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    Rick Perry’s statement that Radical Islamist Turkey was Radical Islamist was met with many criticisms. Daniel Greenfield of Sultan Knish examines the facts and fact checks the fact checkers. Fact Check: Why Rick Perry is Right About Turkey Daniel Greenfield  Tuesday, January 17, 2012                    

Heritage Foundation has essay explaining the dangers of SOPA/PIPA Under the laws, websites like Facebook, with its hundreds of millions of users, or YouTube, where 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, would now be accountable for all content posted on their sites. As a result, websites would be discouraged from engaging in speech [...]

        Jan 17, 2011    Turkey reacts to Rick Perry’s terrorist accusation  By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry drew Turkey’s ire on Tuesday after suggesting the country is ruled by Islamic terrorists and questioning its NATO membership Meanwhile: Michael Rubin at Commentary Contentions writes:  ”Anne-Marie Slaughter, [...]

dr. bob and I have learned a lot on our travels to Charleston when Rick Perry declared and to Iowa Caucuses. What we learned is how the Elite Republican Establishment operates. and I would think the Elite Democratic Establishment as well. Walk a mile in the moccasins of a Constitutional Limited Government, Economic Freedom, Strong [...]

Politico (15 Jan 2012) has an excellent summary of one of the main reasons that Rick Santorum received 797,000 fewer votes in 2006 than 2000. Rick Santorum cites then Senate Judiciary Chair Arlen Specter’s support for Justice Roberts and Justice Alito.A Senator Pat Toomey would have, also, supported them, though. The pedal to the metal [...]

The NYTimes is not, as a rule, reliable, particularly, in reporting on political matter. I have linked to this article (15 Jan 2012 NYTimes) because it appears to be factual with little commentary and relies on data from Taxpayers for Common Sense, The Forgotten Taxpayer’s friend.         In all, Taxpayers for Common [...]

Rick Santorum is entwined with government entangling, power and money, government and business, to the detriment of all . Inextricably ineluctably  entwined and entangled   Rick Santorum has no business experience, no management experience, no investment experience, no experience as a venture capitalist, and no real understanding how the market, let alone the free market [...]

Rick Santorum thinks The Forgotten Taxpayer should finances multimillionaires. Somehow, Rick Santorum thinks it makes sense to take money from one group of citizens to give to other citizens who don’t need the money. Taking money from the productive citizen to give to unproductive entertainers stifles growth and lowers the standard of living for all [...]

Rick Santorum Cannot Win the Presidency because he cannot win Pennsylvania. To put it another way, the more people to know Rick Santorum, the less likely they were to vote for him as the electoral evidence shows. The Electoral Data In 2006, Rick Santorum received 797,000 fewer votes than he did in 2000. Had Rick [...]

Here is Club for Growth White Paper analyzing Rick Santorum’s record. The Club for Growth notes that he supported No Child Left Behind in 2001, which greatly expanded the federal government’s role in education; the massive new Medicare drug entitlement in 2003  that now costs taxpayers over $60 billion a year and has almost $16 [...]