Nov 29th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Victor Davis Hanson notes three individuals who have changed history; Nicholas Sarkozy, Gen. David Petraeus, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
… What do all these mavericks who have changed the status quo have in common? First, they not only followed their beliefs with action, but also were willing to endure the [...]
Nov 28th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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John Stossel starts us off today.
Another global warming skeptic has dared speak up. Meteorologist John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, calls global warming “the greatest scam in history”.
“Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them … create this wild ’scientific’ scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming [...]
Nov 27th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Brooks says we shouldn’t listen to America’s pessimists like Lou Dobbs.
… And if Dobbsianism is winning when times are good, you can imagine how attractive it’s going to seem if we enter the serious recession that Larry Summers convincingly and terrifyingly forecasts in yesterday’s Financial Times. If the [...]
Nov 26th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Ever since the 1940’s, the Arab world has made sure its refugees have remained a festering sore in the Middle East. Bernard Lewis has the history lesson.
… During the fighting in 1947-1948, about three-fourths of a million Arabs fled or were driven (both are true in different places) from Israel [...]
Nov 25th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn looks over the candidates.
… Let me ask a question of my Democrat friends: What does John Edwards really believe on Iraq? I mean, really? To pose the question is to answer it: There’s no there there. In the Dem debates, the only fellow who knows what he [...]
Nov 22nd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Slim Pickings today.
Three items on Hugo Chavez. First is from WaPo on the remark of King Juan Carlos.
King Juan Carlos of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to zip his lip on Saturday and the Spanish-speaking world went nuts.
Overnight, the king’s “Por que no te callas?” — Why don’t [...]
Nov 21st, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn comments on Hollywood’s Bush derangement syndrome. They hate Bush so much, they’ve come to hate the country.
A few months back, Peter Berg attended a test screening of his new film in California — not Malibu or Beverly Hills, but out in farm country. The Kingdom is about FBI agents (Jamie [...]
Nov 20th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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We have a couple of items on the progress in Iraq. Christopher Hitchens, the stalwart, is first.
… As I began by saying, I am not at all certain that any of this apparently good news is really genuine or will be really lasting. However, I am quite sure both [...]
Nov 19th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Helprin, always an original thinker, thinks an armed Germany can help preserve peace.
Though no longer the chief delinquent of Europe, and though not much thought is given to its strategic position, Germany is still Europe’s center of gravity, territorially contiguous to more nations than any state other than [...]
Nov 18th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn thinks the world should give thanks for America.
… The New World (The United States) is one of the oldest settled constitutional democracies on Earth, to a degree the Old World can barely comprehend. Where it counts, Americans are traditionalists.
We know Eastern Europe was a totalitarian prison until [...]
