Herman Cain

Who's in control of the Republican Party? Not the RNC

2013-03-25 06:49:00

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, in an ambitious effort to direct a party makeover in wake of its defeat last November, has targeted the next presidential cycle's debates and primaries. A new party entity called the Growth and...

A new GOP, or just a cosmetic touchup?

2013-02-10 04:00:00

Maybe the party is finally over. Meaning not simply the Grand Old Party, but more specifically the bacchanal of the bizarre and carnival of crazy to which it has lately devolved. So obvious has this devolution become that even Republican stalwarts...

Hopkins' Dr. Benjamin Carson anointed new Fox darling of the right on Hannity

2013-02-16 18:27:00

Much of Friday's political-media online chatter was focused on Fox news hiring failed presidential candidate and pizza executive Herman Cain as a political analyst. But the big story that seemed to mostly sail under the radar was the embattled channel's...

Herman Cain hire makes Fox News look desperate

2013-02-15 12:17:00

After dumping Sarah Palin and Dick Morris, Fox News has hired Scott Brown and now Herman Cain as a contributor. The first three moves made some sense, especially the two firings. Palin's fling with fame was over, and the sleaze attached to Morris had...

Liberal obsession with race is growing old

2012-12-24 04:00:00

When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic National Convention, civil rights hero...

GOP's biggest problem is itself

2012-11-11 04:00:00

"How ya like me now?" -- Barack Obama OK, so President Obama didn't really say that, but surely he must have thought it behind a private smile at some point Tuesday night. There are no smiles among the Republicans, however, only a pressing question:...

Two reasons Romney lost

2012-11-07 12:34:36

The realities of the 2012 presidential campaign season: 23 million unemployed or underemployed Americans, soaring gas prices, mounting debt, a controversial national health care law about to take effect, unrest overseas, and a fiscal cliff looming....

Gut-check time for the GOP

2012-11-08 10:52:00

While Republican leaders console themselves that they salvaged control of the House from the defeat of Mitt Romney, they need to ponder the long-term future of the party of Lincoln and of Ronald Reagan. The course of the Grand Old Party from the Great...

Blacks and Republicans: an overdue debate

2012-10-21 05:00:00

Quick quiz: What do LL Cool J, The Rock, 50 Cent, Karl Malone, Don King, Lynn Swann, Wilt Chamberlain, Eldridge Cleaver, Peter Boulware, Tony Dungy and Alveda King, (niece of Martin Luther King Jr.) have in common? If you guessed membership in the...

Maryland investment firms haven't abandoned Democrats

2012-10-14 00:00:00

Wall Street might have turned its back on Democrats this election, but that's not the case among Maryland investment firms. The vast majority of contributions to candidates by T. Rowe Price employees went to Democrats. And Democrats were the...

Do the Koch brothers still not believe in climate change, or do they just not care?

2012-08-06 03:00:00

Are two of the left's most useful villains, Charles and David Koch, not quite as unredeemable as liberals believe? Could it be they might change their minds about climate change and admit that it is real? Richard A. Muller, a physics professor at...

Don't expect much excitement at the GOP convention

2012-07-23 09:33:00

In the long lull before the Republican National Convention in Tampa in late August, party leaders and strategists for Mitt Romney are calculating how they can put their collective best foot forward. This year, it will not be easy. The usual...

Image of Herman Cain as he announced he was "suspending" his campaign for president in wake of allegations of extramarital affairs.

2013-02-15 11:34:00

"When they ask me who's the president of Ubkei-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know?" - Herman Cain, on how he's prepared for "gotcha" questions/offending whole nations.

2012-12-18 13:15:00

Former Republican candidate Herman Cain speaks at Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill Saturday.

2012-03-24 00:00:00