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Ralph Z. Hallow

Ralph Z. Hallow

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Ralph Z. Hallow was the chief political correspondent of commentary, served on the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times editorial boards, was Ford Foundation Fellow in Urban Journalism at Northwestern University, resident at Columbia University Editorial-Page Editors Seminar and has filed from Berlin, Bonn, London, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Bucharest, Panama and Guatemala.

Articles by Ralph Z. Hallow

RNC directs spotlight to issue of Taiwan

Trying to give weight to an issue that party officials say has been ignored in debates and on the campaign trail, members of the Republican National Committee hope to jar candidates' attention with a resolution raising Taiwan's security as a campaign issue.

January 10, 2012
Mitt Romney

Religious right to mull foiling Romney

Prominent evangelical and other religious-right leaders invited to a private "Stop Romney" meeting in Texas this weekend are pessimistic about the chances of agreeing on a mutually acceptable alternative to the GOP presidential front-runner, one of those invited has told The Washington Times.

January 8, 2012
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum speaks to reporters Sunday in Concord, N.H., after the second of two weekend debates with his GOP rivals. The Pennsylvanian, who campaigns as a fiscal hawk, favored public financing of two new sports stadiums in Pittsburgh in 1997. (Associated Press)

Santorum backed Pittsburgh stadium tax hike

Even as Rick Santorum's Iowa-caucuses boost shows signs of fading just days before the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, prominent politicos in his hometown of Pittsburgh are challenging his claim to an unblemished record of fiscal integrity.

January 8, 2012
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination, autographs a book before a stop at Global Security Services in Davenport, Iowa, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Gingrich, Santorum get key endorsements

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has corralled one of the top names in the conservative evangelical movement by winning the endorsement of Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association and American Family Radio, in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

December 20, 2011
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich addresses an Iowa veterans candidates forum Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, as wife Callista looks on. Iowa's GOP presidential-preference caucuses on Jan. 3 are likely to be dominated by evangelicals, who are divided over whether to overlook or forgive Mr. Gingrich's personal history. (Associated Press)

Evangelicals’ shifting attitudes aid Gingrich

A thrice-married, twice-divorced, Southern Baptist-turned-Catholic would not seem a good fit for evangelical voters, a key bloc of the Republican electoral base that will play an outsized role in the critical Iowa caucuses next month.

December 11, 2011
Newt Gingrich

Gingrich leads Romney in latest Iowa poll

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich added momentum to the surge of his presidential nomination candidacy, placing well ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in an Iowa poll released late Saturday by the Des Moines Register, the state's largest-circulation daily newspaper.

December 3, 2011
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said he would give some illegal immigrants permanent resident-worker status - but not citizenship. (Associated Press)

Tea partyers split over Gingrich on illegals

Newt Gingrich's willingness to let certain illegal aliens avoid deportation has annoyed some and pleased others on the right, leaving open whether it will slow his growing ascendency over the Republican presidential field.

November 28, 2011
CROWD PLEASER: GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich presses the flesh Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla. "The surge of support for me is a result of a steady focus on substance, on large-solution proposals," he says. (Associated Press)

Gingrich sees himself as man of substance

Newt Gingrich, now leading by double digits in Iowa and California and in a statistical tie with Mitt Romney for first place in two national polls, ascribes his rise to the top of the Republican presidential nomination heap to substance: a candidate consistently demonstrating depth and breadth of knowledge on domestic and foreign issues.

November 17, 2011
RISING: In Florida, a poll has former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in third place with 17 percent of the GOP vote. (Associated Press)

Once written off, Gingrich surges

After stumbling badly out of the gate, Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign is showing surprising signs of life — rising in the polls and even attracting rising support from evangelical voters who have long been cool to the former House speaker.

November 10, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks at a GOP forum in Indianapolis on Wednesday. Backers are saying he failed to reach out to evangelical Christians and has done a poor job on using surrogates. (Associated Press)

Perry backers lament errors in campaign

Rick Perry supporters say he and his campaign's top officials failed to rally evangelicals sufficiently to make him the viable alternative to Mitt Romney in what some conservatives say is rapidly turning into a disappointing non-contest for the presidential nomination.

October 13, 2011

The Washington Times to co-host GOP debate

A nationally televised Republican presidential debate will be held March 19, hosted by The Washington Times, PBS, National Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Oregon Republican Party.

October 5, 2011
**FILE** Condoleezza Rice (Associated Press)

Conservative women to meet to dispel a stereotype

Conservative women from around the country say they are sick of how the Democrats and the press treat them — and they aren't going to take it anymore in this presidential election cycle.

October 4, 2011

Some in GOP see negatives in Christie’s record

Some conservative skeptics say New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — like Rick Perry and Mitt Romney before him — has a record of comments, appointments and positions that many in the GOP rank and file will find difficult to swallow.

September 28, 2011