Herman Cain

Uncle Sam doesn't have a sugar daddy

I have some good news and some bad news about our national debt. The bad news is, it has now surpassed nineteen trillion dollars. For those of you that may have forgotten your elementary school math, one trillion is a million million dollars. Nineteen TRILLION! That's the bad news.

Seoul-long talking! Hello missiles!

Seoul Korea and Washington have agreed to begin talks about deploying the THADD Missile Defense System in South Korea, a defense official told reporters on Sunday. And it's obvious as to why folks. They need to have a missile defense system in South Korea because North Korea has demonstrated...One, they cannot be trusted... Two, they do not keep United Nations agreements... And three, they want to have the military power including nuclear weapons in order to be able to threaten anybody else in the world. That's what they're trying to do. So I hope that they do more than talk about it and they go ahead and deploy them.

Uh oh: 600,000 people have left the workforce in the past two months

It happened again on Friday. Two pieces of news that don’t seem possible to square with one another. On the one hand, the U-3 unemployment rate declined to 4.9 percent, which sounds like wonderful news! On the other hand, the economy only created 151,000 new jobs, which is not even enough to keep up with population growth.

Hillary and Bernie are working on the wrong problems

Do you know that the average monthly income in China is $952 in U.S. dollars? Not too good. But wait, in Cuba it's only $25, which is a pretty big problem when a gallon of gas is almost $5.

The New York Times offers its completely delusional 2016 primary endorsements

Yesterday, while simultaneously reporting on the FBI investigation that threatens to destroy her candidacy, the New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Ouch: U.S. economy stumbles with 0.7 percent growth in 4Q 2015

We’re always told that consistent economic growth will get us out of all our fiscal problems. That’s not true, although it would certainly help. We recently told you that deficit projections for coming years are looking pretty scary, and even those projections depend on some pretty rosy assumptions about future economic growth.

In the most unpredictable of presidential seasons . . . Michael Bloomberg?

Seriously? What next? Michael Bloomberg ponders an independent run for president.

Voters no longer accept spoon-fed political noise against candidates like Trump

After seven TV interviews and four radio interviews in two days promoting the release of my new book, The Right Problems, I realized that many media people are still trying to understand why Donald Trump is still dominating the Republican presidential race. After all, establishment politicians and political pundits continue to say he can't win the nomination.

Talking up The Right Problems on Fox & Friends

I've been in New York since Monday, having come here for the launch of my new book The Right Problems, and we had a lot of fun doing multiple shows Tuesday on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel. On Fox & Friends First (yes, the really early one!), they gave me a chance to talk not only about the book, but about the latest tussle between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz - which of course is interesting for me because I like both of them and I've spoken at rallies for both of them recently:

The Dream on hold

The Dream didn't start with Martin Luther King, Jr. It started with the Founding Fathers, when they declared, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal . . ."

Let me tell you about my new book: The Right Problems

I know I’ve been teasing this a lot on the radio, and we’re just over a week away from the release of my new book, The Right Problems. I’ve written quite a few books in the past, and I thought they were all very good for the times in which they were written. But there’s a particular urgency I feel with this one, especially as someone who has run for president and has learned so much about how and why problems in this country are addressed – or not addressed, as the case may be.

The unknown Trump

I know that listeners do not have the opportunity to listen to my radio show every day, every hour, and every minute. That's why we make Cain 24/7 available 24 hours a day at HermanCain.com.

Obama NSA spied on Netanyahu, GOP congressman to protect Iran nuclear deal

This is not a sexy or juicy topic for a commentary, but it is a subject an informed reader should know about. Because, you're not going to hear about it on the nightly news.

I'll be glad to explain to you why conservatives are supporting Trump

I keep reading that Donald Trump is not a serious candidate. I keep reading that he’s not even really a conservative, and that Tea Party activists who are supporting him have lost their minds. I keep reading that his tendency to be a “loose cannon” will surely spell disaster for his candidacy, and would surely doom his presidency were he to have one.

GOP's game: Get a little now, win the White House, and then go big

A lot of conservatives were predictably disappointed in the budget deal that Speaker Paul Ryan agreed to last week with the White House. We did get a few things, like delays in the implementation of several key ObamaCare taxes, and the repeal at long last of the 42-year-old oil export ban.

Uh oh: Government has run up $200 billion deficit already in FY 2016

You might not even know that 2016 has already started--not the calendar year, but the fiscal year for many companies, and for many units of government including the federal government, which starts its fiscal year on October 1.

Media's latest lie about Ben Carson: He's 'struggling' to connect with black churches

There's no sense mincing words about what everyone knows: The media want to destroy Ben Carson's candidacy, and they're more than happy to lie in order to do it.

What the New York Daily News doesn't know about God

You’ve all seen the obnoxious headline by now. It showed up in the New York Daily News even as the San Bernardino attacks were still ongoing. In gigantic type, the Daily News informed us all, GOD’S NOT FIXING THIS, then proceeded to rip Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and Paul Ryan for offering “thoughts and prayers” to the victims and their families.

Sorry, media, I did not 'endorse' Donald Trump

Maybe I'm making too fine a point out of this, but I keep seeing news reports this morning that I "endorsed" Donald Trump for president by accepting his invitation to introduce him at his rally last night in Macon, Georgia. That will probably come as news to Donald Trump as well as to me - which is not to say I don't respect him immensely.

Hey, Jeb: Before you talk about my 'fall,' try getting as far as I got

Someone should tell Jeb Bush that I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at Donald Trump’s rally this coming Monday in Georgia. I accepted for a simple reason: He asked. But Gov. Bush seems weirdly interested these days in the connection – if only in his own mind – between what he thinks happened to me and what he thinks is going to happen to Trump.