Nov 15th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Milton Friedman passed away one year ago tomorrow. You will remember why he is missed if you click on his name and hear him answer a question about greed from Phil Donahue.
Victor Davis Hanson notes the lack of news out of Iraq.
There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has [...]
Nov 14th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Stuart Taylor lets fly at the left in the Academy.
… the cancerous spread of ideologically eccentric, intellectually shoddy, phony-diversity-obsessed fanaticism among university faculties and administrators is far, far worse and more inexorable than most alumni, parents, and trustees suspect.
Another hyperbolic, conservative rant about liberals in academia? Perhaps I should [...]
Nov 13th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Pete Du Pont writes on the Utah school voucher loss.
… Utah citizens voted down the voucher plan by 62% to 38%. That is too bad–educational choices by parents for their children is an important concept–but not surprising. While there are successful school choice programs operating in Milwaukee, Cleveland and [...]
Nov 12th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Maimon Schwarzschild posts in Right Coast on Armistice Day.
It was 89 years Sunday since the Armistice that ended the First World War in 1918 - the day the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front (and on all fronts) at precisely 11-11-11: 11.00 am, November 11.
In Britain and Commonwealth [...]
Nov 11th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn has Pakistan thoughts.
… Everyone’s an expert on Pakistan, a faraway country of which we know everything: Gen. Musharraf should do this; he shouldn’t have done that; the State Department should lean on him to do the other.
“It is time for him to go,” pronounced Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, [...]
Nov 8th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Instapundit shows us Michael Yon’s new great photo.
Belmont Club likes the photo too.
The Guardian reminds us the Berlin wall fell 18 years ago tomorrow.
Remember, remember the 9th of November. But who does? If you had not seen the headline to this column, would you instantly have known that I [...]
Nov 7th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark reacts to Al’s prize.
Apparently there are still one or two holdouts who decline to prostrate themselves before Al Gore. As ABC reporter David Wright fretted, “Even the Nobel Prize is not going to be enough to silence the naysayers . . .â€
Ah, so true. Say what you like about [...]
Nov 6th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn goes for the grown-up when looking for a president.
… As for phony energy, consider Bill Clinton. Back in 1998, when he was fending off the first few months of the Monica business, President Clinton used to say that much as he’d [...]
Nov 5th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Jeff Jacoby on a hero in Cuba.
AT A White House ceremony tomorrow President Bush will honor eight distinguished men and women with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civil award. Among the recipients will be the longtime civil rights activist Benjamin [...]
Nov 4th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Max Boot says we can’t call the French “cheese eating surrender monkeys” anymore.
Reuel Marc Gerecht and Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute have published a fascinating new paper based on their recent talks with counterterrorism officials in Europe. Their findings contrast with [...]
