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** FILE ** Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney smiles during an interview with the Associated Press in Columbia, S.C., in August 2007. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)

Romney: ‘Barack Obama has failed America’

By Philip Elliott - Associated Press

Illustration: Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

NUGENT: Run, Rick, run

By Ted Nugent

Former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin looks back at a crowd as she walks to the door of Trump Tower for a scheduled meeting with Donald Trump in New York Tuesday, May 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle/File)

GOP presidential field needs excitement

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

** FILE** Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Texan Perry to ‘think about’ a 2012 White House run

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Perry performance fuels talk of 2012 draft

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

"We won't get a helluva lot done in the morning, but we'll work late, and we'll be honest," Kinky Friedman says of musicians as elected officials.
NICOLE WEINGART

Kinky Friedman: Put musicians in charge, put pols behind bars

By Scott Galupo - Special to The Washington Times

**FILE** Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 11, 2011. (Associated Press)

CPAC: Conservative activists feeling more optimistic about 2012

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

"I think we have a budget of $76.5 billion and we're going to live with that. ... It's only a budget hole when somebody has wished that they had more money," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said. (Associated Press)

Texas faces budget shortfall; GOP likely to ‘slash and burn’

By Chris Tomlinson - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated

By John R. Coyne Jr. - The Washington Times

“Walker, Texas Ranger” now Norris, Texas Ranger

By LINDA STEWART BALL - Associated Press

Perry

Texas Gov. Rick Perry handicaps 2012 presidential field

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Texas Dems’ hopes for big gains fading in polls

By David Eldridge - The Washington Times

Political Scene

By wire dispatches and staff reports - The Washington Times

iTunes Texas education channel launched

By SARAH PORTLOCK - Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texans are worried footbridges, like this one across the Rio Grande, are aiding illegal immigrants in entering the U.S.

Texas border footbridges unguarded

Associated Press

GOP’s rising stars send out diversified messages

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at his primary-night party in Driftwood, Texas, on Tuesday. His first-ballot win over incumbent Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison eliminates the expense of a runoff and is seen as a good omen for other tea-party favorites.

EDITORIAL: Stimulating the unions

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Texas Democrat campaigns far and wide

By Michael Graczyk - Associated Press

Hurricane Dean plows across eastern Caribbean