Apr 30th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In his WSJ column, Karl Rove tells us things we don’t know about John McCain.
It came to me while I was having dinner with Doris Day. No, not that Doris Day. The Doris Day who is married to Col. Bud Day, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW [...]
Apr 27th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Editors at the WSJ call attention to the abuse potential in the Clinton Foundation.
Transparency is a popular word in this presidential election, with all three candidates finally having released their tax returns. Yet the public still hasn’t seen the records of an institution with some of the biggest potential for [...]
Apr 24th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Karl Rove asks if Obama is ready for primetime.
After being pummeled 55% to 45% in the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama was at a loss for explanations. The best he could do was to compliment his supporters in an email saying, “you helped close the gap to a slimmer margin than [...]
Apr 23rd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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P. J. O’Rourke took a ride on an aircraft carrier.
Landing on an aircraft carrier is…To begin with, you travel out to the carrier on a powerful, compact, and chunky aircraft–a weight-lifter version of a regional airline turboprop. This is a C-2 Greyhound, named after the wrong dog. C-2 Flying Pit [...]
Apr 22nd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Even though a year old, a column on Carter by Christopher Hitchens makes some good points for today.
… In the Carter years, the United States was an international laughingstock. This was not just because of the prevalence of his ghastly kin: the beer-sodden brother Billy, doing deals with Libyan President [...]
Apr 21st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In his blog, Michael Barone, gives a short review of Douglas Feith’s book which he claims is an honest account of the move to war in W’s administration.
I haven’t finished reading Douglas Feith’s War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, but I feel secure in [...]
Apr 20th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn likes God and guns.
I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: It benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on Earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. If you lack either of those twin props, you wind up with today’s Europe [...]
Apr 17th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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One last Carter item. This from Haaretz.
Senior Israeli officials were not the first to try to get out of meeting Jimmy Carter. A number of members of Bill Clinton’s administration have already tried, including the former president and his wife the candidate; most members of Bush senior’s administration, including George [...]
Apr 16th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Hadn’t planned anything for the anniversary, but daughter Liza, a reporter for the Tech paper sent me her latest. The most common thing you hear from students is how tired they are of the media. They’ve even come up with their own rump commemoration, knowledge of which, Liza tells me, has [...]
Apr 15th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Notable Corner post. Michael Ledeen on the Berlusconi victory in Italy.
… And there’s an even more annoying feature to these elections, as seen by the chattering classes: Berlusconi is an outspoken, even passionate admirer of George W. Bush and the United States of America. Reminds one of the elections that [...]
