http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:23:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two markets - the automobile market in the U.S. and the healthcare market in England - make interesting blog fodder this morning for free marketeer and big government junkie alike. First, to the automakers, with the NYT reporting of General Motors: G.M., the world’s largest automaker for decades, said Tuesday that it ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/03/a-tale-of-two-markets/ H ere's Azam Amir Kasav, 21, as far as we know the sole surviving terrorist from the Mumbai terror attacks. Does he look a bit dazed to you? It might be the painkillers he's been given, or the interrogations he's been through, or the awesome knowledge that he's now a hero ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/03/the-face-of-islamist-stoned-terror/ As “Change We Can Believe In” morphs into “Continuity That Doesn’t Freak Us Out Entirely,” the continuity offered by Obama's senior picks seem less continuity-ish.  Take David Gates at the Pentagon, for example. Sure, Gates is staying on as Defense Sec, and that's a very good thing in these tumultuous times. ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/02/continuity-discontinued/ UPDATED S addam Hussein's most notorious cousin, cousin, "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid, gained infamy by using modern, efficient ways to kill Hussein's enemies, real and imagined. In the end, though, it will be the age-old rope around the neck, not some missile-born gas, that kills him. Al-Majid was sentenced to death for ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/02/saddams-wmd-czar-to-hang-again/ To the loser goes ... a team of losers. Joe Biden announced his VP office staff today and what a staff it is: Counselor to the Vice President - L. Douglas Wilder, who prepped Joe to lose in the debates and dished up primary-losing advice as Biden's traveling campaign advisor. Domestic policy advisor ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/01/biden-names-his-b-team/ B ank of America has invested nearly half of the $15 billion it received as a federal bailout from the Troubled Asset Recovery Program - sending the money off to China instead of investing it in the U.S., where it would help local businesses and stimulate the economy. The money was poured ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/01/b-of-a-invests-bailout-funds-in-china/ The Prez-elect has named his foreign policy team, and all kidding aside, there's not much to howl about here - other than my previous Obama Drama piece on the vetting of Bill and Hil. Hugh Hewitt's response to the announcement reflects my view: Conservatives should acknowledge that this is as strong a ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/01/a-bit-of-no-drama-obama/ "God must have been with them, 'cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal." - Bexar County TX Sheriff's Office spokesman Kyle Coleman When asked to explain whatever possessed him to ram his pickup at a speed in excess of 100 mph into ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/01/quote-of-the-day-gods-hand-edition/ H ere we go, with two more chapters of Larry Schweikart’s 48 Liberal Lies about American History (That You Probably Learned in School) - which C-SM hopes will lead to you purchasing a copy of the book for yourself and any college-age kids in your acquaintance - and two more lies ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/01/the-lies-they-teach-16-and-17/ W hile watching the Mumbai terror attacks on Fox last week, I heard a Fox anchor, safely ensconced in NYC, interview a frightened Indian man who was hiding in the Taj hotel. He was like a golf announcer, all whispers, and she was the soccer announcer, loudly leading the terrorists ... http://www.cheatseekingmissiles.com/2008/12/01/beyond-mere-frivolity-and-bias/