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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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Reagan's Response to the Revolt of '78 and the Relevance for Republicans Today

Lou Zickar | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Rnc, Politics News
Lou Zickar

For all the talk about moving beyond Reagan and becoming a party of the future instead of the past, the fact is that the GOP would benefit greatly from a dose of Reagan-style optimism at this time.

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Michael Moore's Grapes of Wrath

Dan Siegel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Reagan, Elizabeth Warren, Populism, Flint, Gm, Ronald Reagan, Frank Capra, George W. Bush, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, Franklin Roosevelt, Michael Moore Capitalism, Dick Cheney, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Casino-Capitalism, Marcy Kaptur, Fdr, Grapes of Wrath, Entertainment News
Dan Siegel

With the glimmering hope of the Obama campaign behind us, Moore's film is a wake-up call to renew and expand America's democratic promise.

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Trapped In Prisoner's Dilemma, More Spending Is The Solution

David Segal | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Curtis, Tea Parties, Nobel Prize, Economic Stimulus Package, Ronald Reagan, Deficit Spending, RAND Corportation, Margaret Thatcher, Prisoner's Dilemma, Mad Hatter, Game Theory, John Nash, Economy, Keynesian Economics, Politics News
David Segal

The stimulus' oft-cited $787 billion figure includes nearly $300 billion in tax cuts, meaning that it represents a split between conservative and interventionist economic philosophy.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Foreclosures, Populism, Ronald Reagan, Larry Summers, Globalization, Economic Bill of Rights, Republic Windows and Doors, Goldman Sachs, Capitalism: A Love Story, General Motors, Dennis Kucinich, General Motors Bankruptcy, Roger & Me, Plutonomy, Financial Deregulation, Deindustrialization, Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Flint, Democracy, Franklin Roosevelt, Capitalism, Oligarchy, Nafta, Barack Obama, Sicko, Robert Rubin, Glass-Steagall Act, Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Alert The TV News Media: Obamanomics Isn't Working

Diane Tucker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: John Cassidy, Job Losses, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Unemployment Rate, New Deal, Fdr-New-Deal, Jobs, News Media, Media, Franklin Roosevelt, Diane Tucker, Barack Obama, Recession, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Cnn, Unemployed, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Fox News, Unemployment Benefits, Work Projects Administration, Charles Gibson, Banks, NBC News, Layoffs, Msnbc, Bank of America, Aig, Cnbc, Citibank, Bankruptcy, Timothy Geithner, Financial Crisis, The Recession, The Bailouts, Careers, Labor, CBS Evening News, ABC News, Small Business, Economy, Michelle Obama, Capitalism: A Love Story, Media News
Diane Tucker

Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Earl Warren, John Tower, Senate Republicans, 1964, Moderate Democrats, Joe Biden, Dscc, Bipartisan, 2011, Barack Obama, Thomas Kuchel, Economic Stimulus Package, 2010, Moderates, Bob Menendez, Joseph Alsop, 1965, Orrin Hatch, Bipartisanship, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Republicans, Barry Goldwater, Health Care, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think.

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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
Scott Mendelson

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
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

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
Mike Lux

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
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

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
Deepak Chopra

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
Paul Begala

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
Bryan Farrell

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
Bruce Feiler

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
David Vines

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
Dave Astor

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
Jeff Schweitzer

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
Robert J. Elisberg

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
Drew Westen

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
David Murray

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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