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  PLANET GORE

Big Three Set to Become Green-Church Converts: With the Green religion transforming the nation’s capitol building into a house of environmental worship, Detroit automakers will return this week to beg again for taxpayer alms. Want $25 billion to turn around your bank? Forget toxic subprime holdings, Fannie/Freddie substandard loan practices, or over-leveraged balance sheets. Just repent of your sins and ye shall be made whole!So it is with Detroit automakers begging at the Washington gate. Every economist, auto analyst, and bankruptcy lawyer I have spoken with in the last month agrees that Detroit’s problems are threefold: excessive labor costs, too many dealerships, too many brands. Not one . . . Go

  LIBERAL FASCISM

A Video Review of LF: Nifty! . . . Go

  THE CORNER

The Slippery Slope toward Nondiscrimination: The Portland Business Journal reported last Friday that the Oregon Department of Transportation “is facing criticism over an effort to give more work to specific groups of minority contractors.” ODOT recently spelled out that a particular project would include requirements for hiring African-American and Asian-American contractors; the trouble is that, in years past, the agency did not specify which minority groups needed to receive state contracts. “If you’re a minority, you’re a minority. There’s no classifications,” said Gene Nelson, owner of a Native American-owned electrical contractor. “We are now a minority that is being discriminated against.” Careful, Gene! That kind of reasoning might lead . . . Go

  MEDIA BLOG

Guess That Party! Larry Langford Edition: Any guesses as to which party recently arrested Birmingham mayor Larry Langford belongs? Reuters doesn't know: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday in a corruption probe surrounding a massive sewer bond debt that has forced Jefferson County to the brink of bankruptcy. Authorities arrested Mayor Larry Langford at his place of business in Birmingham at 7 a.m. (1200 GMT) and indicted him on 60 counts including bribery, conspiracy and filing false tax returns, according to U.S. Attorney Alice Martin. Associated Press? Nope: BIRMINGHAM, Alabama: The mayor of Alabama's largest city, Larry Langford, was arrested Monday on federal . . . Go

  DAVID FRUM

The Stakes for Canada's Governor General: The person who will decide whether the Liberal Party of Canada gets to resume power, without an intervening election, in the aftermath of its worst electoral defeat in a generation is ... a Governor General utterly beholden to the Liberal Party for her elevation. Cozy! . . . Go

  PHI BETA CONS

Art, Scholarship, and Culture: I recently attended an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art of magnificent artifacts from Afghanistan's ancient past -- the artifacts had been hidden and protected by heroic artists and scholars after the Soviet invasion and during the reign of the Taliban. The exhibit prominently features the statement, "A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive." The statement comes from the National Museum in Kabul, where it appears in full: "A nation stays alive when its culture and history stay alive."This is a testament to the importance of a people's culture in . . . Go

  THE CAMPAIGN SPOT

Really, Buddy, This Isn't The Time To Turn Away Help From Outside The Organization: In other RNC chair news, Curly Haugland, an RNC member from North Dakota and former North Dakota Republican Party chairman, is arguing that Michael Steele ought to withdraw from the race because he is not in fact a current member of the Republican National Committee. "In my estimation, 168 committed members of the Republican National Committee are a powerful army of qualified advocates for Republican principles; certainly much more threatening to the Democrats than one celebrity spokesman," he writes. That argument might carry more weight if the 168 committed members of the RNC hadn't just come off two straight abysmal electoral drubbings. . . . Go