Was the recent attack on Herman Cain’s presidential campaign a professional hit job? Absolutely, says Herman Cain.
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While it remains to be seen whether Herman Cain will carry his current lead in opinion polls to the Republican Presidential primaries, his candidacy has accomplished at least one thing over the last six months: split brand perception of the company Cain used to run—Godfather’s Pizza—along partisan lines. read »
It's not the most in-depth analysis of Russian drinking patterns I've ever seen, but I did want to briefly flag this post from the Financial Times' always excellent Beyond BRICS because it shows that Russian alcohol consumption is not some mythical entity that is totally immune to amelioration or modification. The government is raising taxes on beer and making efforts to limit where and when it can be sold and the effect is...a rise in prices and a mild decrease in sales, or exactly what you would[...] read »
Chelsea Clinton didn’t announce she was running for office last night at the New York Historical Society, but she did an impressive job interviewing her father about the ideas in his just-published book, Back to Work: Why we Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy. The former president was making the publicity rounds yesterday, including appearances on NPR, “The Today Show” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” read »
President Obama should know better. Our constitutional-law-professor-in-chief has, once again, taken the government to unprecedented levels of secrecy while institutionalizing the perversions of our seemingly never-ending war-on-terror. On October 30th, the administration, without seeking Congressional authorization, proposed an executive rule that will license governmental agencies to issue bald-faced lies to the citizenry, making a mockery not only of the Freedom of Information Act, but of the[...] read »
America is an ownership culture. We don’t rent appliances like the Europeans. We have a national policy pushing home ownership – which many believe led to the 2008 financial crisis. We prefer the suburbs to the city, where we need cars and other luxuries of life that can only be owned. read »
I'm a little behind on posting this, but Lydia DePillis at Washington City Paper did a great profile a week or so ago of DC architect Eric Colbert, whose buildings' unifying features seems to be blandness. There are a lot of people out there who dismiss all modern architecture as boring out of hand, and in my opinion undeservedly, but in this case Lydia has a point. He gets a lot of work in DC, and answering the question of why his boring style is so pervasive in Washington, she discusses some of[...] read »
