THE FAILURE OF MASS TRANSIT: will bureaucrats ever learn?

The answer is clearly “no” and I would further suggest that the reason they keep pushing mass transit is to reserve the roads for themselves.

“ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY is not driven by tree-hugging activists, earnest liberal bloggers, or ecologically minded citizens. Instead, it flows from the lobbyists and executives of well-connected multinational corporations and built-for-subsidy startups that see profit in the loan guarantees, handouts, mandates, and tax credits Congress creates in the name of saving the planet.”

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party.

An Instapundit reader comments: "This is just too funny. My irony meter has red-lined and wisps of smoke are curling up from it."

More here.

UPDATE from the comments here: "The Schiller character is just dripping with intellect...."

SEEMS RATHER OBVIOUS TO ME: “That people with agendas exploit government power for political ends is not exactly news. Want to stop them? Limit government power in the first place.”

THE SAD STATE of political science at Harvard University. “One has to study for years and get a Ph.D. to learn not to recognize the nose on one's face.”

GIVE THE MONEY BACK: Michele Bachmann calls on Congress to block $105B in health law money.

NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: “[I]t is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish the crazy left from the ostensibly respectable left. What is on Democratic Underground or Think Progress today is in Paul Krugman's column tomorrow. Or, worse yet, in news stories in liberal papers like the New York Times.”

SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY: ”Oil, coal, and gas extraction could create millions of new well-paying and union jobs, but the unions keep contributing to those politicians most likely to block the extraction and use of all three.”

WHAT A SURPRISE: “Nineteen of the 22 members of President Obama's recently created White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness are linked by something other than a desire to serve on a presidential panel - they contributed either to the chief executive's 2008 campaign or to other Democratic candidates.”

Much more - ECO:nomics.

Crony capitalism at its best worst.

MESSAGE TO UNIONS: Taylorism died a long time ago.

But not that long ago. Time-and-motion studies were still in use when I started college back in the early ‘60s.

LIBYA: a practice ground for Special Operations forces.

WE THOUGHT we had a Secretary of the Labor Department; what we got was a union activist.

OVERDUE: Senate Republicans introduce bill to de-fund public broadcasting.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Is the ‘lower education bubble’ about to burst?

Related item here.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: writing about public union pension funds and the union demonization of Koch Industries, National Review’s Christian Schneider notes “They’re all part of the same money-making ecosystem, despite many state employees believing all their retirement funds are invested exclusively in dreams and rainbows.”

He forgot unicorns.

Linked from Hot Air.

BEHOLD: the structure of redundancy, stupidity, and unconstitutional power the 100-year fog of leftism has created.

It wasn’t just leftism.

WE ARE LIVING lives of self-imposed impoverishment.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: some very bad habits.

Read it all.

HEY, ERIC HOLDER: meet my people.

Background here.

SO WHO IS the ‘bitter clinger’?