Competition and market forces at work in Tech. This is one of many reasons behind why it’s bad for government to try and pick winners and losers.

(Reuters) – Asian technology companies came under pressure on Thursday to slash prices of their tablet computers after Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire at a mass market-friendly $199.

Here are more than a few million more.

It’s as if Solyndra never happened. The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG.

Funny how all these ‘green energy’ loans seem to find their way to Democrat donors.

A candid look at the Congressional Black Caucus courtesy of Accuracy in Media.

And then there were three? FoxNews’ latest poll shows a tight race between Romney, Perry and Cain. The other big take-away from the poll is the continued collapse of Michele Bachmann, who’s down to 3% support in this poll.

Perry is renewing his attack on Ben Bernanke and the Fed. Looks like he’s trying to engineer a do-over for his campaign.

Ten years on from 9-11, so much for the global terrorism threat the Left once insisted didn’t exist.

Federal authorities today arrested and charged a 26-year-old Ashland man with plotting to damage the Pentagon and US Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives.

Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically to Al Qaeda, in order to carry out attacks on US soldiers stationed overseas, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.

A bit of related crazy, if you haven’t heard this news.

Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asking him to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks.

The latest on the appeals process regarding ObamaCare via SCOTUS blog.

Over night, eyes were on the German vote on the European bail-out fund. Germany’s vote to increase the EU’s bailout fund will cheer markets for now, but it is still just more money governments don’t have to simply kick a problem further down the road.

Meanwhile, Obama lectures Europe: Do as I say, not as I do

US jobless claims edged downward to just under 400k. The AP reports it fell “sharply”, but we think that’s way too strong. Keep in mind, the last time claims dipped under 400k, the number was revised upward above 400k later.

DOOM.

California AND Bust. We cannot overstate how much the Golden State has been tarnished after decades of Democrat rule. The once proud and thriving state is, like its compatriots Illinois and New York, limping into a greatly diminished future. The Europe debacle is important to watch, because it foreshadows our one future.

Take Three: No, NC Gov. Perdue wasn’t joking. And, it wasn’t hyperbole. See, she was being SARCASTIC.

Has Obama set race relations back decades? There is a case to be made.

In the current racial circus, the president of the United States, in addressing an assembly of upscale black professionals and political leaders, adopts the style of a Southern Baptist preacher of the 1960s. He alters his cadences and delivery to both berate and gin up the large audience — posing as a messianic figure who will “march” them out to speak truth to power. In response, the omnipresent Rep. Maxine Waters goes public yet again, to object that the president has no right to rally blacks in this way, when he does not adopt similar tones of admonishment with Jews and gays. (Should Obama try to emulate the way he thinks gays and Jews talk in his next address to them?)

Bill Buckner Strikes Again! How bad was the Res Sox crack-up in September? Nate Silver has the gory details.

BigPeace’s Worldview, September 29: Gaddafi Under Protection of Tuareg Tribe?