Mar 31st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Karl Rove tells how to prevail at a contested convention.
After the last Democratic Primary is held in early June, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will have enough votes from delegates elected in caucuses or primaries to be declared the nominee. Obama would have to win 76 percent and [...]
Mar 30th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Guardian columnist says Europe needs the American defense umbrella.
… For years now, NATO nations have been committed to reach a minimum defence spending target of 2% of GDP. Yet 20 of them, including Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, have fallen far short. Among the six that have [...]
Mar 27th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The Libertarian warning about McCain is made by Reason’s editor in a NY Times op-ed.
BEHIND any successful politician lies a usable contradiction, and John McCain’s is this: We love him (and occasionally hate him) for his stubborn individualism, yet his politics are best understood as a decade-long attack on [...]
Mar 26th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Today we have a detailed look at the chaos in the Dem race. New Republic’s Noam Scheiber is first in Slouching Towards Denver: The Democratic death march.
When Democrats contemplate the apocalypse these days, they have visions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugging it out à la Ted Kennedy [...]
Mar 25th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Before we get into the mess of today’s politics, we get a chance to see when things work well we get someone on the supreme court like Clarence Thomas. He is featured in WSJ’s Weekend Interview.
… For a man who has been subjected to a great deal of vitriol, [...]
Mar 24th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Easter Sunday a 74 year old man died in Zimbabwe. Times, UK with the story. See if you agree with Pickerhead that if Bill Gates wants to help Africa, he should divert some funds to create the ultimate NGO*, an army that will remove leaders like Mugabe. (*NonGovernmental Organization)
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Mar 23rd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Karl Rove says the Dems have major national security problems.
One out of five is not a majority. Democrats should keep that simple fact of political life in mind as they pursue the White House.
For a party whose presidential candidates pledge they’ll remove U.S. troops from Iraq immediately upon taking [...]
Mar 20th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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McCain at the Western Wall.
More on the fifth year of war. Power Line posts on Bush’s speech with an O’Henry twist at the end.
Fouad Ajami makes the Iraq case.
Wars have never been easy to defend. Even in “heroic” cultures, men and women applauded wars then grew weary of them. [...]
Mar 19th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren uses Friedrich Hayek to explain how environmentalists have become stalking horses for the people who wish to command others.
It was my hero, Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), economist of the “Austrian School,” and historian of ideas, who wrote the book titled Road to Serfdom. It appeared in the spring of [...]
Mar 18th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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On the fifth anniversary Slate asked proponents of the Iraq War what they got wrong. Chris Hitchens says - nothing.
An “anniversary” of a “war” is in many ways the least useful occasion on which to take stock of something like the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq, if only because any [...]
