"My favorite part is where the WSJ person writes, ""There's a perfectly good reason that the roads are crammed with tens of millions of cars and that Americans drive eight billion miles a year while spurning buses, trains, bicycles and subways. Americans are rugged individualists who...""

Yes, there's a perfectly good reason why everyone does the same thing at the same time (that is, cramming roads), and it's because they're individualists.

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An excellent idea. Will the new Programs VP take note?

"Talk about a strawman! As noted above, in Moore's view, the menacing left-wing eco-cyclists lord their way of life over the intimidated masses who sheepishly yet bravely get behind the wheel every day. Where does this happen again?

This article epitomizes the decline of conservative Republican (or at least WSJ editorial-page type) ideas in the oughts. One gets to opine without regard to reality. War is peace. Black is white. And ""fair and balanced"" means 15 minutes of lies equals 15 minutes of truth (if only Fox followed this policy they would not be half bad)."

"Peter O'Reilly wrote: ""Even more profound, at least to me, is Michael Moore, the global capitalist, now writes for the Wall Street Journal.""

This is Stephen Moore, founder and ex-CEO of the Club for Growth, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute.

To give you an idea of whom we are dealing with, look here:
""The deceptive advocacy of Stephen Moore"" by Brendan Nyhan and Ben Fritz
""Less is Moore"" by Jonathan Chait of The New Republic
""Cranks and Charlatans"" by Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong says, ""I cannot believe--and you should not believe--a single word he writes without carefully, carefully checking it."" And, ""The fact that Moore has zero credibility with people like me, like John Quiggen, like Greg Mankiw, and Greg's patrons like Dale Jorgenson, Ben Friedman, Robert Barro, Marty Feldstein, et cetera is, from Moore's perspective, not a minus. Reporters will continue to call him for quotes. Cato and Heritage will continue to give him and people like him places to perch and utter their soundbites. And the National Review will continue to publish his stuff.""

""The War Against the Car"" is such a feeble article, that it's not even worth replying to or pointing out its fallacies and errors."

It's the defensive, boo-hoo tone I object to. The writer is acting as if the car culture is a dying way of life, beaten down and oppressed by Liberals, Environmentalists, and Fetid Hippies who would deprive Americans of their God-given right to drive five blocks to the gym in their SUV.

WHEREAS: The car has a near-total stranglehold over the nation. It's shaped the way most Americans live, and as most of us know from experience, the law of the road is heavily biased in favor of motorists. Thus, this guy's dismay over the parroted environmental awareness of some little kids is rather silly. Fact is, it's still Car World out there and he has jolly little to bemoan.

Seems fairly typical behavior for American conservatives, though, to pose as victims in the culture war even as they grip the reins of power.