May 29th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Scott Johnson of Power Line is in the Weekly Standard with a remedial history lesson for Obama.
BARACK OBAMA FIRST VOWED to meet unconditionally with the leaders of America’s foremost enemies in the YouTube Democratic candidates’ debate on July 23, 2007. Since then he has reaffirmed and expanded on [...]
May 28th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn’s piece from Sunday was so good we run it again.
… But, before we start suing distant sheikhs in exotic lands for violating the NOPEC act, why don’t we start by suing Congress? After all, who “limits the production or distribution of oil” right here in [...]
May 27th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Rebecca Walker, daughter of the author Alice Walker (The Color Purple) describes her journey away from her mother’s rabid hate-filled feminism.
… I was raised to believe that women need men like a fish needs a bicycle. But I strongly feel children need two parents and the thought [...]
May 26th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Proving Mark Twain’s dictum that a lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes, Anti-Semites started eight years ago on their latest blood libel ably assisted by a French news organization. Pickerhead refers to the story of Muhammad Al-Dura. French courts are beginning to [...]
May 25th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Slate had a number of cool pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge. Here’s two.
Charles Krauthammer has lots of fun with Obama’s mistake that has “metastasized.”
When the House of Representatives takes up arms against $4 gas by voting 324-84 to sue OPEC, you know that election-year discourse has entered the realm [...]
May 22nd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Karl Rove writes today on Obama’s troubling foreign policy instincts.
… On Wednesday, Mr. Obama said in Florida that in a meeting with the Iranians he’d make it clear their behavior is unacceptable. That message has been delivered clearly by Republican and Democratic administrations in public and private [...]
May 21st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn was wearing his Happy Warrior hat at the National Review.
Of late I’ve been having some sport with a fellow named Oscar van den Boogaard. He’s a novelist over in Europe, and, while I’m not the most assiduous reader of Continental fiction, my eye was caught by [...]
May 20th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The farm bill was typical pigs at the trough. David Brooks comments first.
… The question amid this supposed change election is: Who is going to end this sort of thing?
Barack Obama talks about taking on the special interests. This farm bill would have been a perfect opportunity to [...]
May 19th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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John Bolton says if Obama wants to debate foreign policy, McCain should jump at the chance.
… Like all human activity, negotiation has costs and benefits. If only benefits were involved, then it would be hard to quarrel with the “what can we lose?” mantra one hears so often. In fact, the [...]
May 18th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Charles Krauthammer gets around to his column on Israel’s 60th birthday.
… Six months before Israel’s birth, the United Nations had decided by a two-thirds majority that the only just solution to the British departure from Palestine would be the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab [...]
