Reagan

Bereft in Berlin

Marc Kusnetz | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, Reagan, Obama, Kennedy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Berlin, Barack Obama Rhetoric, Political Rhetoric, Obama Berlin Speech, Politics News
Marc Kusnetz

Each time Obama steps on a new stage, the press criticizes his rhetoric as high-falutin' but devoid of content. Do they think Berlin was the perfect time to announce a new initiative for the earned income tax credit?

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Misery Index Highest Since Bush 41

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Carter, Inflation, Clinton, Economy, Bush 43, Uemployment, Misery Index, Bush 41, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

The economic misery index, which is simply the sum of unemployment and inflation rates, rose in June to 10.5, its highest level in 15 years.

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Reverse Robin Hood: Stealing From the Poor to Give to the Rich

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Lazard, Debt, John McCain, Assisted Living, Bailout, Bruce Wasserstein, Atria, Economy, Crisis, Failure, Foreclosure, Elder Care, Business News
Martin Bosworth

For true capitalism to work, there has to be a balance of free enterprise and accountable oversight. Everyone should be able to start at the same line and run the race according to their own skill and strength.

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The Real Legacy of the 'Reagan Revolution'

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Reagan, Phil Gramm, Bush, Economy, Deregulation, Keating Five, Pornography of Power, Reaganomics, John McCain, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Indifference to economics does not explain the prominence of Phil Gramm in the McCain campaign during the U.S. financial crisis. Indifference to the folks losing their homes is a more plausible explanation.

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Reaganomics: As Pompous And Disaster-Ready As the Titanic

Jim Baughman | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Subprime Mortgage Rates, Reagan, Economy, Reaganomics, Home News
Jim Baughman

Disaster has struck and some useful lessons may be learned, lessons we learned in the 1930s, and then rejected in the 1980s and 1990s, as too restrictive -- as "socialist" and anti-American.

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McCain's Cigarette Gaffe: A Cold Blood Commander-In-Chief?

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, The U.S., Foriegn Policy, John McCain, Guantanamo, Al-Qaeda, Gaffe, Soviet Union, Mccain. Cigarette, Anti-Americanism, Iran, M.E.K, Gross Joke, Saddam Hussein, Symore Hersh, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Unlike most of veterans who respect human lives due to their profound and extraordinary experiences at wars, McCain's joking about people's lives is a disastrous trait for a president.

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Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1968, Student Demonstrations, Civil Rights, John Kennedy, Mlk, Protests, Jfk, Anti-War, President, Chicago, Kennedy, 1968 Primaries, Black Liberation Front, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Mccarthy, Vietnam War, Revolution, Johnson, General Election, 1968 Primary, 1968 Election, California Primary, Weather Underground, Democratic National Convention, Carter, Ford, Rfk, Mcgovern, Peter Edelman, Ted Kennedy, Election, 1968 DNC, Humphrey, Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.

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Old Myths From The Age of Idiocy (The One We're in Now)

Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Reagan, Cold War, Politics, Vietnam, Iraq, War on Terror, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal. Recently there have been signs of hope. Yes. Hope means Obama. He speaks of reality.

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Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rough Riders, Wisdom, Coast Guard Commencement, Gamechangers, Dick Cheney, Bush, Reagan, Beltway Bandits, Humility, Honesty, Lbj, Beauty, Hat, Valor, Cowboy, Horses, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

The Bush Gang was not the first to appropriate cowboy iconography for politics, but since they did, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

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What Is Appeasement?

William Bradley | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Kgb, John McCain, Communist Party, Israel, Geore Bush, Knesset, Appeasement, Soviet Union, Cold War, Negotiation, Politics News
William Bradley

John McCain had to choose between supporting his party's president or denouncing his comments as the sort of hostile divisiveness he had himself just denounced. He chose to support Bush.

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Memo to Tom Hanks: Barack Obama Is No Harry Truman

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Barack Obama, Kennedy, Tom Hanks, John F. Kennedy, Spechwriting, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Rhetoric, White House Ghosts, Roosevelt, Jfk, Fdr, Franklin Roosevelt, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

If elected, Obama, could become a magic speaker in the vein of the Big Three; the extent to which he can go off-the-cuff in a Trumanesque manner remains unclear.

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It's Time to End Post-Reagan Conservatism

Byron Williams | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Compassionate Conservatism, Ronald Reagan, Compassionate Conservative, George W. Bush, Neocons, Newt Gingrich, Post-Reagan Conservatism, Politics News
Byron Williams

Post-Reagan conservatives liberally throw out the name of the Gipper for the purposes of legitimacy; that is where the similarities end.

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William F. Buckley -- Words Never Failed Him

John Fund | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Buckley, Conservatism, Bill Buckley, William F. Buckley Jr. Dies, William F. Buckley, Politics News
John Fund

Buckley was that rarest of revolutionaries, and set a standard we all should emulate for having friendships across the political divide.

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Obama as Told by George Lakoff

Dave Winer | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Barack Obama, Bush, Tax and Spend, Rockridge, Lakoff, Politics News
Dave Winer

What became apparent in last night's debate is that we already have more leadership from this man who hasn't yet won the Democratic nomination than we have from our actual president.

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It's Not Race or Gender, It's a Generational Conflict

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Women, Age, Breaking Politics News, Men, Generation, Race, Gender, Sexism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election and Gender, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

There is a generational conflict happening, and the breaking point seems to be split by women who are 40 years old.

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Catholics Swing Both Ways

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, John McCain, Catholic Vote, John Kerry, Deal Hudson, Ohio, Reagan Democrats, Anti-Gay, Anti-Abortion, Hillary Clinton, Texas, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama, Politics News
Blake Fleetwood

The Republicans will again trot out Rove-Hudson anti-abortion, anti-gay issues to whip Catholics into line. But many Democrats have learned to fight back.

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Sam Stein

McCain Booed Again At CPAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Gop, Booed, John McCain, Conservatives, CPAC Conference, Mitt Romney, Cpac, Mike Pence, Conservative Voters, 2008 Election, Boos, Republicanprimary, Politics News

The reservations and skepticism of conservatives over a John McCain candidacy continued today, as attendees at the CPAC conference again booed him and...

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Taxes and Unions Got Us Out Of the Depression

Dave Johnson | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Taxes, Depression, Unions, Hillary Clinton, Economic Stimulus Package, Politics News
Dave Johnson

I wonder why no one has pointed out the real reason the Republicans filibustered the "stimulus bill" this week?

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Is Obama More Reagan than JFK?

Sunil Garg | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Democratic Primary, Jfk, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Obama Kennedy, Politics News
Sunil Garg

What Obama is trying to do is more like what Ronald Reagan did for the Republicans -- create a new majority founded not on centrist ideas, but core party beliefs. Now, that is audacious.

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Who Would Reagan Vote For? What About Coulter? Shockers of the Republican Primary

Steve Young | Posted 02.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Reagan, Talk Radio, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, Media News
Steve Young

With an election filled with the Right's Lord of Loud clamoring for the next Ronald Reagan - while they're not lambasting John McCain - are now confro...

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Reading The Pictures: Air Reagan

Michael Shaw | Posted 01.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Reagan, Gop, Cnn, Debate, Photo, Primary, Media, Republicans, Campaign, Reagan Library, Simi Valley, Election, California, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-01-31-shaw_reagan_fp.jpgIt's no surprise that the Reagan Library (with the able assistance of ratings-hungry CNN) would go out of the way to boost the cred of the GOP candidates by virtually embossing them onto the side of Air Force One.

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Republican Debate In California

Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, John McCain, Republican Debate California, Mike Huckabee, Republican Debate, Ron Paul, Reagan, John Edwards Wikipedia, California Republican Debate 2008, Reagan Library Debate, CNN Republican Debate, Republican Debate January 30, Republican Debate Schedule, The Big Dig, Republican Debate Reagan Library, Debate Schedule, Carol Mccain, California Republican Debate, Republican Debate Tonight, Republican Debate Jan 30, California Democratic Debate, Next Republican Debate, California Debate 2008, Republican Debate January 30 2008, Mccain Wikipedia, Politics News

The four remaining Republican candidates debate tonight at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. Straight Talkin' McCain?: Washington Post'...

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Gov. Schwarzenegger: Make Voting "Spicy"

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 01.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Reagan, Election Reform, Debate, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2008 Election, Why Tuesday, Cnn, California Republican Debate, Increasing Voter Turnout, California Primary, Voter Turnout, Home News
Jacob Soboroff

What does the California Governor think we can do to maintain the increase in voter participation that we've seen so far in the 2008 presidential race?

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The Truth Behind Clinton's Distorted Ad Attacking Obama

Art Levine | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Negative Ad, Reagan, Gop, Obama, Clinton, Politics News
Art Levine

To Clinton's critics, the ad seems to be another tactic borrowing heavily from the Karl Rove-style gameplan.

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Why Political Optimism and Spiritual Optimism Are the Same

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Pessimism, Reagan, Optimism, Barack Obama, Living News
Deepak Chopra

What Obama awakened in Iowa was a sense of political optimism for the first time in a generation. We are reminded of the power of optimism today on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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