Herman Cain Is Sticking Around
So let me see if I’ve got this right. What started out as a book tour that lucked out into a presidential campaign and then went horribly wrong is now slowly being turned back into a book tour, right?
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Adam Corolla On OWS
This is not work-safe by any means. But many of you will nod to this . I am sure.
Rep. Schakowsky: Erik Prince Of Blackwater Tried To Intimidate Me
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Jan Schakowsky says that former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince has “attempted intimidation” of her in response to Schakowsky’s campaign to reduce U.S. reliance on private military contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Schakowsky spoke on the House floor Wednesday about a letter from Prince’s attorneys, dated October 7, 2011, that was delivered by hand to Schakowsky’s office. The letter accuses Schakowsky of making “false and defamatory” statements against Prince. The letter cites a September 8 article published by the Independent in London about Prince’s Blackwater video game . The article quotes Schakowsky as saying: “If Mr. Prince had not emigrated to the …
Re: A Thought Experiment
 Dan , I think one factor missing in your analysis is how much many GOP voters love Newt Gingrich’s rhetorical style. It’s not merely that he’s a superb debater, as you note. It’s also that they appreciate how he doesn’t try to tear down his fellow GOP candidates, but plays the unifying role, reminding everyone how every Republican contender would be a better president than Obama. But they also are excited for the prospect of Obama-Gingrich debates in a way that they simply aren’t about Obama-Romney debates. Gingrich’s gusto in promoting those general election debates, along with cracks about letting Obama use a teleprompter if he agrees to do long, Lincoln-Douglas-style debates, is well-received; it actually got him a standing …
Romney On FNC: You’re Either Uninformed Or A Democrat If You Think I’ve Changed My Positions
He gets points for chutzpah. Bair asked Romney about his changing positions on climate change, abortion, immigration, and gay rights, and asked him how the American people could trust him on the important issues. “Your list is just not accurate,”…
Gregory McNeal on US Military Targeting Processes
(Kenneth Anderson) Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has a guest post at Lawfare on the US military’s processes of targeting and target review, drawing on his outstanding new paper, up at SSRN, “The US Practice of Collateral Damage Estimation and Mitigation.” The paper is descriptive, qualitative political science, drawing on extensive reviews of available US government documents and interviews about collateral damage mitigation processes used by the US military in Afghanistan.  I regard it as essential reading today in the law of armed conflict. As McNeal says in his guest post: I was motivated to write about this topic because I sensed a major disconnect between the descriptions of the targeted killing process offered by commentators and what I knew …
‘Nobody Ever Went Broke with Money in the Bank’
That’s something that one of the smartest venture capitalists  I ever knew once told me. Matt Yglesias  and Karl Smith  find the fact that Apple is holding a huge cash  hoard instead of paying dividends to shareholders to be pretty ridiculous. Felix Salmon  finds Yglesias’s argument “trivially wrong.” All three are smart observers with interesting things to say, but I don’t think any of them presents this situation very well. Keep reading this post . . .
Romney on Fox
I initially missed the Special Report interview and only caught the panel, which split on how Romney did. But my rule when there is a disagreement between Goldberg and Krauthammer is always to go with Goldberg. Sure enough, when I watched the interview later on my DVR I thought Jonah was right in panning it. The worst moment for me was when, in a fit of pique, Romney crossed his legs quickly and smoothed down the sides of his jacket. Let’s just say it wasn’t the most robust body language. His other instinct when he’s mad is to laugh insincerely and talk very quickly. It’s much better than yelling at people, but the first part of the interview demonstrated, relative to the usually buttoned-up Romney, a strange lack
Stephanopoulos Gloats: Will My Interview With New Accuser ‘Spell the End’ for Cain?
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George Stephanopoulos, who as a Democratic operative in the '90s coordinated with ABC to save Bill Clinton from scandal, on Wednesday teased an exclusive with Herman Cain's accuser, openly gloating, ” Will our interview spell the end of the one time front-runner's presidential bid? ” The Good Morning America co-host could barely contain himself as he opened the show: “Cain's final turn. She claims to be Herman Cain's 13-year-mistress. Now, Ginger White is speaking out here, live, exclusively, on GMA as his campaign reels from her allegations.” An ABC graphic hyped, “End of Days for Cain…
Stunner… #Occupy Monterey Goon Talks About Peace Then Cracks Journalist in the Head (Video)
Stunner. An #Occupy Monterey goon talks about peace then immediately cracks a citizen journalist in the head. Via P/Oed Patriot : From the video: After being told by attacker that the Occupy Monterey group had a city issued permit that wad affixed to the pole it somehow wasn’t there. I questioned him further and was attacked. I was also surrounded by a group of about 8 people at the time. His claim that it had rained is baseless. Moments later as I was walking away and across the street one of them shoulder bumped me as I was making my way to the Rangers Station, which ended up being closed. The one who bumped me commented on how nice my truck was and that he sees it and me around town.
When Laws Hurt the People They’re Supposed to Help
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter on the food stamp law thread writes: Stop with all the indulgences and exceptions, and make a reasonable law with reasonable punishments that is applied equally to everyone. Maybe the punishment is either a fine or temporary ban, with the offending store owner free to choose. The law, as you may recall, was that (1) food stamp recipients whose employees accept food stamps for ineligible items — even without the owner’s knowledge — can be permanently or temporarily disqualified from the…
Could Gingrich Win NH?
 New Hampshire has been remarkably uncompetitive this cycle; who’s in second place changes, but Mitt Romney is always in the lead, and usually by a huge margin.  That could have repercussions; it’s certainly not outside the realm of possibility that Romney could win Iowa, especially if the conservative vote splinters among multiple candidates. And if he wins Iowa and New Hampshire … well, there’s no recent precedent for a GOP candidate winning neither of those two states and going on to win the nomination. Keep reading this
What Should We Do about Pakistan?
After days of vehement denials and indignant claims that NATO’s recent attack on Pakistani outposts was unprovoked and deliberate, a “senior Pakistani defense official” has admitted that it was the Pakistanis who started the firefight with “mortar and machine gun fire.” His words come a bit too late to stop the firestorm of anti-Americanism and the damage to the Afghan war effort, but may prove useful if they prompt Washington to take a sober look at our “alliance” with Pakistan. The stark reality is that ten years after we forced Islamabad into a shotgun wedding in the aftermath of…
HELP WANTED–REPORTER
Our friends at the Franklin Center are looking for a reporter focusing on fiscal matters for a Washington-or New York-based fellowship next year (the Thomas L. Rhodes Journalism Fellow.) It’s a great opportunity for a young journalist to get experience and a prominent showcase for his work. If you are interested, send a cover letter, resume, and clips to jason.stverak@franklincenterhq.org.Â
Mitt’s Darkening Horizon
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We’ve frequently noted the boom-and-bust cycle of would-be Romney slayers in the GOP primary race. And Newt is currently in his ‘Angry-Birds-like’ arc across the polling chart. But as many others have, I’m now much less certain that Newt’s going anywhere. Look at the data from the various primary states in this article. Gingrich is now significantly ahead of Romney in Iowa and South Carolina. And even in New Hampshire, which has always been the lynchpin and backstop of Romney’s primary strategy, Romney appears to be moving into a genuine race with Newt. The current TPM Poll Average of New Hampshire has Mitt almost…
Barney Frank Classless to the End
A grown man who sounds like a spoiled ten year old, whining that the other kids got a bigger slice of cake
#OccupyFail: Princeton students demonstrate self-awareness
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The College of Hypocritical Big Government Cardinals
There is an old adage in Washington that describes the political system as consisting of three political parties; Democrats, Republicans, and Appropriators. The Appropriations Subcommittee chairmen, often referred to as the “College of Cardinals,” usually agree to concoct legislation that fuses the worst elements of the evil and stupid parties, resulting in something worse than a pure Democrat proposal. This is exactly what transpired with the so-called minibus bill. The Republican-controlled House passed an agriculture appropriations bill that breached the spending caps of their own budget, but nonetheless remained within the confines of the spending levels established under the…
Senator Machiavelli, R., Ky.?
I am beginning to suspect that Mitch McConnell is some kind of Machiavellian genius. We are about to hear Democrats gloating: “We applied enormous political pressure, pulled out all the stops, made the Republicans sweat, and forced them to agree to . . . a tax cut .” I myself am not super-excited about the temporary payroll-tax cut (because I care more about spending cuts, given that we have a national debt approaching 25 percent of the entire GDP of this planet and endless trillion-dollar deficits), but in …
Good News: Apparently “Undocumented Immigrant” is Not PC, Either
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing. Follow me by Twitter @AaronWorthing.] For some time I have railed against the push to use the term “undocumented immigrant” instead of the term “illegal immigrant”—especially when journalists are involved. For instance at my old blog (language warning at the link), I once wrote about how calling Meg Whitman’s nanny “undocumented” had the effect of actively misleading people about what had happened, writing: But I want to point out to you this hilarious blog entry from the LA times: “ Union ad to highlight Whitman’s undocumented former employee .”  Of course we all know that the left has taken to calling an illegal immigrant as an “undocumented immigrant” because it sounds better.  Only there is a problem.  As Whitman has shown, her maid was very well…