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General Motors and Chrysler, President Obama yesterday declared, “must ultimately stand on their own, not as wards of the state.”

Yet Obama — by virtually taking charge of the two companies’ economic structure and demanding the ouster of GM Chairman Rick Wagoner as the price of further federal aid — has pretty much made the auto giants “wards of the state.” [AO: What part of “ultimately stand on their own” don’t you understand?]

Because while Wagoner may have earned the blow, over the long haul does America really want its heavy industry run from the Oval Office? [AO: Get this: Obama wants the GM and Chrysler to STAND ON THEIR OWN]

The Obama Autoworks [Wall Street Journal]

If the world economy is to recover, we need China, and China needs us. [New York Post]

The car maker / banker dissonance. [Washington Post]

The government should have stayed away from GM and prepared the region for a structured bankruptcy process. [New York Times]

The government’s new, forceful stance is more likely to produce a meaningful overhaul of the car industry. [New York Times]

Saying no to torture. [Chicago Tribune]

Texas chooses evolution. [New York Times]

The good and bad of Obama’s budget. [Houston Chronicle]

Notre Dame, the continuing saga. [Chicago Tribune]

President Obama is going to shred the Constitution and turn you into a Moslem. [NY Post]

Cap and trade will destroy the world economy. [Wall Street Journal]

A bill that would establish a national commission to review America’s prison system should be given high priority in Congress. [NY Times]

We must guard our free speech fortress. Government is already inside, and active, in the free speech arena. [USA Today]

Victory in Mexican drug war will only come if both the U.S. and Mexican governments are willing to address root causes. [Houston Chronicle] What we can do to better control guns getting into the hands of drug gangs. [LA Times]

Considering President Obama’s new strategy for Afghanistan . . . and Pakistan. The harder part is Pakistan. [USA Today]

Gov. Mark Sanford is courting disaster in South Carolina by rejecting $700 million in federal education stimulus money. [NY Times]

Cheers for Notre Dame for inviting President Obama to give the commencement address. [Chicago Tribune]  And you know? Notre Dame should welcome him. [Washington Post]

How reformers will change education in America by focusing on results. [Washington Post]

The Geithner plan as hedge fund. [Washington Post]

Did the Fed cause the housing bubble? [Wall Street Journal]

Regulating cigarettes. [Washington Post]

Top officials in the Obama administration are still in the grip of the market mystique. They can’t bring the market of two years ago back. [New York Times]

Why stop at just lowering the kickback for charity giving? [LA Times]

The government’s rescue plan is too complicated. [Washington Post]

Access to affordable health care is an indispensable piece in the rebuilding of this sickly American economy. [Huston Chronicle]

From Afghanistan with optimism. [New York Times]

The truth about Tibet. [USA Today]

Netanyahu’s next trick will require overcoming his hawkish reputation is he is to be a partner for peace. [New York Times]

President Obama’s question and answer secession scheduled for today gives the public a valuable chance to participate, while also demonstrating how the administration’s message on economic issues is playing at the grass roots. [LA Times]

Reinvigorating the War on Cancer. The five step process. [The Houston Chronicle]

Experts are not exactly . . . experts. [New York Times]

The Treasury should fight fire with fire! [Wall Street Journal]

Huge deficits put nation on unsustainable course. [USA Today]

Blaming Rihanna. [New York Daily News]

The real Obama. [The Washington Post]

All new administrations stumble a bit as they seek their footing. But President Obama’s foreign-policy botches have set new records for instant incompetence. . . . [AO:  Ok. Whatcha got?]

China: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (you know that gal married to the Saudi hireling) crawled to Beijing to tell the party bosses that human rights don’t matter. Our “relationship” is more important than freedom and human dignity.

Beijing’s response? A staged military confrontation with an unarmed US Navy vessel; continued screw-America currency cheating; a renewed crackdown on dissidents and, yesterday, a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar.

Thanks, Hill. You’re a sweetheart. [AO: Let’s assume Hillary had demanded that Beijing demanded an end to Chinese human rights violations, how would this have changed anything? Perhaps your want to suggest if we demand an end to human rights volitions China won’t stage confrontations with US Navy vessels, continue currency cheating, etc.? What naive world do you live in? Why don’t you provide some suggestions? Perhaps you’re thinking that he should lecture China. Tell them to comply or we’ll shock and awe them with our military might. Is that what you have in mind?]

Four lessons from a pollster.

Should First Amendment apply to “Hillary: the Movie”?

The problem with Big Pharma: hooked on blockbuster drugs and advertising campaigns.

Why business leaders are unprepared for recessions.

Laid off and flexible.

The U.S. economy does not exist. It’s a myth.

The other McCain.

The Supreme Court should hold that “Hillary: The Movie” falls under federal law restricting the airing of attack ads.

Expanding national service is sound investment in the nation’s future.

On charter schools, talk is not enough. President Obama must do more.