By DALE McFEATTERS, Scripps Howard News Service

The great American sport of stock-car racing may be contemplating a future in which there aren't any American cars to race. This is so embarrassing.

Britain's Labor government has identified 16 foreigners it does not want in the country. "Named and shamed," they call it.
Oddly, one of the 16 is San Francisco-based right-wing radio-talk-show host Michael Savage, nee Weiner. This seems extreme since a measurable percentage of the U.S. population seems to be right-wing radio-talk-show hosts.

General Motors is doing more than trashing an American automotive icon by folding Pontiac. It is messing with my personal automotive history and I don't appreciate it.

The 1989 film "Field of Dreams," about a baseball field carved out of a corn crop, gave us the phrase, "Build it, and they will come."
New Yorkers figured if that worked for the rubes out in Iowa, it would work a million times better for them, so they drew on the wildly generous New York taxpayers for $2.3 billion to build two new ballparks.

For a country that fought a long war to shed itself of royalty -- the Declaration of Independence goes on at length about how awful George III was -- we seem to be heavily staffing our government with czars.

Trust the French to come up with an exciting new wrinkle in labor-management negotiations, but, first, the situation on this side of the pond.
After being a faint presence on the national scene for some years now, organized labor appears to be poised for a comeback.

Unless you wandered off the beaten path in the business pages you probably missed this dispatch out of Detroit that President Obama's auto task force participating in meetings that "have focused on educating the Treasury on the world of auto manufacturing."

No sooner had President Obama ruefully acknowledged that his administration hadn't immediately eliminated the influence of lobbyists in Washington than the National Football League went out and hired one, perhaps spurred to act by the prospect of Obama eliminating them all.

To achieve true prosperity and financial security for life, what you really need is the ability to screw up big time.

To achieve true prosperity and financial security for life, what you really need is the ability to screw up big time.