"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
by Smitty
Why, pro-state cancer. Ba-dump bump *tsh*.
Seriously, I am enjoying the worst bandwidth challenge yet to my blogger-fu. I have paid for three different Internet providers here, all providing roughly equivalent dis-service.
The better news is that I’ve passed the halfway point on the deployment.
Everybody, please continue to support Stacy’s mad quest for blogospheric hegemony in my absence.
“It’s that simple,” he tells Neil Cavuto:
Meanwhile, The Right Scoop also has this video of Charles Krauthammer dissing Herman Cain as mere “entertainment”:
Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when I agreed more with Tucker Carlson than with Krauthammer.
Herman Cain: A Real Leader
MONEYBOMB
UPDATE: Allahpundit takes notice of Krauthammer dissing Cain.
Michael Kinsley once defined a gaffe as when a politician accidentally tells the truth. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg:
“Unfortunately there are some parents who just come from — they never had a formal education, and they don’t understand the value of education.”
Which is certainly true of “some parents,” although it is unclear whether this observation justifies the closure of 22 poorly performing schools in New York City, which is the argument Bloomberg was trying to make.
I think it might be more accurate to say that people who haven’t had much formal education are ill-equipped to judge whether or not their child’s school is doing a good job. And I think it is also true that poor people don’t have many options if their local school is doing a lousy job.
Furthermore, I’ll say this: Education is an individual achievement. You teach a class, but learning is always up to the individual student.
Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg should consult with Herman Cain, who was voted “Most Likely to Succeed” in the Archer High School Class of 1963.
Gallup reports that, for the first time ever, a majority of poll respondents favor same-sex marriage. Note the large and rapid change in opinion:
A mere 15 years ago, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by more than a 2-to-1 margin, 68% to 27%, whereas now the number is 53%-45% in support of same-sex marriage.
“The fantastical project of yesterday, which was mentioned only to be ridiculed, is today the audacious reform, and will be tomorrow the accomplished fact.”
– R.L. Dabney, 1897
The propaganda campaign which produced this revolution in public opinion will not abate or slacken. And we might suppose that, in a few more years, it will be deemed socially unacceptable — if not indeed a “hate crime” — to criticize homosexual behavior.
It’s kinda been all-Herman, all-the-time here lately, so let me update you on what’s going on with the non-Hermans:
And finally, Newt Gingrich becomes a punchline:
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled (neutral and objective) reminder to join the online grassroots army at Citizens for Cain.
That’s what Jeffrey Goldberg says, but Professor William Jacobson springs to the defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet it is also reported that Netanyahu feels disrespected by President Obama, so that the question is, “Who dissed whom?”
All in all, this atmosphere of mutual disrespect bodes ill for prospects of Mideast peace, arousing suspicions that Obama is purposefully attempting to provoke Netanyahu, just as there are suspicions that perhaps Obama’s speech incited Palestinian unrest.
(Via Memeorandum.)
. . . who refuses to quit. Haley Barbour quit. Donald Trump quit. Mike Huckabee quit. Guess who didn’t quit?
Four years ago at the studios of WSB Radio in Atlanta, I interviewed talk-radio host Herman Cain, who had only recently recovered from cancer. He smiled as he vowed, “Death’s going to have to catch me, and it’s going to have to run fast.”
Cain is smiling more than ever now, and running strong with a Republican presidential campaign that has surged to national prominence since the May 5 debate in Greenville, S.C. In a Fox News focus group of South Carolina GOP voters following that debate, pollster Frank Luntz asked for a show of hands: “How many of you think Herman Cain won the debate?” More than half the participants raised their hands. Luntz was flabbergasted, calling the result “unprecedented.” Luntz then went around the room, asking what it was that made the retired restaurant executive so appealing.
“He’s likeable,” one man said, summarizing a key factor in Cain’s campaign that seems to elude pundits. For the past two weeks, the political intelligentsia has struggled to understand how the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, who has never held elective office, could have suddenly emerged as a contender in a crowded Republican 2012 primary field. It’s never been a mystery to Cain’s communication director Ellen Carmichael.
“When people meet Herman, they like Herman,” she explained in a phone interview a few weeks before the Fox News debate in which 2 million viewers met Cain for the first time. . . .
That’s from my latest American Spectator column and you should read the whole thing. And you should watch this wonderful video: