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HuffPost Review - Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tarp, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Reviews, Michael Moore, Scott Mendelson, George W. Bush, Propaganda, Documentary, Chris Dodd, Capitalism: A Love Story, Bank Bailout, News, Barack Obama, Movies, Entertainment News

For the first time that I can remember, a Michael Moore documentary/propaganda piece is less about the subject at hand and more about Michael Moore himself.

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Obama at the UN: Will He Sound the Trumpet for Human Rights?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, World News, United Nations, Gorbachev, Obama, China, Myanmar, Palestinians, Japan, Iran, Ronald Reagan, Venezuela, Tehran, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Chavez, North Korea, Politics News

What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.

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The Lagging Indicator

Mike Lux | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Trickle-Down Economics, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Economics, Financial Reform, Supply-Side Economics, George W. Bush, Financial Crisis, 2009 Obama Administration, Business News

The fights for financial regulation is symbolized by a phrase that the President and his economic advisors repeat too often, indicative of a much deeper problem in their thinking.

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America, Then and Now

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Challenger, Immigration, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Politics News

In the thirty years following Reagan, the Overton window steadily moved to the right and the bottom, resulting in today's baboon shrieks from talk show hosts, financiers and politicians.

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When God Tells You to Hate

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Religion and Politics, Intolerance, Political Incivility, Rick Warren, HIV/AIDS, Constantine, Old Testament, Ronald Reagan, Christianity, Eighties, Seventies, Home News

The rise of incivility in our time displays behavior that cannot be eradicated. At best it is controlled. Sane, civil people have always been the gatekeepers of mature behavior and the teachers of morality.

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A Sign of the Times

Paul Begala | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teabaggers, Ronald Reagan, Medicare, Bob Novak, Tea Party, Obamacare, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

The inmates have taken over the asylum. The ever-sunny Reagan is dead. The congenial Buckley is dead as well. In their place is the party of Joe the Shouter and Joe the Plumber and Sarah the Death Panel Screecher.

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The Real Trouble With Obama's Back-to-School Speech

Bryan Farrell | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Drones, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama is clearly familiar with Gandhi's sayings since he borrowed one for his election campaign. So what doesn't he understand about the one that goes: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"?

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Choose Life: Was Moses Really Pro-Life or Pro-Abortion?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, New Jersey, Ronald Reagan, Boston, New York, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Choose Life License Plates, Al Gore, Moses, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Judaism, Politics News

From the "Baby Moses Law" in Texas to a pitched battle over "Choose Life" on license plates, the Bible's leading prophet has become the latest touchstone in America's hottest hot-button issue.

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No Excuses

David Vines | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Education Speech, Obama, Barack Obama, Education, Ronald Reagan, Health Care, Politics News

President Obama's speech about education reminded me what is best about this president, and offered yet another glimmer of hope as to what he can still accomplish.

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Obama to Join the Republican Party?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Gop, Reagan Administration, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Satan, Change, Unemployment, Gay Rights, Bailout, Conservatives, Condoleezza Rice, Climate Change, Single Payer, Abraham Lincoln, Fatal Attraction, Polar Bears, Mount Rushmore, Health Care, Michael Steele, Michelle Obama, Elephants, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Moderates, Bush Administration, Health Care Reform, Afghanistan, Bipartisanship, Republicans, Partisanship, Diversity, Republican National Convention, Comedy News

Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan

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The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 8 edition

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Anika Zappe, Barack Obama, Blink-182, Brandon Marshall, Colorado State University, Denver Broncos, Fell, Jack-N-Grill, Kenny Be, Michael Roberts, Richard Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Root Down, Sunnyside, The Heyday, University of Colorado at Boulder, Warlock Pinchers, Ween, Home News

Blink and you'll miss it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Blink-182 at Fiddler's Green. • Over the Weekend: Fell at Lar...

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Learn Me Some Good Schooling

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Obama, Obama School Speech, Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Politics News

Calmer voices have called the assault on Obama's speech "silly." That is terribly wrong: the attacks are not silly, they are dangerous. The attacks further split the party of opposition from a position of reason.

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Some Death Panels Do Exist

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Richard Stellar, The Oscars, Death Panels, United Nations, David Tillman, Ronald Reagan, Jean Hersholt, Shirley Temple, Long Term Care, Motion Picture and Televison Fund, President, Living News

If one insists on finding Death Panels, they're not hard to find: The Motion Picture and Television Fund has announced it's closing health care for the renowned Motion Picture Home.

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Ronald Reagan's speech to schoolchildren: Eddie Murphy and Tokyo Disneyland good, dictatorships and drugs bad

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, George Herbert Walker Bush, Michael Roberts, Ronald Reagan, Home News

The White House has released the text of President Barack Obama's address to U.S. schoolchildren, scheduled to take place later this mornin...

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Why the President Has Been Losing on Health Care, and What He Needs to Say

Drew Westen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Speech on Health Care, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Death Panels, Olympia Snowe, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, Pension Plans, George Bush, Washington Post, Taxpayers, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Al Qaeda, 401k, Bill Clinton, Brown v Board of Education, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Medicare, Medicaid, Electronic Records, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News

At this historic moment, the White House has determined that the best way to win the center is to tack right. But sometimes, the best way to win the center is not to move to the center, but to move the center.

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Happy Terkel Day

David Murray | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Labor Day, Labor History, Occupational Safety and Health, Studs Terkel, Osha, Can't Take No More, Video, Chicago News

Well, why wouldn't we rename Labor Day after Studs? He narrated this film about workers' health and safety that was banned by Ronald Reagan's OSHA. Most copies were destroyed. But not all.

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The State of Denial Has Zero Electoral Votes -- But It Seems to Be Winning

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Apparently in addition to being a socialist, a terrorist, a Kenyan, a Nazi, a granny killer, and like Hitler -- Obama is not even really our president. The whole thing was just a big liberal lie.

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Crimes Against the Soul of America

Caroline Myss | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Department of Education, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Dumbing Down, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Obama Address to Students, Democrats, Republicans, Caroline Myss, Living News

The soul of America is exhausted, wounded, mistrusting, suspicious, fearful -- and compromised. This is not a soul that can rebuild a country.

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Weeping for the Kennedys

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

The Kennedys knew how to strive for noble causes, step by step. They would make deals, but only to benefit the best causes.

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Reagan's Deputy AG Calls For Expanded CIA Probe

The Raw Story | John Byrne | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Bruce Fein, Ronald Reagan, Cia, Gop, Justice Department, CIA Probe, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

In an interview late Tuesday, Bruce Fein, an Associate Deputy Attorney General during President Ronald Reagan's administration, said the Justice Depar...

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Who Will Be Hurt if the Democrats Pass Health Care Alone

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Public Option, Ronald Reagan, Death Panels, Lyndon B. Johnson, David Brooks, Nazi Policies, Great Society, Socialism, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Politics News

If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.

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Muammar Qadaffi -- The Great Survivor

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Libya, Britain, Ronald Reagan, France, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Lockerbie, Sdece, Pan Am 103, Scotland, Iran, Navy, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Vincennes, Politics News

Rather than the "mad dog" he was called by Reagan, Muammar Qaddafi is far better described as a cross between a cat with nine lives and a sly fox.

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Barack Obama: Left-Handed? Right-Handed? Ambidextrous? Ambivalent?

David Finkle | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry S. Truman, Left-Handed, Bill Clinton, International Left-Handed Day, Golf, Right-Handed, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Ambidextrous, Professor Stephen Christman, George G. W. Bush, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Martha's Vineyard, Herbert Hoover, Politics News

I suspect the convictions that seem somewhat wobbly now that Obama has attained the nation's highest office would immediately strengthen if he looked his two hands over and committed once and for all to the left one.

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Reigniting America's Human Rights Mojo

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

In Cairo, President Obama rightly said that the U.S. should not be in the business of imposing democracy, but can we be indifferent to those who seek to embrace it?

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Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of

Bill Schneider | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Poll, Medicare, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Politics News

Victory on health care will be a triumph of the partisan culture that President Obama pledged to defeat.

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