Opinion Columns

(Published by North Star Writers)

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June 16, 2008
By Herman Cain

Now that I have your attention, here's how.

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With Obama's Success, Fairness Moves to the Front of the Bus

June 9, 2008
By Herman Cain

Barack Obama's victory in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination was not just historic because of the color of his skin. It was a historic victory for fairness in America. As imperfect as our political system can be at times, fairness moved to the front of the bus.

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Lieberman-Warner: The Carbon Emissions Police Are Coming

June 2, 2008
By Herman Cain

In my column last week, I informed those who were not aware of how the Democratic leaders in the United States Senate had systematically and consistently blocked legislation (S.2958) that would have allowed oil exploration and drilling right here at the home of the brave.

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Oil Abounds in America, but Democrats Vote to Keep It In the Ground

May 26, 2008
By Herman Cain

The Democrats in Congress have gone beyond ignoring real solutions to the pain at the gasoline pump and other critical problems. They are ignoring the people altogether in order to gain more political power.

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America Needs to Move Forward, but Congress Has the Car in Neutral

May 19, 2008
By Herman Cain

Another attitudinal poll was just published by National Public Radio (May 15, 2008), indicating that "80 percent of likely voters surveyed said the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction." Real Clear Politics has even tracked these "wrong direction or right direction" polls for years, but no one explains how these same geniuses surveyed would define the right direction.

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Why Don't I Blame George W. Bush? Because the Blame Game Has No Winners

May 12, 2008
By Herman Cain

A caller to my nightly radio show last week called to complain that I was not blaming President George W. Bush enough for the current gasoline crisis due to out-of-control oil prices on the world market.

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Substance is Beef, But the Mainstream Media Gives Us Weak Vegetable Soup

May 5, 2008
By Herman Cain

A good country style vegetable soup has lots of fresh vegetables, a thick beef broth and plenty of beef chunks. It's a meal in a bowl.

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Obama's Tax 'Simplification': Say Hello to Instant Audits

April 28, 2008
By Herman Cain

"Barack Obama will dramatically simplify tax fillings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in five minutes."
It's not the FairTax. It's not the Flat Tax. It's the Obama Tax.

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The Democrats' Lies about the Economy

April 21, 2008
By Herman Cain

Last week John McCain revealed some of his ideas about taxation to help sustain the economic expansion of the last six years if he is elected president.

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Tax Day Arrives; National Tax Insanity Continues

April 14, 2008
By Herman Cain

According to the Tax Foundation, tax freedom day is April 23 this year. That means it takes that long into the New Year for the average worker to earn enough money to pay his or her total tax bill for the year.

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Congratulations Negative Thinkers; Now What?

April 7, 2008
By Herman Cain

"Workers' pink slips stacked ever higher in March as jittery employers slashed 80,000 jobs, the most in five years, and the national unemployment rate climbed to 5.1 percent." - Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press, April 5, 2008.
The mainstream media, Democratic leaders in Congress, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and negative economic elites have talked employers into an "employment recession". More than nine months of recession obsession has caused jittery employers to slash 230,000 jobs in the first three months of 2008.

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The Coming Tsunami of a Bankrupt America (And How to Prevent It)

March 31, 2008
By Herman Cain

The former comptroller general of the United States, David Walker, said in a recent interview that the unfunded liability for Social Security and Medicare was $20 trillion in 1990. The Social Security and Medicare trustees issued their annual report last week indicating that the unfunded liability for those two programs is now $53 trillion.

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TV Stars Paul and Pamela Pitiful Are Not the Real America

March 24, 2008
By Herman Cain

The proliferation of TV news and entertainment has distorted the true images of the people that have made and are making the United States of America great. A seemingly endless 2008 presidential campaign nomination process has battered most people with a constant rapid fire of sound bites of the day, when normal people are just trying to make it from day to day.

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Wall Street Journal Dead Wrong About Barack Obama

March 17, 2008
By Herman Cain

The only thing new about the presidential campaign's latest "race card" episode, which was triggered by former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, is that the Wall Street Journal's March 13 editorial analysis of her comment was dead wrong. It started with the opening sentence:
Is it just us, or does Barack Obama seem a mite too quick to play the race card when facing criticism from political opponents?

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Energy Independence: Brazil's Best Kept Secret

March 10, 2008
By Herman Cain

Last week I had the opportunity to experience some of the customs of the Brazilian people, and to learn first-hand some of the similarities and differences between Brazil and the United States. The customs and similarities were not surprising, and often quite enjoyable, but one big difference really took me by surprise – namely, Brazil's energy independence.

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Get a Grip, Media: Recession Obsession is Dangerous

March 3, 2008
By Herman Cain

When the media do not have a sensational story, they sensationalize what they have. This is not only poor journalism, it is dangerous to the collective attitude of the public, because a negative attitude can too easily become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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Hillary Clinton's Economic Solution: The New F-Word

February 25, 2008
By Herman Cain

When you peel back the populist rhetoric during last Thursday's Democratic presidential primary debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, you find the frightening reality of how they believe they can solve people's health care and mortgage crisis problems. It's the use of force.

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Wow! Barack Obama is African-American? Let's Be Honest About Race

February 18, 2008
By Herman Cain

A few weeks ago, I heard Dick Morris, former advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton, say in an interview that if Hillary falls behind Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary elections, then Hillary's campaign would play the "race card". Not directly, but through her surrogates.

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Made-for-TV Recession: Economic Pity Party Continues

February 11, 2008
By Herman Cain

Now that Mitt Romney has gracefully ended Act One of the drama in the Republican presidential primary by suspending his campaign, and since the only real drama in the Democratic presidential race is whether it will be the first female nominee or the first African-American nominee, some of the media elites have already returned to their next favorite theme of "A Recession is Coming."

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Why I Support Mitt Romney: Leadership Substance

February 4, 2008
By Herman Cain

The dynamics of political party connections, the political process itself and public perceptions have once again yielded the top two contenders of each major party in the 2008 presidential race. And once again, the public can only hope that the ultimate winner of the White House will be a candidate with the most leadership substance.

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Hillary Clinton Brilliant? New York Times, Cut the Crap!

January 28, 2008
By Herman Cain

If someone is going to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman, then so be it. If someone is going to vote for Barack Obama because he is black, then so be it. But for the New York Times to endorse Hillary Clinton because they consider her "brilliant", and in possession of "powerful intellect," is a real fairy tale.

Give me a break, please!

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Recession? Spare Us the National Economic Pity Party

January 21, 2008
By Herman Cain

If "The Economy" were a movie, the movie critics would conclude that "we have seen this movie before". With exaggerated fears of an immediate recession being proclaimed by the media, the players are the same, the movie plots are the same, the lines are the same, the chase scene near the end will be the same, and unfortunately, the end of the movie will be the same.

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Presidential Campaign Inspires a Big 'I Told You So'

January 14, 2008
By Herman Cain

Now that the presidential derby is about half over, and Super Tuesday for primary voting is three weeks away, it is instructive to review what I shared with interested readers on May 21, 2007, about the presidential race. Not because "I told you so" makes me feel good, but because I hope more people will be informed voters on Super Tuesday instead of stupid voters.

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Huckabee Win Sweet Revenge for FairTax Short-Busers

January 07, 2008
By Herman Cain

Immediately after the Iowa Straw Poll last August, the noted and respected journalist George Will referred to the FairTax believers who supported Mike Huckabee as "those FairTax people". He made it sound as if the people who helped Mike Huckabee finish an unexpected second place among Republican presidential contenders had just gotten off the "short bus". You know, those special needs people who don't get to ride with the political elites.

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A Feast of Hermanator Hits for 2007

December 31, 2007
By Herman Cain

Since Top 10 lists are in for end-of-year news reporting, you may as well be subjected to the Hermanator's Top 10 Plus 10 opinion delicacies of 2007. Maybe you were on vacation that week and missed a literary gem, in which case you can find the full text at www.hermancain.com/biography.htm

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You Might Be a Liberal, But the Hermanator is Here to Help

December 24, 2007
By Herman Cain

"Merry Christmas" is an expression of hope that someone will receive the blessings of Christ, and enjoy the celebrations of His birth. It is not a provocation or an attempt to antagonize someone who may not believe in Christ, which someone told me recently as to why they would prefer "Happy Holidays." Not knowing this person very well, I thought to myself that they might be a liberal and didn't know it.

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The Presidential Candidates Who Stole Christmas

December 17, 2007
By Herman Cain

Last week on the presidential campaign trail, Hillary Clinton apologized to Barack Obama for a comment made by a senior staffer about Obama's teenage drug use. Mike Huckabee apologized to Mitt Romney for a remark made about the Mormon faith. And Fred Thompson apologized (sarcastically) to Mike Huckabee for bringing attention to his past record.

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Media Can't Explain the Faiths of Romney and Huckabee

December 10, 2007
By Herman Cain

The more reporters and political pundits write about Mitt Romney's faith and Mike Huckabee's faith, the more confused people are about the First Amendment to the Constitution, because many people have not read it or do not understand it. It says "freedom of religion." It does not say "freedom from religion."

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Will Democrats Ever Stop Whining?

December 03, 2007
By Herman Cain

Even before the November 2006 congressional elections, Democratic leaders were calling for a "new direction" on the war in Iraq, the economy, energy and anything else suitable for their pandering politics without offering any constructive suggestions. That's called whining.

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Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas, You Constitutional Quacks

November 26, 2007
By Herman Cain

Now that the 2007 end-of-year holiday season is officially underway, I want to offer some heart-felt politically insensitive expressions of happiness and well wishes. Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Stop Measuring Those Drapes, Hillary

November 19, 2007
By Herman Cain

If you listen to the tone of the liberal media establishments and the die-hard Democrats, Sen. Hillary Clinton should order her drapes for the Oval Office. Not so fast! There are some compelling opportunities for Republicans to turn her dream into a nightmare.

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If It’s Good for the American People, Democrats Are Against It

November 12, 2007
By Herman Cain

I know I am not the only person who sees the blatant strategy of the Democratic leaders in Congress, which is to continue to ignore the best interests of the American people for the sake of political power. They refuse to acknowledge anything that goes right, or pass any legislation that might suggest that President Bush is doing something right.

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Hillary Clinton Makes No Sense

November 05, 2007
By Herman Cain

When asked during the October 30, 2007 Democratic presidential debate whether she supported Governor Elliot Spitzer's proposal to provide driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Hillary Clinton said, "It makes a lot of sense, but I did not say it should be done."

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Mitt Romney is a Mormon and I am a Baptist: Get Over It!

October 29, 2007
By Herman Cain

The Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Lutherans, Pentecostals, Mormons and a few other faiths have three things in common – they believe in Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God and that He died and was resurrected for our sins.

So what's the problem?

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Paid Family Leave: Hillary's Panderfest Continues

October 22, 2007
By Herman Cain

If you read my October 15, 2007 column, you can simply replace "America's Retirement Accounts" with "Paid Family Leave" to describe Hillary's next step in her march toward socialism. Rather than repeat how this idea is also counter to the founding principles of our country, and how she ignores other serious problems, let's examine the consistency of her political pandering strategy.

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This Week's Hillary Giveaway: 'American (Socialist) Retirement Accounts'

October 10, 2007
By Herman Cain

Less than a month after Hillary Clinton proposed giving every child born in the United States a $5,000 gift, she told a crowd in Iowa last week that she now wants to give families $1,000 in annual matching funds into a 401(k) retirement account. Of course, all of this giveaway money would come from the government after she confiscates more money from the evil rich.

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Believe Hillary's Promises? You Can't Fix Stupid

October 8, 2007
By Herman Cain

I do not know the origin of the phrase "You can't fix stupid", but it is a fitting description for the millions of people who seem to never question the unrealistic and unfunded implications of anything Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders say.

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In Attack on Bill O'Reilly, CNN Plays the Race Card

October 1, 2007
By Herman Cain

There are a lot of things that move race relations forward in this country that most people never hear about, but there seems to be more things that move race relations backward due to "race-colored" glasses, an abundance of negative racial stereotypes in entertainment, making condescending remarks and taking comments out of context to attack someone.

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SCHIP Debate Shows Democrats Are Winning the War of Words

September 24, 2007
By Herman Cain

With the ongoing help of the "mainstream media," the Democrats continue to win the war of words. They stick to their talking points like glue on a rug.

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Hillary Health Care Would Raise Costs; Even She Has No Idea How Much

September 17, 2007
By Herman Cain

As we brace ourselves for the soon-to-be-announced Hillary Care Two, we should also prepare ourselves for factual abuse, misuse and omissions.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has announced that she is going to announce the details of her proposed universal health care plan.

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Liberals Gone Wild: The Government Big Enough to Give You Everything

September 10, 2007
By Herman Cain

Michael Bloomberg wants to subsidize deadbeat dads, John Edwards wants to subsidize people's savings accounts and an unidentified group of liberals in Congress want to give every child born in this country a free savings account, according to a pair of Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page articles by Jim Wooten and Rourke O'Brien, respectively, on September 4, 2007.

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Vacation for Congress: Why Stop With Labor Day?

September 3, 2007
By Herman Cain

In observance of the Labor Day holiday, let's pay Congress to stay on vacation for another year.

While Congress has been in its August r