Sep 30th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn thinks we talk too much.
… So much of contemporary life is about opportunities for self-congratulation. Risk-free dissent is the default mode of our culture, and extremely seductive. If dissent means refusing to let the Bush administration bully you into wearing [...]
Sep 27th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Dilbert gets the lead because he blogged on Bjorn Lomborg’s visit to Bill Maher’s show. You gotta go with two of our favorites together.
… The primary skill of an economist is identifying all of the explanations for various phenomena. Cognitive dissonance is, at [...]
Sep 26th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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George Will nicely explains the many hypocrisies of the Times deal with MoveOn.
… The Times, a media corporation that is a fountain of detailed editorial instructions about how the rest of the world should conduct its business, seems confused about how it [...]
Sep 25th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Some of our favorites express their Ahmadinejad opinions.
The Captain is first.
… No one will learn anything from Ahmadinejad’s visit today that they didn’t know before. He’s an uneducated buffoon who serves as a convenient mouthpiece for the Iranian theocrats who hold the [...]
Sep 24th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Robert Tracinski writes for Real Clear Politics on the coming war with Iran.
For more than a year now, I have been arguing that war with Iran is inevitable, that our only choice is how long we wait to fight it, [...]
Sep 23rd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn covers her new health plan with, “Bend Over for Nurse Hillary.”
… Last week freedom took another hit. Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled her new health care plan. Unlike her old health care plan, which took longer to read than most cancers [...]
Sep 20th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Power Line posts on “Columbia’s Disgrace.” That would be their invitation to Ahmadinejad.
Mark Steyn Corner posts on the DC dry cleaners who gave up.
John Tierney with a great post on Economists vs. Ecologists.
… The classic example is the “population crisis†of the 1960s [...]
Sep 19th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Michael Goodwin says it’s time for Spitzer to try the truth.
He tried bravado, he tried apologies and he tried silence. Sooner or later, Eliot Spitzer is going to have to try the truth.
That’s the loud-and-clear message from the latest voter survey [...]
Sep 18th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Jim Taranto makes the point that Frank Rich cannot be expected to know any better if his only source for news is the NY Times.
… Frank Rich is an opinion columnist, and as such he is entitled to express the tendentious view that this [...]
Sep 17th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn comments on Pete Seeger’s mea culpa.
… James Lileks, the bard of Minnesota, once offered this trenchant analysis of Pete Seeger: “‘If I Had A Hammer’? Well, what’s stopping you? Go to the hardware store; they’re about a buck-ninety, tops.â€
Very true. For [...]
