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Bizarre Reagan Auction Draws Outrage

Reuters | Posted 05.22.2012

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By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, May 21 (Reuters) - Ronald Reagan's foundation expressed outrage on Monday at a British company's auct...

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Republican Base, Manufacturing Base: Which Is the More Important?

David Coates | Posted 04.24.2012

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The American economy is in trouble now primarily because the industrial policy to which the Republican Party currently subscribes remains hugely influential and entirely inadequate.

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WATCH: Reagan Endorses Buffett Rule In 1985

ThinkProgress | Josh Dorner | Posted 04.09.2012

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Last fall, when President Obama debuted the Buffett Rule -- the simple idea that millionaires and billionaires should pay at least the same tax rate a...

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Mike Wallace's Legacy

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 04.10.2012

His hard-hitting approach to investigative journalism and take-no-prisoners interviewing style helped define the program in its early years. And Mike conducted his interviews, legends, movie stars and crooks, with the same intensity. He would say, "I'm just nosy."

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Rediscovering Government

Jeff Madrick | Posted 05.28.2012

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There is no economy without government; there is no America without government. If all this seems a little elementary, it serves a point. The language we use suggests at the outset an assumption that government should be limited.

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Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 05.23.2012

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Africans want capital investment, access to global markets, and to be treated as self-sufficient players, not victims in need of continual rescue by their former colonizers. That is the respectful, tough-love attitude that will raise all boats on the African continent.

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Mitt Romney Flip Flops, Just Like Todd

Huffington Post | Lindsay | Posted 02.14.2012

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Mitt Romney sure has flip-flopped on a lot of issues! Immigration, healthcare, tax cuts, his thoughts on Reagan. The list goes on. But Mitt Romney ...

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Ron Paul's Racist, Homophobic Newsletters Gain New Life On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.29.2011

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With Rep. Ron Paul's rise in the Iowa polls, reporters are once again scrutinizing the congressman's old racist and homophobic newsletters. At var...

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Romney, Gingrich and the Two Versions of Ronald Reagan

Jackson Katz | Posted 02.15.2012

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There were two distinct Ronald Reagans being channeled onstage at the GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa on December 10. The problem for Mitt Romney is t...

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GOP Candidate Attacks Rival's Ad For Not Being In The 'Spirit Of Christmas'

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 02.14.2012

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JOHNSTON, Iowa -- Newt Gingrich chided his GOP presidential opponents in a new TV ad for going negative and said separately Thursday that his checkere...

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Mitt Romney Flip-flops Again and Is Handed His Lunch

Mark Steinberg | Posted 01.31.2012

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"Mitt, it's nearly 11:30 and I need to start making your lunch." "Thanks, my dearest, but I think I'll have lunch at noon." "But you always have lun...

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Gingrich Compares Himself To Conservative Icons

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 11.16.2011

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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich compared himself to former President Ronald Reagan and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...

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Herman Cain Gives Opaque Answer On A Fifth Face For Mount Rushmore

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.09.2012

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Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain suggested a fifth face for Mount Rushmore to ABC News' Jonathan Karl on Tuesday, as part of a series of inter...

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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.26.2011

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Between 1979 and 2007, the average real income of the top 1 percent grew by an astounding 275 percent. And that is after payment of the taxes that the superrich and their Republican apologists find so onerous.

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The President Can't (Shouldn't) Gloat. But, I Can: Leading From Behind Is a Great Strategy

Paul Abrams | Posted 12.21.2011

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They cannot build the 2012 convention ceiling high enough to contain President Obama for his brilliant foreign policy that toppled a 42-year dictatorship, cost 1/500th of the cost of Iraq, and did not lose a single American soldier.

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GOP Voters In Key State Still Waiting For Reagan

AP | By DAN SEWELL | Posted 12.10.2011

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WEST CHESTER, Ohio -- The Grand Ole Pub in this Cincinnati suburb is a good place to find Republicans. It's not so easy, though, to find one who feels...

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Obama: From First to Worst on Medical Marijuana

Rob Kampia | Posted 12.09.2011

Barack Obama instilled hope in medical marijuana supporters by pledging to respect state laws on the matter. And for the first two years of his term, he was generally faithful to his promise. Yet suddenly, he has become arguably the worst president regarding medical marijuana.

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The Mormon in the Room

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 12.09.2011

Robert Jeffress' anti-Mormon bigotry is exactly the kind of "spiritual tyranny" that George Washington warned us about. It has no place in American politics and GOP primary voters should reject it for what it is: un-American.

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Blame Wall Street, Not Boomers

Leonard Steinhorn | Posted 12.07.2011

We like to think that our economic woes are unique to our time, that ours is the first era in which our democracy seems broken. What we need is a little perspective. And a little understanding of who's responsible.

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Chris Christie Contrasts Himself With Obama In Audition For Presidential Run

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.27.2011

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WASHINGTON – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie all but announced himself as the next coming of Ronald Reagan and cast President Obama as Jimmy Carter i...

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"You Betcha"

Warren Adler | Posted 11.22.2011

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She is one of the first vice presidential candidates in history whose name you will most likely remember. Past her peak? Hardly.

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Reagan Would Not Be Invited to the GOP Tea Party

Karl Frisch | Posted 11.07.2011

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At this Wednesday night's debate between 2012 Republican White House hopefuls, the former movie actor and president was name-dropped like a top Hollywood agent during awards season.

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Still Crazy After All These Years: The Reagan Legacy and the Debt Ceiling "Crisis"

Peter Birkenhead | Posted 09.24.2011

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The reality-inverting summer of 1981 laid the foundation for a dissociative political culture that nothing yet has been able to shake, and we're all paying the price.

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Friday Talking Points -- What Would Ronald Reagan Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2011

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Since the Republican Party now worships at the altar of "Saint Ronald of Reagan," it's always fun to point out the hard, cold fact that Reagan would simply not be acceptable to the Republican Party as it stands today.

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Reagan's Utopia Myth

Edward Flattau | Posted 09.21.2011

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Reagan's economic policies might have created a paradise for the top income brackets but no Christmas in July for the rest of society. We don't need a revival of his grand design in 2011.

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