Wednesday Reading

This should be a good week of Watcher's Council reading, since we've had some extra time to Think Big Thoughts. The Watcher of Weasels has compiled the nominations, below; winners will be announced here Friday morning.

Council links:

1. Witness
   Done With Mirrors
2. Ron Paul Tripped Up On "Meet the Press" Despite Making Good Points
   The Colossus of Rhodey
3. Primary Scenarios
   The Glittering Eye
4. The Best Years of Their Lives: Hollywood and Franklin's War
   Big Lizards
5. The State Department's Unilateral Foreign Policy
   Wolf Howling
6. Did Bush Get Jamie Lynn Pregnant?
   Cheat Seeking Missiles
7. The Freddys Seven
   Soccer Dad
8. America Derangement Syndrome -- Or, Yes, You Can Call Them Unpatriotic
   Bookworm Room
9. Our Wish List For 2008
   The Education Wonks
10. An Open Letter To Rep. John Davis
    Rhymes With Right
11. Politics Anonymous
    Right Wing Nut House
12. Al-Qaeda's Strategy Revealed In New Bin-Laden Tape
    Joshuapundit

Non-council links:

1. In the Name of the Father...
   Newsweek
2. Foreign Policy Goes Glam
   The National Interest
3. The Wodehouse Primary
   The Debatable Land
4. Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2007
   Patterico's Pontifications
5. Loser of the Year: Pelosi
   Don Surber
6. Ms. Hillary Does Pakistan
   Power Line
7. Exploding Myths
   Treppenwitz
8. Obsession to the Point of Dementia
   Power Line (2)
9. Getting Pakistan Wrong, Democrat-Style
   Captain's Quarters
10. Bennie Bhutto
    Firedoglake
11. 2007: A Global Assessment of the Confrontation
    American Thinker
12. Assessing Fred Thompson -- My Somewhat Contrarian Position
    The QandO Blog
13. Dallas Morning News Names "The Illegal Immigrant" as their 2007 Texan of the Year
    Webloggin
14. Thoughts on 2007
    Dodgeblogium

Thanks, Watcher, for providing this exciting start for the new year.