The Council Has Spoken!

This weeks winners in the Council category were an outstanding piece by Done with Mirrors, Chaos or Community, which asked the poignant question:

Should we work to reconcile ethnicity with citizenship, or the other way around? In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. offered us a choice: "chaos or community." Which are we choosing?

It is a long, but highly rewarding, post.  In second place was a reminiscence by Dr. Sanity, who at a moment of great pain, unexpectedly received some welcome and powerful solace from a man whose greatness many of us only have recognized in retrospect.  RONALD REAGAN - A Personal Recollection is a deeply moving piece.

Among the non-Council posts, Armed Liberal at Winds of Change, counsels restraint in Just A Second – It’s Not That Dark Yet (And We Have A Really Big Flashlight) and offers reasons to continue our reliance on diplomacy in dealing with Iran.  As he puts it:

“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ while reaching for a stick.”

Tied for second place, among a plethora of excellent posts, was Maobi's Malaysia and the pact of Omar, an unflinching look at Sharia law in practice, and a typically excellent post by Wretchard at the Belmont Club on The Coming of the Bomb in which he includes a quote by H.G. Wells and comments:

H.G. Wells described how complacent men could be in the presence of unseen but growing danger.

As always, all the winners and nominees are available at the Watcher of Weasels and all warrant a leisurely Sunday perusal.