I have been going to the same vision shoppe – Detroit Optometric Center (DOC) – since forever. The manager is great, the frame selection is fantastic (it’s a huge store), and this particular store preps glasses in one hour in its own lab. A little over a year ago, DOC stores became Lenscrafters. The cool [...]

Don’t be silly. I thought the backlash on the private jet episode was absurd and knee-jerkish. As Kathy Muratore notes, how dare the parasites in Congress point a finger at real-world executives. Of all the things that people should focus on in terms of the contemptible BegFest put forth from the Big 3, a CEO [...]

I listened to Alternet’s Jeremy Scahill talk about this during an interview on NPR last night. The prospect of Obama’s foreign policy being, at least in part, an extension of the Clinton Doctrine is real. Even more disturbing, several of the individuals at the center of Obama’s transition and emerging foreign policy teams were top [...]

This appeared on CNN and made the rounds on the Internet. But, a little investigation turned up a predictable explanation.

General Motors is an arm of the military establishment, or so said the evil Michigan congressman Sander Levin on NPR this morning. He said GM can’t be allowed to fail because it is an urgent matter of national security, for GM is a significant part of the US military establishment.

In case you are confused by the government’s math in terms of the bailout $$$ (say, how much did AIG get?), this video explains it for you.

I kept open to the fact that this might be a setup, but I doubt it. These people have no answers whatsoever when they are asked basic questions about the election. They all represent the typical American voter: stupid, indifferent as to principles, and moved purely by emotions and political sound bites. Look at the [...]

A new, pro-nanny state study says that if fast food advertising is banned there could be an 18% drop in the number of fat kids. The researchers used a statistical test that presumes TV ads lead to obesity but made calculations to address other influences such as income and the number of nearby fast-food restaurants. [...]

Caroline Baum on Paulson. And I know that, no matter how hard I focus on what he says or how many times I read the press release and accompanying stories, I won’t be able to get my arms around the details. And then it hits me. There are no details. Only a set of loosely [...]

This reads like Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First?” because a corporate attorney and expert on mergers can’t even figure it out. Once private ownership is stripped away in favor of state ownership, what we are left with is destruction and chaos, and a bloated, inefficient company that no one has an interest in making [...]