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When Herman Cain announced on Wednesday, January 12, that he was forming an exploratory committee to test the waters for a possible presidential bid, he immediately faced questions about his perceived lack of experience. After all, Cain had only a failed U.S. Senate bid in 2004 on his political resume. When Herman spoke to my AP Government class in December, one of the students asked him the same question: "Are you electable, given your lack of political pedigree?" Cain's answer was one that he has since echoed in subsequent interviews. He asked the class to think about the political background...

On Wednesday, ex-Godfather's Pizza CEO and popular conservative radio host Herman Cain announced an exploratory committee for president. Today, he spoke with me about his potential run. Cain promises an ambitious agenda if he is elected president, saying: "I plan to mobilize the public -- to not just stop stuff, but to get stuff done." Saying "transparency starts with simplicity," Cain added he will "never sign a 2,700-page bill as president of the United States." While Cain is an unabashed pro-life social conservative who believes in traditional marriage, he clearly sees the economy and national security as the most pressing...

For any FReepers in the educational field--or for anyone who wants to learn more about Herman Cain--the Hermanator's Educators web site is now up and running. Exclusive video content of Herman's Q&A session with a group of high school students will be posted soon, but there are already several worthwhile videos on the site, as well as biographical information on Herman Cain. For those who haven't seen him speak, check it out. As Herman says, "You might just learn something!"

Herman Cain for President in 2012A short comparison of Mr. Cain and President Reagan, along with Glenn Beck's comments about Mr. Cain's RightNation speech, all set to the theme from "The Patriot." This video was made for my AP Government class for the day when Mr. Cain spoke to us for an hour and gave us an idea of his vision and plan for the near future. Please support the movement to bring Herman Cain into the presidential race!

Last night, I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to a great American. Herman Cain described himself as an “A-B-C,” but I’ll tell you what, he is more than an “American-Black-Conservative.” He is the epitome of what makes America exceptional and why I know we are still a nation of values and principles. Herman Cain is the Tea Party movement, along with millions of other Americans who were awakened and rose to the challenge.

In order to encourage a true conservative with grass roots appeal to enter the political arena, I've started a Herman Cain Facebook group. In his now-famous debate with Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy said that there are many roads to the presidency. I'm hoping one of those roads runs through Morehouse College, Purdue University, Pillsbury and its holdings, and WSB 750 Atlanta! If you support Herman and would like to see him launch a campaign in 2011, please join and show your support. His speech from yesterday's Atlanta Tea Party is also available for viewing there. Thanks!

There is a planned Third World War, which will be nuclear and biological. Our source believes that this is on track to be initiated within the next 18-24 months. • It is planned to begin with a strike by Israel on Iran. Either Iran or China will be provoked into a nuclear response. After a brief nuclear exchange, there will be a ceasefire. The world will be thrown into fear and chaos - all carefully engineered. • The extreme state of tension will be used to justify heavy social and military controls in all western first world nations. Plans are...

I listen to his radio show a lot, and he has good ideas on how to repackage the GOP. He seems to want the position.Herman ran for the Senate in Georgia, but lost the primary to the RINO Johnney Isakson. Before that, he ran Godfather's pizza, some small business and sits on some major corporate boards. He hosts "The new Herman Cain Show" on am750 at 7pm monday - friday. AM750 is the local Atlanta clear radio station that hosts Boortz, Hannity, Clarke Howard and some others.

If John Kerry becomes President he will find himself on the horns of a dilemma - which close friend to ditch when he chooses a new Secretary of State. According to today's Washington Post, Kerry would pick his national security team within a few weeks after winning the White House and two of his closest friends, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) or Richard Holbrooke reportedly want the job of running the State Department.

Where is the outrage that was manufactured to run Rush Limbaugh off the air? Is it absent because Gumbel is allegedly black? So just picture for a moment, if you will, that you're watching SportsCenter tonight and Dan Patrick says, "The lack of whites in the NBA makes it look like a welfare office." Think that would get buried like Gumbel's comments? For what it's worth, maybe Gumbel should do some research on the emerging face of the GOP.

Some cast aside traditional loyalties... Adam Hunter, an ambitious law student with bright eyes, an easy smile, and plenty of charisma, seems practically destined for politics... a first-year law student at Howard University, a historically black campus with a long record of liberal activism. He has political ambitions of his own -- but not with the Democrats. Instead, Hunter, who as an undergraduate headed Howard's chapter of College Republicans, sees himself as part of a younger generation of African-Americans. He is ready to cast aside traditional loyalties to the Democratic Party and forge his own political identity. ''There's a lot...

Getting a Bang Out of Gamow By Professor Eamon Harper In August 1934 there appeared on the GW campus a 6-foot-3-inch, 30-year-old, flaxen-haired, Ukrainian émigré scientist. His startlingly blue eyes twinkled myopically behind lenses that resembled the bottoms of cider bottles. He conversed with a cosmopolitan circle of friends in a variety of European languages, with a fractured but poetic delivery that was animated and usually high-pitched. His name: George Gamow [pronounced GAM-off]. The young Ukrainian had a straightforward, no-nonsense way of doing theoretical physics. His approach was strongly intuitive and he lost little time on florid mathematical formalism. That...

The Hidden Truth About Joseph McCarthy Daniel J. Flynn     For generations of American students, the name Joe McCarthy and not Joe Stalin has been synonymous with evil. A practitioner of “black arts,” a “demon,” “ogreish,” and a “seditionist” are a few of the descriptions of him handed down to us from his first major biographer. The passage of time hasn’t tempered these hysterical reactions.    The late senator, the story goes, created a climate of fear in the early 1950s by conducting a witchhunt that called liberals “Communists” and Communists “spies.” We now know better. The witches were real. Today,...

In George Orwell’s classic book entitled 1984, one of the brainwashing pillars used by Big Brother was “ignorance is strength.” All citizens were constantly reminded of this principle to diminish their desire to know the truth. Adherence to this principle kept the government strong and the citizens weak. The Democratic leadership in Congress has apparently adopted this philosophy as a strategy to defeat the idea of optional personal retirement accounts to restructure our dysfunctional Social Security system. Week after week their rhetoric attempts to deny, distort, distract, and deceive the public on the facts about President Bush’s optional accounts proposal....

I arrived at the Ed Herman for Congress campaign headquarters at 6 pm and found more volunteers than phones. They had eighteen phone lines set up to make calls encouraging their voters to get out there tomorrow and vote to re-elect President George W. Bush and to send Ed Herman to Congress to replace Dennis Kucinich. The eighteen phone lines were already taken and 7 more people stayed to make calls on cell phones. Approximately 20 people were sent home because there were no more phones. Most people were planning to come back tomorrow to continue the get out the...

The History Channel is going to air a new historical series entitled DECISIVE BATTLES including some classic wars between ancient Persian armies and Roman and Greek ones. The History Channel goes on location to the actual battlefields and integrates cutting-edge videogame technology to bring history and imagination together in the new series DECISIVE BATTLES. The half-hour series DECISIVE BATTLES premieres Friday, July 23 at 9-9:30pm ET/PT. The series is hosted by Matthew Settle (Band of Brothers) on location at the ancient battlefields and features expert commentary from the world©s foremost historians. DECISIVE BATTLES is unlike any series The History Channel...

Blacks Turning to GOP With Herman Cain? July 16, 2004 Listen to Rush… (…explain to caller that the tide is turning but there's still a long way to go) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Christian in Atlanta, you're next. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi. CALLER: Hey, Rush. Dittos from Atlanta. It's morning again in Georgia. I want to send conservative optimistic dittos from Atlanta. RUSH: Yeah, great city, Atlanta. CALLER: It's an honor to speak with you, and I want to talk today about Herman Cain, a candidate we have here in Atlanta running for Zell Miller. RUSH: Oh, yeah, the...

CLERMONT - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herman Cain made Clermont a stop on his "Promise of America" bus tour Saturday. In years past, politicians on the stump drumming up votes made whistle stops. Herman Caine made a bus stop at Clermont Community Center where campaign signs and supporters greeted him in the parking lot. Cain said he wanted to travel one more time across the state the week before the July 20th Primary to meet the voters. Cain promised to replace the current tax structure with a national sales tax to give working American "We're not ruling out the possibility...

Shaking the 'M-word' Can Johnny Isakson out-conservative the conservatives? BY SCOTT HENRY In the summer of 1990, just after losing the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Zell Miller, then-state Sen. Roy Barnes was making the obligatory bury-the-hatchet speech to endorse his former primary opponent. Joining Miller in the Marietta Square, Barnes attacked GOP nominee for governor Johnny Isakson on his home turf with the most damning charge he could muster -- accusing the east Cobb Republican of being "more liberal than Zell." Just another example of how, if you wait long enough, nearly every statement made in the heat of a...

Posted on Thu, Jun. 24, 2004 Senate candidates to debate Sunday Collins, Cain will attend; Isakson declines invitation BY RICHARD HYATT Staff Writer Three Republicans want to go to Washington as Georgia's new U.S. senator but only two of them want to come to Columbus for a televised debate. Rep. Mac Collins and businessman Herman Cain have accepted invitations for a Sunday night debate at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. Rep. Johnny Isakson has declined. This won't be the first debate held without the presence of the GOP frontrunner. To date, he has passed on five different debates, most...