…branch–the Federalist Society’s silly Reagan-era “unitary executive” theory of law (don’t ask) to the contrary, notwithstanding. But it’s a useful analogy nonetheless. But unless you recognize that Congress is not…

…they, like me, want to avoid gagging at the extremely tired James Baker’s great-idea-for-staging-at-Reagan’s-State-of-the-Union-addresses-and-used-by-every-president-sinnce-then real-Americans-as-props thing. (Talking about a program to help oil-company workers? Cue two oil-company workers flanking the…

…problem is simply a lie, on both counts. – Disproportional spending growth has only occurred under two presidents: Republicans Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The simple fact is we…

…creditors. As the figure shows, that figure is less than half of the average figure under the full 12 years of Republican Presidents Reagan and Bush, when the government paid,…

…Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service. The U.S. has spent more than $187 billion on immigration enforcement since President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and…

…in 1987 by Ronald Reagan. After his nomination was defeated by a 58-42 vote in the Senate, his name was verberized into a neologism that was [and occasionally still is]…

…pledge he has foisted on largely Republican members of Congress never to raise taxes in any way, shape, or form. This effort dates to the Reagan presidency and has only…

…Reagan and George H. W. Bush, got into hot water with fellow conservatives when he aired concerns about the direction of their ideology and wrote critically of the second George…

Having hopefully gotten some attention with THAT post title, let me start dispelling some misconceptions and myths about the Social Security Trust Funds, some innocent and some disseminated with malice…

…through Carter and Clinton ratio was much higher than the extraordinarily low ratio under Reagan and Bush Sr. Of course the new record in after tax corporate profits divided by…