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The Mustache Movement

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

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Jerry Zezima

I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.

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Top-Secret Reagan Letters to Soviet Leaders Now Online

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cold War, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev, Jason Saltoun-Ebin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Politics News
Jason Saltoun-Ebin

As the letters show, Reagan and Gorbachev were instead discussing how to minimize the threat of nuclear war by first reducing and then eliminating all nuclear weapons.

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How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Teabaggers, Ronald Reagan, Bill Owens, Charlie Crist, Palin, Mark Schauer, Mark Kirk, Rnc, Tea Partiers, Dede Scozzafava, Tim Walberg, Gun Rights, Tea Party, Minutemen, Wayne Gilchrest, Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, Rush Limbaugh, Ny-23, Doug Hoffman, Ritght to Life, Barack Obama, Heather Wilson, Moderate Republicans, Carly Fiorina, Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Club for Growth, Tim Pawlenty, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Pat Toomey, Joe Schwarz, Chris Chocola, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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"Our Weapon Is Fear"

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scozzafava-Special-Election, Ronald Reagan, Dede Scozzafava, Christopher Monckton, Mission Accomplished, Bill Owens, Mark Liebovich, Christopher Buckley, Cold War, Newt Gingrich, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Conservatives have resurrected "socialist" to smear anyone to the left of Genghis Khan as anti-American or a heretic.

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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When Will the U.S. and Russia Stop Acting Like It's Still the Cold War?

Russ Wellen | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Ronald Reagan, Cold War, Soviet Union, Missile Defense, Doomsday Device, World News
Russ Wellen

Unless nuclear states can shed the Cold War mentality once and for all, it's hard to be optimistic about the long-terms prospects for disarmament.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.04.2009 | Books

Read More: John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Nyr, Iran, Arthur Schlesinger, Presidency, Barack Obama, Garry Wills, Hoover, Lincoln, New York Review, One Year Later, Abraham Lincoln, The New Deal, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fdr, Iraq, Health Care, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Books News

The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and wh...

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One Year Later: Gerald Ford Will Always Be President

James Pinkerton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, President Obama, One Year Later, Obama One Year Later, Obama, Health Care, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Timidity to Govern, Politics News
James Pinkerton

There's been no Rooseveltian realignment for Obama, just Clintonian regression. Perhaps the situation might have been different if he had focused on jobs rather than health care and global warming.

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Conservatives for Privacy, Where is the Left?

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bradley Jansen, Liberty and Privacy Network, First Amendment, Paul Weyrich, Ronald Reagan, Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights, Guidelines, Fbi, Obama, Free Congress, Fourth Amendment, Privacy, Politics News
J. Bradley Jansen

The best way to keep us safe and free is eternal vigilance--no matter which party is in office. So, let's hold our friends on the left accountable when it's needed.

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Pop Quiz: Under Reagan, What Was Peak Unemployment, How Long Before It Began Declining?

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tobacco Industry, Stimulus, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Unemployment Rates, Tax Cuts, Politics News
Paul Abrams

As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are already 14% lower than Reagan's 1981 tax cut.

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Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads"

The Nation | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mik...

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Reagan's Anti-Government Kool-Aid Has Poisoned Civil Public-Option Dialogue

Bill Mann | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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Bill Mann

The indignant, GOP, all-government-is-bad know-nothings have swallowed the Kool-Aid. And Ronald Reagan was the guy who dressed up as a giant pitcher and convinced them do it.

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Dick Cheney Keeps the Flame Aloft

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Dithering, Afghanistan, Frank Gaffney, Ronald Reagan, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Cold War, Center-for-Security-Policy, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

It might be tempting to dismiss Cheney's remarks -- about Obama allegedly dithering when it comes to Afghanistan -- as so much conservative boilerplate. But that would be a mistake.

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Reagan's Lesson: "Patience" in a President's First Year Is Political Suicide

David Sirota | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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David Sirota

The same Beltway culture that venerates the political vehemence and aggressiveness of Ronald Reagan would manufacture a conventional wisdom that the first year of a president's first term is the time for patience.

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Obama Attempts Escape in Presidential Helium Balloon

Ben Berkon | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Unemployment, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Andrew Jackson, Helium Balloon, Ben Berkon, Barack Obama, Nobel Piece Prize, Economy, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

In White House news, upon hearing about the six-year old boy from Colorado who flew away in his parent's helium balloon, President Obama decided to es...

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News
Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Her? Oh, That's Just Crazy Old Aunt Peg

Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Peggy Noonan, Noonan, Obama Nobel, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Wall Street Journal, Political Columnists, Media News
Ellis Weiner

According to Peggy Noonan, Reagan deserved a Nobel because he failed to waste a fortune on a boondoggle that would have made the world less safe. That he failed to win it was "absurd."

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Nobel Prize Snubs: Which Great People Never Won?

Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Nobel, Slidepoll, Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Ronald Reagan, Nobel Prize, Eleanor Roosevelt, World News

The announcement that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize has inspired a new wave of history-seekers to look into the prize. Who's won and who h...

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I Hate America!

Steven Weber | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Control, Education, Ronald Reagan, Republicans, Politics News
Steven Weber

And therefore, I will be supporting the same policies which led directly to the current fiscal crisis and everything else related to Ronald Reagan's universally discredited theory of trickle-down economics.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton and That Crazy California Governorship

William Bradley | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Emerson, Bill Clinton, Steve Westly, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Tom Campbell, Antonio Villaraigosa, Pat Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California, Meg Whitman, 1992 Presidential Race, Gavin Newsom, Warren Beatty, Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, 2010 Gubernatorial Race, Hillary Clinton, Tom McClintock, Bill Lockyer, Tonight Show, Biltmore Hotel, Century Plaza Hotel, Don Sipple, 2003 California Recall, Dot-Com Boom, Field Poll, John Garamendi, Enron, Pete Wilson, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Politics News
William Bradley

California's next governor is likely someone who's already won a landslide election as governor, albeit 30 years ago. That's Jerry Brown, who won his latest landslide for Attorney General in 2006.

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An Accidental Lesson in Responsibility

Michael Parrish DuDell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Workforce, Snuggie, Ronald Reagan, Michael Moore, Sacrifice, Nonprofits, Capitalism: A Love Story, Bernard Madoff, Living News
Michael Parrish DuDell

The truth is the future of our society lies in the apathetic hands of my generation and the one below. And quite honestly that frightens me.

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Even Conservatives Conclude GOP Has No Credible Economic Policy

New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Economic Policy, Bruce Bartlett, Bruce Bartlett Book, Ronald Reagan, Gop Economic Policy, Republican Economic Policy, Politics News

Successful economic ideas usually end up being taken too far. Democrats dominated the middle part of the 20th century, thanks in part to their vigo...

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Moses vs. Jesus: Who is America's Prophet?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Culture Wars, Bible, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Thanksgiving, Jesus, George W. Bush, Liberty Bell, Christian Right, Pilgrims, Statue of Liberty, Moses, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce Feiler

The themes of Moses' life -- social mobility, standing up to authority, balancing freedom and law, dreaming of a promised land -- would make any short list of America's defining traits.

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