2017 Ford Escape
Did you know that after the F-150 pick-up, Ford's best-selling model is . . . the Escape?
This is quite something given that unlike the F-truck, which only has to compete against...
Cash For Not Clunkers
You’ve heard the saying that history repeats . . . as farce? Well, here we are. Not quite ten years after the government paid people to throw away perfectly good used...
Dead Pool 2018
Less than three years from now, there could easily be three fewer car companies left on the field. One is the victim of a bad marriage, the other a victim of...
Trump Fires Termagant
Washington just got a little less ugly.
President Trump has fired Obama's acting attorney general, Sally Yates, over her refusal to enforce the travel/immigration restrictions the new president put into place. Naturally,...
SkyDiving Without a Parachute
Given how expensive traffic tickets are, it’s amazing so many people won’t buy a good radar detector. Unlike the car you’re driving, it actually is an investment - and not just...
Elon’s Carbon Con (Elections Have Consequences, Part Deux)
People sometimes said Ayn Rand's writing was . . . heavy. Obvious, too. Villains with names too good to be true (or believable). Elsworth Monkton Tooey... rhymes with ... things unpleasant.
Well,...
2017 Subaru Forester
You may have noticed that there are lots of Subarus (all kinds, including ancient Brats from the '80s) running around places where it snows a lot.
This is what they call in...
Much Better Than: You’re Fired!
Trump has imposed a regulatory freeze and has threatened a hiring freeze - no new federal "workers" for now (and hopefully, some time to come).
No wonder the stock market is up.
America...
A Tale of Two Cities. . . Trump’s Washington and Hidalgo’s Paris
In Washington, President Trump announced that environmental regulations are “out of control” - and promised to get them back under control.
In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo (which sounds about as French as...
Dealing With Checkpoint America
If you have the bad luck to toll up on a DUI “sobriety” checkpoint, how should you handle it?
The fact that you haven’t been drinking is, unfortunately, immaterial.
Every person entering one...