Jul 31st, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Michael Barone has nice news that affects us all. Pickerhead thinks we all need some good news.
… there’s good news here. The number of traffic fatalities is going down—down 2 percent from 2005 to 2006. The relevant figure here is the number [...]
Jul 30th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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NY Times op-ed by two dudes from the liberal think tank Brookings suggests we may overlook a chance for victory in Iraq.
VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington [...]
Jul 29th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn comments on over zealous prosecutors for the OC Register.
Do you know Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison?
If you do, don’t approach them. Call 911 and order up a SWAT team. They’re believed to be in the vicinity of
McMinnville, Ore., where they’re a clear and present [...]
Jul 26th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Ralph Peters reports on
Iraq progress.
TO a military professional, the tactical progress made in
Iraq over the last few months is impressive. To a member of Congress, it’s an annoyance.
The herd animals on Capitol Hill - from both parties - just can’t wait to go over [...]
Jul 25th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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As advertised yesterday, David Brooks’ column on income inequality is up today.
… the Democratic campaign rhetoric is taking on a life of its own, and drifting further away from reality. Feeding off pessimism about the war and anger at
Washington, candidates now compete to tell dark, [...]
Jul 24th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Thomas Sowell wonders if we are gripped in moral paralysis.
“Moral paralysis” is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to [...]
Jul 23rd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn, after four months at the Conrad Black trial, points out some shortcomings of our legal system.
Here’s just a random half-dozen reforms the US justice system would benefit from:
1) An end to the near universal reliance on plea bargains, a feature unknown to most [...]
Jul 22nd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn reminds us there is another Iranian hostage crisis.
How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran?
No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now.
What? You haven’t heard about them?
Odd that, isn’t it? But they’re there. For example, for [...]
Jul 19th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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George Will with a column that well explains why Pickerhead would vote for Hillary Clinton before he’d vote for John McCain. Students of Ludwig von Mises often repeat his idea that the best form of government is a foreign prince - because you will watch him. [...]
Jul 18th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Manchester Guardian reports on Zimbawe’s latest disasters.
Zimbabweans are shopping like there’s no tomorrow. With police patrolling the aisles of Harare’s electrical shops to enforce massive government-ordered price cuts, the widescreen TVs were the first things to go, for as little as £20. Across the country, shoes, [...]
