What is the best FlynnFiles blog entry of the past year? Nearly 1,000 posts graced FlynnFiles in 2005. Some were better than others. I need your help determining the best post. I've immodestly selected ten nominees. They're listed below. I encourage you to read them and pick out the best in the comments section. And the nominees are....

Unspinning the Armstrong Williams Apology 1/10/05

Unholy Week 3/24/05

The Story Behind the Campus Assault on Pat Buchanan 4/6/05

The Mighty Do Fall 8/24/05

Vatican Defrocks 7/31/05

An Open Letter To All Conservatives 10/4/05

Looters, Elected and Unelected 9/9/05

You May Kiss the Brides 9/30/05

Banned in Boston 5/22/05

Pluto, Invented in Flagstaff, Arizona, 75 Years Ago Today 3/13/05

Cast your vote in the comments section. The winning post will be presented with a "post of the year" sash, a scepter, and a jewel-encrusted tiara.

I vote for any of the ones where I've made my typically lucid, albeit kamikaze, comments.

Just want to say Dan, that your blog is the best. Great format, interesting and diversified topics informed posters. And, although I sometimes don’t do justice and reverence to the subject matter by staging better arguments, I’m happy (in the time I have) to at least be able to mount a comment or a rebuttal or two.

Hands down, An Open Letter to All Conservatives. This is undeniably a brilliant essay.

Yes, the Open Letter.

The Open Letter is by far the most thought-provoking and memorable. (For this reason The Complete Howard Phillips Interview is also deserves mention.)

The Open Letter is the best posting. Its comments are pretty good too. Some of the other posts that are as good have great comments as the commenters strayed off topic into interesting conversations.

1) "Open Letter" for sheer brilliance;
2) "You May Kiss The Brides" for offering the left an opportunity to reveal their sheer stupidity in the guise of poster Imposter;
3) "The Mighty Do Fall" for fun and relaxation.

Overall: "FlynnFiles" for blog o' The Year.

other notes:

Unholy Week is the most arresting argument I read in favor of keeping Terry Schiavo alive.

Looters ... and ... Kiss the Brides, with their common sense commentary on ideologically loaded issues, are what I have come to expect and appreciate about this blog.

The Mighty Do Fall is a stand-out too for its Americana and (for me) sentimental value.

First post of 2006!!