And the winners are…
Wampum’s 2004 Koufax Award Winners.
ETA: I want to call special attention to the winner in the “best post” category, from Informed Comment.
“If America were Iraq, what would it be like?
…There are estimated to be some 25,000 guerrillas in Iraq engaged in concerted acts of violence. What if there were private armies totalling 275,000 men, armed with machine guns, assault rifles (legal again!), rocket-propelled grenades, and mortar launchers, hiding out in dangerous urban areas of cities all over [America]? What if they completely controlled Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Denver and Omaha, such that local police and Federal troops could not go into those cities?”