OCTOBER 7, 2011 Creating a new national sales tax on top of the income tax is a political killer. With Herman Cain’s leap in the Presidential polls, the businessman’s campaign is suddenly being taken seriously and his plan to overhaul federal taxes is coming under scrutiny. Mr. Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would certainly help the economy, […]
The American Spectator By Peter Ferrara on 10.5.11 As previewed at the last debate, he’s delivered a product “far bolder, far deeper, far more profound” than 1994’s Contract, not to mention 1980’s. Last week, Newt Gingrich released his 21st Century Contract with America, composed of 10 specific legislative proposals he would enact if elected President. In
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OCTOBER 3, 2011, The political graveyards are full of politicians who thought that temporary, targeted economic policies would get them re-elected. By JOHN F. COGAN AND JOHN B. TAYLOR Mr. Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of public policy at Stanford University, served as deputy director of the Office of
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October 5, 2011 By Brent Bozell Is there a clumsier group of newspaper character assassins than the hit squads at The Washington Post? On Oct. 1, the Post was back on the racist-Republican attack with a 3,000 word, investigative treatise over a rock. Specifically, Gov. Rick Perry had leased a property where the N-word was
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OCTOBER 6, 2011 By JONATHAN WEISMAN Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, whose health-care record as governor of Massachusetts has left him struggling to win the support of conservative voters, now faces another point of vulnerability: his environmental record. Just days after his 2002 election, Mr. Romney hired Douglas Foy, one of the state’s most prominent
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011, 7:14 P.M. ET North American oil production can double by 2035. By LUCIAN PUGLIARESI In response to a 2009 request from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) reported earlier this month that oil production in North America could double by 2035—to 20 million barrels per day. Where can
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 Flat Is the New Fair Is President Obama paving the way for GOP tax reform? By STEPHEN MOORE ‘Suddenly, liberal Democrats are making the same argument about the tax code that I’ve been making for 20 years,” laughs former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey. “Welcome to the party.” Mr. Armey, who
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Andrew C. McCarthy October 5, 2011 The AG’s Fast & Furious amnesia is reminiscent of his Marc Rich amnesia. House Republicans are now calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself in congressional testimony about the scandalous Fast & Furious program. Specifically, the attorney general
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson October 4, 2011 Ten Lessons from Obama In less than three years Barack Obama has reversed all expectations. The election of Barack Obama brought all sorts of contradictions. A man with about the least prior executive experience in presidential history was suddenly acclaimed a “god” and the smartest
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Perry and the Profs He picked the right fight. Andrew Ferguson September 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 01 If you want a glimpse of the way Rick Perry operates as an executive and a politician, consider the issue of higher education reform in Texas, which no one in Texas
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