Dec 13th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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It is little noticed now, but an Examiner editorial calls attention to an important change in DC. One that will help us get the government under control.
It’s not just another day in the nation’s capital. At 11:30 a.m., Office of Management and Budget Director Jim Nussle and Sen. Tom [...]
Dec 12th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In a Hill op-ed, Ron Christie says the polls are so yesterday, and lists some of W’s recent wins.
Recent polls placing President Bush’s approval numbers near 30 percent miss an important distinction: The policies and positions the president has advocated since 2001 have led to significant results in [...]
Dec 11th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Caroline Glick reacts to the NIE on Iran’s bomb.
The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear intentions is the political version of a tactical nuclear strike on efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear bombs.
The NIE begins with the sensationalist opening line: “We judge with high confidence that in [...]
Dec 10th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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John Fund interviews one of the members of Zimbabwe’s opposition.
Zimbabwe is in the news this weekend as its 83-year-old strongman, Robert Mugabe, arrives in Lisbon to attend his first European Union summit meeting in seven years. His appalling human-rights record has led British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to boycott [...]
Dec 9th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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IBD editorial tells us how the UN cooked the books on sea level changes at the globalony confab in Bali.
… We have no problem with the IPCC taking control of its meeting destinations. But we do oppose the intellectual dishonesty of seizing control of data and torturing them into the [...]
Dec 6th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn, in Macleans, makes the point we have laws because we are civilized. Laws didn’t create our civilization.
One of my all-time favourite observations on Canada’s brave new Trudeaupia came from the great George Jonas, apropos the good old days when the Mounties’ livelier lads were illegally burning down [...]
Dec 5th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Power Line posts on Huckabee’s assertion his lack of foreign policy experience is analogous to Ronald Reagan. They think more like Jimmy Carter.
… When it comes to foreign policy, Huckabee more closely resembles another former governor, Jimmy Carter. It was Carter, not Reagan, who viewed foreign policy as an extension [...]
Dec 4th, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn tells us why we should miss Australia’s John Howard.
… What mattered to the world was the strategic clarity Howard’s ministry demonstrated on the critical issues facing (if you’ll forgive the expression) Western civilisation.
First, the prime minister grasped the particular challenge posed by Islam. “I’ve heard those very [...]
Dec 3rd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Nat Hentoff says when it come to Sudan, the UN and Africa have disgraced themselves.
The American draft of the resolution before the U.N. General Assembly could not have been any clearer or more vital, especially since an increasing number of governments and their murderous militias are using rape as a political weapon. [...]
Dec 2nd, 2007 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn thinks the best defense is being offensive.
The holiday season is here, and that means it’s time to engage in the time-honored Christmas tradition of objecting to every time-honored Christmas tradition. Australia is a gazillion time zones ahead of the United States – it may even be Boxing Day [...]
