Déjà vu

The Herman Cain sex harassment charge is reminiscent of Clarence Thomas. Remember the term "high-tech lynching"? See Ann Althouse.

Frodo Baggins of the right

Walter Russell Mead on Jeffrey Toobin's New Yorker article on Clarence Thomas.

Toobin argues that the only Black man in public life that liberals could safely mock and despise may be on the point of bringing the Blue Empire down.

In fact, Toobin suggests, Clarence Thomas may be the Frodo Baggins of the right; his lonely and obscure struggle has led him to the point from which he may be able to overthrow the entire edifice of the modern progressive state.