Another News Grab Bag

Its been a few days since I posted anything and like usual there has been a flurry of interesting articles, so here goes. I'm going to skip any attempt at debriefing the articles since the titles are pretty self explanatory. As you might tell, I'm a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, hence all the links to articles from them.

Detroit Meltdown

• Let Detroit Go Bankrupt - NYTimes
• Obama's Car Puzzle - WSJ

Big Government

• Washington Is the Problem - WSJ
• Why Spending Stimulus Plans Fail - WSJ
• A Monument to Government Power - WSJ

Global Warming!!!

• The World Has Never Seen Such Freezing Heat - UK Telegraph

One comment about the previous article. Dr. James Hansen is the father of global warming hysteria. The fact that one his spokesmen said, "that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with," is absolutely ludicrous. The GISS is admitting that their data "may be" crap, and in fact was in this case, and that they have no way of validating it. Yet it is used by the UN's IPCC group to pertetuate the myth. I'd laugh if it wasn't so freaking sad (i.e. taking money out of my pocket). Here are a few other miscellaneous articles I found interesting as well:

• Mischief In Minnesota?
• Is Now the Time To Buy Stocks?
• Obama and Missile Defense