DAILYCALLER.COM Steve Forbes on Rick Perry’s flat tax plan: ‘I’m elated!’ 4:31 PM 10/19/2011 As you might have heard, Texas Governor Rick Perry is planning to come out with a flat tax proposal next week. The plan hasn’t even been finalized, but it already has at least one big backer. “I’m elated by it,” Steve […]
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A stark distinction on energy policy: Perry vs. Obama By Kenneth P. Green October 14, 2011, The Perry campaign released its plan for “Energizing American Jobs and Security” today, and it’s hard to imagine a sharper contrast between the Perry and Obama vision for America’s energy policy: Where the Obama administration has labored to shift
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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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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: 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 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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