It’s The Fast Lane, Stupid

If we could just keep the liberals out of the left lane so that better drivers in faster cars could pass, the world would be better.
 
Here is a clue, liberals: Your Echo CAN do 85 on a flat road, but when it hits a two-lane up-hill passing lane, you have no passing power left [...]

The Problem With Detroit

The quality problems in Detroit are summarized by the following 2008 remarks by the JD Power Quality analysis:
(Quote) For a third consecutive year, Porsche tops the overall nameplate rankings, averaging 87 PP100. Following in the rankings are Infiniti (which improves from 9th rank position in 2007), Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, respectively. Audi posts the largest [...]

Too Much Heat, Not Sufficient Light

Not everyone, anywhere differentiates themselves by issue.
 
There are Obamaacolytes who will find no fault with anything Obama ever says or does.
 
There are Bible Thumpers who believe every word of a book in which there are many questions and contradictions. My position is closer to that of Jefferson’s Bible, which cut and pasted the morals [...]

The Library Mavens Strike in Print

I see the Library Mavens United (LMU) have joined in the Defense of Libraries Movement.
 
(The LMU are differentiated from the Mass Transit Forever Group (MTFG) by their occasional letter writing campaigns, usually only to defend, as opposed to the MTFG who are in continual motion.. The LMU is also more female-oriented, and the MTFG is [...]

No, You Can’t Imagine

Watching the National Geographic story of Blackbeard the Pirate reminded me that man’s inhumanity to man changes slowly, if at all.
 
From the Old Testament story of God-ordered mass murder and rape in Numbers 31, to pillage and rape throughout history (including the Crusades), mass unnecessary cruelty to others has been the norm, particularly in war. [...]

Hope for a REAL Change

O.K. it is dreaming, but just as Nixon alone could have made the opening to China or only Clinton could have made welfare reform work, only Obama could rein in union excesses in manufacturing, local government and education.
 
Three of the four problem areas of this recession were caused or exacerbated by union excesses, and the [...]

An Easy Detroit Plan

The auto industry is being pushed to come back to Congress with a “plan.”
 
It isn’t that hard because the model against which they must compete is a known quantity – American Toyota, you know, the “furrin’ car” that raced so competitively in the NASCAR Manufacturer’s Trophy this year.
 
Of course American Toyota is not foreign at all, or at [...]

Going Digital

The North County Times is laying off employees – joining the San Diego Union. The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and a host of other newspapers, while the Christian Science Monitor (and PC Magazine) have announced that they are going “digital only.”
I have subscribed to the paid Wall Street Journal since it was [...]

Whites of Their Eyes

The Obama team is relatively strong, so far.
 
Hillary for State was terrific, although she is less qualified than Richardson she makes a better European impression. Richardson would have been the best negotiator but he lacks the Clinton cache. Richardson is barely qualified at Commerce, but he is a quick study – as is Obama.
 
Lawrence [...]

Lobbyist’s Unite Under the Obama Banner

Campbell Brown was on Wolf Blitzer’s Sunday morning show, and said that despite Obama’s often-stated pledge to rid Washington of lobbyists, she has found 15 of those (or whose relations have a built-in conflict of interest) on his transition team, or appointments.
 
As Brown correctly noted, some of the most informed people in Washington are lobbyists, [...]