Feb 14th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Power Line has chosen as their Book of the Year Norman Podhoretz’s World War IV; The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. Gabriel Schoenfeld referred to the award dinner in out first Picking yesterday.
… Last night I listened to Henry Kissinger speak at a dinner (honoring Norman Podhoretz for his new [...]
Feb 13th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Gabriel Schoenfeld parses the Dem Iraq rhetoric.
… Last night I listened to Henry Kissinger speak at a dinner (honoring Norman Podhoretz for his new book) that was put on by the amazing trio running Power Line. He made one point that struck me with special force: American withdrawal from [...]
Feb 12th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Peter Wehner says Pelosi has morphed into Baghdad Bob.
… Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, has become our Baghdad Bob. And what a spectacle it is. Jihadists in Iraq are testifying to their own failures. At the same time, the Speaker of the House [...]
Feb 11th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren, Canadian, looks at Britain and sees Canada’s future.
… In various other ways, Shariah is being recognized, semi-formally. For instance, although bigamy remains nominally a crime in Britain, the Labour government has approved new social provisions by which extra welfare payments, council housing privileges, and tax benefits may [...]
Feb 10th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn’s weekly OC Register column reviews the campaign to date.
… it should be noted that the defining McCain moment came back in the fall when he responded to Hillary Clinton’s support for public funding for a Woodstock museum. If you’re under 70 and have no idea what “Woodstock” [...]
Feb 7th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Samizdata with a quote of the day we can all understand.
Accuracy in Media finds out just what H. Clinton was doing during the Watergate hearings. Her supervisor in the House Impeachment staff says;
… During that period I kept a private diary of the behind the scenes congressional activities. My [...]
Feb 6th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Snow in strange places catches David Warren’s attention.
… Surprise plays an important part, alike in humour and in military tactics. Perhaps it is even more important to humour, for as we’ve seen through recent history, the United States Army is more or less irresistible even when you can see them [...]
Feb 5th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Turns out a lot of today is history day.
Jonah Goldberg is first with things you never knew about W.
I’m thinking of an American president who demonized ethnic groups as enemies of the state, censored the press, imprisoned dissidents, bullied political opponents, spewed propaganda, often expressed contempt for the Constitution, [...]
Feb 4th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren marks the Tet Offensive 40 years later.
… The Tet Offensive ended not only in a huge allied victory in the field — some 45,000 of the Communist soldiers had been killed, and their infrastructure entirely destroyed. It was victory after an event that showed skeptical South Vietnamese, [...]
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Regarding the hundreds of Bush lies, Gabriel Schoenfeld found others of similar quality.
Last week we noted that the Center for Public Integrity, a public-interest group in Washington DC, had created an online database of the 935 “false statements†uttered by ranking officials of the [...]
