Jan 16th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn has a Monica week. He starts us off with something he wrote ten years ago for The Spectator, UK.
… Clinton’s presidency now resembles a deranged version of La Ronde, in which he staggers from one girl to the next without ever managing to shake off any of their [...]
Jan 15th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Everyone’s for change, but Mark Steyn knows the only real agent of change is capitalism.
… If you’re like me, you’re reminded yet again why you love capitalism. It’s dynamic. And the more capitalist your economy, the more dynamic it is. Every great success story is vulnerable to the next great [...]
Jan 14th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Bill Kristol’s second Times column is on the Dems’ surge opinions.
… When President Bush announced the surge of troops in support of a new counterinsurgency strategy a year ago, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Democratic Congressional leaders predicted failure. Obama, for example, told Larry King that he didn’t believe [...]
Jan 13th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Two Steyn Corner posts and a post from Contentions bring you up to date on the chilling speech actions by the state in Canada.
“The tyranny of the administrative state”
…That’s how Powerline’s Scott Johnson characterizes Ezra Levant’s inquisition for the crime of publishing the Danish cartoons in Canada. Ezra has [...]
Jan 10th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Samizata blogs on the attempt to control thermostats in CA.
Hillary has had the bad luck to attract the attention of Camille Paglia again.
… Hillary’s willingness to tolerate Bill’s compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them. Following [...]
Jan 9th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Couple of Slate columnists explain last night. Mickey Kaus first.
I’m as flummoxed as everyone else, having gone along with the near-universal consensus that Obama would win. Mystery Pollster has his work cut out for him. But I’m confident that soon enough there will be so many powerful explanations for [...]
Jan 8th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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We start with a few items related to globaloney. First a scary item from Protein Wisdom about California’s efforts to control thermostats in homes. “First they came for the thermostats ……. “
Jeff Jacoby has a welcome column. He writes about an article in the Russian news service Novosti that [...]
Jan 7th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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THE BIG STORY of the campaign so far has been the apparent end of Hillary’s hopes. Today is all Clinton collapse day, humor section and all. Borowitz, Scrappleface, and all the ‘toons. Borowitz says Hillary has repackaged herself as a black man.
Peter Wehner sets the tone.
… There are many [...]
Jan 6th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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John Tierney starts us off with the expected doom and gloom climate predictions for 2008.
I’d like to wish you a happy New Year, but I’m afraid I have a different sort of prediction.
You’re in for very bad weather. In 2008, your television will bring you image after frightening image [...]
Jan 3rd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Jim Taranto with a good take on the campaign.
If it seems as if the presidential campaign has gone on forever, that’s because the presidential campaign has gone on forever. If we conservatively estimate that it began the morning after the Democrats’ victory in the 2006 midterm elections, we’re already [...]
