Have you ever undergone one of those medical tests where you leave the lab ounces lighter than when you went in? And a couple of weeks later you receive a call, an email telling you to return to the laboratory? And you tromp back to the dreary place with a long face and a beating heart. The doctor, lab tech shuffles in and tells you the results have come back and they are negative. This elates you. Something else that should elate you, these results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 5 votes! Joshuapundit – Inside Vladimir Putin
• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room All the Little Communist Occupiers in a Row
• Third place with 1 1/3 votes – The Mellow Jihadi-Gimme a Break: Occupy Marines, Really?
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Bookworm Room-Marin County: What it’s like to live in one of the most affluent and liberal outposts in America
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – VA Right!- Republicans Adopt ‘Rules for Radicals’ Tactics – Right Back at ‘Cha Dems!
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Glittering Eye-Looting
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Political Commentator- Must see video: Obama’s “Julia”, Julia’s alter-ego Julia/Julian and campaign incompetence!
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Right Planet – An Immigration Nightmare: The Story of Sunny and Mark
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Simply Jews –Johan Galtung – Another Cause For Celebration At The Elders’ Place
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor –Of Goats And Politics
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – Ah, “diversity”
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Independent Sentinel – The Life of Svetlana, Julia’s’ Friend
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Gay Patriot – Time after time since he took office, Obama has failed to show the fortitude to stand up to hateful and over-the-line rhetoric

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 4 votes! – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion- Cruel irony in Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee saga submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Second place *t* with 3 votes – FrontPage Magazine/Daniel Greenfield – Forward with Obama, Mao and Lenin submitted by The Noisy Room
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – PJ Media/David P.Goldman–Labor Force Disappears in Obama’s Depression submitted by Joshuapundit
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes -Fresno Zionism Three Irrational US Mideast Policies submitted by Simply Jews
• Fourth place with 1 1/3 vote –Small Wars Journal Future of the force: Where do we go from here? submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - The Hill –Dick Morris: Obama’s sneaky treaties submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote - Yid With Lid – al Qaeda Releases Video of My Political Science Mentor Held Since Augustsubmitted by VA Right!
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Michael Barrone –Warren ancestry claim puts light on corrupt system submitted by Gay Patriot
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Breitbart.Com –Who Is The Real Sarah Palin? submitted by The Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -George Will –Jon Will’s Gift submitted by The Watcher
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Nile Gardiner –Francois Hollande’s election victory is a symbol of the EU’s decline submitted by The Political Commentator
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Alt-Market –Economic Alert: If You’re Not Worried Yet … You Should Be submitted by The Right Planet
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -XKCD –Every Major’s Terriblesubmitted by The Razor