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No Criticizing Reagan or Bush II As you may have heard, CBS (the network that didn’t bring you a somewhat unflattering biographical movie about the Reagans) is refusing to broadcast…

…growth. Keynes? Laffer? What’s the difference? AB P.S. SadlyNo!’s post on Reagan is also a must-read for those who are unsure whether Reagan’s face should replace FDR’s on the dime….

And Reagan Became President of the United States in 1981, and It Was Good. The End. Education in Iraq: The first indicator of what a Saddam-free education will look like…

…(but not the Constitution) 18. George W. Bush-For convincingly demonstrating that his father and Ronald Reagan do not belong on this list. a. Erosion of civil liberties-detention without council or…

…reminds me of Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment: “Thou Shall Not Speak Ill of a Fellow Republican.” Reagan followed his own rule for the most part and now Republicans are trying to…

…thing.” “‘The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government in half over the next 25 years’, Norquist said.” “Among Norquist’s goals is placing former President Ronald Reagan’s…

…Atrios’ excerpt: An example of fad economics occurred in 1980,” Mr. Mankiw wrote, “when a small group of economists advised presidential candidate Ronald Reagan that an across-the-board cut in income…