Cheney Gets Levin's Dandruff Up

Richard Cheney knows how to land the touchdown into the receiver's hands. By noting that "abusive interrogation" works, Cheney brought out blowhard Senator Carl Levin, who claims Cheny is lying about two CIA documents showing those techniques saved lives. Yet Obama won't declassify these documents even though both Cheney and Levin have called for it.

Bad-Man Barack, The Laughing Larcenist, Used Cars

The forced closing of hundreds of Chrysler dealerships in the US is becoming an increasingly blatant act of corruption by the Corrupt In Chief.

Blarney Frank Lies Again

The corrupt Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae man-thug of the US House lied about the panhandlers, pickpockets, and ballot-box stuffers of ACORN on Lou Dobbs' TV show.

Garbage Quivering Butchers Rumsfeld Facts

The glossies like GQ and Vanity Fair have long had an absurd hatred of all things that aren't left-wing and with this hatred has come torrents of inaccurate and sensationalized hit pieces. The latest such hit piece is by GQ about Donald Rumsfeld. It's worth examining areas where the piece gets the facts wrong.

Obama Sings "Me Me Me Me Me"

In his recent speech at The National Archives, The Man On The Way Up brought forth another illustration of his own self-importance that brings back cringing memory of The Big He.

Cheney Rips Terrorist On The Way Up

Richard Cheney's speech showing how The Man On The Way Up is an aider and abettor of Islamo-Arab imperialism.

Obama On The Run From Cheney

The Man On The Way Up has been getting destroyed in the debate over fighting Islamo-Arab imperialism lately, with Richard Cheney's barbs hitting their mark and showing the difference between a genuine patriot and a corrupt grandstanding senator.

It is part of the pattern of Obama scoring propaganda points while losing substantive policy battles.

Anatomy Of A Smear Of Cheney

The MSM's war against Richard Cheney is still going on, and the latest salvo is by Lawrence Wilkerson, claiming Cheney used torture of terrorists to help fabricate links between Iraq and Al Qaida. Wilkerson is totally wrong - Iraq and Al Qaida were not only allies in aggression, Iraq basically took over Al Qaida, and Wilkerson's flimsy story fell apart on a friendly forum for him - MSNBC.

Economy Getting Better

The recession is coming to an end, but the "giant error of pessimism" needs to recognize this, especially with more evidence of recovery to be seen.

Manufacturing On The Rise

Some signs are out that manufacturing is picking up after a lengthy contraction.

Credit Where It Isn't Due

The Man On The Way Up breezed through a poor excuse of a news conference and it showed that he wants credit for "successes" that aren't successful such as for the economy even though improvement isn't happening because of him.

Obama Gets Gored By Cheney

Richard Cheney is considered incurably evil by the Dominant Media Culture, of which The Man On The Way Up is a member. The intellectual ineptitude of the DMC and MOTWU is shown by The Man On The Way Up's reaction to Cheney's criticisms of their document dump on interrogation techniques against international savages - excuse me, Islamo-Arab terrorists.

In Iraq, When The Cat's Away........

The Man On The Way Up's basic philosophy about Iraq is that the US is somehow the cause of instability there, never mind that the place was stabilized years ago by our presence. So as The Man On The Way Up cuts and runs us from Iraq, the mice are beginning to play again.

Victory sabotaged by Democrats - didn't we see this movie nearly 40 years ago?

Fighting The Obama State

As the grandiose and unworkable Obama state continues to stumble along, offering a credible alternative remains necessary, and one is provided here.

President MOTWU In The Past (Intelligence)

The Man On The Way Up has a problem of his Director of National Intelligence refusing to admit being wrong about Iranian nuclear weapons programs and is basing this view on a two-year old National Intelligence Estimate.

So Now They Tell Us

TIME Magazine is telling us the banking crisis of 2008 is now over. But then real people knew that months ago.

Can't Think With This Bulb Over My Head

Two of ecofascism's chestnuts are hybrid cars and fluorescent lightbulbs. Neither are living up to their MSM-fed reputation. Neither are electric cars, as seen by the Silicon Valley Mercury News when it did a road test of one.

The Washington PLO-ost

The Washington Post recently published this cartoon, apparantly the first shot of open antisemitism in the MSM.

Requiem For A Lightweight

Here is a brilliant satire of The Man On The Way Up based on the famous Rod Serling teleplay of the 1950s.

Housing's Nestle Crunch

Sales of existing houses surged in February to the highest level since 2003. Prices have been falling, which helps explain the surge. Call it housing's Nestle Crunch.

When Going Gets Tough, Obama Flees

That's the only way to describe how The Man On The Way Up deals with serious issues. Instead of actually leading, he hits the campaign trail. All the while his inability to lead becomes more and more obvious.

It's a process also being seen as the Democrats suddenly realize that their insistence that Afghanistan is "the war we must win" instead of the far stronger Saddam Hussein war requires actual commitment, so now the Democrats are backtracking.

The Big Oaf Continued

The Man On The Way Up clearly has a tinnier ear than the Denver Broncos' new coach as the AIG absurdity continues.

Market At Work - Count To Twenty

Twenty facts about the economy that point to recovery sooner instead of later.

Housing Affordability

The affordability of housing keeps getting better, and of course it goes unreported by a Mainstream Media that wants failure so leftist economic policies are seen as the solution.

The Big Oaf

The Man On The Way Up has now been in office for the better part of six weeks, and the record of The Big O (no, not WEEI's version) warrants the name The Big Oaf as he plays it fast and thick and displays the ineptitudes inevitable with being a control freak.

The Continuing Renewable Energy Myth

The myth about renewable energy is still there, and gets comeuppance here.

The Bush-Bashing Show Trial

Senator Bats-Man of Vermont is trying to rig up a show trial against George W. Bush. Trouble is Patrick Leahy's show trial has precedent in General Smedley Butler from the 1930s, and the premise of the show trial ignores that Bush's "crimes" were endorsed by his fellow Democrats.

And He Says Gianluca Pagliuca

Keith Olbermann has been bloviating again, ripping Monica Goodling and boasting about how he went to Cornell. Except Olbermann lies like a rug about his college studies.

Lord Teddy of Chappaquiddick

A cutting note on who isn't around to see the knighting of Ted Kennedy. See also this site dedicated to exposing the Senator.

Obama's Botched Bank Shot

The Man On The Way Up is a basketball fan, and he's showing he's Pervis Ellison when it comes to his bank shot.

Turning On The Stimulus Sham

From Februrary 25:

Not everyone is welcoming The Man On The Way Up's stimulus sham - indeed, it would seem it may be the start of a trend.

UPDATE: now moderates in The Man On The Way Up's party are beginning to turn against his sham "stimulus."

Some Rationality On The Economy

Amid all the pessimism permeating coverage of the economy, some more optimistic epistles are to be found, such as the fact that housing foreclosures are not nationwide, that the fact that banking is still far stronger than in the early 1990s (see also here), and we're still earning more money.

Interesting Comparison On CO2

Check the analogy made in arguing against Cap & Trade stupidity.

What People Will Do For $787 Billion

The Man On The Way Up's $787 billion stimulus package gets an interesting look here, showing what that money would buy. The problem, though, is in the best answer in the post's response page - "It will pay ten million bureaucrats to push paper around." Investing money to bureaucrats instead of into the economy is bad business.

What Passes For Direct Action

This is what passes for direct action these days - the takeover of a college snackbar by suck-ups for "Palestinian" thugs. The video add-on including a PLO-scarfer whining "He touched me!" is an extra treat.

It's All About Growth

A handy reminder is necessary about what is needed in all the talk about stimulus packages.

Obama Housing: Fuzzy Math And Fuzzier Logic

With apologies to blog writer MD80891 for the title....

The Man On The Way Up is pitching his mortgage fantasy again and using phony math and logic to do so.

Obama And The Old First Iraq War Trick

Apparantly Maxwell Smart has influence on The Man On The Way Up's administration. Bruce Reidel, a former CIA officer and now a Brookings Institution scholar, has been appointed to oversee a review of US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and his grand strategy is to secure peace between Israel and the fiction known as Palestinians. It's a ridiculous idea (being ridiculous is in keeping with the stupidity of the CIA) and brings to mind Saddam Hussein's attempt to legitimize his 1990 invasion of Kuwait by trying to tie it into Israel. It's the old it's-Israel's-fault-so-make-them-get-peace-with-Palestinians trick. Yep, Maxwell Smart would have seen this one coming.

Spending Myths And Realities

Bush-bashing has continued with whining about Bush spending, the national debt, etc. The myths don't correspond with reality.

So He Won't Outsource Torture

The sound of one hand clapping fills the air as it becomes clear The Man On The Way Up won't outsource "torture" of Islamo-Arab savages. How reassuring.

Obama The Antisemite

If you didn't think The Man On The Way Up is an antisemite, think again as he sponsors a UN conference that will condemn Israel as a racist state. It's 1975 all over again - blaming the victim of Islamo-Arab imperialism instead of Islamo-Arab imperialism.

What Housing Crunch?

It seems the housing crunch we've heard so much about for nearly a year is recovering, shown in California (notably in Sacramento), in Florida, and in Flint, MI.

FOLLOW-UP: Here is a look at the Phoenix area as The Man On The Way Up prepares a bailout plan on foreclosures - it illustrates the folly of the mortgage spending spree that aimed to give idiot home buyers mortgages they couldn't pay back.

FOLLOW-UP #2: Market forces continue to work wonders in California.

Economic Illiteracy Part Deux

The Man On The Way Up is an economic idiot, and it shows again, first with his apocalyptic rhetoric in favor of his phony stimulus bill and second with continuing ignorance of economic history.

President MOTWU Bombs With "Hacks"

The Man On The Way Up calls a Congressman who voted against his phony stimulus bill a hack. He also lied about what Caterpillar's CEO said.

Gasp! They're Ripping The Man On The Way Up

Say it ain't so!

It's so, and while The Man On The Way Up may somehow con his way to a second term, it will be like Billary's tenure - with nothing positive accomplished and his grandiose plans in ruins.

The First Three Weeks: Hoping For Hope

The Man On The Way Up has now had three weeks. The scorecard isn't pretty and gets illustrated further by his false dichotomy on "doing nothing." even though the market works when government is "doing nothing."

Not More Wage Controls

The economic illiteracy of The Man On The Way Up and his allies was illustrated by their campaign for wage controls against "greedy CEOs."

More Evidence Of Iraq As Enemy Quagmire

Remember Imad Mugniyah? Likely you don't. He was military commander of Hezbollah who launched the 1983 attacks that killed over 300 US and French soldiers in Beirut and numerous other such strikes. He was iced in 2008, and a contibuting factor to getting him was the capture of one of his senior officers in 2007 in Iraq.

Obama Stimulus Parties

The Man On The Way Up urged people to host "stimulus package house parties." The result is shown here in the uniform realization among Obamaniacs that The Man On The Way Up lied to them.

More Unstimulating Stimulus

The big fed stimulus package now has a tentative deal. Three Republicans (in name only) were hoodwinked into backing it. A lengthy look at the whole sham can be found here.

Cheney Tweaks The Dems

Richard Cheney tweaks the Dems as they taste their own medicine.

Putting Bureaucrats First

First a repost from February 2:

The Man On The Way Up promised bipartisanship. He lied, and one area is his direction of "third party" attacks on Republicans opposing his sham stimulus; the funniest angle of attack is that "Republicans want to spend money on schools in Iraq but not in the US," and a PAC reminsiscent of America First is pushing this line. That US schools outspend the Defense Department, of course, never gets considered.

UPDATE: So what does The Man On The Way Up do? He lied about bipartisanship, now he lies about "catastrophe" if his phony stimulus bill fails. It's a bill that puts bureaucrats first and foremost, which is what Democratic economics ultimately has always been about.

The Gitmobama Follies

The Man On The Way Up's policy of releasing Guantanamo terrorists is producing exactly what sane people saw miles away. And The Man On The Way Up's idiocy doesn't end there, as Hillary Milhous Clinton gets into the State Department fray.

Committee Of Idiotic Analysis Claims Credit

Check this Bill Roggio piece on the CIA gloating over air attacks it has directed against Al Qaida in Pakistan. Given the CIA's history of stupidity between analysis discredited by its own left-leaning doctrines and its ineptitude in executing orders - not for nothing has it been mocked as The Committee for Idiotic Amusement over the decades - one needs a lot of salt when reading the Agency patting itself on the back like this.

Gracelessness And Generals

We got a look at how pompous and self-important the Obamas are with this Michelle Obama micro-trainwreck speech supporting the public school hackerama, which illustrated the heavy-handed way The Man On The Way Up and The Woman On The Way Up conduct themselves. And the gracelessness doesn't end there, as the leftwing media is still trying to stir up bogus trouble with this bogus "revolt of the generals" story. Would that people who know better would indeed be forcing The Man On The Way Up to grow up, especially with MOTWU's economic stupidity causing a gagging effect on Wall Street and in international trade.

The "Recruiting More Terrorists" Myth Continues

It's the salient myth of those against defeating Islamo-Arab imperialism - "we create more terrorists than we kill" and its variant, that when America (or Israel) defend itself, "we've given the terrorists a perfect recruiting tool." Yet nowhere in history is there one example of anything like this happening - nowhere is there any example of the enemy gaining recruits or strength because the US fights back; on the contrary, the pattern has always been that the enemy only gains strength when it sees we won't fight back.

Yet The Man On The Way Up buys this nonsense. The piece asks what planet Obama is from - it certainly wasn't from the planet this sci-fi icon came from - he would have told off Obama and taken charge of the situation.

The Treason Of Terrorists And Their Enablers

The father of Daniel Pearl notes the treason of terrorists and their enablers such as Jimmy Carter and the UCLA.

The Palestinians: A Failure Of A People

The Palestinians are a failure as a people. That much should be obvious from their continued inability to make peace, their belligerence and obsession with waging war, and their economic indolence. This examination of the Palestinians shows them as addicts to war, and it's hard to factually dispute it.

Who Runs The Capitalist Show

What fuels economic growth? You had to ask. And who runs the show in the economy? It isn't companies.

None of this should be revalatory to anyone who understands anything about economics.

Sham Stimulus

This is what Republicans and anyone else genuinely concerned with the economy should be doing - fighting the Democrats' sham "stimulus" package - a package in keeping with The Man On The Way Up's program for "change."

One should also keep in mind what a real stimulus looks like.


UPDATE: This piece examines a central failing of stimulus packages.

UPDATE #2:The biggest beneficiary of Obama's phony stimulus? The gang that helped his political career.

Sham Greenism Continued

Not only is The Man On The Way Up an ignoramus on Middle Eastern war states, he's an idiot about global warming and "Green" jobs.

Iran Starts Schooling Obama

The Man On The Way Up wanted to "reach out" to the Iranian empire. The Iranians thus began schooling him while they rebuild their war machine.

It is part and parcel of Obama's stupidity on the Middle East, shown in his ignorant verbiage about America's non-existent "partnership" with Middle Eastern war-states launching terrorist attacks when they weren't launching missiles or fighter planes - or invasions of Kuwait.

Morons For Hamas

Speaking of morons, Jimmy Carter is back, defending the Hamas war machine.

Morons For Che

Check this superb look at Hollywood's twisted love of Fidel Castro's primary killer, Argentine mass-murder Ernesto Guevera.

President MOTWU Starts Breaking His Rules

This post keeps getting bigger. We start with a repost from January 22:

** It took all of one day for The Man On The Way Up to start breaking his own rules. It's the first encounter with the real world in President MOTWU's administration and it won't be the last.

** UPDATE #1: The Man On The Way Up got snippy when a reporter actually asked him about him breaking his own rules.


** UPDATE JANUARY 26:Democrats then began balking at The Man On The Way Up so blatantly breaking his own rules with regard to former Raytheon lobbyist Bill Lynn.

** UPDATE JANUARY 27:Related to the snippiness with the reporter is Barack's "promises" of transparancy, but - you guessed it
- they're a sham.

Resistance In Name Only

Check this blurb on the chutzpah of people calling "Bush's so-called war on terror" a failure.

What "Politicizing Intelligence" Looks Like

Remember all those claims that Bush was "politicizing intelligence?" Obviously a lot of people don't know what the term means, as evidenced here with regard to waterboarding.

UPDATE: It isn't limited to intelligence - now The Man On The Way Up does the same to the Justice Dept. by appointing thug Senator Chuck Schumer's former hatchet man.

Obama Summons Forth

Obama summons forth!

No, some of Obama's White House staff had been subpoened in investigation of Rod Blagojevich corruption.

Figures.

Barack: Week One

Check this look at the ugly, good, and bad of Barack Obama's first week.

Terrorists On The Way Up - To Home

The Man On The Way Up is sending 94 terrorists from Guantanamo back to Yemen, which is a terrorist safe haven. This is what passes for "change" from The Man On The Way Up - giving in to the enemy.

Barney Frank At It Again

Yep, Barney Frank is at it again - helping subsidize a corrupt bank. No wonder he's The Teflon Congressman.

Filmmaker Prosecuted For Speaking Truth To Islamic Power

Geert Wilders is a Danish filmmaker who made the recent short subject FITNA. It is a 15-minute short using quotes from the Koran married to appropriate images of Islamo-Arab violence, to illustrate the genocidal bloodthirstiness inherent in the reign of Islam that is behind the waves of terrorist attacks that have killed so many over the last quarter century-plus. The government of Holland has indicted Wilders for "inciting hate" with his film. It is a reflection of the cowardice so widespread when it comes to dealing with Islamo-Arab imperialism.

MOTWU Reality Check #2

The Man On The Way Up got another reality check, this one on his useless "stimulus" package.

Why Obama Will Fail

The Man On The Way Up is now President - and he will fail. Because the gasiness of his rhetoric can't change that his philosophies are contradictory, poorly conceived, and are not based on any kind of realworld executive experience. This fundamental weakness showed in the flatness, triteness, and doubletalk of his inaugural speech.

Haste Makes (Nuclear) Waste

Nuclear processing is considered "too expensive to be practical" and "not safe" as an energy technology. That claim, though, is wrong.

Allies In Aggression

Remember the lie that "Iraq would never work with Al Qaeda" because of their supposed "differences?" It's being repeated with regard to Iranian support of Al Qaeda. And now the US Treasury gives the "no alliance" lie its comeuppance.

Obama Be A Law

First is this repost from August 12, 2008:

How many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Yeah, yeah, you've heard that one before. It's worth asking as one checks Barack Obama's poor record in law studies and how that record reflects his staggering ignorance of real people and the world in general.


UPDATE: Man On The Way Up's ignorance of the law continues unabated.

Antisemites On The Net

The corruption of the "documentary" filmmaking genre has been a prolonged process that predated Michael Moore but which was escalated by him and his followers. One of them is Max Blumenthal, and his latest act of drive-by video shooting is a pathetic attempt to mock supporters of Israel's attack on Hamas killers in Gaza. The sheer dishonesty of Blumenthal's drive-by video shooting gets examined here and further proves the worthlessness of the "documentary" genre.

Nothing From Nothing Leaves Nothing

Check this interesting piece on the mindset behind "stimulus packages" that never work.

Hate Criminals At Work In San Francisco

The unseemly pictures are here. Particularly disturbing are the very young girls dressed in the garb of Arab terrorists and the fact the SFPD didn't bother the antisemites, but instead stopped a protester against Hamas.

President MOTWU's Tax "Cuts"

The Man On The Way Up's economic illiteracy shines again with Obama tax cuts that aren't.

George Soros And The Oil-For-Food Scam

A look at George Soros' financial relationship with a UN official who covered for Kofi Annan over UN involvement in Iraq's Oil For Food scam and how Norm Coleman found this out, hence Soros' financing of the effort to steal the Minnesota election from Coleman.

Hamas: Kill Charley Barrack

Israel responded to a prolonged period of rocket attacks from Gaza by the terrorist army Hamas by invading what had once been its own territory but which it gave back as a peace gesture - which one we've forgotten, since Israel has done nothing but make peace gestures all these decades it's difficult to keep track of the number of such. Israel's action has garnered a surprising consensus in its favor here in the US, but loud voices against it are still there, and some of them have come out into the open in response to an air attack that blew up Hamas thug Nizar Rayan, his four wives (how come those gays protesting Mormon votes against gay "marriage" by claiming Mormon approval of polygomy never notice things like this?), nine of his children, and a weapons depot (how convenient that terrorists from Vietnam to Lebanon and all points between house civilians onto military targets). The weapons depot part of course gets short-shrifted.

We'll lobby to change the name of Palestinian/Arab terrorists from whatever name they use to Charley Barrack.

Watergate's Real Legacy

"Deep Throat" was the mythical source for the Mainstream Media's coverage of Watergate, and the man tagged as Deep Throat passed away recently. The source's name derived from a porn movie that was popular at the time. But the true legacy of Watergate went beyond the destruction of the Nixon Administration; it went into the real beginning of the cult of the "heroic" reporter.

A great deal about Watergate remains shrouded in liberal distortion, and it may never be fully removed, for hatred of the Nixon Administration even surpassed the absurd hatred of the W. Bush decade. Yet eliminating the shroud will remain necessary to reveal the truth about what happened and more importantly what did not happen.

The NY Times Coup In Baghdad

The New York Times gets it wrong again? SAY IT AIN'T SO, RUSS BRALEY!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!

That Iraq coup attempt you may have read about is like Monty Python's mongoose compared to a monsoon - it isn't.

Retiring The Bailout

An interesting alternative to a federal bailout is presented here.

The Minnesota "Recount"

From November 18:

By now it should be known that Minnesota's Senate race is undergoing a "recount" to determine if former comedian Al Franken - by all accounts a detestible excuse for a person - becomes a US Senator. The recount is happening because of vote-rigging in favor of Franken, and this examination of the phony recount notes the role of leftist financier George Soros, who is to the Left what billionaires are to drug dealers - accomplices in murder.


UPDATE: The recount shows Franken-Stein's gap at 303, but Franken claims to be leading by 22 votes, a claim unbelievable on its face.

UPDATE #2: It would appear the election is being stolen for Franken.

UPDATE #3: Is Franken-stein trailing by just two votes?

President MOTWU & Governor Blago

The Man On The Way Up has a problem with Kleptocrat Governor Blagojevich, namely the two are part of the same crooked Illinois political machine. Check this look at the recent Man On The Way Up-Blago On The Way Down standoff stands.

Wagner Act Unionism & Detroit

A good look is to be found at the "very structure of Wagner Act unionism" and how it is a primary culprit in The Big Three's downfall.


UPDATE: Detroit in July 2013 filed for bankrupcy.

It Was Government, Not The Private Sector

Presented is a needed reminder that the Wall Street crunch was caused by government.

Where Private Initiative Can Help With Deficits

Check these two ideas for the government to pay off deficits. Selling government land to private owners is especially interesting with so much land going unused because government owns it.

Economic Illiteracy Run Amok

The bailout of GM Ford & Chrysler has serious problems to it - namely Congressional requirements to build "green" cars despite their worthlessness. Meanwhile the housing crunch and economic illiteracy within gets a look here.

Illinois Corruption As Usual

The governor of Illinois gets indicted for corruption?

SAY IT AIN'T SO, RICHARD DALEY!!!!!!!!!

Actually this situation involving Rod Blagojevich is insane even by the standards of Illinois political corruption, as he sought to sell everything he could and shake down anyone he could - even a children's hospital - for money. And it involved people such as Tony Rezko, one of Barack Obama's prime financiers (who it would seem helped put Blagojevich in jail) and even The Man On The Way Up himself may have some role with Blagojevich, especially as this October 30, 2008 Chicago Tribune piece notes - also worth checking is this excerpt from Roll Call.

This Is A Recession?

Some calm rationality is needed with regard to a recession that, as is usual with the MSM, isn't what they say it is. The supposed start of the recession - December 2007 - doesn't make sense, either.

The Iraq War Saved Lives

Not just the lives that would have been lost by Saddam Hussein's continuing war by proxy against the West and potential actual war with N-B-C weaponry. It has saved 40,000 children a year who were destined to die under Hussein's continuing regime.

London's See-No-Evil Policy With Syria

They're kidding right? Britain has reestablished intelligence cooperation and diplomatic ties wth Syria despite Syrian sanction of Islamo-Arab terrorism. Working with the enemy has never been sound policy.

Unions And The Big Three

A lot of ink - online and literal - has been spilled on the Big Three automakers and their alleged problems. Not that they don't have problems, but the justifications they have made for mammoth federal bailouts increasingly look flimsy. There is the claim that "1 in 10 jobs" are generated by The Big Three, a figure that is wildly exaggerated, and there is also the premise that the Big Three are hemmorhaging money, which isn't necessarily the case. That they have problems is true enough, shown in a look at how they became an oligopoly, though the often-repeated argument about Detriot's lack of fuel efficiency is oversold.

The role of the UAW in the Big Three's problems has been surprisingly undersold by pieces actually exmaining that role. A look at the decline of union power offers a look at how damaging union power has been. The UAW's role shouldn't be undersold because for whatever level of mismanagement has happened with the Big Three (and there's been a substantial level of it, but some of the stories sound less like documentation than sour graping), it is impossible to believe the Big Three would not have turned things around faster with a saner salary and benefits structure than it presently has thank to the UAW.

Energy Frauds Discussed

A good summary of the delusions that drive energy policy debates is presented here, and makes the point that a lot of "energy transitions" have been forecasted over the decades - and either not happened or were far less important than hyped. The fraud of "energy independence" is one of the salient delusions of energy policy debates and The Man On The Way Up-Elect favors a "green jobs" policy that, like everything else in Obama's ideology, doesn't work. And just for good measure, The Man On The Way Up-Elect will also deal with a proposed "cap and trade" system that - you guessed it - can't work.

And the premise behind all of this is global warming, but a gaffe by Dr. James Hansen has badly injured the credibility of temperature records cited to justify the global warming scare.

Credit Munch And GM Bail-Ins

"We're in a credit crunch." Maybe not.

"GM needs a massive bail-out." GM's overseas sales (and those of the other members of the Big Three) indicate they're stronger than they're given credit for.

Now, does this mean those problems we've heard so much about are not there? Probably not, but they do show that we've been lied to by some alarmists to a significant extent.

Economic Good And Bad News

The bad news - if you still think unions do anyone any good, the trouble in the US auto industry should make people think again.

There is, though, good news, seen in dropping electricity prices.