Feb 28th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren likes the president more and more.
…Now, before we start, I should correct a reader misapprehension about my views on President Barack Obama — who has just announced that he wants to give radical healthcare legislation another try, notwithstanding the electoral setbacks the last round cost his [...]
Feb 25th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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Foreign Policy posted a photo by Jeroen Oerlemans of a young man holding books in the rubble of a building. This is part of a series of war photos you can access by following the link.
…Dutch photojournalist Oerlemans took this photograph while reporting from Tyre, in southern Lebanon, during the 34-day [...]
Feb 24th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In the WSJ, Bret Stephens remarks on the absurd logic, and market-choking bureaucracy, that come from the premise that big government is good.
…”All European economic policies are the cultural derivatives of one dominant, nearly totalitarian statist ideology: the state is good, the market is bad,” says French economist [...]
Feb 23rd, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In Contentions, Max Boot responds to concerns about the rules of engagement in Afghanistan.
…The only way to win in a counterinsurgency — or just about any other war, for that matter — is to send infantrymen with rifles to occupy the enemy’s strongholds. In Afghanistan, those strongholds are among the [...]
Feb 22nd, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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David Warren has a warning.
A spectre is haunting Europe, and America — the spectre of Keynesianism finally gone nuts.
What began, not very innocently, as a suggestion that governments should run deficits in bad times, and surpluses in good times, gradually “evolved.” In the next phase, governments tried to [...]
Feb 21st, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In Investor’s Business Daily, Jeffrey Anderson takes measure of Obama’s spending.
…Liberals like to point to deficit spending in the Reagan era. Of the eight congressional budgets that President Ronald Reagan signed, all of which were passed by a heavily Democratic House and nearly half by a Democratic Senate, [...]
Feb 18th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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The problem of Iran and its nukes gets a lot of attention today.
David Warren starts us off.
…We deal only with Iran from abroad, and as currently the principal threat to world peace. In his capacity as captain of the West, President Obama spent his first year trying the policy [...]
Feb 17th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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George Will clarifies how government is encroaching in so many areas of our lives: totalitarianism one step at a time.
Only two things are infinite — the expanding universe and Democrats’ hostility to the District of Columbia’s school choice program. Killing this small program, which benefits 1,300 mostly poor [...]
Feb 16th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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In the Telegraph Blogs, UK, Nile Gardiner comments on Dick Cheney’s weekend.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney stormed the beachheads of the liberal US media again Sunday with a fiery performance on ABC’s This Week. He offered a stinging rebuke to current VP Joe Biden’s ludicrous claim that Iraq may end [...]
Feb 15th, 2010 by Pickerhead in Pickings
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There actually is a plan out there to get government under control. In the WaPo, Robert Samuelson comments on one amazing congressman and his sensible, innovative plan.
Paul Ryan, a six-term Republican congressman from Wisconsin who is the ranking minority member of the House Budget Committee, has yanked himself [...]
