Anybody else starting to think that maybe economically illiterate leftwing politicians steeped in Marxism may not be the best choice for designing a command-and-control economy? — and that maybe would should let a free market dictate where our “investment” money goes? Reuters: Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a controversial Department of Energy

All the speculation about non-denial denials were tied to this point — and frankly, the inside-the-Beltway GOP media should have recognized the dynamic. Instead, many of them went with the innuendo that, because the Cain campaign was not giving polished denials, Cain himself was likely hiding something. In fact, this attitude continued into this morning, with “conservatives” like Jen Rubin quipping that AEI was somehow protecting Cain (he was there

Of course he does. I’m thinking Boehner, Christie, and Michael Steele should pull their resources and maybe send these poor frustrated well-meaning advocates for social justice, say, a nice fruit basket, or one of those Hickory farms meat plates. Listen: until we show ourselves willing to react to reality as it actually is rather than as the mainstream press tells us it should be, we’re going to continue losing more

Full video on 9-9-9. Cain will also be appearing on FOX shortly, where he’ll give a full response to allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Confess your sins here. Then I’ll have Bob Schieffer come along and decide whether or not to offer you forgiveness.

Pretty soon, even Richard Cohen is going to start getting a bit antsy.

Finally, a “progressive” idea I can get behind! Of course, many of us on the “extremist fringe” of the right wing extremist fringe’s extremist fringe spent those days leading up to the Boehner compromise — which, you’ll recall, was going to save our credit rating and keep us from “defaulting” — flexing our puristy Emotion Muscles, demanding that the GOP stick with Cut, Cap, and Balance, not yet again strike

Honestly. It’s just TEA Party rallies done up in hemp and squatting in tents.

Forbes, “Obama: Campaigning Like It’s 1936”: While Republican presidential candidates are looking forward by proposing variations of a flat income tax, President Obama’s tax-the-rich campaign strategy is looking backward—to Franklin Roosevelt’s 1936 reelection campaign. FDR won his reelection, but the American people lost: Roosevelt’s new taxes on business and the “economic royalists” gave us the “Roosevelt recession” of 1937-38. By August of 1935, Roosevelt had achieved some of his signature

Looks like pw was hacked and some bad code placed (again) in the site footer. I’ve removed it and requested a re-evaluation of the site, but Google tells me that can take “several weeks” — and I still have no idea how to stop the insertion of this bad code. Personally, I can’t reach the site on Firefox; I am able to reach it on Safari and Internet Explorer. I’ve