May 31st, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Hugh Hewitt’s interview with Mark Steyn covers Fred Thompson’s possible bid and the immigration bill.
Professor Bainbridge is happy with Thompson’s run. Here’s Pickerhead favorite bullet point;
Unlike say Hillary or Romney, he hasn’t been planning to run for President ever since s/he got elected [...]
May 30th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Don Boudreaux, econ prof at George Mason, and blogger at Café Hayek, has a brilliant op-ed in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review with an analogy that nicely illustrates The Lesson of Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson - “The art of economics consists in [...]
May 29th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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More on the new French foreign minister. This time from Christopher Hitchens.
… I suppose there is some irony to be found in the fact that, while such a person takes command of the foreign policy of France, the only apparent test of liberalism in the United [...]
May 28th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The Corner starts us off with the photo of the day.
A Manchester Guardian columnist helps us understand the surprise of Sarkozy’s choice for foreign minister. Perhaps some of the sleaze and shame of Chirac will be cleansed.
… French intellectuals are trying to recover [...]
May 27th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Joseph Skelly, history prof and army reserve officer, writes about Memorial Day in National Review.
… let us honor those who have defended our right to self-government with their last breaths. We can do so on Memorial Day by attending to their [...]
May 24th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In the personal blogs of writers, we get to watch the development of their ideas. Victor Davis Hanson’s recent post on the growing European sympathy for American ideas is a good example.
For five years we have been lectured that George Bush ruined the trans-Atlantic [...]
May 23rd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Turns out Claudia Rosett can be a real bomb thrower. Casting around for ideas for new World Bank prez, she suggests John Bolton or Don Rumsfeld. If only…..
… While it’s doubtful that Paul Wolfowitz enjoyed his recent experience, the Bank’s fury to [...]
May 22nd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Bob Kerrey lays out the Dem case for the war in Iraq.
… American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite [...]
May 21st, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Some of our favorites comment on the immigration bill. First John Fund.
… There’s an old rule in Washington that in dealing with any tough issue, half the politicians hope that citizens don’t understand it, while the other half fear that people actually do. Here’s [...]
May 20th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Because the world would prefer not to be reminded, Charles Krauthammer is here to remember June 1967: a time when Israel had no friends.
The world will soon be awash with 40th-anniversary retrospectives of the war — and exegeses on the peace of the ages [...]
