Yesterday, I showed that the only “made in America” car (including engine and transmission) that would get someone trading in an Explorer the full $4500 Cash for Clunker benefit was a Ford Focus (though I shortchanged the Chevy Malibu and Saturn Aura, which are assembled in the US though may have an engine or transmission made in Canada or the US).

The point being that manufacturers don’t make many efficient cars in

Want to know why the Cash for Clunkers program wasn’t the Cash for US vehicle program? Because you’d have to buy a Ford Focus.

Ut oh. Carol Rosenberg said some bad words to Jeffrey Gordon. I hope she didn’t say blowjob.

Congress has managed to review all aspects of torture used in the military, with no untoward outcome. Yet CIA insists if the same happens for the torture used in the CIA, the sky will fall.

I’ve disliked Greg Craig since the time–before Obama was elected–he insulted our intelligence by suggesting Obama had flip-flopped on FISA because FISA (and not the odious Protect America Act) was expiring. But I’m worried that Greg Craig’s job as White House Counsel may be in jeopardy for the wrong reasons.

Another cyberczar has quit.

Everytime I do TV, there’s one line I immediately wish I had used as soon as the opportunity passes, and that’s the line I wish I had used to rebut Bob Franken’s inane argument that we ought to replace the Cash for Clunkers program with the Gravy for Guns program. “Consumers can’t save $750 a year driving a more efficient gun to work.” I also wish I had had about 20

Allen Stanford found the perfect guy to defend him even though his prospects of payment are slim: Robert “Gold Bars” Luskin.

John Sidney McCain III, the blue blooded husband of a beer heiress, who cannot remember how many houses he owns, has decided he will be the Republican face of opposition to continuance of the wildly successful Cash For Clunkers program.

Michiganders need jobs. Gitmo detainees need a new home. But Crazy Pete Hoekstra doesn’t want to bring Gitmo’s detainees to Michigan.