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Any spectators of American political sport who were eager for the gentle, get-to-know-the-candidates phase of the Republican presidential primary to give way to real bloodletting got their wish on Wednesday night. Introductions at the GOP debate, hosted by the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., were barely over before the front-runners — Texas Governor [...]
–Rick Perry at the Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday night in California.
Modern presidential primary debates tend to be silly, shallow, gimmicky and ultimately not very useful in judging how the candidates would perform in the oval office. But they can also change the course of the campaign. The current Republican front runner, Rick Perry, should remember that during tonight’s debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in [...]
–Conservative commentator Erick Erickson, losing patience with Sarah Palin’s presidential flirtations.
So plans are floating around the Pentagon — with the apparent blessing of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta — that call for a U.S. military force of only between 3,000 and 4,000 troops in Iraq starting next year. Under the existing deal with the Iraqi government — the one we helped install — all U.S. troops must [...]
The pricetag on Obama’s forthcoming stimulus proposal: $300 billion, a little more than half of which would go to extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. The Wall Street Journal ed board gives Romney’s jobs plan a tepid review for being “timid” on tax cuts and entitlements, overly “tactical” in scolding China on currency. Perry [...]
Mitt Romney’s second presidential run has largely focused on a single theme: Barack Obama has bungled the economy, and I’m the guy who can fix it. Romney points to his business and management expertise, honed in the boardrooms of Bain Capital and showcased by his stewardship of the Salt Lake City Olympics, to argue that [...]
My lefty friends have been asking me: If I think President Obama has been so great for the earth, and I think his enviro critics are ungrateful whiners, then how do I defend his capitulation to industry on new smog regulations? And the answer is…I don’t. He ignored the science, threw the EPA under the [...]
In a new ad released on Tuesday, Ron Paul hammers fellow Texan and Republican presidential rival Rick Perry, calling Perry’s conservative credentials into doubt by juxtaposing the candidates’ past political allegiances.
In a report called “What It Means To Be American,” two think tanks surveyed Americans on their attitudes toward their fellow citizens. While the results suggest that people embrace the idea of diversity, they also show a country that is sensitive to religious and ethnic divisions—particularly when beliefs are broken down along party lines.
