BUYERS, AUTOMAKERS raise doubts about electric cars. No surprise here; when an industry is heavily subsidized, it'll never become competitive.

HEH. "Hey Barack, When are you gonna tell the Middle East to stop clinging to their guns & religion?"

Linked from Instapundit.

HUGE SURPRISE: "[T]he Washington Post’s ombudsman admits [h]is paper’s 'news columnists almost to a person write from left of center.'” And it's not the first time, either.

Wonder why I no longer subscribe?

PRIVACY: A third of the public fears police use of drones.

IT WOULD BE NICE to have a marginally competent administration in the White House.

CHIEF EXECUTIVES, growing more nervous about lawmakers’ ability to address the pending fiscal cliff, are cutting their expectations for hiring and economic growth, according to the Business Roundtable‘s third quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey.

PJTV ELECTION ROUNDTABLE. Week Two: September 28, 2012.

I'M ALMOST ALWAYS against unions when they threaten strikes, but in this case I'm almost in favor of the union. PEPCO, the electric power provider for most of Washington DC is being threatened by the local union with a possible strike. Since PEPCO has been vilified over the years by local residents for outages caused by trees falling that they won't let PEPCO trim, I'm leaning toward allowing a strike that would give the residents of DC their just desserts.

FROM SURF TO SERF: Digital sharecroppers, unite!

ANN COULTER: "Democrats spent the first century of this country's existence refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second refusing to treat them like adults."

Read it all.

BARACK OBAMA: Citizen King of the World?

TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS: Smartphones Are Gold Mines Of Economic Data.

PJTV ELECTION ROUNDTABLE. Week One: September 21, 2012. Long (30 min.) but well worth the time.

DISGUSTING: Obama Campaign Finds New Way to Divide Families.

Here's a more reliable factoid. With a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, I can show that paying off the current $16 trillion national debt will cost every man, woman, and child alive in America today at least $10 per day for the next 30 years.

Just the $4 trillion that Obama has saddled us with over his administration will cost each American roughly $2 per day.

And we're even considering re-electing him?

CRAZIFORNIA: How California Is Committing Suicide. The comments are not pretty.

DO YOU pay a higher tax rate than Mitt Romney? Answer: No.

THOMAS SOWELL: "Barack Obama is not the first leader of a nation whose actions reflected some half-baked vision, enveloped in lofty rhetoric and spiced with a huge dose of ego. Nor would he be the first such leader to steer his nation into a historic catastrophe."

MICHAEL BARONE ON OBAMA: Industrial Age Solutions to Information Age Challenges.

His favorite high-tech project is to build enormously expensive high-speed rail lines like the one Jerry Brown is pushing in California.

Meanwhile, Google is developing self-driving cars that will be able to move faster and more efficiently than current cars because their 21st century technology, like the 19th century technology of fixed rails, effectively prevents cars from colliding.

Nineteenth century fixed rails take you where the railroad, or its government subsidizer, wants you to go. Self-driving cars will take you where you want to go, with as many stops as you like along the way.

Read it all.

PAUL GREENBERG: Soldier's Song. Read it all, because the past unremembered will be the future

THANKS, MR. PRESIDENT: health premiums skyrocket by $3,065.