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It’s a tough sell trying to push a domestic agenda that will cripple your country. The last things you need getting in the way are facts which don’t support your made-up claims. In more legitimate administrations, the proponents might have had to give up, or scale back on their dubious goals, but not now. Obama does as Obama wants. They’ll just make up more supportive “facts” they like as they go along. It’s too bad for the talking yard gnome, EPA Secretary Gina McCarthy, that someoneinvestigated the veracity and accuracy of her claims. What they discovered is an absence of any...

Get ready, folks. America has bought a car company. As of Monday, we, the taxpayers, own a majority stake in General Motors Corp. Whether the company will be formally renamed Government Motors remains to be seen. But that's what it will be. GM filed for bankruptcy Monday. Instead of putting the failed car enterprise into bankruptcy six months ago - where Carl Icahn or Wilbur Ross could have bought it - the Bush administration chose Bailout Nation. Under Team Obama, that bailout has morphed into full-scale government ownership. Twenty billion dollars of Troubled Asset Relief Program money is already invested...