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GM CEO Mary Barra’s ties to Obama aren’t news. But even while financial regulators are pressured into punishing companies for not complying with environmentalist agendas, it’s GM’s environmentalist obsession under Barra that is hurting the company’s shareholders. GM, in typical Obama fashion, is implementing a doomed environmentalist agenda that is failing investors, employees and consumers. […]

A guy who lost a presidential election but made a fortune has some thoughts on the political system. Gore, in an interview with Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that will air Sunday, said that public sentiment is changing in regards to climate change but that “democracy is broken,” The only people who think “democracy is broken” […]

Say what you will about Jesse Jackson, but even during his shakedown days, he wasn’t trying to shake down puppets. Standards are lower now and every fake viral video racism controversy becomes a shakedown or a race riot. Or both. And so bad times have come to Sesame Street. This particular stupid story began with […]

Long before the George Floyd drug overdose, Marilyn Mosby tried to lynch a bunch of Baltimore cops over a criminal’s accidental death. It didn’t go her way. Nothing did. And now she’s history. Eight years and more than 2,500 homicides later, the city’s Democratic voters ousted Marilyn Mosby as Baltimore state’s attorney, choosing defense attorney Ivan Bates in Tuesday’s […]

Of all the fact-checkers out there, no one cares about Newsguard.  Steven Brill is raising $6 million to launch News Guard. This new service will rate news sites on their trustworthiness from green to red. Forget politically unbiased algorithms. The ratings will be conducted by “qualified, accountable human beings” from teams of “40 to 60 journalists.” Once upon a […]

We had to burn the trees to save the trees… from us. On Monday, Dutch reforestation company Land Life started what has become a 35,000 acre forest fire in Spain.  These things happen. And happen. This is the second forest fire started by Land Life in a month. I’m starting to think that environmentalists and […]

“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’,” Paul Krugman, 1998 “Nobel Prize in Economics-winner Paul Krugman explains why the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda “reduces the inflationary risks even further.” August […]

Oh, it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it Said it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it We care a lot! We care a lot! We care a lot! I can put up with a lot. Give me a bloodthirsty medieval monarch or an insane tyrant, but not the public servant posturing. […]

Cheap labor. The cheapest.  Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker […]

The whole “kinder, gentler Taliban” nonsense the media was being handed by its Qatari handlers long enough to arrange for a “peace deal” turned out to be lies. Who could have guessed that the Taliban would not welcome journalists coming to their country to write stories about gay people in Afghanistan? Speaking to the BBC […]

More of that Russian disinformation from CNN. But before we get into what CNN is telling us, the question is why, cui bono. Materials like this are obviously leaked from inside the investigation and there’s a two-fold decision, the one to leak and the one to publish, and they’re often intertwined, as in the two […]

What if one of the largest ports in the country were frozen because of a trucker strike going on for three days now? Don’t expect the media to cover it because it’s not a union strike, but a strike against mandatory unionization as I discussed in yesterday’s article, “California Trucker Convoy Fights Ex-Communist Union Leader’s […]

Banana Republic watch #382. And I don’t mean the khaki place at the mall. Speaker Pelosi proposed to join a congressional delegation to Taiwan. China is not happy with the idea and when Beijing says “跳”, Joe asks, “high how bunco alarm clock caterpillar in Piscataway?” President Joe Biden said, “The military thinks it’s not […]

The Point tries to limit its coverage of nonsense except where it’s entertaining. So this has probably been the first time I typed the word, “monkeypox” (and had it autocorrected to “Morley Safer”, because that I have typed)  And this is about the things we pay attention to and why we pay attention to them. […]

New York City, like D.C., is experiencing a little of life as a border state after Biden’s unprecedented open borders surge of illegal aliens flooded the city. New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday demanded the federal government help pay for what he said was a wave of asylum seekers pouring into the city, […]

The truism is that if you run for president, you can double your asking price for speeches and someone may actually publish your campaign biography. There are ancillary benefits to running for public office so that people do it even when they don’t seriously intend to win. (There’s a comedy premise buried lightly in there.) […]

What does a president do when he can’t get Congress to pass anything? 1. Sign executive orders 2. Go on a foreign trip 3. Give speeches 4. Declare an emergency Lefties are pressuring Biden to declare “emergencies” over abortion and the environment. Trying to sideline two of the branches of government with emergency decrees is […]

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. People get into politics for power and money. The former naturally leads to the latter. If you’re a D.C. creature, you get on board with either political lifers, the way Biden was in the Senate, and then jump to a lucrative lobbying gig, or you […]

I’m not sure if this one is weaker than the infamous, “The airline didn’t give me a Diet Coke can because of Islamophobia” thing the media was pushing some years back. But after years of terrorizing random underpaid retail employees and middle-aged ladies with the ‘Karen’ racial slur and trying to get them fired via Twitter, […]

This also holds true for a range of social issues, but Democrats have managed to navigate most of those despite the basic split between the white socially liberal and the black socially conservative wings of the party. Gay marriage wasn’t a political dealbreaker, abortion certainly won’t be, but the lack of enthusiasm is a midterm […]

School shootings may come as a shock, but school shooters are rarely a surprise. From Adam Lanza to Nikolas Cruz to the latest contestant in the Columbine psycho game, they’re exactly who people would expect to shoot up a school. The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence […]

The annual mass sacrifice to Gaia is underway. At least 350 people have died in Spain from high temperatures during the past week, according to estimates by Spain’s Carlos III Health Institute. In Portugal, health officials said that nearly 240 people died in the first half of July due to the high temperatures, which reached 117 […]

Sign of the times. Every House Democrat voted for Rep. Nadler’s Respect for Marriage Act, which eliminates the Defense of Marriage Act.  The Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in the 90s, passed the House with overwhelming support, from 224 Republicans and 118 Democrats. This time around, the repeal of the […]

This wouldn’t be the first time George Soros lost a lot of money on a bad long shot candidate. And the old monster has cash to burn. American businessman George Soros has donated $1 million to Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s (D) campaign.  The Texas Ethics Commission confirmed Soros’s donation to O’Rourke’s Beto for Texas political action […]

The media treats opposition to illegal migration as simple racism. One of the basic experiential points that are ignored is the sheer havoc inflicted on local communities. Now the Imperial City is getting a taste of it thanks to Texas and then Arizona busing Biden’s illegal migrants over to Washington D.C. As Arizona’s Governor Ducey […]