OCTOBER 15, 2011 By PATRICK O’CONNOR Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry announced his energy and jobs plan at a U.S. steel plant in Pittsburgh. He pledged to create more than 1 million jobs by expanding energy production and lifting federal regulations on the energy sector. Texas Gov. Rick Perry sought to reinvigorate his presidential bid
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OCTOBER 14, 2011, 9:17 A.M. ET Republicans have their own green baggage. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL On Friday Rick Perry delivers his first major policy address, unveiling an aggressive energy and jobs plan. It will no doubt be good. It will no doubt address serious problems. It will no doubt be ignored. That’s because, unfortunately
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OCTOBER 13, 2011 This candidate will have to be pushed a lot harder to make him a good president. By DANIEL HENNINGER Watching Rick Perry in the Republican debate at Dartmouth say that the answer to every aspect of economic revival is to “get our energy industry back to work,” and watching Herman Cain say
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Plan to raise taxes won’t save his collapsing presidency By Dr. Milton R. Wolf The Washington Times Wednesday, September 21, 2011 “We are witnessing the unmistakable collapse of an American presidency.” I wrote those words in this space almost one year ago, and events continue to prove them true. It seems the president himself now
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Newt Gingrich, Presidential Candidate, speaking at the convention Sandye Kading of Rapid City, South Dakota and Susan Pisani of Spearfish, South Dakota Sylvia Morales of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Pat Smith, Anne Huggins, Cornelia Groce, Mary Frances Forrester Zan Bunn, Cornelia Groce, Rachel Orstad, Linda Arnold, Nancy Clark and Matt Arnold at Jack Stack BBQ
OCTOBER 11, 2011, The faith of Romney and Huntsman is a target of liberals and conservatives. By WILLIAM MCGURN Here’s some advice for Republican candidates appearing at Tuesday’s presidential debate at Dartmouth College. When you are asked, as you will be asked, what you make of the Christian pastor who called the Mormon faith a
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Overrated Rumors of Barack Obama’s political skill have been greatly exaggerated. Noemie Emery October 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: What went wrong in the first place was that too much went right. He never was able to learn from adversity, as he never saw
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Raising Cain The very different life lessons of the president and his challenger. Fred Barnes October 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 Both President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went to graduate school. Obama got a degree at Harvard Law School. Cain did his graduate work at
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OCTOBER 9, 2011, 8:27 P.M. ET The also-rans get free publicity and have no incentive to drop out. Meanwhile the media pits all candidates against each other, giving Obama a pass. By FRED BARNES Neither fund raising nor the building of grass-roots organizations in key primary states is driving the Republican presidential race. Endorsements haven’t
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