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November 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 4 Comments

I've posted before about the Chinese real estate bubble, and what will happen when this bubble bursts. Rather than worshipping the Chinese economy like Obama does (high speed trains anyone?), we should be recognizing that the Chinese model, like the Soviet model, is artificial and contrived. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 19 Comments

The opinion isn't on the court website yet, but here's how The Wall Street Journal describes it: A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday that last year's federal health-care overhaul is constitutional, handing the Obama administration another legal victory ahead of the Supreme Court's likely...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 08, 2011 2 Comments

Ying Ma, a former president of the Cornell Review, has come back to campus for a visit. She's definitely one of the better-known names with Review pedigree. (J.P. Freire & Ann Coulter are two other prominent Review alums.) She released a book last year, Chinese Girl...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 32 Comments

I've been focusing on Newt's rise since the debates in early September, when he distinguished himself as the statesman on stage and the guy focused on the ultimate prize, defeating Obama.  While Perry and Romney squabbled, and Santorum and Bachmann tried to score points attacking...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 54 Comments

Herman Cain is fighting back against accusations made yesterday by Sharon Bialek.  Cain will hold a press conference at 5 p.m. Eastern today to address the charges: "There is not an ounce of truth to all these allegations" and the graphic account from Sharon Bialek is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2011 5 Comments

High taxes. Crime. Too hot in summer, too cold in winter. Democrats. Too expensive. Public sector unions which control everything. Want me to continue? Thanks to reader Alex who, after seeing yesterdays post about Manhattan Mini Storage advertising, sent this photo and wrote: I took a picture of this billboard last...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 10 Comments

The champagne corks must have been popping at Politico sometime just after 2 p.m. today, as Sharon Bialek presented her charges against Herman Cain. After a week of obsessive reporting (at least 91 stories about Cain's alleged sexual harassment of employees at the National Restaurant Association),...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 07, 2011 6 Comments

Over at the DailyBeast, Stefan Theil has a really great write-up about rich nations interacting with poor nations, using a comparison of Texas/Louisiana/Florida & Greece/Italy/Spain.   Imagine 27 Barack Obamas and John Boehners trying to get a debt and banking crisis under control. That, in essence,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 93 Comments

The details are in my prior post. Is he guilty just because someone says he is? Is he said/she said really just "she said." I think this will be very damaging. And there probably is nothing Cain can do about it regardless of the truth. That's the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 5 Comments

Gloria Allred has a news conference with a "4th Accuser" scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Here's Cain's staff response (the link in the tweet is to Cain's Iowa fund):  ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 3 Comments

That's how Ben Smith describes what he used to do at Politico.  (BTW, I've always distinguished bloggers at Politico from the news operation.) He's now transformed, as of today, his personal blog at Politico into a mini whatever, with his own staff, a mechanism he sees...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 4 Comments

Not really surprising, a trend I have been seeing for quite some time, and boosted by his strong speech at the Iowa GOP Reagan Dinner. Via Political Wire: A new We Ask America poll in Iowa finds Herman Cain leading the GOP presidential field with 22%, followed by Newt...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 18 Comments

I predicted this would happen. It looks like there now is a fourth Cain accuser coming forward, to be accompanied at a press conference later today by Gloria Allred. A fourth woman will claim that Herman Cain sexually harassed her while at the National Restaurant Association in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 4 Comments

As noted in my post last night, Politico wrote 91 news stories in a one week period regarding "sexual harassment" charges against Herman Cain, without a single story stating what conduct Cain actually engaged in or was alleged to have engaged in. Howard Kurtz (via Althouse via...

Posted by Matthew Knee on November 07, 2011 10 Comments

As Professor Jacobson wrote on Saturday,  the Herman Cain SuperPAC is running this race-card-playing ad. Other GOP commentators, especially Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, have also been making statements along these lines.  This is wrong, especially coming from solid conservative voices. To play the race card in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2011 8 Comments

to be anti-Republican in New York, because almost everyone who disagrees with you already has moved to Texas. We've seen these subway ads taking shots at Republicans before.  Thanks to reader Thomas who took this photo and writes: Spotted on the #1 train en route to my office. MMS...

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