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Middle Class Income: Pandagon v. Bartlett

…middle class has suffered under Republican policies — why else start in 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected? If the chart had started in 1992, the year Bill Clinton…

Marketing Bush’s Failure in Iraq

…half a trillion dollars and blowing up the whole world order?’ Yet that just means going on to defense and drowning yourself in details. Ronald Reagan got to the heart…

Bush More Like Carter Than Reagan … as measured by oil prices: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday that crude stocks rose in the United States by 1.2…

Nugent explains Reagan-Bush Economics I love it when rightwingers fight with each other. Tom Nugent reads and then objects to something from the WSJ oped pages: A recent Wall Street…

…him on it. Least of all a CNN reporter. Here’s the latest, courtesy of The Daily Show‘s Lewis Black: BLACK: There’s a movement headed up by the Ronald Reagan Legacy…

…get married!). Today’s title obviously refers to Ronald Reagan’s famous question to the electorate during a debate with Jimmy Carter in 1980. The great communicator lived up to his name…

…political awareness grew during Reagan’s presidency, even then I was younger and more foolish than I am now. At the time, I may well have thought Reagan was a terrible…