Sep 16th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn reacts to Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s description of the “mean and nasty and bitter” attacks of 9/11.
… At some point in the future, some of us will find ourselves on a flight with a chap like Richard Reid, [...]
Sep 13th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn provided more to mark the six years. His column the day after 9/11 for Canada’s National Post was reproduced Tuesday on his website. It is interesting to see how consistent Mark has been.
This is what I wrote six years [...]
Sep 12th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Boston Globe with an op-ed by a former Clinton and Bush advisor on the MoveOn.org BetrayUs ad.
… Let us be clear. It is legitimate to grill Petraeus on his testimony and to ask him tough questions about the strategy he has been pursuing. [...]
Sep 11th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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James Lileks will make you remember.
Norman Podhoretz honors the anniversary.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on us that took place on this very day six years ago, several younger commentators proclaimed the birth of an entirely new era in American history. What [...]
Sep 10th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Some of the crazy left have come down hard on Gen. Petraeus. John Fund leads the way.
General David Petraeus was unanimously confirmed to lead U.S. forces in Iraq just last year, but it apparently it wasn’t unanimously hoped that he would be [...]
Sep 9th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark marks the sixth anniversary.
… Have you seen that bumper sticker “9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB”? If you haven’t, go to a college town and cruise Main Street for a couple of minutes. It seems odd that a fascist regime that thinks [...]
Sep 6th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Abigail Thernstrom reviewed the Stuart Taylor/KC Johnson Duke story -”Until Proven Innocent.”
Privileged, rowdy white jocks at an elite, Southern college, a poor, young black stripper, and an alleged rape: It was a juicy, made-for-the-media story of race, class and sex, [...]
Sep 5th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn reviews Norman Podhoretz’s new book for The New Criterion. This is long, but worthwhile.
… But the people who got World War III wrong (That would be the Cold War) *Pickerhead (and, in its darkest hours, potentially fatally wrong) [...]
Sep 4th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn makes a good point in “There were two creeps in the men’s room.”
… The human comedy is not to be disdained. Nonetheless, after listening to the post-arrest audio tape of Craig’s interview with police Sgt. Dave Karsnia, I find myself inclining toward [...]
Sep 3rd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Marty Peretz posting in the Spine introduces a WSJ op-ed.
Josef Joffe is the editor-publisher of Die Zeit who knows the United States very well, and he knows the world well, too. That is, without sentimentality or hyperbole. His eyes are among the most incisive [...]
