Feb 28th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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We’ll devote a lot of our time to Bill Buckley. National Review editors first.
… When Buckley started National Review — in 1955, at the age of 29 — it was not at all obvious that anti-Communists, traditionalists, constitutionalists, and enthusiasts for free markets would all be able to take [...]
Feb 27th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The Corner of National Review Online William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)
[Kathryn Jean Lopez]
I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
He died while at work; if he had been given a choice [...]
Feb 26th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Thomas Sowell comments on the NY Times McCain hit.
The front page of the New York Times has increasingly become the home of editorials disguised as “news” stories. Too often it has become the home of hoaxes.
Going back some years, it was the Tawana Brawley hoax that she had been [...]
Feb 25th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Roger Simon has a good take on the NY Times flap.
… No matter what your politics, for too many years The New York Times has had far too much power over our national discourse for one outlet. No media source should have that much authority in a democracy. We [...]
Feb 24th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Want to ride on a vintage DC-3 in England? Hurry because Samizdata says the EU is about to shut them down.
… There are no exceptions for classic aircraft and thus after July 16th the soulless gray men will make the European world that much more like themselves. …
British blogger [...]
Feb 21st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Corner post with a link to video of the satellite shoot ‘em up.
David Warren notices witchcraft trials in one of the lands of “the religion of peace.”
… Shariah, as the learned (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury was instructing us recently, in the course of advocating the formal introduction of some [...]
Feb 20th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren leads us off explaining the significance of tonight’s eclipse.
… A lunar eclipse presaged the defeat of Darius by Alexander the Great in the battle of Gaugamela, 331 B.C., and lunar eclipses foretold the deaths of Carneades (the ancient critic of astrology), of Herod, and of Augustus. It [...]
Feb 19th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Christopher Hitchens reminds us of Iran.
Dear Mr. President: A few months ago, it became possible to hear members and supporters of your administration going around Washington and saying that the question of a nuclear-armed Iran “would not be left to the next administration.” As a line of the day, this [...]
Feb 18th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Don Boudreaux, from Cafe Hayek devotes his Tribune-Review column to the late Julian Simon. He recounts the famous Simon wager with doomster Paul Ehrlich.
Last Friday, Feb. 8, marked the 10th anniversary of the death of the great economist Julian Simon. Although he never received the professional or popular acclaim of [...]
Feb 17th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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WSJ Editors on the move by some, including Obama, to give the protection of our courts to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned 9/11.
On Monday, some six years after 9/11, military prosecutors filed charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s foreign-operations chief, along with five of his conspirators. They will [...]
