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Forget Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan. Rival GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said on Friday that solving the country’s economic woes is all about 0-0-0. At a gathering of social conservatives in Washington, Santorum took a swipe at fellow Republican contender Cain’s 9-9-9 economic plan, saying “I have a better plan.” The former Pennsylvania senator’s solution is to have zero income tax on manufacturing companies, zero taxes on repatriated corporate profits that are invested in manufacturing equipment and zero Obama-era regulations. “One of the great problems in our economy, if you look at it… is the middle of America has started...

Bad news comes out of the must-carry state of Pennsylvania today for Barack Obama and his re-election hopes. Not only has Obama fallen far below water in his approval rating in the latest Quinnipiac poll, he has now dropped into a tie against a potential Republican nominee. No, this isn’t a generic Republican, either: The protracted slugfest over raising the national debt limit leaves President Barack Obama with a 54 – 43 percent disapproval among Pennsylvania voters, but he scores better than Republicans or Democrats in Congress, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. …Pennsylvania voters say 52 –...

Rick Santorum will announce his candidacy for president on June 6 in Pennsylvania, a source close to the former Pennsylvania senator told ABC News on Thursday. Santorum will be the sixth major candidate to declare his candidacy in the wide open race for the Republican nomination. The announcement will take place at a location in southwestern part of the state, near where his grandfather worked in the coal mines after arriving in America from Italy. A social conservative, Santorum served as a Pennsylvania senator for two terms until 2006 when he was defeated by 18 points. However, this loss has...

Rick Santorum is running for president. Why should conservatives support him? Well, consider first the other folks who either are running or seem to be considering it very closely. Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Bachmann, Palin, and Trump seem like the frontrunners. Among that group, only Palin and Bachmann are as consistently conservative as Santorum -- and those two wonderful ladies may choose not to run. The first question for any Republican who seeks our support to be the presidential nominee is this: can we trust him (or her) to be a true conservative? In Santorum's case, the answer is "yes."...

Fox News has suspended Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because of their interest in running for President. Both are paid contributors to Fox News. Fox News anchor Bret Baier announced today on "Happening Now" that the two will be suspended for 60 days. “Then on May 1, their contracts will be terminated unless they notify Fox that they are not running for president,” he said. According to Media Decoder, "Three other possible Republican candidates for president — Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and John Bolton — are also employed by Fox, an arrangement that other television executives say is unprecedented." Dianne...