Auto executive of the year

When Barack Obama joked at the White House Correspondents Association dinner that Car and Driver named him auto executive of the year, he was supposed to be joking.

But he really wasn't. The last laugh is on the companies who accepted government bailouts and the resulting government-style management.

- Debbie Schlussel (link here)

A sad situation, but this is why liberals elected Obama.

Fair use

Interesting article on fair use of copyrighted material at forbes.com (link here).

1934 revisited

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-pod-1934-cartoon-pic,0,7114709.photo

Factuality Tour

http://www.americaspower.org/factuality

The story of coal-generated electricity in America.

The National Socialism of Obamanomics

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/01/the-national-socialism-of-obam/

Fascinating article by James Srodes in The American Spectator.

Mr. Unprincipled

Happily for Republicans still smarting from last week’s defection, you can have a successful political party without centrists like Arlen Specter.

The Republican Party will miss the Pennsylvania senator’s vote, but it’s hard to imagine anyone taking inspiration from such a consummately unprincipled figure.

- Ross Douthat, NY Times (link here)

Excellent quotes.

On the relative proportion of conservatives

The bipartisan Battleground Poll, as recently as Aug. 20, 2008, revealed that 60 percent of Americans identify themselves as conservative and only 36 percent as liberal.

- David Limbaugh (link here)

All the more frustrating that Republicans either cannot or will not capitalize on those proportions.