The Watcher's Council met on 03/03/05 and voted on the posts of the week (and I was late reporting the results):

Winning Council Entry:

• Freedom on the March
  Alpha Patriot

Winning Non-Council Entry:

• The United Kingdom and the United States: Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror
  New Sisyphus

The runner up posts in each respective category were More Bad News From Russia: The Putin Youth by The Moderate Voice and Washington's Birthday a National Holiday...Again by Right Wing Nuthouse.