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* VA Right's Tom White is on quite a roll after being one of the few political writers if not th eonly one to correctly predict Eric Cantor's demise in his native Virginia! He's been cited numerous places, was the subject of a laudatory article by NewsMax and was interviewed by, among other places, the Washington Post and The Columbia Journalism Review, and we'll definitely have those links for you once they're up.Council Akbar!!


This week, The MidKnight Review, Right Truth, The Pirate's Cove andLe·gal In·sur·rec·tion 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 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 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 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 this week....

Council Submissions

• Liberty's Spirit – The Humanitarian Crisis of Illegal Immigration and Its Underlying Meaning


• The Independent Sentinel – A Marxist President and a Fundamental Change We Can't Recover From


• The Noisy Room – Obama Facilitates The Rise Of The Caliphate


• The Razor – The Fact the GOP Leadership Is Stunned Says it All


• Joshuapundit-Kerry Signals That Joint Military Action With Iran In Iraq Is Imminent


• VA Right! - Setting Realistic Expectations on 7th District Funding – A Response to Anonymous Email


• The Glittering Eye -Failure Is An Orphan


• The Colossus of Rhodey – Priorities


• Nice Deb – Issa Subpoenas IRS Commissioner - IRS Required By Law To Keep Records of all Agency


• The Right Planet – The Blame Bush Meme


• Rhymes With Right – Thoughts On The Cantor Loss


• Bookworm Room – Bookworm's 5 Point Gun Manifesto: Or Why I believe in Gun Rights


• Ask Marion – Should Stupid Is As Stupid Does Be America's New Motto? And How Did We Get Here


• Simply Jews – Finally! Blondes exonerated. So?


• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Target Tehran

Honorable Mentions

• MidKnight Review - Why are mass shootings in our schools, almost non-existent in heavily populated, non-white, poorer, inner-city school districts? We have the answer (perhaps).


• Right Truth - Planned Parenthood Tells Dem Legislators To Support Sex-Selection Abortions…


• The Pirate's Cove - Berkley Looking To Save Us From Climate Change Using Stickers!


• David Gerstman/Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - Massive Manhunt Underway for 3 Kidnapped Israeli Teens

Non-Council Submissions

• Mark Steyn – The Unmaking of the American World submitted byLiberty's Spirit


• Jonathan Turley.com –Hot Dog Crimes: Five Guys Restaurants Could Be Committing A Crime For Selling “Kosher Style” Hot Dogs In Washington State submitted by The Independent Sentinel


• Mark Steyn –"Harmless as an Enemy, Treacherous as a Friend"submitted by The Noisy Room


• Adam Garfinkle/American Interest –Iraq: What A way To Gosubmitted by The Razor


• Victor Davis Hanson – The New Children’s Crusade submitted byJoshuapundit


• Flopping Aces – IRS regulations require e-mails that are “federal records” to be stored in separate, permanent systemsubmitted byVA Right!


• Syria Comment – The Future of ISIS and the Sectarian Response: ISIS has Picked a Fight it Cannot Win submitted by The Glittering Eye


• Francis Fukuyama/WSJ – At the 'End of History' Still Stands Democracy submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey


• Father Z -Nancy “the Theologian” Pelosi scolds Archbp. Cordileonesubmitted by Nice Deb


• American Civil Rights Union – Bergdahl: They Don't Care About the Law, Get Over It submitted by The Right Planet


• Patterico's Pontifications – Are the Cartels Using the U.S Government to Deliver Their Footsoldiers Into the United States?submitted by Rhymes with Right


• James Lewis/American Thinker-Obama's Children's Crusadesubmitted by Bookworm Room


• Ryan Scott Welch/American Thinker – How the Tea Party Took Over the GOP in Texas submitted by Ask Marion


• Joy Pullmann/The Federalist – Everyone Say It Loudly: We Need Men submitted by The Watcher


• Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney/WSJ -The Collapsing Obama Doctrinesubmitted by The Watcher


• Blazing Cat Fur – Iraq: Maliki accuses Saudi Arabia of backing rebelssubmitted by The Watcher


• Andrew McCarthy – Don’t Blame Iraq on Obama Alone submitted byWatcher

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