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Talk about your self-evident headlines, here’s a doozy from the Washington Post: For U.S. Autoworkers, Future Hinges on Adaptability For U.S. autoworkers? Try for everyone. so we are supposed to feel bad for them because they might have to retrain for a new job or technology? Sudden the Cogressionally protected union worker has to deal [...]

Here’s the Wall Street Journal: The latest contretemps [between global warming alarmists and so-called "deniers"] pits former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, now president of the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, against Roger Pielke, Jr., an expert in disaster trends at the University of Colorado. Mr. Annan’s outfit issued a lengthy report late last month warning [...]

Here’s Victor Davis Hanson: Whatever a well-meaning President Obama thinks, occasional American outbursts against Muslims are not analogous with the terrorism directed at Westerners or the hostility toward Christianity shown in most of the Muslim world. Try flying into Saudi Arabia with a Bible, as compared to traveling to San Francisco with a Koran. One [...]

Here’s another Jonah Goldberg. Read the whole thing. The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make. Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and controls large chunks of the banking industry. Also, President Obama wants government [...]

The argument of fuel-economy savings versus the inflated up-front cost of the new vehicles is fantasy, but the retorts bear often repetition in the face of a government attempting to slam down the consumers’ throats what type of vehicle is “good for them.” Here’s a letter in the WSJ responding to Sec. LaHood’s utopian predictions: [...]