JANUARY 20, 2012 Unlike Mitt Romney, who is burdened by his continued defense of RomneyCare, Newt can fully take on the president. By BILL MCCOLLUM As the attorney general who filed the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, I care deeply […]
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JANUARY 18, 2012 Six-Figure Bus Shelter Stirs Cries to Stop It By JOEL MILLMAN PORTLAND, Ore.—A growing dust-up in a small town over the mounting cost of a few bus shelters offers a window on the arcane nature of federal appropriations. Grants Pass, a timber and farming community south of Portland, launched the bus-shelter project
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JANUARY 18, 2012 Gingrich’s College Records Show a Professor Hatching Big Plans By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON A year into his first full-time teaching job, Newt Gingrich applied to be college president, submitting with his application a paper titled “Some Projections on West Georgia College’s Next Thirty Years.” Newt Gingrich fashions himself as the history professor of
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This is Romney’s moment to distinguish himself by making a moral case for free-market capitalism. By DONALD L. LUSKINMr. Luskin is chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics LLC. EXCER[T FROM THIS ARTICLE: The rules under today’s politics are quite different. Consider the federal government’s 2009 bailout of General Motors. GM’s secured bondholders were contractually entitled to
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JANUARY 14, 2012 ‘Supply-Sider’ for the Working Man Mitt Romney’s conservative rival Rick Santorum wants to grow the economy with tax breaks for manufacturing—and babies. By JAMES FREEMAN Manchester, N.H. ‘I’m someone who believes that making things creates wealth,” says Rick Santorum. It is primary day in New Hampshire, and the former Pennsylvania senator and
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JANUARY 14, 2012 By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON Three former factory workers featured in a film about layoffs at companies bought by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital say they weren’t laid off by Bain, as the film implied, but got promotions and raises after Bain bought the plant they worked in. Winning Our FutureTommy and Tracy Jones, in
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JANUARY 13, 2012 By JONATHAN MACEY Mr. Macey is a professor of corporate law, corporate finance and securities law at Yale Law School. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Because private-equity firms are, by definition, equity investors, they make money only if they improve the performance of their companies. Private equity is last in line to be
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JANUARY 10, 2012 How Microbes Teamed to Clean Gulf Scientists Studied 52 Species of Bacteria and Water Currents to Explain Demise of Oil and Gas Plume By GAUTAM NAIK Associated PressA plume of oil is shown in May 2010 in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La., in the wake of the explosion of the Deepwater
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JANUARY 9, 2012 Romney at Bain: Big Gains, Some Busts By MARK MAREMONT Associated PressMitt Romney, with his parents and wife in 1994 announcing his candidacy for a Senate seat, a race he lost. Mitt Romney’s political foes are stepping up attacks based on his time running investment firm Bain Capital, tagging him with making
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DECEMBER 29, 2011 It has little to do with the Texas congressman. By DANIEL HENNINGER As if they didn’t have troubles enough, the Republicans have not one, but two Ron Paul problems. The first is a cranky congressman from Texas named Ron Paul who won’t disown a third-party spoiler candidacy. The second problem is the
