MORE THAN I HATE THE ROMANS: How Much Does Hillary Losing in ’08 to Obama Still Sting for Bill? A Lot. “It must have really stung a year and a half later when those old media organizations he and his wife viewed as ‘de facto allies’ turned around and accused the Clintons of racism* in order to advance the Democrat candidate they much preferred over Hillary.”

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13 WEEKS: I Am A Diabetic. It’s Hard To Face. “By hiding from it, we deny ourselves treatment.”

WE SURE SEEM TO HAVE A LOT OF THESE UNEXPLAINED “STAND DOWN” PROBLEMS: SWAT Team Ordered To “Stand Down” Hasn’t Been Interviewed.

Members of a Washington DC Swat team who the BBC has learned were ordered not to respond to Monday’s Navy Yard shootings have yet to be contacted by the authorities.

The Capitol Police tactical response team was told by a supervisor to leave the scene instead of aiding municipal officers, sources told the BBC.

Meanwhile, the department has installed a new leader of the elite unit. No reason has been given for the decision.

Gunman Aaron Alexis killed 12 people. . . .

Days after the shooting, none of the officers has been questioned by officials or investigators from a special panel that was convened on Wednesday. Members of the Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) are typically debriefed “right away, at the very least the following day” after an incident, a Capitol Police source said.

“[They] haven’t even been given the courtesy of a debrief… They have not even been given an answer as to why the decision was made that they should not respond,” the source added.

Another Capitol Police source close to the incident told the BBC: “No-one’s talked to these officers since this happened.”

What’s next, making them all sign non-disclosure agreements?

CRONY CAPITALISM: In government-created market, Wall Street wins.

When you drag commerce into the arena of government, it’s always a home game for the big guys.

When Congress created an ethanol mandate in 2005 and expanded it in 2007, this was widely, and correctly, derided as a political gift to the ethanol industry. But it’s worth noting that big Wall Street players were also pushing for the ethanol mandate.

In fact, Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson was lobbying on ethanol within a year of becoming Treasury Department chief of staff in the Obama administration.

When I write about the big guys lobbying for and profiting from big-government, some liberal bloggers yawn and ask “who cares if someone’s getting rich?” (See, for instance, Brad Plumer, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein.)

But figuring out who believes they will profit off of a law can help us detect flaws in the law we may not have previously detected. In other words, we should ask “what are these lobbyists seeing that we’re not?”

In the case of the ethanol mandate, that flaw may be the ability of big banks to rig the market in ethanol credits.

Ethanol is a scam, and it’s also starving poor people.

IF THERE’S ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING, WE SHOULD BLAME NANCY PELOSI THE WAY THE LEFT BLAMED SARAH PALIN: Pelosi tells Dems to keep ‘powder dry’ for Senate spending bill.

RICH GALEN: Why Obama May Lose the Shutdown Battle.

IS INCOME INEQUALITY THE RESULT OF FREE TRADE?

It’s not just wages. In fact, in many ways wages are the least of the problems; wages can be finessed with transfers or the higher consumption possibilities created by trade. Rather, I’d argue that the biggest problem is simply the disappearance of reliable jobs. A large swath of Americans without college diplomas have no sense that they can build a stable life for themselves. Even if you get a job at $9 or $10 an hour, it could disappear at any moment, and you could be back to minimum wage, or nothing.

Yet if trade is the problem, a policy solution isn’t obvious. When there’s a surplus of workers, and employers are competing with even lower-wage labor, then unions or higher minimum wages are a recipe for unemployment, not prosperity: Some workers are better off, but others work for manufacturing firms building products on thin margins — companies that eventually give up and move their operations to China. Protectionism might benefit those workers, but creates other big problems, like giving domestic manufacturers an oligopoly to exploit with high-cost, low-quality products. Then there’s the fact that we’re helping comparatively rich Americans by dooming comparatively poor Chinese people to lose their jobs.

Nor do transfers seem ideal — necessary, maybe, yet also curiously inadequate. A disability check is a poor substitute for a job, from both the recipient and the taxpayer’s perspective. The sort of person who prefers a disability check to a decent job is the only person we don’t want to help.

Related: Chart of the Day: Median income in DC vs the rest of us.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: WaPo: D.C. Law Schools Cut Class Sizes, ‘Pain Cascade’ Hits Lower-Ranked Schools Harder.

NORMA RAE MEETS THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: U.S. Textile Plants Return, With Floors Largely Empty of People. I, for one, welcome our new robot employees. But like the Nebraska Guitar Militia song says, “people gotta have somethin’ to do.”

IMAGES OF FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA, Pre- and Post-Obama.

WAIT, I THOUGHT AL QAEDA WAS ON THE RUN: Gruesome Mall Attack Highlights Growing al-Qaeda in Africa Threat.

UPDATE: A story so big it’s even made Women’s Wear Daily.

#GREENFAIL: Santa Monica Bets on Electric Cars, but Consumers Are Slow to Switch. Here in Knoxville, as even one of my Prius-driving buddies notes, we have electric-car charging stations all over, but you never see a single car hooked up to charge. I do see the occasional Leaf on the road, but never at the chargers. Plus, this problem: “When she or her husband, who drives a Ford Fusion plug-in hybrid, run the air-conditioning at home while charging their cars, the fuse blows, she said.” And: “Consumers have been slow to buy electric vehicles because they cost more while providing less range.” Yeah, that’s the key problem right there. Ideally, I’d keep a Tesla to drive around town, and maybe that Audi A8 TDI for long road trips. But that would mean investing as much (actually more) in cars than most people invest in their house, which isn’t very practical.

IN NATIONAL REVIEW, a positive review by John Fonte of Jim Bennett and Michael Lotus’s America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity In The 21st Century. I hope that policy folks for GOP 2016 aspirants — and Dem aspirants, too, but there the word “hope” is particularly salient — are reading this book. If they do, they’ll find a lot to work with.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS mark gear to protest NCAA. It should be shut down.

JIM TYNEN: Why the Republicans Can’t Give Up Now. “They would be like Obama and his red line in Syria. They have drawn a red line; to go back is to look feckless and weak. And, worse, ridiculous. Whether the time is right, etc., is irrelevant. Folding would give them no credit; their only recourse is to win. And victory is closer than ever.”

THE VALUE OF ARMED MINORITIES: Lumbee Indians Face The Ku Klux Klan:

The rally was scheduled for the night of January 18, 1958, in a field near Maxton, N.C. The stated purpose of the gathering was, in the words of Catfish Cole, “to put the Indians in their place, to end race mixing.” The time and location of the rally was not kept secret, and word spread quickly among the local Lumbee population.

Reports vary about the number of people gathered on that cold night, but there were thought to have been around a hundred Klan members. They brought a large banner emblazoned with “KKK” and a portable generator, which powered a public address system and a single bare light bulb. When the meeting began, the arc of the dim light didn’t spread far enough for the Klansmen to see that they were surrounded by as many as a thousand Lumbees. Several young tribe members, some of whom were armed, closed on the Klan meeting and tried to take down the light bulb. The groups fought, and a shotgun blast shattered the light. In the sudden darkness, the Lumbees descended upon the field, yelling and firing guns into the air, scattering the overmatched Klansmen. Some left under police protection while others, including Catfish Cole, simply took to the woods.

Captured banner worn by Charlie Warriax and Simeon Oxendine, Lumbee.From Life Magazine, the captured banner worn by two Lumbee Indians, Charlie Warriax and Simeon Oxendine.News photographers already on the scene captured the celebration. Images of triumphant Lumbees holding up the abandoned KKK banner were published in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Simeon Oxendine, a popular World War II veteran, appeared in Life Magazine, smiling and wrapped in the banner. The rout of the Klan galvanized the Lumbee community. The Ku Klux Klan was active in North Carolina into the 1960s, but they never held another public meeting in Robeson County.

Punch back twice as hard. (Thanks to reader John Steakley for the link).

BILL MAHER: Navy Yard Shooter Did What Biden Said — He Bought A Shotgun.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teacher Convicted of Molesting 12-Year-Old Boy. “In 2011, Anderson was named Mango Elementary’s diversity school teacher of the year, notes local CBS affiliate WTSP. The three-day trial was at turns harrowing and bizarre. For the harrowing the part, prosecutors presented over 230 pages of variously obscene, scheming and insecure text messages. She sent texts about her lust. She sent texts concerning her anxiety about her body.”

Well, lust and body-image issues: I suppose a 12-year-old boy could relate.

HISTORY: The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: 3D Printing of a lunar base using lunar soil will print buildings at 3.5 meters per hour. “Setting up a lunar base could be made much simpler by using a 3D printer to build it from local materials. Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil. This is a case where 3d printing would win out over regular manufacturing. Most of the material is lunar dirt but with added magnesium oxide and a binding ink. This greatly reduces the weight of the material to be brought to the moon. There has been previous work on using carbon nanotubes and epoxy to make lunar concrete.”

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A WAR ON FOOTBALL OVER HEAD INJURIES? Why not a war on bikes? Because bikes don’t embody scary masculinity.

IS INNOVATION SLOWING DOWN? Peter Robinson talks with Andy Kessler and Peter Thiel.