Rick Perry

Stock markets can erase national debt? Trump invented a decades-old economic theory last year? On both counts, not so much.

Texas tuition freeze, a stabbing & mandatory women’s studies

Candidate pool shrinks just two days before key Carolina vote

The State Department apparently saw little to be excited about. The Liberal party is carefully neutral. John Bennett welcomes the news. Nebraska’s governor is disappointed. Mitt Romney is shocked. Newt Gingrich is displeased. John Boehner is sad. Robert Redford is happy. Politico pronounces victory for both Democrats and Republicans.The New York Times editors praise the President’s decision.

How did the campaign for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination turn into such a joke?

It turns out that adding and distributing seats in the House of Commons is complicated. Those particularly concerned about the cost of representative democracy might find inspiration in Rick Perry’s plan for Congress.

Rare disease kills one in 10 who get it

A new survey says Obama’s been getting a rough ride in the press

At the Values Voter Summit this weekend, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was confronted with one of the many tests he will have to pass on his way to the GOP nomination and perhaps the presidency in November 2012. A supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry, Pastor Robert Jeffress, referred to Romney as a moral man, but not a true Christian because of his Mormon faith. He went on to characterize Mormonism as a cult and not a genuine Christian religion.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie might be the man. But is it too late for him?

Scott Feschuk on the ‘firebrand’ and the pizza man taking on America’s killer debt zombie in the GOP debate

The gun-carrying Texas governor is suddenly the top Republican contender