Dave Barry’s 2007 In Review
Dec 31st, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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December 31, 2007
Dec 31st, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Josh Patashnik wonders what various Dems think about Darfur.
Did Hillary Clinton criticize her husband for not intervening in Rwanda? Mike Crowley blogged about this on The Stump last week. Then George Stephanopoulus asked her about Rwanda on his Sunday morning show, and Crowley went back to the [...]
December 30, 2007
Dec 30th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
Pickerhead apologizes for missing three days last week. Time was filled with family and celebrating.
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Adam Smith.org provides a chance for some nanny state humbug.
As Santa Claus sets off to drop presents down the chimneys of innumerable households on Monday night, let’s hope that he has got the right paperwork.
Claus, of course, [...]
December 24, 2007
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In honor of Mary, Pickings has another Ladies’ Day. We begin with The Motherland is Calling. This is the iconic image of Russia at war. We also included a picture of the memorial the Soviets placed on a famous hill in Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
Claudia Rosett starts off Ladies Day [...]
December 23, 2007
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The next couple of nights are very full. Just as well, since Pickerhead will be traveling and posting is uncertain for Christmas day and Wednesday. Lots of good stuff both nights.
Jeff Jacoby on the Muslim war against women. We lead with this because tomorrow we honor Mary with Ladies’ [...]
December 20, 2007
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Mark Steyn leads us to a Pakistani newspaper for an honest reporting of the latest honor killing in Canada.
Here is that article from Daily Times, Pakistan.
… Here’s a fact: Aqsa has been murdered. For us, denial is not an option. According to the United Nations Population Fund more than [...]
December 19, 2007
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David Warren, our favorite Canadian, comments on the Great White Fleet and American power.
… Our children today are taught in school, when they are taught any history at all, that Imperialism “was” an unmitigated evil. Alas, this is an unmitigated lie, and it is to European Imperialism that not [...]
December 18, 2007
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London Times says Iraq is the best story of the year.
By any measure, the US-led surge has been little short of a triumph. The number of American military fatalities is reduced sharply, as is the carnage of Iraqi civilians, Baghdad as a city is functioning again, oil output is [...]
December 17, 2007
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Mark Steyn says since so many of Hollywood’s anti-war flicks are box office bombs, maybe Mel Brooks is involved.
We’re all familiar with the famous plot of Mel Brooks’ The Producers: A wily impresario figures out an accounting scheme to make a fortune by producing the world’s all-time mega-flop musical, [...]
December 16, 2007
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Mark Steyn has more comments on the folks who think we should have no children.
This is the time of year, as Hillary Rodham Clinton once put it, when Christians celebrate “the birth of a homeless child” – or, in Al Gore’s words, “a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child.”
Just for [...]
