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Democratic leaders slammed President Trump’s picks for the Federal Reserve Board, warning Thursday that the two men Mr. Trump has floated are unqualified and too political to help steer the U.S. economy. “With stiff competition, these two appointments to the Fed are the worst, ill-suited appointments that the president could come up with,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, told reporters. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump announced he was nominating Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and pizza company executive, to fill a vacancy to govern the country’s central bank. In March, he nominated economic analyst Stephen Moore, a...

It takes an awfully dubious nomination to rile up a bunch as obedient as the Senate GOP to the point where they’re not only willing to bork a Trump pick but to bork him before he’s even been formally nominated.I did not think they had it in ’em.Cain’s loss is *probably* Stephen Moore’s gain, though. It’s almost unimaginable that Republicans would embarrass Trump twice by rejecting both of his Fed nominees. North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer said he wouldn’t back Cain if President Donald Trump nominates him to the Fed and hopes the president will make another choice.“If I...

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer, N.D., on Thursday became the fourth member of his party’s caucus to tell reporters he would vote against a nomination for former pizza executive Herman Cain to join the board of the Federal Reserve. “If I had to [vote] today, I would vote no” on Cain, Cramer told reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill. Cain has yet to be formally nominated by President Donald Trump, but last week Trump announced that Cain was his pick to fill one of two open seats on the central bank’s board. Trump intends to nominate conservative economist and author...

Some thoughts on the Herman Cain nomination, and an explanation of why an 'independent' Fed is such a colossally bad idea.

A special election for a House of Commons seat in Wales on Thursday with the Labor Party holding the seat well ahead of the Conservatives 40 percent to 31 percent with the party of Brexit, UKIP, more than tripling their share to nine percent of the vote..... The "Daily Mail" publishing a poll with 48 percent calling on Mrs. May to resign..... Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini meeting in Paris Friday with France's leading opposition politician, Marine Le Pen of the National Rally.... Debate and discussion in France's National Assembly over giving the government of French President Emmanuel Macron new...

Herman Cain’s appointment as a Federal Reserve governor looks to be moving forward. The former Republican presidential candidate and Godfather’s Pizza founder was rumored to be under consideration for a central bank appointment in January. Axios first reported Thursday that President Donald Trump is just about ready to submit Cain’s name to the Senate but is awaiting the completion of a background check. Bloomberg News later confirmed Trump was selecting Cain. A source familiar with the matter did not deny the reports to CNBC. “He won’t formally announce until the vet is completed ... But he likes Cain and wants...

Andrew Kaczynski and the rest of CNN’s so-called KFile unit ought to count their reporting as direct campaign contributions to Democrats.Last year, in falsely accusing Sheriff David Clarke and Monica Crowley of plagiarism when the Trump administration was considering them for positions, CNN omitted the authors’ footnotes, which contained the source attributions. As Steven Brill, the founder of Court TV and lecturer at the Yale English department, told the Yale Daily News in 2007: “Plagiarism is when you steal someone’s words and you don’t attribute it to that person.” He went on to address the case of Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres, who copied large chunks of writing without quote...

Election 2018: As the midterms approach, former presidential contender and noted conservative commentator and businessman Herman Cain has stepped forward with a new plan to help save POTUS Donald Trump’s presidency along with the GOP congressional majority. “Last week we announced the formation of America Fighting Back PAC, with yours truly as chairman and primary spokesman,” he said on his website. “We felt it was necessary to take an initiative like this because the so-called ‘resistance’ to President Trump and his conservative policy agenda has become so unhinged and absurd,” he added.

It was déjà vu all over again as the Washington Post, who has endorsed his opponent in the Alabama Senate race, brought forth 40-year-old sexual molestation accusations against Judge Roy Moore. From Clarence Thomas, to the Duke lacrosse team, to the University of Virginia rape case, to Herman Cain, we have heard such charges before and the rush to judgment that follows. Moore’s accusers issue the boilerplate caveat that if the charges are true, he should exit the public stage immediately in shame and certainly that is true. Then they quickly throw him under the guilty-as-charged bus that just ran...

Prominent discrimination and women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred is reportedly under two bar association investigations for malpractice in relation to a television weatherman she was representing in a legal matter.Washington, D.C., weatherman Kyle Hunter sued CBS in 2010 for allegedly passing him over and offering promotions to young, attractive women. Hunter hired Allred to represent him in his lawsuit asserting that CBS was discriminating against him.Allred’s previous clients have included a woman who sued President Donald Trump for defamation, a porn star who claimed disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner asked her to lie to the media, and a woman who accused...

Four days after Judge Schnider unsealed the custody records, Ryan dropped out of the race for the horror of (allegedly) propositioning his own wife and then taking “no” for an answer. Alan Keyes stepped in as a last-minute Republican candidate. And that’s how Obama became a U.S. senator. He destroyed both his Democratic primary opponent and his Republican general election opponent with salacious allegations about their personal lives taken from “sealed” court records. Obama’s team delved into Sarah Palin’s marriage and spread rumors of John McCain’s alleged affair in 2008 and they smeared Herman Cain in 2011 with hazy sexual...

Enough of this garbage. Why do some Americans have such inaccurate perceptions about certain things? Maybe it’s because of people like Charles Kaiser. During a CNN segment last Tuesday, Kaiser, a supposedly very prominent left-wing author, was criticizing Steve Bannon and decided to take his criticism a bit too far, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Idiocy on steroids We’re certainly tossing the charge of racism around lightly these days. Not only is half the country apparently racist for voting for Donald Trump, but now the media and Democrats feel quite free to claim that new Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon is a white supremacist. Based on absolutely nothing, not that this would stop them for one second. As you can see in the clip below, both David Asman and I know Steve Bannon, and we both know what utter nonsense this is:

No need for nose-holding I realize a lot of conservatives are wringing their hands about voting for Donald Trump. Some are doing so reluctantly to stop Hillary. Some remain in the #NeverTrump camp and are either voting third-party, writing someone in as a protest or not voting at all. I have been consistent since the primary season, when I named Trump as one of my Pick Six, in saying that I believed Trump was among the best Republican candidates of this season. This was long before electing Trump was the only way to stop Hillary, and I didn’t have to...

It was déjà vu all over again to see the champion of allegedly abused women, attorney Gloria Allred, make an appearance with one of Donald Trump’s molestation victims, Summer Zervos: A former contestant on Donald Trump’s reality television show “The Apprentice” spoke out on Friday to accuse the Republican presidential nominee of sexually harassing her when she sought career advice from him after her time on the show. Summer Zervos, who laid out her allegations at a tearful press conference with attorney Gloria Allred on Friday, said Trump pursued unwanted sexual advances toward her when she met with him at...

Familiar patterns of deception. This all feels so familiar. I’ve gotten over it, but I’ll never forget it. It was November 2011, and I was leading the polls in the Republican nomination race. My 9-9-9 tax play was attracting national attention and interest in my candidacy was as its height. Then came the women. I won’t recount all their names or their claims here because they don’t deserve the attention. If you really want to read about it in detail, along with my detailed refutations of every allegation made against me, knock yourself out.

. . . and here's what he said I was honored beyond words last night to have been asked to introduce Gov. Mike Pence when he visited Atlanta last night. And while he made a lot of great points in his speech last night - all of which you can see below - I thought he may have summed it up best when he simply pointed out that while Americans are tired of all the failure they’ve been getting out of Washington D.C., the Democrats went ahead and nominated the one person who perfectly represents all of it. He also...

Win anyway. Don't let their nonsense become an excuse for losing I could feel Donald Trump’s frustration from thousands of miles away. I’d been there. In the course of a campaign for president, you say something that isn’t as clear as it could be. The political class calls statements like this “inartful” for some reason. You know what you meant. It’s easy enough to explain it. But it doesn’t matter, because the media caught you in a trap, and now they’re going into days or weeks of histrionics over a completely absurd interpretation of something you said – an inference...

Not in Philadelphia. “Where’s the beef?” was a very popular and memorable advertising theme for Wendy’s three decades ago. It highlighted the amount of beef in its burgers versus the competition. As I struggled to listen to some of the speeches last night at the Democrat National Convention, I asked a similar question: Where’s the substance? There was none.

One of the reasons I’ve been favorably inclined toward Donald Trump’s candidacy right from the start is that he saw something I saw when I ran four years ago. America needs a president who understands executive decision-making. When I was a candidate, I met with Donald Trump to seek his advice. He was only too happy to see me, and we had a great conversation. One of the things we agreed on was that few candidates from either party seemed to understand how effective executive leaders make decisions, set priorities or put together teams who can get results.*snip*Trump is clearly...