The Other McCain

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Did Politico Stop By The National Restaurant Association For A Herman Cain Bite, And Wind Up With Botulism?

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 36 Comments

by Smitty

Northern Virginia Lawyer links Virginia Virtucon and:

Based on a suggestion from a local blogger to look into political donors on the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association for potential ties to presidential campaigns, I have attempted to identify anyone privy to inside information about the National Restaurant Association who also has recent ties to any presidential campaign.

A certain Steven C. Anderson appears to have been a Romney donor.

Steven C. Anderson is the same gentlemen who took over the helm as Chief Executive Officer at the National Restaurant Association (after a brief intermission) upon Herman Cain’s departure in 1999. As CEO it is highly likely he would have been privy to details of litigation and threats about litigation from the immediately previous tenure of Herman Cain.

Now, if you were the dot-connecting sort:

There is little more than a coincidence between the support for Mitt Romney and the likelihood that Mr. Anderson knows the background of the sexual harassment threats.

As with the allegations against Mr. Cain, it would be way too early to go connecting the dots. For example, I don’t even Google “Chris Smith”, lest my browser ‘splode. There could well be multiple Steven C. Andersons in circulation who have made political contributions.

Furthermore, connecting Romney’s campaign as such to Politico on information that flimsy would be as outlandish as saying John Edwards would fall for some videographer. Who could believe such a tale? Certainly not our trustworthy media, honing in on the important stories of the day, like jobs Fast and Furious Solyndra Pigford Greece settled allegations against Herman Cain, with laser-like focus.

Update: via Allahpundit:

Update II: Trifecta does their standard great work on the Cain allegation story.

Update III: Linked at Mark America.

 

Category: Herman Cain

Saw Brian Williams On CNNNBC Say That Herman Cain Should Unseal The Settlement For The Alleged Harassment

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

If I was Mr. Cain, I’d be all:

“Yeah, we’ll unseal them. . .right after the good President unseals his academic records. Heyooo!”


UPDATE: thanks to the commenter who helped me with my title problem. Workin’ hard, tryin’ to tell the difference between the Judean Peoples’ Front and the Peoples’ Front of Judea.

Category: Barack Obama, Herman Cain

President Obama’s Re-election Hope: Divide And Conquer

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

BHO has little hope against Generic Republican. Therefore, the Axelrod strategy has to include running BHO against Divided Republican. Dondero at Libertarian Republican quotes CNN’s Wolf Blitzer:

Earlier in the month, I asked Paul whether he could support Romney if he won the nomination.
He replied that none of the Republican candidates was advocating his positions. “So I would have to find out exactly what their positions are and what the platform is that they would be running on,” he said.
I pressed and asked whether it were possible that he would run as a third-party candidate – which he did in 1988, when he was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate. “I haven’t thought about it, and I have no plans to do that,” he said. “So, no, that wouldn’t be in the cards for me.”

This is a Good Thing. As bloggers, as citizens, as leaders, as followers, we are always in tension. Liberty and ideals are subjective, and have to bend a bit before we can get along in the family, on the job, and with the rest of the country.

Having it your way in the long run may mean eating humble pie in the short to middle run. In fact, there are no guarantees of ‘your way’ ever prevailing.

Shifting from the intellectual to the theological, it was never about ‘your way’ in any case. 🙂

For Ron Paul to maximize the good he can do for the country, letting go of any remaining Presidential ambition may be worth considering. It seems he’s hanging on in the debates to ensure that the crucial issues where he has some expertise are heard. Can’t fault the man for that.

But the country is under attack from Lefty ideologues. Thus, while I remain unbowed over the 1992 choice to vote for Ross Perot, the likelihood of placing principle pre-pragmatism has gone down to zero.

Category: Barack Obama

Strictly Business

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 142 Comments

“The Pagan Right is a vigorous defender of conservative values and classical liberalism in an arena that few other conservatives have access to. It is time the movements were linked together so that both are strengthened.”
— Rob Taylor, Jan. 22, 2001

In January 2008, I interviewed Roger L. Simon, CEO of PJM, for a feature article in The Washington Times, in which I wrote, “In this Wild West online frontier, Mr. Simon might as well be John Wayne.”

Between the time I interviewed Roger and the time that interview was published, I tendered my resignation at the Times, so that this feature profile was actually my last bylined article for the paper.

Though entirely a coincidence, this was perhaps fitting, as I subsequently have made my career as a gunslinger in that “Wild West online frontier.” And for a while, I was an occasional contributor to PJM, for example reporting on a July 2008 campaign appearance by John McCain in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and reporting from the Democratic National Convention in August.

That friendly relationship continued until Sept. 12, 2009, when my PJM coverage of the 9/12 March on Washington — the biggest rally of the Tea Party movement — proved to be the spark that lit the fuse of Charles Johnson’s final meltdown at Little Green Footballs. Although Roger professed continued friendship toward me, my future offers to contribute at PJM were rebuffed by the editors (not Roger himself) and, with the exception of an April 2010 article specially solicited by my friend Charlie Martin, I ceased to be a contributor. Read more

Category: Blogging

Front Page Video-Fisks James Livingston

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Livingston’s thesis:

AS an economic historian who has been studying American capitalism for 35 years, I’m going to let you in on the best-kept secret of the last century: private investment — that is, using business profits to increase productivity and output — doesn’t actually drive economic growth. Consumer debt and government spending do. Private investment isn’t even necessary to promote growth.

Is so gob-smackingly stupid that I don’t even remember anybody bothering with it. Click to view:
About the only thing I have to add to the fisk is that Livingston here–

We don’t need the traders and the C.E.O.’s and the analysts — the 1 percent — to collect and manage our savings. Instead, we consumers need to save less and spend more in the name of a better future. We don’t need to silence the ant, but we’d better start listening to the grasshopper.

–seems to be refuting The Man is Hiding the Stash Fallacy.

However, I don’t think that trading covetousness for surreality is what I’d call a big win.

Category: Economics

BHO And The Medicine Cabinet: Workin’ Hard, Tryin’ To Understand That There ‘Economics’ Stuff

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 27 Comments

by Smitty

The WaPoo:

This morning [31 October, 2011] President Obama signed an executive order intended to combat a wave of prescription-drug shortages in the United States.

How can there be a wave of something not being there? But I quibble. The whole point of the article is to excite some feeling of unexpected calamity. That calamity is being met by decisive action from a firm leader. So it’s snarky to compare the lede to the sound of one hand clapping to a chorus of dogs that don’t bark, and we shouldn’t do that.

Drug shortages have tripled since 2006.

No telling from what orifice that fact emerged.

“I’ve been tracking these issues for a decade now, so to see the president bring it up is important to us,” says Kasey Thompson, vice president for policy at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. “The fact that multiple agencies are on task and working on this is very encouraging to me.”
An even bigger challenge is figuring out why, exactly, drug shortages are happening. The number of shortages has surged in recent years, and although a number of possible explanations have been floated, there’s little consensus on why.

Do any thinking readers in the audience, who have maybe had an inkling of Sowell somewhere, doubt that the lion’s share of the problem is the government itself? Does anyone doubt that further government queering of the market via executive order will only worsen the problem?

The only question in my mind about this whether these people in the administration are stupid, or diabolical.  In either case, the only remedy is a free market enema.

Update: linked at The Rio Norte Line.

Update II: linked at The Daily Pundit.

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.01.11

Posted on | November 1, 2011 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Palestinians In, US Out Of UNESCO

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki (L) and Ambassador To UNESCO Elias Sanbar (R) face the press

Administration cuts off funding for UN agency on Monday, won’t be making November payment either after Palestinians admitted as full members.
Related: Canadians considering exit as well


Feds To Investigate Collapse Of Corzine’s Brokerage
Millions in customer money missing

More Than 1.7 Million Still Without Power After Weekend Storm
At least 13 deaths so far; Halloween postponed in many areas



POLITICS
Massive Smuggling Ring Dismantled In Arizona

Diagram of cash & drug flow provided by ICE

Sinaloa Cartel takes hit from ICE, Arizona sheriffs; Pinal County Sheriff Babeu slams administration for failure to secure border

Conservatives Rally To Cain, Recall Thomas Hearings


DOJ Sues South Carolina Over Immigration Law

Supremes Hesitate To Extend Rights On Plea Deals

DOJ Official Knew About ATF Gunwalking In April 2010

Facing State Takeover, Harrisburg Pols Talk To Save Phony-Baloney Jobs



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
MF Global’s Collapse Ripples Through Futures Exchanges
Asian Stocks Fall On MF Global Failure, Greek Fears
US Stocks Decline Amid Growing Concern About European Funding
Greek Referendum Threatens New Eurozone Crisis
Judge Rejects Competing Bankruptcy Plans For Tribune Companies
PRC Promises Retaliation If Senate’s Anti-Yuan Bill Becomes Law
Crude Oil Up, Heads For Biggest Monthly Increase Since 2009
PRC Hackers Hit Chemical Companies
Opposition To Online Piracy Act Grows
B&N Expected To Launch New Nook Tablet November 7
Bill Gates Shrugs Off Criticism In Steve Jobs Biography
$150 TouchPad Returns To Best Buy, But There’s A Catch



SPORTS
Rivers’ Epic Blunder Dooms Chargers

Chargers QB Philip Rivers under pressure

Quarterback’s error kills comeback drive; Chiefs win 23-20

La Russa Retires As Champion

Yankees Extend Sabathia For One Year, $25 Million

Callahan Leads Rangers Past Sharks




NBA Fines Heat Owner $500,000 For Lockout Tweets

Tebow Can’t Save The Broncos; Nobody Can

Fisher Refutes Fox Reports Of Backroom Deal With Stern

Stewart Wins At Martinsville, Moves Into Second In Sprint Cup Chase

Nationals Confirm Davey Johnson As Manager For 2012



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Anyone Not See This Coming? Kim Kardashian Files For Divorce

Soon-to-be-exes Humphries, Kardashian

Sure glad we didn’t waste any pixels or time on their wedding

Jessica Simpson Is/Will Be Mummy

Christina Aguilera Reunites With Ex-Husband

Taylor Swift’s “Nude” Pix Obviously Photoshopped Fakes

Rihanna KO’d By Flu In Sweden

Amanda Seyfried Flaunts Her Legs

Bill Murray To Join Charlie Sheen In Roman Coppola Flick


Rep: Adele Does Not Have Throat Cancer

Queen Latifah To Host Talk Show Eyed For 2013

Ellen: “Making People Feel Good Is All I Ever Wanted To Do”



FOREIGNERS
Libyan NTC Elects Former Alabama Prof El-Keib As Interim PM
Er…Roll, Tide?
Thai Flood Frustration Grows, Cabinet Eyes Recovery
Aiming Low At Istanbul Meeting On Afghanistan
Somalia And Kenya Looking For Help Against Shabaab Jihadis
Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral Resigns Over #OWS Protests
Anonymous Takes On The Zetas
Residents Flee As Quake Shakes Szechuan, Kansu Provinces In PRC
New FBI Tapes Reveal Russian Spies’ Behavior
Pakistani Cricket Legend Leads Massive Anti-US Rally



BLOGS & STUFF
Legal Insurrection: A Taste Of The Medicine
Rush Limbaugh: We Shouldn’t Be Surprised At The Left’s Racist Hit Job On Herman Cain
Conservatives4Palin: Typical Gossip From J-Mart And The Gamg At Politico
Allahpundit: The Obligatory “Rick Perry Feelin’ Good In New Hampshire” Clip (Video)
Weasel Zippers: Eric Cantor Slams Occupiers’ “Ire And Hatred”
Gateway Pundit: Homeless Man Dies In Tent At Occupy OKC
Lonely Conservative: Food Prices To Go Up, Home Prices To Go Down
Jihad Watch: ACLU Director Complains About “Islamophobia” And Government Profiling Of Muslims
Ed Driscoll: Adweek, Newsweek, And The Missing L-Word
Big Government: Get Government Out Of Welfare Now! An Interview With Star Parker (Video)


SOTD: Gold Guns Girls

Category: Live at Five

Question: How Many Deadbeats Does It Take To Staff A ‘Working Group’?

Posted on | October 31, 2011 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Allahpundit catches us up on the deterioration of #OccupyWallStreet, but misses the obvious question posed in the title.

So says Time magazine. Meanwhile, thanks to the nasty weather, there were reportedly between 50 and “just over a hundred” protesters in the park this weekend, which means on some days the ratio of “Occupy” oversight committees to actual occupiers is roughly 1:1. No surprise, and not just because a proto-utopia founded by leftists would naturally have lots and lots of redundant government. The more I read about the movement, the more subordinate their political grievances seem to be to the underlying experiment in communal living.

How can people who don’t work form a ‘working group’, I would like to know.

There are some who see dark possibilities for #OWS. When it was pitched down there in the bunker, the decision maker may have heard tales of how these shock troops were going to be the heralds of the revolution that would make the world safe for Social Democracy. A healthy, non-paranoid eye on things with that in mind is perfectly sane.

Not unlikely, however, is that, as #OWS gets a hot blast of climate change over the next few months, it peters out.

‘Working group’. Hah!

Category: #Occupy, Uncategorized
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