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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a 26 sep 2011 The Washington Times Weekly Restoring an overtaxed state Mitch Daniels, elected governor of Indiana in 2004 and re-elected in 2008 after previously serving as President George W. Bush’s director of the Office of Management and Budget and as a senior aide to President Ronald Reagan, has been called “America’s best governor”
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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 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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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Defending the Defensible Texas’s college tuition policy is not the abomination Mitt Romney claims. Jonathan V. Last October 10, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 04 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: For starters, Texas Republicans understood that tuition isn’t all that important to the state university system. Texas schools are funded largely
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Romney Defends Defense Daniel Halper October 10, 2011 12:04 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made clear, in a foreign policy speech on Friday, that he believes “American strength rises from a strong economy, a strong defense, and the enduring strength of our values.” Romney then pledged to “reverse
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Published: Thursday, October 06, 2011, 4:15 AM By Guest Columnist The Oregonian By Jack Roberts Rick Perry has revealed some rough edges since joining the race for president, but the issue that has hurt him most is the one for which I like him best; namely, his defense of the law allowing Texas high school
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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 Something purely political scared off New Jersey’s governor. By DANIEL HENNINGER It was always easy to understand the case for Chris Christie. In an age of inescapable media, politics is the art of communication. Rick Perry tripped over his tongue in one debate, and the gods of polling cast him out. Tim
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