Jun 14th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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WSJ editors react to the 4th Circuit decision celebrated by the left this week.
On Monday, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that al Qaeda agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri can’t be detained as an enemy combatant. The press corps is reporting — [...]
Jun 13th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Yesterday’s David Warren selection started thus;
The Prague Democracy and Security Conference was cleverly scheduled to overlap with the G8 conference in Heiligenndam, this week. Politics is generally a rat’s game, but the Prague meeting was more worth attending. I was delighted that [...]
Jun 12th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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During the week in June 2004 when we celebrated the life of Ronald Reagan, one of the most moving offerings was written by Mark Steyn. He brought it back for a look.
… Yakob Ravin, a Ukrainian émigré who in the summer of 1997 [...]
Jun 11th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Gabriel Schoenfeld in Contentions wonders about the cost of a LA Times leak.
Leaks of vital U.S. intelligence secrets can get Americans killed. They can also place Americans in a great deal of danger.
As of yesterday, Iran has seized four Iranian-Americans and charged them with [...]
Jun 10th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Charles Krauthammer entertains us writing about the never-ending presidential campaign.
… As a columnist whose job it is to chart every jot and tittle of these campaigns, every teapot tempest that history will remember for not one second, I curse election years. Now I have [...]
Jun 7th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Nat Hentoff makes the case for getting out of the UN.
Mark Steyn was hanging out at the Western Standard where he’s covering another trial. Seems an immigrant to Canada takes offense at swearing allegiance to the crown, and he has some novel legal [...]
Jun 6th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn reports on the Conrad Black trial for the NY Sun. He’s been in the courtroom for three months and Pickerhead has often wondered why. His comments on our legal system might make the effort worthwhile.
… Point one: I’m amazed at how few [...]
Jun 5th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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On the 40th anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War, we have a couple of items.
Bret Stephens in WSJ wants to upset conventional wisdom.
Richard Chesnoff in NY Daily News.
Forty years ago tomorrow, Israel wielded its terrible swift sword against the attack-poised [...]
Jun 4th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Israel’s treatment by the left commentariat in the West, is the subject of our first offerings
Eugene Volokh notes university lecturers in UK calling for a boycott.
Also from Volokh, David Bernstein comments on the South Africa analogy.
Advocates of boycotts of Israel and [...]
Jun 3rd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Ralph Peters has little good to say about any side in the Iraq debate. Says we have been out-thought by the Islamists. Perhaps, but what other strategy did they have except the one they adopted?
… Since Saddam’s statue fell, we’ve tried one grunt-level [...]
