May 17th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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We’re a little long today. Thankfully it is the end of the week.
Whole bunch of global warming stuff.
The first warming piece is from The Nation. This is a first for Pickings. It’s a typical item from the conspiratorial genre of the left and is [...]
May 16th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Bernard Lewis gives another Middle East history lesson.
Jonathan Gurwitz lists the lessons of Fort Dix.
In Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens writes on changes to his neighborhood in London.
It’s impossible to exaggerate how far and how fast this situation has deteriorated. Even at the time [...]
May 15th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In Contentions, Gabriel Schoenfeld, examining the past, peers into the future.
In 1981, Israel hit Iraq’s nuclear facility at Osirak. Eight F-16 fighter-bombers and eight F-15 fighters swooped in to carry out a precision strike that set back Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions by more [...]
May 14th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Theodore Dalrymple, who has a second home in France, writes on Sarkozy and what his election might mean.
The French Revolution having taken place only two centuries previously, Chou En-lai famously remarked that it was too early to tell what its effects might be. [...]
May 13th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark’s Sun-Times column comments on the backgrounds of the Fort Dix Six.
…what then radicalized so many Western Muslims? Answer: in many cases, the Balkans. When Yugoslavia collapsed 15 years ago, Jacques Poos told the Americans to butt out: “The hour of Europe has [...]
May 10th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Today turns out to be Institute for Justice Day.
IJ has been mentioned from time to time in Pickings. We have just learned a charity rating service continues to give IJ its highest award.
Next is an example of the types of clients assisted by the [...]
May 9th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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We start off with John Stossel’s weekly column.
Bill Clinton once declared, “The era of big government is over.” Both Republicans and Democrats applauded.
What a joke.
Government grew under Clinton, and grew even faster under his successor. Government is so big today that more than half [...]
May 8th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Michael Barone, the master of voting statistics, gives us lost of food for thought with his column in WSJ today.
In 1950, when I was in kindergarten in Detroit, the city had a population of (rounded off) 1,850,000. Today the latest census estimate for Detroit [...]
May 7th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Gabriel Schoenfeld and Norman Podhoretz wrote excellent posts today in Contentions, Commentary’s blog.
Schoenfeld;
… supporting a war that is going badly, in which American forces are getting continually hammered, is emotionally, morally, and intellectually arduous. To those of us who do not want to see [...]
May 7th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
The proprietor of this site, Ed Roesch, lives in tidewater Virginia where he owns and operates a small business that fabricates precision metal parts for electronic enclosures. Started by Mr. Roesch in 1981, the company has grown from two to almost 100 people. All without memos, meetings, or mission statements. However, like many small business [...]
