Radio SilenceI’m heading away for a few days (assuming the wintry weather lets me).Net access will be sporadic at best, and I won’t be updating here. Maybe a random tweet, we’ll see. See ya next Continue Reading
Linkpost: 12/07/08Insanely Great: What if Steve Jobs ran one of the Big Three auto companies? (Robert Cringely, PBS.org) This isn’t as “out there” as it sounds. If any of the Big Three hope to survive as anything but a ward of the state, they need to start thinking this creatively.Bridge Loan to Nowhere (WSJ)India Is a Key Ally in the War on Terror (Douglas Feith, WSJ)An Enduring Crisis for the Black Continue Reading
Linkpost: 12/05/08God, Man, and the Ballot Box (Reuel Marc Gerecht, The American)Back to the old 9/11 days (Victor Davis Hanson, RCP)Detroit's Delusion (Daniel Gross, Newsweek)The Latest Song of Detroit (Paul Ingrassia, WSJ)Big Three Spending Millions On Lobbying, Auto Makers Drowning In Red, But Still Give Nearly 50 Million Dollars To Politicians (CBS News)MIA in Mumbai (Edward Luttwak, LA Times)Obama's Not-So-Bold Job-Creation Continue Reading
Linkpost: 12/03/08The Bailout So Far (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)Nationalize GM (Dan Neil, LA Times) There’s a great idea. Why not nationalize newspapers and magazines while we’re at it?What's Good for GM Could Be Good for America (William McGurn, WSJ)Poll's shocking SOS for Texas GOP (Rod Dreher, DMN)Closet centrist (Michael Gerson, WaPo)Continuity We Can Believe In (David Brooks, NY Times)He doesn't really say Continue Reading
Linkpost: 12/01/08Saving Detroit (Robert Cringely, PBS.org)A Car Wreck Made in Washington (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)America's Other Auto Industry (WSJ)Our friends in Bombay (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)It’s Not the Cold War (Mark Steyn, NRO)Al Qaeda "hijack" led to Mumbai attack (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)Making Sense of the Mumbai Attacks: In the Triangle of Terror (Spiegel)Mumbai attacks pose test for India Continue Reading