Author: Justin Lane

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is trying to defend Ben Carson. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Cain said that Carson is the victim of unfair attacks from liberals because of his race. “Ben Carson is not only a conservative, he is a conservative who happens to be black. There is only one group of people that liberals hate worse than conservatives, and that’s conservatives who happen to be black,” said Cain. “The reason for that is real simple. They resent conservatives who happen to be black for leaving the Democratic plantation. And you can quote me on...

Donald Trump thinks that Americans are already paid too much. During the debate he made it clear as he responded to questions about tax policy: As Talking Points Memo reports: Real estate mogul Donald Trump flatly opposed raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour during Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate, arguing that the country’s wages are already “too high.” Fox Business Host and debate moderator Neil Cavuto asked Trump whether he was sympathetic to protesters demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage, which works out to about $31,000 per year. Cavuto noted that the billionaire’s tax plan stipulates couples...

When asked about remarks he had made on economic policy, Ben Carson was wholly unable to offer a rational thought on banking and the concept of “too big to fail.” “If Bank of America right now was about to fail,” asked a reporter for MSNBC, “would you be for bailing it out for government intervention?” “My answer is, it’s not an ‘A’ or a ‘B’. It’s not let it fail or bail it out. There’s another option, option ‘C’,” said Carson. “There’s another tier of banks right beneath that one that we can allow people who are in that...