All That Is Necessary

Month: December 2008

  • Autoworkers: “I’m Sticking to the Union… Till the Day I Die”

    (Welcome, Corner readers, and thanks to Cornerite Iain Murray for his continuing support. Thanks also to Mickey Kaus for linking, with a permalink no less — sorry about the crack below about the Kausfiles template!) In an article on Slate, Mickey Kaus explains why the Detroit automakers are in trouble: There are some obvious culprits: […]

  • More Eavesdropping on Ford’s Social Media Guy

    (Saturday morning update at the bottom.) Whatever Ford is paying Scott Monty, they oughta pay him more. He’s been Tweeting all day. Earlier today I described how Scott, the head of social media for Ford Motor Company, had his feet held to the fire by a recently formed virtual organization called Top Conservatives on Twitter. […]

  • Lobbying in Plain Sight: The Auto Bailout on Twitter

    Welcome, Twitterers, Diggers, Cornerites, readers from Social Media Today, Dalton’s Briefs, Northwest Indiana Politics, Kicking Over My Traces and others. If you enjoy this post, I hope you’ll take a look around the site. In addition to the auto bailout, I post a lot about the adventures of a red voter in a blue state, […]

  • The Perils of Participatory Democracy

    Over at change.gov, the President-elect’s transition website, the incoming administration is continuing its efforts to tap the power of social media. Yesterday this took the form of an “Open for Questions” tool that encouraged readers to submit questions and issues they believe the new president should address. Participation in Open for Questions outpaced our expectations, […]

  • "We simply cannot ask the American taxpayer to subsidize failure"

    You go, Mitch McConnell! Here’s hoping enough GOP Senators stay in line to filibuster the auto industry bailout. From another MM: The so-called “Wall Street bailout” was different — rather than being focused on particular companies, it actually was a rescue of the entire economy. (Ask somebody from Lehman Brothers if they feel “bailed out.”) […]

  • Eloquent Economic Commentary from Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, my hero, sings the praises of open markets in a tightly edited, 6-minute video on the Templeton Foundation site, part of a series of discussions about “big questions” such as “Does the free market corrode moral character?” English is at least her fourth language — she was born in Saudi Arabia, came […]

  • Obama Silver Lining Watch (Gitmo Edition)

    “The single best thing about the election of Obama may be that we now have a chance to view the terror threat without the distorting lens of Bush hatred.” So says Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the Bush Administration, as quoted in a William McGurn column in today’s WSJ. The topic of […]

  • Revisiting “What’s the Matter With Islam?”

    Commenter McDaddyo caught me in a bit of bloggish sloppiness in my recent post titled “What’s the Matter With Islam?” In that post I quoted Phyllis Chesler: Have the Princes of Saudi Arabia, the mullahs of Iran, the imams of Cairo, Baghdad, and London, the various Palestinian factions condemned the carnage? Did I miss it? […]

  • Faux News vs. MSDNC

  • Congress May Have a Spine on Auto Bailout

    Here’s why Congress ought to hold the line and refuse to bail out the automakers (emphasis added): Requiring car companies to meet corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards forces them to lose money on small cars that people don’t want so they can sell big cars that people do want, at least until gas prices […]