Raising Cain
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 2nd, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Raising Cain
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Both President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went to graduate school. Obama got a degree at Harvard Law School. Cain did his graduate work at Purdue and Burger King University. That doesn’t tell you all you need to know about the difference between Obama and Cain, but it explains a lot.Obama and Cain are African Americans, but there the likeness ends. Obama is a liberal, Cain a conservative. Their parents, their upbringing, their education, their careers, the lessons they learned from life—these are as dissimilar as where they’ve wound…
Christie Will Stand Up to Labor Bullies
Andrew Breitbart, Human Events
The Tea Party, which created this unexpected boom time for the conservative cause, has yet to find its ideal principled, politically incorrect and assertive candidate for the Republican nomination. While the conservative movement searches for someone with the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the liberal bullies and their nauseating coalition of assorted unions, community organizers and cynically brainwashed “minority constituencies,” the expected front-runner, Rick Perry", is dropping in the polls as he apologizes for calling many GOP voters…
America’s Enduring Ideal
Rep. Paul Ryan, Wall Street Journal
Free enterprise has never lacked for moral critics. In the mid-18th century, for instance, the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected the proposition that the free exchange of goods and services, and the competitive pursuit of self-interest by economic actors, result in general prosperity—ideas then emanating from Great Britain. In a commercial society, according to Rousseau, the people are “scheming, violent, greedy, ambitious, servile, and knavish . . . and all of it at one extreme or the other of misery and opulence.” Only a people with “simple customs…
Fearing Funding Slump, Obama Races for Cash
Alexis Simendinger, RCP
"We're just two guys." (ISO campaign donations.)Fearing a third-quarter slump in support, President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Michelle Obama and a bevy of campaign managers and VIPs popped up in in-boxes this week seeking small-dollar contributions as a key fundraising deadline loomed on Sept. 30."I need to ask you one last thing before tonight's midnight deadline," Biden wrote in an email Friday. "If you know you're going to donate to this campaign eventually, what's stopping you from doing it right now? If you're…