TAMPA, Florida (PNN) - September 12, 2011 - Florida finds itself in the thick of the battle for the White House Monday, hosting a Republican debate in which the fate of entitlement programs could take center stage in a state with a huge proportion of elderly voters.

Eight candidates will converge on the Florida State Fairgrounds for the televised debate in which new conservative flag-bearer Rick Perry, the Texas governor who shot to the top of mainstream media polls the moment he entered the race late last month, is expected to tussle presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - September 7, 2011 - Texas Governor Rick Perry made his closely watched debut at a Republican debate.

Within minutes of taking the stage on Wednesday, Perry and fellow GOP candidate Mitt Romney came to blows over the central issue of jobs, trading jabs about their records as governors in Texas and Massachusetts.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 7, 2011 - When illegitimate President Obama delivers his address on a new job creation plan to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, he won't be speaking to a sold-out crowd. Several lawmakers are still determining whether it is worth their time to stay in Washington to hear the illegitimate president, and some are already planning to skip it.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 7, 2011 - Republicans have decided they're not going to give a rebuttal to illegitimate President Obama's jobs speech later this week, a decision House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi took as a high affront to the White House.