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Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Cain Train Goes Hollywood Saturday Edition Posted: 01 Oct 2011 03:10 AM PDT Herman Cain appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night and had one of the most impressive performances I’ve seen in a candidate since Bill Clinton honked out God Bless the Child on the Arsenio Hall show or Fred Thompson announced his candidacy on Leno’s show. I say that not because I’ve been one of Cain’s most ardent fans even before he announced his candidacy, but because he really did light up the crowd. The Right Scoop has the full video of his segment or you can just watch a couple of the segments at NBC’s site (the latter two videos auto-start with an annoying commercial, so be warned). Jay Cost wrote an interesting piece for the Weekly Standard in which he called Herman Cain a “game changer”. I don’t think most folks who follow politics for a living understand just what a strong Cain candidacy really can accomplish. Though I despise racial politics, it’s clear that a strong black candidate who gives voice to conservative and traditional principles is a powerful antidote to Barack Obama’s airy hopenchangitude or the throbbing-vein anger of grievance mongers like Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton.  Likewise, his optimistic vision for the country is entirely different from the backbiting attacks the rest of the GOP field have launched at each other. As I wrote on Twitter a few days ago, he is the only candidate who has consistently (and, I would argue, effectively) attacked President Obama’s policies while offering an easily-understood but detailed plan of his own. Even if Cain doesn’t win the nomination, he has shown the eventual nominee how to grab America’s attention and imagination. And now, links! Hugo Chavez’ kidney condition may be worse than reports indicated. If true, we need to be ready. It’s hard to throw a quality “Good Bye, You Tyrannical Creep” party on short notice. You say “po-tay-to”; I say “po-tah-to”. You say “Wyoming”; President Obama’s re-election team says “Colorado”. Let’s all the whole administration off! No texts for you! At least not in Maryland, where Democratic legislators want to make it illegal to do much else but sit in your car quietly and ruminate on their magnificence. Duane Lester has hit another one out of the park with this excellent (and large) infographic that compares Herman Cain to President Not Able. When Warren Buffet turns on the Buffet Tax, you know it’s a loser. If you occasionally need a hit from an over-the-counter inhaler, you should stock up as soon as possible. If the EPA gets its way, you won’t be able to buy one. And why does our government want to deprive you of affordable inhalers? It rhymes with “Schmobal Schmorming” Science has spoken. The catchiest pop song of all time is Queen’s We Are the Champions, a song I hate with the blazing passion of a thousand Rigel-sized stars. I love pictures of the sun. I may have mentioned that once or twice hereabouts.

“Knock Knock.” “Who’s There?” “Anwar al-Awlaki.” “Anwar al-Awlaki Wh—BOOM!!” Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:38 PM PDT Today, the administration announced that we put a missile in the face of al-Qaeda’s leading recruiter in the West, Anwar al-Awkali. If you’ve heard Awlaki’s name, it’s likely because he’s been tied to some of the most prominent Islamist attacks on our country in the past couple of years: the Times Square bombing attempt, the mass-shooting as Fort Hood, the Christmas Day “underwear bomber”, and the death threats that drove an innocent woman in Seattle to change her name and go into hiding, Awlaki is an American citizen, but he’s been in hiding in Yemen for quite a while, which has posed a bit of an ethical problem for our elected officials. On the one hand, he is our enemy, sworn to the destruction of our nation and as many dead Americans as possible. On the other hand, he’s an American citizen, which does provide him with Constitutional protections. On the gripping hand, he wasn’t actually in America and was working on what most reasonable people would consider a “hot battlefield”, in that his full-time job involved battle-planning for al-Qaeda against the United States. What to do? What to do? The administration made the right choice and I’ll even grant him a victory lap, though I really do want to see the head of a prominent al-Qaeda leader on a pike outside the White House at some point. Sure, it would have been nice if we had gotten a side of Drone Roasted Islamist on the side with our 9/11 ceremonies, but I’ll take it. Anwar al-Awlaki is no more and that’s a good thing for the good guys. We are still in the middle of a war, even though it’s become convenient for many of our politicians to have us believe otherwise. Every enemy we will is one more soldier who will not kill us at some point in the future. The drone strike also reportedly killed another American traitor named Samir Khan. Khan operated a popular message board, from which he launched his own messages of hate for the United States and Americans who drew attention to the Islamist threat. Notably, he threatened the family of blogger Rusty Shackleford and spread Awlaki’s message to willing jihadists here in America. I will not mourn his death. Let me also toss in a side-thought here. I wonder how the President’s bland and unexceptional message of service would have changed if he had announced such a big victory in our War Against Islamist Head-Choppers? I can’t imagine that “Today we scored a major victory in the War on Man-Caused Disasters. Oh, and be sure to volunteer for a local soup-kitchen, because that’s just as good as killing terrorists” would have worked for anyone. That’s not to say he wouldn’t have tried — his public performances lately have been horrible, mostly because he lacks the ability to see himself as anything but the embodiment of awesome — but it would not have worked. Which message would he have chosen? I honestly don’t know.

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