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Herman Cain's campaign headquarters has released a response to a story, broken this evening on Politico, that in the 1990s two female employees of the National Restaurant Association "complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain," who at the time was head of the trade group.Calling the story "thinly source allegations," Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon said: "Since Washington establishment critics haven't had much luck in attacking Mr. Cain's ideas to fix a bad economy and create jobs, they are trying to attack him in any way they can."  Gordon did not address any of the specific...

Somehow I doubt Bill Maher will soon invite The Wall Street Journal's John Fund back onto HBO's Real Time. That's because the unpretentious columnist publicly eviscerated both Maher and Democratic Congressman Anthony Wiener without breaking an intellectual sweat. In a segment embedded at Fox Nation, the fireworks began as Maher and Weiner attempted to pass off juvenile insults as legitimate analysis. Weiner: [Glenn Beck] has less than 300,000 viewers. So that's about 150 shoes in his audience... If you don't get the joke, you're not alone. After a few seconds of confused silence, Weiner explains that he was trying to...

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...

June 27, 2003 / 12:48 PM ET               JUDGING CLARENCE THOMAS              Hello! I’m Eugene Volokh; I teach law at UCLA School of Law, and I blog at The Volokh Conspiracy, together with a bunch of my other friends (most of whom are also law professors). Many thanks to Glenn Reynolds for letting me guest-blog today and for a couple of days next week.              Lots of people have criticized Justice Clarence Thomas’ anti-race-preferences opinion (from Monday’s Grutter v. Bollinger decision concerning the University of Michigan Law...