OCTOBER 27, 2011, 4:37 P.M. ET Michael Vick went to prison for staging dogfights, but for presidential debates, it’s legal. By DANIEL HENNINGER Politics, like any guilty pleasure, breeds nightmares. One of late is that we’ll soon elect an American president based mostly on what people know from reading Yahoo! headlines and the three lines […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The global debt apocalypse approaches. David M. Smick October 31, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 07 On the issue of public debt, Washington is experiencing what psychologists call “learned helplessness.” The financial news is so relentlessly terrible that people have become numb to it and assume nothing can be done
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Updated: Sun., Oct. 23, 2011, Feeling flat By STEVE FORBES Last Updated: 12:27 PM, October 23, 2011 The nightmare on Main Street — the federal income tax code — is ending, which is fantastic news for our beleaguered economy. Dramatically simplifying this monstrosity would unleash a powerful wave of prosperity and job creation. Thankfully in
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OCTOBER 19, 2011 Cain’s Stimulating ‘9-9-9’ Tax Reform A new sales tax could be raised in the future—but so can any other tax. And the low marginal rates would jump-start the economy. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER It used to be that the sole purpose of the tax code was to raise the necessary funds to
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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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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
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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