Jun 16th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Daniel Henninger has thoughts on the country that won’t drill for oil.
Charles de Gaulle once wrote off the nation of Brazil in six words: “Brazil is not a serious country.” How much time is left before someone says the same of the United States?
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At this point in [...]
Jun 15th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Dick Cheney had some Russert thoughts.
Peter Wehner “unpacks” a recent Joe Klein piece on Iraq. It’s long (2,100 words), but a perfect metaphor for the problems W faced trying to steer a consistent course while facing unrelenting criticism from Dems and the media.
On his June 11 Swampland blog, [...]
Jun 12th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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June 23rd is an infamous date. It was three years ago the Supreme court issued the Kelo decision. Susette Kelo is here with a request.
My name is Susette Kelo.
On Monday, June 23, 2008, I need your help in making a little bit of history.
June 23 is the [...]
Jun 11th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The Kagans, Kimberley and Frederick, review recent gains in Iraq.
America is very close to succeeding in Iraq. The “near-strategic defeat” of al Qaeda in Iraq described by CIA Director Michael Hayden last month in the Washington Post has been followed by the victory of the Iraqi government’s [...]
Jun 10th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Chris Hitchens wonders why Mandela is AWOL when it comes to the Mugabe mess next door.
The scale of state-sponsored crime and terror in Zimbabwe has now escalated to the point where we are compelled to watch not just the systematic demolition of democracy and human rights in that [...]
Jun 9th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mugabe is in Rome. Anne Applebaum says it illustrates the uselessness of the U. N. and the E. U.
With an unerring sense of timing, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrived in Rome last week, thereby demonstrating the profound limitations of international diplomacy. Indeed, it’s hard to think [...]
Jun 8th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Frederick Kagan says the McCain/Obama approaches to the “surge in Iraq” retail the essential differences between them.
It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years. As [...]
Jun 5th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Thomas Sowell says our duty as voters is clear.
Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober– if not grim– assessment of where we are.
Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election [...]
Jun 4th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Fouad Ajami reminds why we are in Iraq.
… Liberal opinion in America and Europe may have scoffed when President Bush drew a strict moral line between order and radicalism – he even inserted into the political vocabulary the unfashionable notion of evil – but this sort of clarity [...]
Jun 3rd, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Christopher Hitchens says if you want to read a “tell-all” book that informs about Bush and the war, read Douglas Feith’s book.
… It’s also of considerable interest to learn that the main argument for adhering to the Geneva Conventions was made within the Pentagon and that the man [...]
