Aug 31st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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It’s Sarah Palin Day today. Watching her Friday, was like watching the next generation come on stage. She looks like she will be a force in national politics for a long time to come.
However, Mrs. Pickerhead says, “Don’t be gloating before the voting.” Guess she’s been hanging around Jesse Jackson.
We’ll [...]
Aug 28th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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George Friedman of Stratfor explains the Kosovar background to the Georgian crisis.
The Russo-Georgian war was rooted in broad geopolitical processes. In large part it was simply the result of the cyclical reassertion of Russian power. The Russian empire — czarist and Soviet — expanded to its borders [...]
Aug 27th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Spengler, a pseudonymous columnist from the Asia Times wants to know where they put Michelle.
… This alleged Michelle Obama bore a striking physical resemblance to the candidate’s wife observed during the campaign, but the differences in attitude and rhetoric were extreme enough to warrant verification. …
… The lady [...]
Aug 26th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Theodore Dalrymple’s Solzhenitsyn obit is first.
Contrary to popular belief, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died last week at 89, told the world nothing that it did not already know, or could not already have known, about the Soviet Union and the Communist system. Information about their true nature was [...]
Aug 25th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Jeff Jacoby signs off on China’s “totalitarian” Olympics.
… A million and a half residents expelled. Free speech strangled. Elderly women jailed. That’s what it means when a police state like China hosts the Olympics. That’s what you get when the IOC and its corporate supersponsors care more [...]
Aug 24th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Gerard Baker says “Yes we can” might not be magic anymore, and Barack might lose.
… How can it be, you ask? Didn’t we see him just last month speaking to 200,000 adoring Germans in Berlin? Didn’t he get the red carpet treatment in France - France of [...]
Aug 21st, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Contentions posts on the Olympics.
… Isn’t it time we take an adult view of the grotesquerie that is the Beijing Olympics? Americans–most notably, the American President–applaud while teens tumble for prizes and in the shadows aged ladies get a year’s hard labor for attempting civil protest. I’m [...]
Aug 20th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren reports on Canada’s new “human rights” wrinkle.
… Canada’s taxpayer-supported “human rights” apparatchiks have decided that it is not yet time to directly challenge freedom of the press. They will bide their time, and return to the routine business of staging quasi-legal proceedings against defenceless victims, [...]
Aug 19th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren has more thoughts on Russia.
It is years since I hauled out my favourite Josef Stalin quote. Time to carry it up from the basement, dust it off, and put it back on display. “Nuclear weapons are only a problem for people with bad nerves.” That [...]
Aug 18th, 2008 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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MEMRI reports a Saudi columnist has called for the bombing of Iran’s nukes.
… “In my estimation, confronting this country, which is trying to gain the time necessary to acquire nuclear weapons, is unavoidable. The possession of nuclear weapons by a state like Iran, which is ideological to [...]
