The Razor

If Mexico is so great just head south kid.

Council Winners

• *First place with 2 2/3 votes!–Stately McDaniel Manor–Progressives: Bayoneting Their Wounded
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• Second place with 2 votes – Joshuapundit–When The Cannibals Eat Their Own…
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• Third place with 1 2/3 votes –Bookworm Room – The infantile Left
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• Fourth place with 2/3 votes –Fausta’s Blog – Mexico: Investigators call it quits
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• Fifth place t with 1/3 vote –Puma By Design – Parents demand privacy protection after school approves transgender bathroom use
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• Fifth place t with 1/3 vote –The Right Planet – Baofeng UV-5R Counterfeit Cable Madness
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• Fifth place t with 1/3 vote –Nice Deb – Bizarre New Super PAC Ad Has Kasich Winning the Nomination at Convention
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Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 votes! –Andrew McCarthy – First, Let’s Get the Facts on Saudi and Iranian Involvement in 9/11 submitted by Joshuapundit
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• Second place with 1 2/3 votes –PJ Media: Klavan On The Culture –UnAmerican ESPN submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –Ben Shapiro/The Daily Wire –10 Signs You’ve Joined The Trump Cult submitted by Nice Deb
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –38 Pitches/Curt Schilling–The hunt to be offended…submitted by The Watcher
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• Fourth place t with 2/3 votes –Richard Fernandez/PJ Media – The Surprising Weakness of Invincible Institutions submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Fourth place t with 2/3 votes –Carolyn Zelikow/Market Urbanism – Richard Florida Should Replace The Term ‘Creative Class’ With ‘Country Club submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Fifth place with 1/3 votes – The Other McCain –Feminism: It’s about SCIENCE submitted by The Razor
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Council Submissions

• Stately McDaniel Manor – Progressives: Bayoneting Their Wounded
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• Fausta’s Blog – Mexico: Investigators call it quits
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• The Noisy Room – Welcome to the Triggering! Steven Crowder Spanks ‘Social Justice Warriors’ in 5-Minute Reality Check [VIDEO]
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• The Daley Gator – Greta van Susteren, The Marxist Moron of the Day
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• The Glittering Eye –We’re Living Beyond Our Mean
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• Joshuapundit–When The Cannibals Eat Their Own…
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• Bookworm Room – The infantile Left
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• VA Right! Vote Cynthia Dunbar for Republican National Committeewoman from the Commonwealth of Virginia
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• Nice Deb – Bizarre New Super PAC Ad Has Kasich Winning the Nomination at Convention
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• The Razor – Time to Outsource the CEO?
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• The Right Planet – Baofeng UV-5R Counterfeit Cable Madness
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• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – The End Of A Saudi Alliance?
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• Puma By Design – Parents demand privacy protection after school approves transgender bathroom use
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Non-Council Submissions

• PJ Media: Klavan On The Culture –UnAmerican ESPNohu submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Richard Fernandez/PJ Media – The Surprising Weakness of Invincible Institutions submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Doug Ross –LITTLE NICKY KRISTOF HARDEST HIT: Hillary’s Latest Email Disclosures Prove She’s a Malevolent, Repulsive Liarsubmitted by The Daley Gator
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• Carolyn Zelikow/Market Urbanism – Richard Florida Should Replace The Term ‘Creative Class’ With ‘Country Club submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Sultan Knish – First, Let’s Get the Facts on Saudi and Iranian Involvement in 9/11 submitted by Joshuapundit
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• Sean Hannity – Trump Slams ‘B-List Actor’ Who Threatened To Leave If He’s Electedsubmitted by VA Right!
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• Ben Shapiro/The Daily Wire –10 Signs You’ve Joined The Trump Cult submitted by Nice Deb
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• The Other McCain –Feminism: It’s about SCIENCE submitted by The Razor
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• US Defense Watch – submitted by The Right Planet
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• Wahington Post – An Indian spiritual guru tried to start peace talks with ISIS. This is how it responded submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• 38 Pitches/Curt Schilling–The hunt to be offended…submitted by Bookworm Room
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• Roger L. Simon/PJ Media – Is Trump Right on Trade? submitted by The Watcher
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• PC Magazine – Avoid the Trash Heap: Great Uses for an Old PC submitted by The Watcher
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Council Winners

• *First place with 3 votes!–Bookworm Room – It’s time for conservatives to take advantage of the Left’s reality denial
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• Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Nice Deb – Survey: What British Muslims Really Think
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• Third place with 1 1/3 votes –Stately McDaniel Manor – An Educator’s Dilemma: Whoa, That’s Disturbing!
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• Fourth place with 1 vote –The Noisy Room – Rush Limbaugh: ‘BEST DIRTY TRICK I’VE EVER SEEN!!’ Ted Cruz Silenced In New York
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Glittering Eye –Keep Your Enemies Closer
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Razor – The North Carolina Boycott – The HB2 Hypocrites
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Puma By Design – New York State Primary: Chaotic!
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Daley Gator – Trump And The Politic Of Victimhood
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –VA Right! – Mechanicsville Walmart Profiled, Discriminated Against Young White Couple
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Fausta’s Blog – The Carnival Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
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Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 votes! –David P. Goldman (AKA Spengler)/Asia Times–To be kind is to be cruel, to be cruel is to be kindsubmitted by Bookworm Room
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• Second place t with 1 2/3 votes –Andrew McCarthy/Pajamas Media –Pay Attention! While Primaries Distract, Obama Shreds Constitutional Governance submitted by Nice Deb
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• Second place t with 1 2/3 votes –Caroline Glick –Obama’s Political Legacy submitted by The Noisy Room
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• Third place with 1 1/3 votes – Simply Jews – Israel To Europe: Can We be Of Assistance? submitted by The Watcher
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• Fourth place with 1 vote – Defining Ideas –The Climate Wars Get Ugly submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –The American Interest – Democrats, Not Republicans, Have Moved on Immigration submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –al-Monitor – Is Hamas on the offensive or defensive? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –The Investigative Project On Terrorism – How Radicalization Was Allowed to Fester in Belgiumsubmitted by VA Right!
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Anthony Fisher/Reason.Com –Saudi Arabia’s Alleged 9/11 Connection Just One of Many Reasons the U.S. Ally is a Problem submitted by The Razor
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –OGN – How Do Syrian Women Feel about the Men Leaving for Europe as Refugees? submitted by The Right Planet
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Christopher Caldwell/The Federalist – Why Vladimir Putin’s People Love Him submitted by The Watcher
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Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Rush Limbaugh: ‘BEST DIRTY TRICK I’VE EVER SEEN!!’ Ted Cruz Silenced In New York
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• Fausta’s Blog – The Carnival Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
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• Stately McDaniel Manor – An Educator’s Dilemma: Whoa, That’s Disturbing!
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• The Glittering Eye –Keep Your Enemies Closer
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• Puma By Design – New York State Primary: Chaotic!
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• Nice Deb – Survey: What British Muslims Really Think
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• The Razor – The North Carolina Boycott – The HB2 Hypocrites
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• The American Interest – Democrats, Not Republicans, Have Moved on Immigration submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• The Right Planet – Mark Zuckerberg Proposes Love, Care and Empathy to Defeat Terrorism
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• Bookworm Room – It’s time for conservatives to take advantage of the Left’s reality denial
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• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Bad to Worse
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• The Daley Gator – Trump And The Politic Of Victimhood
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• VA Right! – Mechanicsville Walmart Profiled, Discriminated Against Young White Couple
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Non-Council Submissions

• Caroline Glick –Onama’s Political Legacy submitted by The Noisy Room
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• National Review – Minimum-Wage Activists Should Look to Puerto Rico for Clues to the Future submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Defining Ideas –The Climate Wars Get Ugly submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Andrew McCarthy/Pajamas Media –Pay Attention! While Primaries Distract, Obama Shreds Constitutional Governance submitted by Nice Deb
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• Anthony Fisher/Reason.Com –Saudi Arabia’s Alleged 9/11 Connection Just One of Many Reasons the U.S. Ally is a Problem submitted by The Razor
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• OGN – How Do Syrian Women Feel about the Men Leaving for Europe as Refugees? submitted by The Right Planet
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• David P. Goldman (AKA Spengler)/Asia Times–To be kind is to be cruel, to be cruel is to be kindsubmitted by Bookworm Room
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• al-Monitor – Is Hamas on the offensive or defensive? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• The Lonely Conservative –Ted Cruz Gets The Constitution Like No Other Candidatesubmitted by The Daley Gator
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• The Investigative Project On Terrorism – How Radicalization Was Allowed to Fester in Belgiumsubmitted by VA Right!
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• Simply Jews – Israel To Europe: Can We be Of Assistance? submitted by The Watcher
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• Christopher Caldwell/The Federalist – Why Vladimir Putin’s People Love Him submitted by The Watcher
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Update: Hey Bryan Adams, plan on boycotting Egypt now that your agent found it on a map? Egypt Jails 11 Men Accused of Homosexuality.

Here’s a list of companies and individuals boycotting North Carolina. As a libertarian living in the state who supports the LGBT+ community, I really think there are more important issues than who can use which bathroom. But boycotting an American southern state is easy to do, the economic equivalent of liking a Facebook page. It costs firms almost nothing yet gets them attention in the media and improves their branding with the relatively affluent gay community.

Ringo Starr – Every true Beetle fan knows shooting him would have impressed Jody Foster more.

Bryan Adams – No problem visiting Egypt last month where gay sex can net you 17 years in prison. Adams said he “loves it here,” even after Egyptian customs officials vandalized his guitar. Adams also toured the Middle East in 2010 with dates in Qatar, UAE, and Damascus Syria – all places where homosexuality is illegal.

Deutsche Bank – “Deutsche Bank’s deep-seated belief in the necessity of companies contributing to the societies in which they operate” in the Middle East includes offices throughout the region including Riydah Saudi Arabia, where gay sex is illegal and the second offense will net automatic execution. Oh, and don’t mention the war.

Paypal – Operates offices in Malaysia which has imprisoned an opposition figure numerous times over the past 17 years for sodomy, a crime punishable by whipping and 20 years in prison. But Paypal cancelled plans to open offices in Charlotte NC where gay marriage as well as sodomy is legal.

Bruce Springsteen – In the 1980s I got beaten up by guys who listened to Bruce Springsteen and thought anyone who dared listen to anything not on local album rock station K-SHE 95 was a “f****t.” I thought his music was whiny neo-hippy shit then and I think it’s even more shit now. I can at least be proud that he’s about as popular today with millennials as penicillin resistant gonorrhea.

Michael Moore – Golden Corral owners statewide are breathing a sigh of relief.

xHamster – I’m not surprised he’d oppose HB2 given his homoerotic-charged scenes with Oxnard.

Joel McHale – Didn’t he have his own navy back in the 60’s?

General Electric – From the China Post: “We think globally. The way we like to think about the shipbuilding industry is: we power, we propel and we position,” said Mark Hutchinson, president and CEO of GE Greater China. I guess Hutchinson doesn’t think globally about LGTB rights. Unlike North Carolina, gay marriage continues to be illegal in China. The same week HB2 boycotters made news, a high court in China ruled against a gay couple seeking to get married. Gay rights in China are abysmal in general even with a skewed population of men outnumbering women thanks to sex-selective abortion. Would GE pull out of China to protest the Chinese court decision? Nope. Why not? It would be too expensive. Boycotting a state of 10 million is cheap. Boycotting a nation of 1.4 billion is expensive.

Dow Chemical Company – Dow has a single location in Charlotte NC. Like GE Dow has an extensive presence in China. Shouldn’t it sacrifice that presence over China’s abysmal LGBT+ rights record?

Pepsi – The drinks company expanded its presence in Africa by opening a facility in Kenya. Gay sex there is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Hyatt – The hotel chain, partly owned by Obama Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, expanded its operations in several cities in Mexico in 2014. Although gay marriage is recognized in Mexico, gay bashing is still prevalent and rarely investigated by authorities.

Hewlett Packard – The company run into the ground by former GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and her successor Mark Hurd, who left after being sued for sexual harassment, has extensive Chinese operations. See GE above.

Choice Hotels International – Who are these guys? They are the owners of a whole stable of hotel chain brands and are based in Maryland. Unlike NC, Maryland does all transgenders to use bathrooms of their choice. But Choice Hotels International hasn’t exported its homegrown anti-discrimination sensibilities abroad, operating hotels the Dominican Republic where same-sex marriage has been illegal since 2010.

Whole Foods – Not sure how these guys are boycotting NC. The store in Winston is open. Maybe by making the attitudes of the staff more rude. It will be a challenge given how high they set the bar before the boycott.

Levis Strauss & Co. – I’m a big Levi’s fan, which is why a quick check of my jeans reveals they were made in Indonesia. Yes, Indonesia – a bastion of tolerance in Southeast Asia. Actually no. Gay marriage and gay porn are both illegal, and gay sex is prohibited for Muslims. While transgenders are permitted to live as the sex they choose, “They must learn to accept their nature,” says Ichwan Syam, a prominent Muslim cleric at the influential Indonesian Ulema Council. “If they are not willing to cure themselves medically and religiously” they have “to accept their fate to be ridiculed and harassed.” That would include President Obama’s transgender nanny.

Boston – The band not the socialist utopia in Massachusetts. A 1970s creator of earworms who weren’t all killed in a small plane crash in Mississippi in 1977. Honestly I thought they were dead until a friend of mine on Facebook who happens to be a happily married gay man posted an article about the band cancelling a gig in the state.

Everyone has a right to come or do business in North Carolina as they see fit. If you want to avoid the state, go right ahead. Just don’t wrap yourself in some sanctimonious tortilla as you do so unless you are prepared to make changes that hurt. For individuals like Springsteen and Adams that would mean skipping the dough from sand-gigs in the Middle East. For large companies like GE, Paypal, and the like that would mean leaving China, a country they just can’t quit.

If this is all it has left, the gay community needs to declare victory and go home or export the fight abroad and change the world. There are gays abroad literally dying for being true to themselves in hell-holes from Tijuana to Riyadh, yet gays here would rather fight about bathrooms in North Carolina. Why? Because it’s easy and something they can do from their Macbooks during HGTV commercials.  As one commentator mentioned after the Supreme Court declared gay marriage the Law of the Land, Gays can’t take yes for an answer. As a long-standing LGTB ally and libertarian, leave my state alone and take your fight elsewhere.

Council Winners

• *First place with 3 votes!–Stately McDaniel Manor – Racism In The Public Schools: Dead Or Alive?
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• Second place with 2 2/3 votes –Bookworm Room – Was Mapplethorpe the moment we lost the battle for American culture?
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• Third place with 2 votes –Nice Deb – The List: Political Retaliation in the Age of Obama
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• Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes –The Noisy Room – The Panama Papers Scandal Ensnares Hillary Clinton
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Razor – Stop Using Phobia To Describe Rational Fear or Hate
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Puma By Design – Colorado GOP’s Creep Factor
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Joshuapundit–The Unintended Education
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote – The Right Planet – The Collapse of Communism: The Untold Story
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –The Glittering Eye –What Role Does Hesperophobia Play in Terror Attacks?
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Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! – Glenn Reynolds/USA Today –Dear attorneys general: conspiring against free speech is a crime: Glenn Reynolds submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Second place t with 1 2/3 votes –Guy Benson/Townhall –Oops: ‘Disenfranchised’ Colorado Trump ‘Delegate’ Who Burned Voter Card…Was Neither submitted by Nice Deb
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• Second place t with 1 2/3 votes –M.G. Oprea/The Federalist – How Islamists Are Slowly Desensitizing Europe And America submitted by Joshuapundit
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• Third place with 1 1/3 votes –Heather MacDonald/City Journal–When Pieties Collidesubmitted by Bookworm Room
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Parag Khanna? The National Interest – China’s ‘Use It or Lose It’ Grand Strategy submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Mark Steyn –The New Man and his Gender Gap submitted by The Noisy Room
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Elliot A. Cohen/The American Interest –The Westerplatte Moment submitted by The Razor
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane/The Weekly Standard – Five Ways To Destroy The Economy submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Moonbattery –Fracking Reduces Carbon emissionssubmitted by The Daley Gator
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• Sixth place with 1/3 vote –Diana West – Did US Choose War over Qaddafi’s Abdication? submitted by The Right Planet
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• Sixth place with 1/3 vote –The Onion – Shimmering Immaculate Republican Candidate Appears Before GOP Officials submitted by The Watcher
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Council Submissions

• Stately McDaniel Manor – Racism In The Public Schools: Dead Or Alive?
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• The Glittering Eye –What Role Does Hesperophobia Play in Terror Attacks?
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• The Razor – Stop Using Phobia To Describe Rational Fear or Hate
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• Joshuapundit–The Unintended Education
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• Fausta’s Blog – Mexico: The wall as trumpery
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• The Noisy Room – The Panama Papers Scandal Ensnares Hillary Clinton
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• Puma By Design – Colorado GOP’s Creep Factor
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• The Daley Gator – So, The Kentucky Derby is now RAAAAACIST?
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• VA Right! – Virginia GOP Chairman Whitbeck’s Partisanship Forces Haley Back into Chairman’s Race
  
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• The Right Planet – The Collapse of Communism: The Untold Story
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• Bookworm Room – Was Mapplethorpe the moment we lost the battle for American culture?
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• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – al-Qaeda’s Mini State
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• Nice Deb – The List: Political Retaliation in the Age of Obama
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Non-Council Submissions

• Glenn Reynolds/USA Today –Dear attorneys general: conspiring against free speech is a crime: Glenn Reynolds submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane/The Weekly Standard – Five Ways To Destroy The Economy submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Elliot A. Cohen/The American Interest –The Westerplatte Moment submitted by The Razor
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• M.G. Oprea/The Federalist – How Islamists Are Slowly Desensitizing Europe And America submitted by Joshuapundit
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• Zero Hedge – Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Mark Steyn –The New Man and his Gender Gap submitted by The Noisy RoomThe New Man and his Gender Gap
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• Adina Kutnicki –Christian Slaughter IGNORED By Obama Inc., DOJ RAIDS Anti-Planned Parenthood Citizen Journalist: Where Is The Nexus? submitted by Puma By Design
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• Moonbattery –Fracking Reduces Carbon emissionssubmitted by The Daley Gator
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• Pam Geller – New Poll: UK Muslim vicious hatred towards Jewssubmitted by VA Right!
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• Diana West – Did US Choose War over Qaddafi’s Abdication? submitted by The Right Planet
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• Heather MacDonald/City Journal–When Pieties Collidesubmitted by Bookworm Room
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• Parag Khanna? The National Interest – China’s ‘Use It or Lose It’ Grand Strategy submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• Guy Benson/Townhall –Oops: ‘Disenfranchised’ Colorado Trump ‘Delegate’ Who Burned Voter Card…Was Neither submitted by Nice Deb
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• Victor Davis Hanson – Why Westerners Make Inviting Targets for Terrorists submitted by The Watcher
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• The Onion – Shimmering Immaculate Republican Candidate Appears Before GOP Officials submitted by The Watcher
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Wonder if her dad would be open to an arranged marriage with my son? He’d get her a better rifle than the Dragunov – like this Barrett.

Council Winners

• *First place with 4 1/3 votes!–Joshuapundit–So, Why Not Dump Israel ?
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• Second place with 1 2/3 votes – The Noisy Room – The Panama Papers – In The Beginning There Was Putin
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –The Daley Gator – White privilege as a Front for Communist Indoctrination
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –The Razor – Muslim Attitudes in Europe: Occidentophobia – Their Hatred of the West
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –The Right Planet – Captured ISIS Soldier Speaks of Trouble in the Ranks
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Stately McDaniel Manor – Bernie Sanders: The Generosity Of Socialism
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Bookworm Room – Middle class suicide; or he who pays the piper calls the tune
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – PAK Army versus Punjab
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Puma By Design – NYC’s Crime Wave – Open Season on Seniors
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Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! –Daniel Greenfield/Canada Free Press–Castro’s American Victimssubmitted by Bookworm Room
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• Second place with 2 votes –Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Mag –The Religion Of Colonialism submitted by The Noisy Room
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –DC Trawler – Now We’re Censoring The President Of France For Saying ‘Islamist Terrorism’ submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –RustE/YouTube – The Vicious Snake submitted by Joshuapundit
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote – The College Fix – Stanford snowflakes meltdown over April Fools’ joke mocking leftist campus ‘demands’ submitted by The Right Planet
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Victor Davis Hanson/NRO –How America Lost its Groove submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –The Daily Beast –Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War submitted by Nice Deb
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –The Wall Street Journal – The Panama Papers in Perspective submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes – Leon De Winter/Politico.EU –Europe’s Muslims hate the West submitted by The Razor
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Kevin Sullivan – The Resurgence of Muqtada al-Sadr submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Mosaic Magazine –How Nazi Propaganda and the Muslim Brotherhood Led to the 1948 Israel-Arab War submitted by Puma By Design
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Vasser Bushmills/Unified Patriots–Will Establishment Elitism Win Again in 2016? submitted by The Watcher (Hat tip, Puma By Design)
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion –
  Britain outraged by Palestinian payments to terrorists “who left this British woman for dead” submitted by The Watcher
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I live in North Carolina. I support LGBT rights. I also support the rights of a state’s elected representatives to make rules that I don’t necessarily agree with, such as the law mandating usage of public bathrooms based on the gender one was born with. To complete my libertarian perspective I also support private companies holding states to account for the decisions of their elected representatives, such as Paypal’s decision to boycott the state over the new law.

But when a private company does something like that and announces it for public relations purposes, I think it’s also appropriate to take it to task for blatant hypocrisy and showboating. Paypal does business in countries which treat members of the LGTB community far more harshly. Such as Malaysia. The Washington Times notes:

But Malaysia’s Penal Code 187 — which punishes homosexual conduct with whippings and up to 20 years in prison — did not stop PayPal from opening in 2011 a global operations center there that it estimated would employ 500 workers by 2013.

“We chose Malaysia because of its highly skilled, globally competitive and multilingual workforce, in addition to a world-class business environment and technology infrastructure,” John McCabe, senior vice president for global operations, said at the time.

Paypal and such companies like making popular statements because they enhance their brands with their customers at no cost. Just don’t expect jailed or whipped gays to stand in their way of cheap labor and profits.

Personally, I think the LGBT community in the USA has reached the point of diminishing returns in the USA. There are gays being thrown of buildings in the Middle East, or “non-existing” in Iran. There are plenty of LGBT rights to be gained outside of the USA, but fighting for bathroom rights in NC is laughable while millions of homosexuals still face death elsewhere.

Workers in the industrialized world have been looking over their shoulders ever since the Industrial Revolution. First automation threatened their jobs. Then with the advent of globalization and the rise of free trade cheaper labor abroad either left them unemployed or kept a lid on their wages. More recently lax immigration law enforcement coupled with legal labor dumping through programs like the H-1b and J-1 visa programs have limited wages low paid hotel maids to high paying legal and computer jobs. Decades of this competition in which the American worker or professional feels as if she is running a Red Queen’s Race have fueled the support of anti-establishment, anti-trade candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. These workers and professionals are told that they must constantly upgrade their skills, change careers or uproot and move in order to earn a living, often by academics who are tenured and corporate executives whose jobs are secure against those same pressures.

Trump and Sanders peddle protectionist or tax solutions to decrease the gap between the rich and poor. But what if there was another way besides raising walls and taxes to level the pay gap between the average worker and the average corporate CEO?

What if business executives including CEOs and entire corporate boards felt that same pressure? Is it possible to outsource the corporate board, replacing it with a more effective and cheaper solution? After all, a company doesn’t exist for its workers nor for the benefit of society. A company exists to make money for its shareholders. Shareholders own the company not the CEO or the board of directors, so they work for the shareholders just as a minimum wage employee does. So why shouldn’t corporate officers face the same pressures as rank and file employees?

The Economist notes, “Boards are almost exactly as they were a hundred years ago: a collection of grey eminences who meet for a few days a year to offer their wisdom.”The past 100 years have witnessed assembly lines and mass production, automation, the rise of suburbia and the demise of rural life, free trade regimes, the death of labor unions in private industry and its expansion in the public sector, liberal immigration policies, offshoring, outsourcing, specialization and numerous other changes that have remade the American economy several times over. Yet corporate boards function as they did when most cars were hand built and women couldn’t vote.

Is this what our economy needs? Corporations run by boards packed with cronies like “the former headmistress of (former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s) children’s school and the man who designed his house.” Why shouldn’t the top leadership be subject to the same economic Darwinism of the lower ranks?

In the May 2014 issue of the Stanford Law Review Professors Stephen M. Bainbridge & M. Todd Henderson suggest shareholders replace their corporate boards with “board service providers.” They advocate that  outsourcing the board of a company “will increase board accountability, both from markets and from courts,” improve corporate transparency, boost efficiency and lower the cost of corporate governance. In summary outsourcing the board would deliver the same promised results as offshoring production or outsourcing departments. Bainbridge and Henderson believe that all it would take would be a simple change to state corporate law requiring directors to be “natural persons.”

There are times when companies have truly visionary CEOs. Apple’s Steve Jobs or Microsoft’s Bill Gates come quickly to mind. But most companies don’t have anywhere near that level of talent, and would do well with experienced, efficient and competent leaders who also happened to be paid far less than they were in the past. It’s easy for those of us who have worked in IT for a generation and seen the changes in the field brought by outsourcing and offshoring to support such a change as replacing the board of directors with a board service provider. If we have to look over our shoulders and constantly upgrade our skills just to remain employed at the same salaries, why shouldn’t the decisionmakers at the top?

Council Submissions

• The Daley Gator – White privilege as a Front for Communist Indoctrination
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• The Noisy Room – The Panama Papers – In The Beginning There Was Putin
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• Puma By Design – NYC’s Crime Wave – Open Season on Seniors
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• Stately McDaniel Manor – Bernie Sanders: The Generosity Of Socialism
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• Joshuapundit–So, Why Not Dump Israel ?
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• Fausta’s Blog – The Panama Papers
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• The Razor – Muslim Attitudes in Europe: Occidentophobia – Their Hatred of the West
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• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – PAK Army versus Punjab
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• Bookworm Room – Middle class suicide; or he who pays the piper calls the tune
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• VA Right! – The Ghost of Eric Cantor Still a Factor in Virginia’s 5th District Republican Primary
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• The Glittering Eye –Chicago’s Teachers in One Day Strike
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• The Right Planet – Captured ISIS Soldier Speaks of Trouble in the Ranks
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• Nice Deb – The Coming Implosion of the Democratic Party
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Non-Council Submissions

• The Pirate’s Cove –TG People Are Totally Winning Against The Stereotype Of “Ick Factor” Or Somethingsubmitted by The Daley Gator
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• Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Mag –The Religion Of Colonialism submitted by The Noisy Room
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• Mosaic Magazine – submitted by Puma By Design
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• Victor Davis Hanson/NRO –How America Lost its Groove submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• RustE/YouTube – The Vicious Snake submitted by Joshuapundit
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• The Wall Street Journal – The Panama Papers in Perspective submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Leon De Winter/Politico.EU –Europe’s Muslims hate the West submitted by The Razor
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• Kevin Sullivan – The Resurgence of Muqtada al-Sadr submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• Daniel Greenfield/Canada Free Press–Castro’s American Victimssubmitted by Bookworm Room
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• Shoebat.Com – Muslims Destroy 1,500 Year Old Church, They Murder And Kidnap Hundreds Of Christianssubmitted by VA Right!
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• DC Trawler – Now We’re Censoring The President Of France For Saying ‘Islamist Terrorism’ submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• The College Fix – Stanford snowflakes meltdown over April Fools’ joke mocking leftist campus ‘demands’ submitted by The Right Planet
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• The Daily Beast –Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War submitted by Nice Deb
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• Tomi Lahren – Where Are the Men? submitted by The Watcher
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• Vasser Bushmills/Unified Patriots–Will Establishment Elitism Win Again in 2016? submitted by The Watcher (Hat tip, Puma By Design)
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• Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion –
  Britain outraged by Palestinian payments to terrorists “who left this British woman for dead” submitted by The Watcher
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Council Winners

• *First place with 3 2/3 votes!–Joshuapundit–How Pakistan Celebrated Easter …And The Message it Sends Us
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• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room – Destroying the libelous claim that “Trump supporters are racist.”
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –The Right Planet – On The Question Of Nations
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• Third place t with 1 1/3 votes –The Noisy Room – Republican Race Swings In Cruz’s Favor… Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker Endorses
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• Fourth place with 1 vote –VA Right! – A Trump Presidency will be like Formatting and Reloading America’s Hard Drive
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –The Razor – Free Trade: I Want to Believe
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 vote –Nice Deb – Trump Mocks Michelle Fields At Janesville Townhall, Taking Her Words Out of Context
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – 44’s Foreign Policy Doctrine
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Puma By Design – GOPe Responsible for Ted Cruz Sex Scandal Smear Job
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote – Stately McDaniel Manor – The North Carolina Highway Patrol: Sticking Their Foot In It
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Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 votes! –Mark Steyn – The One-Stop Shop for All Your Terror-Sentimentalizing Needs submitted by Joshuapundit
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• Second place t with 1 2/3 votes –Sam Heller/War On The Rocks – Are CIA-Backed Syrian Rebels Really Fighting Pentagon-Backed Syrian Rebels? submitted by The Glittering Eye
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• Second place t with 1 2/3 votes – Jed Babbin/The American Spectator – Obama’s Libya Sh*t Show submitted by The Watcher
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• Third place with 1 1/3 votes –Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Mag–Fighting ISIS Plays Into ISIS’ Hands?submitted by Bookworm Room
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Victor Davis Hanson –Europe at the Edge of the Abyss submitted by The Noisy Room
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• Fourth place t with 1 vote –Glenn Reynolds/USA Today –How PC culture is killing higher education submitted by The Razor
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Daily Beast – Fighting Mexico’s New Super Cartel submitted by Fausta’s Blog
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Bill Whittle –American Fascists submitted by Nice Deb
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Victor Davis Hanson/PJ Media –The Apology Tour Of Our Next President submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
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• Fifth place t with 2/3 votes –Zalmay Khalizhad/Politico – The Neoconservative Case for Negotiating With Iran submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Diana West – Mijente” and GOPe Have a Lot in Common submitted by The Right Planet
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• Sixth place t with 1/3 vote –Jihad Watch/Robert Spencer –Southern California: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” fire hundreds of shots in remote area, are arrested and released submitted by Puma By Design
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