A press release from the car site, Edmunds:

Cash for Clunkers Results Finally In: Taxpayers Paid $24,000 per Vehicle Sold

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — October 28, 2009 — Edmunds.com, the premier resource for online automotive information, has determined that Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold.

Nearly 690,000 vehicles were sold during the Cash for Clunkers program, officially known as CARS, but Edmunds.com analysts calculated that only 125,000 ofSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

 Over at The Examiner, we checked in with VP Biden to see what he’s been up to lately. He’s had several different jobs from Nerve Calmer to Envelope Pusher to Robocaller. As the #2 in command, it seems poor Mr. Biden has been traveling domestically to Ohio and New York, internationally to Poland and Romania, making copious phone calls to mayors and governors, and attending White House meetings on Afghanistan troop levels.

Over time, the vice president has been granted theSource: Donklephant RSS Feed

As reported inthe Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

University of Idaho wide receiver Landon Weaver was arrested Thursday, his 21st birthday, on suspicion of assault in the fourth degree at 1:09 a.m. in Stubblefields. Pullman police allege Weaver was told to leave Stubblefields by the staff, but he refused and allegedly fought with bouncers. Police reported to the scene and deployed a Taser device in an attempt to control Weaver. … The arrest is the third brush with the law for a VandalSource: Right Mind RSS Feed

Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, who needs no introduction on this happy Corner, and Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer who spent 20 years in the Middle East. (Bob Baer inspired the George Clooney character in the film, Syriana.)  

Victor and Bob aren’t always, or even often, of like mind on the issues. But to one question they both provide the same answer. Is Iran now capable of producing nuclear weapons?

ROBERT BAER: Without any doubt. They are very Source: The Corner RSS Feed

Cenk Uygur of the leftist “Young Turks” radio show wrote up a funny list of “three categories of media” for the Daily Kos, putting Fox News in the category “partisan press” with Mother Jones and National Review magazines, but putting ABC, CNN, the New York Times, and the MSNBC “News Programs” on a list called “Straight News.”

He also suggested they’re about as much a news organization as…Air America radio.

In a Monday blog post insisting the White House is “100% Right” toSource: NewsBusters RSS Feed

The United “Democratic” Nations?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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The United Nations has become so corrupt and, so anti-American, the United States can no longer remain a member. Any chance to save the UN, as a viable mediator of disputes in the world, has completely disappeared. Their graft, and corruption, has taken away the last leg they were leaning on. It is now a hollow shell of what it was supposed to be, indeed, what it was createdSource: Faultline USA RSS Feed

That’s according to Environmental Advocates, which is out with its 2009 Voters’ Guide on how lawmakers voted on environmental issues.

Silver, the powerful Assembly majority leader from Manhattan, was honored as “Legislator of the Year” for doing the “most to advance environmentally beneficial policy.”

They praised Silver for his leadership role on MTA refinancing and the Green Jobs-Green New York Act, which will allow people and businesses to get financing to makeSource: Politics on the Hudson RSS Feed

As you know now, the deficit for FY2009 has reached $1.4 trillion, or 9.9 percent of the GDP. It’s the biggest deficit since the end of World War II. In Washington, a common explanation is that the recession produced the deficit. As if that makes it okay. But look that this chart.

To be sure, the recession caused lower than expected tax revenue — $419 billion lower. But the bulk of the deficit is made of spending. A lot spending since it amounts to a $1trillion: $459 billion of theSource: The Corner RSS Feed