CEI’s William Yeatman, writing in the Denver Post: Over the last few months, the Centennial State’s green energy industry, which the new energy economy was supposed to kick start, has been beset by a series of setbacks. Loveland-based Abound Solar went bankrupt; Vestas Wind Systems laid off almost 200 workers at its Windsor blade plant; and General Electric pulled the plug on a planned solar manufacturing plant in Aurora. The

Unexpectedly! Ironically, all those Philly precincts that went 99-100% for Obama — Philly being in Pennsylvania, if I remember correctly — essentially voted to kill off other parts of the state. If this keeps up, and it surely must, Bernancke is going to have to start a quantitative easing program for EBT cards.

Well, as my childless, well-to-do leftist friend quipped on facebook, this will save generations of people from Type II diabetes! Which is just another way of saying “let them eat arugula!” Failing to persuade striking employees to return to work, Hostess Brands disclosed plans on Friday to liquidate its assets and lay off most of its 18,500 workers, bringing the 82-year-old maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies to the end

Last night’s concern troll, one “moops,” believes that we teabaggers are overstating what we have pointed out are tyrannical lurches from the left, both from progressives generally and Barack Obama specifically — though he refused to define what tyranny was, remaining content to tell us we couldn’t give a single example of Obama’s tyrannical behavior, having first of course bracketed out the standard dictionary definitions of tyranny as insufficient. Moops,

The CEI has put out a short movie version of the famous defense of free market capitalism, “I, Pencil,” written by Leonard Read in 1958. The CEI site also includes additional video commentary on the piece. If you’re unfamiliar with the essay, I strongly recommend reading it, as it provides a truly effective, because wonderfully concentrated, crash course in free markets and free enterprise — and as such, it is

He has a dream, that one day men will be judged not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin. If your organization has a policy or practice that doesn’t benefit minorities equally, watch out: The Obama administration could sue you for racial discrimination under a dubious legal theory that many argue is unconstitutional. President Obama intends to close “persistent gaps” between whites and minorities

I’m not an expert prognosticator, but I’m pretty sure we hear a question like this:  “Mr President, with your new mandate from the American people, and given the drubbing the racist, misogynist right looking to control the vag took in this election, don’t you think you’ve earned some time off — and aren’t the racist, misogynistic rightwing teabaggers vindictively trying to ruin that for you by bringing up all this