Jan 31st, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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We start today like we started last Thursday night, with John Fund introducing us to Scott Brown. This time John has an interview with the new senator.
…Massachusetts’ senator-elect says he had always admired JFK as a president who “wanted to help everybody,” and when he and his staff [...]
Jan 28th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The election of Scott Brown was the most important event of the last year, and it came out of the blue. Today’s Pickings starts out with a retrospective of our items on that Massachusetts race. The first mention was January 6th when John Fund had an piece in Political Diary, joined by John Steele Gordon with an [...]
Jan 27th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Abe Greenwald, in Contentions, discusses the president’s pathological self-regard.
…For all this, Obama makes a tremendous show of his cool nerves. “I don’t rattle,” he said. In a way, that’s true. Blaming Republican failings for the Massachusetts Republican victory, for example, is not a sign of being rattled. It’s [...]
Jan 26th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren takes a philosophical look at our judgments of events, and how they can change.
…The victory of Scott Brown, in the Massachusetts byelection, has brought the Left agenda — Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid in White House and Congress — to an abrupt halt. And it [...]
Jan 25th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Peter Robinson says hats off to the Tea Partiers.
…In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America’s two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation—more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other—to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe. Barack [...]
Jan 24th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In the Corner, John Miller lists all the reasons why liberals have had a tough week.
1. The Democrats lost Ted Kennedy’s seat, sending their health-care takeover efforts into a tailspin.
2. The Supreme Court wiped out the central feature of McCain-Feingold, in a victory for free speech.
3. Air America [...]
Jan 21st, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In the Telegraph Blogs, UK, Nile Gardiner contrasts Bush and Obama in foreign policy.
…Hence, the hallmarks of Obama’s foreign policy have been the naive engagement of an array of odious dictatorial regimes, grovelling apologies before foreign audiences, lamb-like timidity in the face of intimidation, the ending of the [...]
Jan 20th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Abby Thernstrom blogs about the change in the political scene in Massachusetts.
…When we left the greater Cambridge fallout area two years ago and migrated to Virginia, we were well-known and heartily disliked by the Harvard chosen — although not by Steve’s adoring students. But our car in a [...]
Jan 19th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Mark Steyn posts on the Mass. race.
… However things turn out, the Dems have got a fright. I would be surprised if many candidates in November are quite the same spectacular combination of gaffe-prone stupidity and arrogance as Martha Coakley. But, granted that, I was surprised at how [...]
Jan 18th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Power Line posts on dueling rallies in Mass.
President Obama came to Massachusetts yesterday in a last-minute effort to preserve his party’s filibuster proof majority in the Senate. He did so at a rally at the campus of Northeastern University in Boston which featured the Massachusetts political establishment. Scott Brown [...]
