Cash for Clunkers 2: The Return of Government Motors - Washington Times

Is the United States really prepared to deal with another tax payer paid for deal that will only benefit the now government owned GM? After all, did Cash for Clunkers part one really work out for the tax payers and auto dealers?

Japan: Ignoring the Real Threats - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Climategate and Nukegate — and their relative press coverage — are not unrelated.

Clearly, earthquakes pose a far greater threat to Japan than global warming as the ongoing tsunami death toll — likely to surpass 20,000 — and nuclear accident attest. Yet Japanese authorities and the media have been obsessed for the last two decades with global warming and meeting Kyoto targets — diverting billions of dollars from the real threats facing island nations like Japan.

Don’t Let Elites Drive You Around - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Since automobility has long been viewed as a bad thing by our elites — sorry, I mean other people’s automobility — expect this to be taken up here soon enough, if less directly and with less candor. The European population, with government as far as possible from the governed, have indeed become sheep on these things. My anecdotal evidence (testimony from relatives and even policy activists) tells me they have given up. This emboldens such brazenness there. Don’t give up here.