Apr 14th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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This weekend, the NY Times reminded us why we miss Milton Friedman. It is the NY Times, so don’t expect too much.
… In the United States, the reconsideration of the Friedman doctrine came via the global financial crisis that has resulted from the collapse of American real estate. Many economists [...]
Apr 13th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Gerard Baker thinks the demonstrations against the Olympic flame have a refreshing time warp about them.
There’s a nostalgic quality to the angry demonstrations that have greeted the arrival of the Olympic flame in Europe and the United States this week.
For some time now the modern wisdom that has brought young [...]
Apr 10th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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London Times’ Gerard Baker sees some irony in Petraeus visit to Senate.
Something quite strange happened in Washington today. Three US Senators took a day off from their usual working routine and showed up in the US Senate.
John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama swapped for a day the life of [...]
Apr 9th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Joe Klein had unkind things to say about Peter Wehner. So, Wehner started quoting Klein. Turns out that was unkind.
… On February 22, 2003, he told Tim Russert on his CNBC program that the war was a “really tough decision†but that he, Klein, thought it was probably “the right [...]
Apr 8th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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This past weekend’s history lesson came in the form of a piece in WaPo about conditions in Germany at the end of WW II. Remember that? It was the good war.
… In 1945, the Allies had a carefully thought-out plan for what would follow victory. For two years before his [...]
Apr 3rd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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It takes a Canadian paper, The National Post, to point out an important Katrina lesson.
Shortly before Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, the chief executive officer of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, gathered his subordinates and ordered a memorandum sent to [...]
Apr 2nd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Claudia Rosett finds an award North Korea can win.
… Consider: If anyone is giving out Earth Hour awards worldwide, the obvious winner would be Kim Jong Il, who has created in North Korea a realm in which every day is Earth Day (see photo above). Whatever the genuine perils, [...]
Apr 1st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Christopher Hitchens remembers more about Bosnia in Tuzla Tall Tales.
… Yet this is only to underline the YouTube version of events and the farcical or stupid or Howard Wolfson (take your pick) aspects of the story. But here is the historical rather than personal aspect, which is what you [...]
