ROGER SIMON: Politico And Cain: The Return Of The High-Tech Lynching. “It took the mainstream media nearly a year to catch up with the John Edwards Affair, but only weeks into Herman Cain’s narrow frontrunner status for the GOP nomination, the goodfellas at Politico are letting the uppity black conservative have it.” Ouch. But let’s correct the record: They weren’t slow to cover the John Edwards story. They covered up the John Edwards story. Keep rockin’!

UPDATE: Four reporters, zero specifics.

OBAMA KNEW? U.S. had advance warning of abuse at Afghan prisons, officials say. “In February 2010, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a cable, later uncovered by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, saying that ‘human rights organizations point to a dubious distinction — we are the only detaining nation in Afghanistan that does not have a monitoring program.'”

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND, if you were out, you know, having a life or something:

My Sunday New York Post column: Government inflated the college loan bubble, but Obama isn’t fixing it.

Now online: Video of my keynote speech at the Harvard Law School constitutional-convention conference. All the conference video is collected here.

New York police union protests prosecution of police who break the law.

An epic population bomb fail.

Dartmouth’s diversity problem.

Howard Stern does the #Occupy reporting others won’t.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Is the New Class killing the Middle Class?

Hennepin County prosecutor gets it right.

More on the $10,000 college degree. Why aren’t Rick Perry’s proposals getting more attention?

Unexpectedly! The debt fallout: How Social Security went ‘cash negative’ earlier than expected.

In California, a rural rebellion is brewing.

The Livestrong App wins a fan.

I asked Michael Walsh if there was anything I could do for him after his heart surgery, and he said to plug his new novel, Shock Warning. Authors.

NOT MUCH LIKE THE TEA PARTY (CONT’D): Occupy Protesters Arrested in Texas, Oregon.

THE ONLY LIVING MASTER of a dying martial art. “A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be the last living master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shastar vidya. The father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for a successor.”

GOLD BOX: $4.99 Halloween movies at Amazon Instant Video.

WAYNE CREWS: Regulations Are The Boot On Hiring’s Neck.

SHORT-TIMER: Congressional Calls For Eric Holder’s Resignation More Than Double to 17. “Nine more members of Congress have told The Daily Caller that they’re calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign over his handling of Operation Fast and Furious, more than doubling the number on record before the weekend calling for his ouster. A total of 17 members of Congress have now called for Holder to step down.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Dollar Hits Record Low Against Yen.

SOLARGATE UPDATE: Beacon Power bankrupt; had U.S. backing like Solyndra. “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 U.S. Department of Energy program. The move comes about two months after solar panel maker Solyndra also filed for bankruptcy, setting off criticism of the government loan program.”

Related: Professor Obama’s Investing 101. “It is not surprising, given his lack of real-world experience, that Obama does not understand the meaning of the word ‘investment.’ Like most in his party, Obama thinks every kind of government spending is an investment.”

UPDATE: Famed Member of the 1% and Obama Bundler Runs Brokerage Firm Into Bankruptcy. “Looks like Jon Corzine has done for his firm what he did for the State of New Jersey.” These people certainly do have the touch.

ABOVE THE LAW: If This Is the Kind of Law Student Who Supports Obama’s Debt Relief Plans, the President Is in Trouble.

ECONOMICS: Mitchell’s Golden Rule: The Private Sector Should Grow Faster Than The Government. “I point out that the fiscal crises in nations such as Greece are the result of the opposite approach – letting the public sector grow faster than the productive sector of the economy.”

BARACK OBAMA: Exporting American Jobs Since 2009. “Oh, yeah, and one other thing: Obama isn’t making mistakes with this crap. He’s doing it on purpose.”

I continue to doubt that he’s as bright as either his boosters or his detractors claim.

SO MUCH FOR THAT POLAR-BEAR-EXTINCTION CLAIM. The scary yet falsifiable parts of the global warming scare haven’t done so well.