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November 5, 2008 - 05 Nov 2008
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Americans have much to be proud of today. The election of an African-American to the highest office in the land is an outstanding achievement. It is a testament to the open-minded tolerance of the American people; at least the majority of them.
Do you think the press and the [...]
Read Full Post »November 4, 2008 - 04 Nov 2008
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More from Pickings four years ago. This time we have Alexis de Tocqueville reporting on a presidential election 180 years ago
Good advice from The Corner.
Gerard Baker with his take.
Two years. A billion dollars. Sixty million votes cast in the primary alone. An election that started out in a [...]
Read Full Post »November 3, 2008 - 03 Nov 2008
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We start with a replay of the lead in November 1, 2004 Pickings.
Pickerhead’s Iron Law of Voting
Pickerhead wants to say if you don’t feel like voting - good for you. The more people who don’t vote, then the freer the country. I know that is counterintuitive, but [...]
November 2, 2008 - 02 Nov 2008
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Before we get into the frightful political news, how about some pieces of very good news. Gas Buddy.com provides a graph of retail gas prices for the last six months.
We learn from a Bentonville paper about an effort to apply Wal-Mart’s strengths to reducing health care costs.
Pharmacy benefit managers could soon [...]
Read Full Post »October 30, 2008 - 30 Oct 2008
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Robert Kagan says we’re not in decline.
Is Barack Obama the candidate of American decline? To hear some of his supporters among the foreign policy punditry, you’d think he was. Francis Fukuyama says he supports Obama because he believes Obama would be better at “managing” American decline than [...]
Read Full Post »October 29, 2008 - 29 Oct 2008
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Interesting juxtaposition of two items. First a London Times story from Niger about a successful suit by a former slave against the Niger government.
Hadijatou Mani was sold into slavery at the age of 12. She was beaten, raped and even imprisoned for bigamy after she married a [...]
Read Full Post »October 28, 2008 - 28 Oct 2008
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The stalwart Charles Krauthammer picks McCain.
… There’s just no comparison. Obama’s own running mate warned this week that Obama’s youth and inexperience will invite a crisis — indeed a crisis “generated” precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 [...]
Read Full Post »October 27, 2008 - 27 Oct 2008
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Strange Pickings today. Just two items; Spengler’s latest and an item from the NY Times Magazine six months ago.
Spengler says, contrary to Tom Freidman, the world is not flat - it has been flattened. And, without the American consumer, the world economy is nothing.
Faddish conventional wisdom over the [...]
Read Full Post »October 26, 2008 - 26 Oct 2008
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Would you believe Obama’s female staffers make less than the men on his staff? Furthermore, would you believe McCain’s female staffers make the most? Mark Perry at Carpe Diem has the story.
… Factual Evidence:
1. Obama pays his own female Senate staffers, on average, only 78% of what he pays male staffers [...]
October 23, 2008 - 23 Oct 2008
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Today the theme is Sarah Palin and her treatment by the national media. We start with a columnist from North Carolina’s Rhinoceros Times. (You never know what rocks Pickerhead will turn over) The iconoclastic author, Orson Scott Card, says he’s a Dem. Watch as he lays into the press.
… If you had any [...]
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