Watcher of Weasels:

The Council Has Spoken!

First off...  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Is the United States an Imperialist Power and Does It Matter? by Right Wing Nut House, and How The New Republic Got Suckered by Pajamas Media.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Only one member was unable to vote this week, but was unaffected 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
4	Is the United States an Imperialist Power and Does It Matter? Right Wing Nut House
2	St. Nietzsche Done With Mirrors
1  1/3	Horrific Nineveh Bombing Shows Counterinsurgency Working Big Lizards
2/3	Noriega Rips Cornyn For Representing Texans The Way They Vote Rhymes With Right
2/3	On Science, Fashion & Being PC ‘Okie’ on the Lam
2/3	Papa Giuliani Bookworm Room
2/3	God's Warriors? Cheat Seeking Missiles
1/3	Christians and Democrats: An Open letter To Anne Rice Joshuapundit
1/3	A Misguided College Senior The Colossus of Rhodey
1/3	The Economic War On Terror Soccer Dad

Votes	Non-council link
4	How The New Republic Got Suckered Pajamas Media
1  1/3	The Peace Racket City Journal
1  1/3	Israel and the Double Standard Yourish.com
1  1/3	The Technology of Our Dissent Beijing Wide Open
1	UK Civics Class Asks: What Would Muhammad Do? Sweetness & Light
2/3	The VSP Club The Washington Monthly
1/3	Arming Teachers Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher
1/3	"Consensus": Wrong Logosphilia
1/3	In Another Country JustOneMinute
1/3	How To Educate Inner City Poor Kavips

I thought it would be best to leave out the entries that didn't receive any votes at all.  The fractions come from the splitting of the votes...  primary choices counted as 2/3 of a vote and secondary choices counted as 1/3.  Both counts for primary and secondary choices were then added all together.  I could have avoided using fractions, but it would have put the results on a completely different scale...  I'd rather that the total reflect how many people actually voted.  Please send any questions, comments, complaints, criticisms, crude insults, or thinly-veiled threats to this address.