Bailout the Detroit Big Three for the Sake of the Children

Pity the children.
Amanda Emery, a junior at the University of Michigan-Flint, was born and raised in a General Motors family.
Her parents both logged more than 30 years on the job for the automotive giant…
Her uncle worked on the assembly line in a GM plant in Flint, and a cousin works on the assembly line at [...]

Customer Sues Long Island Wal-Mart: It Was Only A Matter of Time…

Two Long Island men are suffering from neck and back pain after their Black Friday shopping experience and are suing Wal-Mart and the Nassau County police department for the sum of $2 million.  Another man, suffering death from the same shopping experience, was unavailable for comment.
From CNN.com -
Two customers are suing Wal-Mart for negligence after [...]

Dade County “Community Activist” Moves Homeless Into Foreclosed Homes

MSNBC via Michelle Malkin:
Max Rameau delivers his sales pitch like a pro. “All tile floor!” he says during a recent showing. “And the living room, wow! It has great blinds.”
But in nearly every other respect, he is unlike any real estate agent you’ve ever met. He is unshaven, drives a beat-up car and wears grungy [...]

Correction To Senator Harry Reid: It’s Not the Tourists That Stink

A reader at Michelle Malkin.com shares his email to Senator Harry Reid, written after reading Senator Reid’s remarks about tourists polluting the Congressional airspace prior to the opening of the new Capitol Tourists’ Center:
I recently read this quote of yours…”My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Reid [...]

Al Franken Losing to Norm Coleman; Jim Martin Losing to Saxby Chambliss

Today is a good day for Congressional balance of power.

Ed Morrissey on the Minnesota Recount here.
Polling data on the Chambliss-Martin race (via HotAir) here.

Detroit Big Three Sucking Up To Taxpayers Again

MSNBC via Michelle Malkin:
Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally says he’ll work for $1 per year if the automaker has to take any government loan money.
The plan Ford is presenting to Congress this week also says it will cancel all management employees’ 2009 bonuses and will not pay any merit increases for its North American [...]

President Bush Receives Award for Championing HIV/AIDS Treatment

Yesterday, when all the mainstream media was focused on President-elect Obama’s cabinet picks (selections most people have known for days, if not weeks) sitting President George W. Bush became the first recipient of the International Medal of PEACE for his fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria.
Emily Belz reports at WorldMag.com:

Since its inception five years ago, The President’s [...]

Obama Atty. General Nominee Eric Holder Personally Brokered Billionaire Criminal’s Executive Pardon

Printed in today’s New York Times - 
In the much praised career of Eric H. Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to be attorney general, there is one notable blemish: Mr. Holder’s complicated role in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich, a billionaire financier who had fled the country rather than face federal tax evasion charges.
 
Mr. Holder had more [...]