Cain has momentum now, which is extremely important. With Romneycare haunting Mitt and immigration/NAFTA/poor rhetorical skills/out to lunch look/etc. haunting Rick, it looks like HERMAN (not Herb) Cain is the man.

Now if only Sarah Palin would go away...

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I'm sorry, I can't join in the celebration of a man who calls Tea Partiers racists. I can't honor a man who attacked the Glenn Beck rally for being too white--as if this were a crime in a country founded entirely by white men. His rejection of traditional Western values (especially Christianity) makes him no conservative.

Somewhere Ron Paul is blaming the hatred of British Muslims against us on the fact we seceeded from Britain 235 years ago.

Yahoo!'s stock jumped about 20% the day she was fired. Probably a good move.

Moriarty wrote this due to Hitchen's rejection of conservative American values, or at least his utter disdain for them. It isn't that he disagrees with these positions, it is that he oftentimes is completely unfair in his characterization of them. I can link you a story about his scathing rebuke of the Tea Party, full of economic illiteracy and bereft of truth. He accuses conservative Americans of the same old schtick the left has been harping at for years--racism and wanting to institute a theocracy. If he was as brilliant as everyone says, he would have had a substantive economic argument for his Socialistic and Keynesian beliefs.

The fact is, he likes to be different, even contrarian. He is completely aware of the religious foundations of the United States, yet pretends its true value is in some secularist's reading of Thomas Jefferson--a strong believer in God. He likes to fly the flag in opposition to Islamists (which I can reflect), yet rejects a healthy, morally strong religious Christian community that served and continues to serve as the bedrock for classical Western values, morals, and law. Apparently he believes Islam and Christianity are no different. That is about as obtuse as one can be.

Hitchens lost all respect of mine after his inane reading of the Tea Party. Despite the fact the party does not focus on religious indoctrination (like the Americans for Separation of Church and State) or racial politics (like the NAACP), Hitchens accused Tea Partiers of being ultra-religious racists in his typical post-modern British sniveling. He has no tact, no nuance. In what universe do you live in? Why do explicitly radical anti-religious bigots get away with saying an economic movement wants to institute a theocracy when they themselves are on record as saying all "religion" needs to be abolished? How do La Raza and $PLC get away with race-baiting when a group that goes out of its way to mention its color-blindness gets accused of racism? Yet Hitchens is along for the ride, continuing the idiotic, un-nuanced dreck of the modern left. And this is somehow *deep* thinking? His ideas are stale, mocking cynicism tiring, and morals lacking. He should be ignored.

Anyone who thinks a top-down approach to economic recovery can happen needs to have his head examined. The Obama minions have been pushing for continued Keynesian "stimulating" despite the fact it clearly hasn't helped the sluggish economy. Instead, the "stimulus" and "green-jobs" initiatives have only grown the government. The problem is that these centrally planned initiatives take capital out of the private market and launder it through needless bureaucracy before hiring union-backed construction workers who demand ridiculous pay and benefit wages to build fairly useless public works projects. Notice how Washington D.C. has added jobs, population and wealth over the past decade and contrast this to other areas in the US--particularly the rust belt.

To get America back to work, first slap a tariff on China. Then end all illegal immigration by actually enforcing the laws and building the fence--including near the Rio Grande which *is* possible Rick Perry. This may not help all facets of the economy, granted (construction projects may go up and a head of lettuce may increase), but at least unemployment should go down and at least Americans could return to self-reliance. Other economic improvements can only be made by the private sector. But businesses will begin to hire once a stable, sensible leader is in the White House. If money is to be made, innovators and entrepreneurs will find a way to make it. We don't need central planners dictating what will is going to add wealth to the nation and what won't.

A sobering and honest look at the current state of affairs.

What is funny to me is that the Republicans are being blamed *before* the deadline--a completely arbitrary date--for doing what they promised to do if elected--cut the spending. It's too bad they don't have control of the Senate so that they can force Obama to veto--therefore finding a way to shift the blame. But, the House can still pass measures and put the pressure on Harry Reid to compromise.

But Republicans most seriously consider other types of spending cuts--military included. The Afghan and Iraq wars are mercifully ending (or rather we are drawing down), so this should help. Other modest and intelligent cuts can and should be made here. Much of the spending on national defense should be shifted--from defending Europe, Korea, and Japan to defending the US at our Southern border from the invaders.

The so-called logic of Klavan fails me. If it is truly the Democratic Party in Democrat-run locations that has failed black people in this country, why has it only been adverse for blacks? For instance, Jews also vote heavily Democratic. Yet they are perhaps the most successful sub-group in the US. Furthermore, liberal Democratic-run areas like Marin County California, Vermont, Boulder, Portland, and Seattle are all clean, peaceful, wealthy areas. Of course, these areas are also predominately white...with some Asian populations as well.

Could it be that...[gasp]...black people are to blame for their continuing crime, welfare, illegitimacy, illiteracy, and poverty? Or would saying that be unPC? My question is this: When has the Right lost its collective balls? When have we decided that truth should be sacrificed and obscured so that a subgroup of people who vote 90% against us anyway won't be offended? Instead of blaming politicians just because they have a "D" behind their name, let's realize the free will choices many blacks make have an adverse effect on the community they inhabit.