Herman Cain

Trump's tax plan: Lower rates and a simpler structure, but is it enough?

I've been perusing Donald Trump's proposed changes to the federal tax code, and if you measure the proposal strictly by comparing it with the status quo, it's no contest. Trump's plan wins by several lengths of the galaxy. Of course, that's a pretty low bar. I've been saying since my own campaign four years ago that what we need to do is not reform the tax code but throw it out and start over. Trump's proposal doesn't do that. It's still a progressive code with rates that gradually rise as your income rises. But it does achieve a lot of the simplification that would free people up to stop obsessing over tax strategies and just focus on running their businesses and/or their lives.

The five types of attacks ruling this presidential season

We expect attacks and opportunistic criticism between presidential candidates whether they are of opposing parties or running in a primary battle within the same party. That is especially true this year, when Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment about Republicans not attacking each other was thrown out the window right from the start of the early primary season.

Boehner's exit is not enough; we need to see some serious Republican mojo

In golf a par is good, but a birdie is better. In baseball a single, double or triple is good, but a home run is great! In football a first down, or a few first downs are good, but a touchdown is great.

Priorities: Why Obama coddles Iran but sicks the IRS on you

If you want to know someone’s priorities, pay attention to when they’re meticulous – and to when they act like they just can’t be bothered to put in half an effort.

The pain of ObamaCare gets worse

While the media are focused on the pope's historic visit to the USA, gotcha mania with Republican presidential candidates and he said/she said politics, the pain of ObamaCare on real people gets worse.

It's not too late to save the saveable

I know a lot of people are frustrated and disgusted with the direction and lack of leadership of our nation. A lot of people are also fed up with the gridlock and bitter partisanship in Congress, and many think that simply changing party leadership or which party controls Congress will make everything better.

Dear Media: It's not Trump's job to 'correct' everything his supporters say

It never takes long in a campaign cycle for stories like this to start showing up in the media. So-and-so says such-and-such that may be inaccurate, and a candidate who was present when the thing was said does not correct him! This phenomenon is especially predictable whenever someone levels a criticism of President Obama that the media has decided is verboten, especially when it involves the notion that he is a Christian (Obama says he is) or that he is a Muslim (Obama says he is not).

VIDEO: A preview of Wednesday night's debate on CNN

I thought I'd share with you this morning a preview I did on the radio show of tomorrow night's debate on CNN. It's only a minute-and-a-half so I won't give away the whole thing by writing exactly what I said. I will say this, though: Given the number of candidates and the time available, you know that no one is going to have time to dig deep into the substance of issues.

A preview of the second Republican debate

Following the first Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015, I published my presidential Pick Six with a brief perception perspective on each of them. Here's how I saw it then:

New Obama executive order forces taxpayers to pay people not to work

We often criticize Barack Obama for never having run a business and not knowing anything about it. But maybe we’re missing something. Obama apparently believes he knows how to run every business in America that wants to be a federal contractor, because he is very fond of telling them how they have to run their companies as a condition for getting federal contracts

Feeding failure divides us

Chicago is the latest Democrat controlled city proposing to follow the failed tax-and-spend policies of Detroit, Baltimore and the entire state of California.

What politicians don't want you to know about August's poor job creation numbers

You could be forgiven if, when you heard Friday’s news about the August job creation figures and the new unemployment rate, you thought to yourself, “Something doesn’t add up here.”

An interview with Becky Gerritson of 'Let's Put US Back in USA'

I often talk about apathy as the biggest problem facing this country right now, because those who could be part of the solution but don't get involved are by definition part of the problem. I'm glad to say, though, that there are a lot of Americans who are rising up to make a difference, and one group of Americans like this is "Let's Put US Back in USA."

Now get the Herman Cain Show as you want, when you want, without commercials or interruptions

Like most of us, you are a busy person working, taking care of yourself and family, running a business, or going to school. You know you can't trust everything you see or hear on mainstream media news programs, but you want to be informed about things developing in our nation that will impact your life, your children and your grandchildren.

The Cadillac Tax is a heap of junk

I rarely agree with labor unions, and I look pretty skeptically at the arguments of health insurance companies too. They’re both pretty shameless about pursuing their own self-interests regardless of how it affects anyone else. But sometimes they’re right, and they’re right in the current push to see the ObamaCare Cadillac Tax repealed.

Conservative media establishment resorts to name-calling in hope of taking Trump down

In this space and on my radio show, we pride ourselves on the truth and on setting the record straight when candidates are falsely attacked or mischaracterized (no matter who they are) by the misreporting of the media.

Black Chamber of Commerce to Obama: Leave financial advisors and their clients alone

Did you know there’s a Black Chamber of Commerce? There is, and they’re not too happy with President Obama these days. That’s because the Black Chamber of Commerce represents a lot of small businesses, and that includes a lot of professional financial advisors. Those in this industry are about to take a serious hit if new regulations Obama wants are put into effect, and that’s left the Black Chamber of Commerce wondering if Obama thinks, er, #BlackJobsMatter.

Armstrong Williams nails it: If black lives really mattered

Few are better than Armstrong Williams, my fellow American Black Conservative, at getting to the heart of the matter. And rarely has that been more needed than on this whole movement operating under the name (or perhaps the hashtag) #blacklivesmatter.

Be informed about the candidates, but be careful what you believe

In an election season, we often bemoan the low-information voter – the person who really doesn’t know that much about the issues or the candidates and goes to the polls having made a decision on the basis of trivia, or general feelings and impressions that don’t necessarily represent who the candidates really are or what they would do in office.

The serious case for a Trump presidency . . . rough edges and all

I knew I was cutting against the grain and going against conventional political wisdom when, on Tuesday, I offered my presidential Pick Six of the candidates I like best in this race – and Donald Trump was at the top of the list. After a media week of pointless conflicts with Megyn Kelly, of complaining about debate questions, and of generally giving his critics everything they thought they needed to write off his candidacy – how could I still think he would be a good president?