My dad, an MIT-trained chemical engineer, was a practical man. He was scornful of efforts to rescue cats out of trees. His response was: “Look around; how many cat skeletons…

by reader ilsm Whittle a Beak: Return to Reagan Era Warfare Waste A cronie still in the acquisition business related that the DoD has gone back to using fixed price…

…twenty-fifth anniversary of his inauguration, I find it odd that we are reminded of Reagan’s greatest economic failure. After all, candidate Reagan displayed more economic insight in his short passage…

Just compare the graphs (reminder, mainly to myself, at least with Chrome, you have to click “read more” to see the graphs) Reagan Obama Overall Reagan saw a decline of…

by Mike Kimel A very interesting video from Think Progress juxtaposes a speech by Barack Obama with a speech by Reagan. In it, Reagan says: We’re going to close the…

…5 1979 . Sure seems like the deregulating conservative hero Ronald Reagan had a Southern accent and grew peanuts. But Reagan must have deregulated. Everyone knows Reagan deregulated. What exactly…

Fighting the Reagan Economic Myth In today’s NY Times, Paul Krugman makes an attempt at halting the avalanche of Reagan myth-building that we’ve had to endure this week. It’s a…

by Mike Kimel Reagan and Rios Montt: The Company You Keep Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is on trial for genocide. I was born in the US, but my…

…We’ve been told so many times. Tax rates were very high in the late 60s and 70s. And then came the Lone Ranger Reagan, and, and lo, Reagan cut taxes….

…year than Reagan. Fifth was Reagan, sixth…. Ah heck, let’s just number them in order to save time: 1. FDR 2. LBJ 3. JFK 4. Clinton 5. Reagan 6. Carter…