GM IPO: The Result of Grand Theft Auto?

The the big news story for the last couple of weeks has been the IPO of General Motors .  They managed to raise something on the order of $20 billion last week selling literally millions of shares owned by the

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• OIL I wonder if it is occurred to anyone that the oil spill in the gulf is a wonderful incentive for oil drilling

It looks like Dumbo knows almost as much about running a car company as he does managing an economy, Bloomberg:

Motor Co. beat General Motors Co. in monthly sales in February for the first time since 1998, and GM

With the ruling, yesterday, from Atty General Eric Holder that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried in New York City, in a civilian court, Americans should begin to notice a pattern from the Obama administration of running in exactly the

There’s a  number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday.  Predictably,  Marc Armbinder is one of them:

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was

George Will, Washington Post,  October 5:

Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: “honest” Abe Lincoln, “Grover the Good” Cleveland, “energetic” Theodore Roosevelt, “idealistic” Woodrow Wilson, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “confident” FDR, “likable” Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there

We know this  story has been out a while, but can’t resist diving in with some recommendations to help the New York Times get back in touch with being a Newspaper again. After all, they got rather badly burned by

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• MORE ANITA DUNN:  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday:
  

  I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign

An interesting “Mia Culpa” from the New York Times this morning, in the form of an article from Clark Hoyt, The Times “Public Editor”

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had

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This is the Green Beans Edition

• RECESSION? WHAT RECESSION? Surber says Durable goods orders are still off. It would appear that wishful

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This is the “Beep Beep” Edition. If you don’t get the reference, look here.

• The Obamacare Telethon:  No, I didn’t bother watching

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This is the “Happy Hump Day” Edition” The picture to your right is a railroad hump. It’s how cars are sorted in many rail yards

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• Tea Parties, Iranian Style: Somewhere in my travels last night, I stumbled across a

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This is the First Dept Edition

• From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for

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This is the “Proposal” Edition

• Spin City: You can be reasonably assured of the Republicans pointing up the failure of the so-called