson – Obama is Just Obama submitted by The Razor
Mark Steyn – The All Seeing State submitted by Joshuapundit
Reason.com – Obama’s Last Gasp at a Legacy submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
Doug Ross @ Journal – The Complete IRS Scandal Timeline in Spreadsheet Format [Updated] submitted by Nice Deb
The Long War Journal – Iran’s Latin American Terror Network submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
The National Journal – NSA Spying Scandal: 2006 or 2013? submitted by The Right Planet
Israel Thrives – The Nakba Stratagem submitted by Bookworm Room
Michelle Malkin – Assimilation, Not Amnesty submitted by VA Right!
Alexis Simendinger/RealClearPolitics – Privacy, Security and Obama’s Uphill Quest for Trust submitted by The Glittering Eye
Red State – IRS lectures pro-life group on acceptable speech, practice of religion. submitted by Rhymes with Right
Chicago Boyz – Peggy Noonan is figuring it out submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
Gatestone Institute/Raheel Raza – On Israel’s President’s Conference submitted by The Watcher
Ann Coulter – Tips For Right-Wingers On The IRS Scandal submitted by The Watcher