Aug 16th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Remember the Newsweek article on glo’warming? Jeff Jacoby goes after it in two parts. Here’s part one.
… Meacham, … assures his readers, Newsweek’s climate-change anxieties rest “on the safest of scientific ground.”
Do they? Then why is the tone of Sharon Begley’s cover story [...]
Aug 15th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn was in the National Review commenting on some of our breeding arrangements.
… The abortion lobby talks about a world where every child is “wanted.†If you get pregnant at 19 or 23, you most likely didn’t really “want†a child: It just [...]
Aug 14th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn, in the Western Standard,
About a decade ago, Bill Clinton developed a favourite statistic–that every day in America 12 children died from gun violence. When one delved a little deeper into this, it turned out that 11.569 persons under the age of [...]
Aug 13th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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John Fund is first today with his column on earmark reform - NOT!
… Pretending that the earmark process will be made transparent and accountable as a result of a phony ethics bill is vital to Congress’s effort to convince voters they’ve sobered [...]
Aug 12th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn takes note of a quiet climb down by climate scolds.
Something rather odd happened the other day. If you go to NASA’s Web site and look at the “U.S. surface air temperature” rankings for the lower 48 states, you might notice that [...]
Aug 9th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Power Line posts on a Journal op-ed we’d previously ignored.
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal published a powerful column by the former Romanian intelligence officer Ion Mihai Pacepa. The subject of Pacepa’s column was the destructive effect of the left’s intemperate [...]
Aug 8th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The Boston Globe had a stunning article this weekend -The Downside of Diversity.
IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make [...]
Aug 7th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Theodore Dalrymple reviews ‘Sicko’ for National Review.
According to Sicko, Michael Moore’s current film about health care in America, the British and French live in a world of “we,†while Americans live in a world of “me.†This is reflected in their respective health-care systems: [...]
Aug 6th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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John Fund with an overview of the excitement in the House last week.
The House of Representatives almost turned into the Fight Club Thursday night, when Democrats ruled that a GOP motion had failed even though, when the gavel fell, the electronic score board [...]
Aug 5th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Rolling Stone takes off after ethanol.
The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn’t that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after “solutions” that will make our problems [...]
