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Sprechen zie English? Road Trip Epilog

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:48:00 +0000

A village vanishes on an Iron Curtain byway of history LANKOW, Germany – This is not a dateline anyone will be seeing as Germany celebrates, and other nations remember, Monday’s 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall heralding the end of the Cold War. More than any other physical ...

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A Joyous Moment In The History Of Human Freedom

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:24:04 +0000

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan spoke these words before the berlin Wall, that great scar across a divided city. And little more than two years later, the joyous moment came when the Berlin Wall was breached and a new birth...

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Darn That Reagan -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:01:09 +0000

Some woman named Bruni de la Motte has fascinating essay over at the Guardian on what a terrible thing it was for the Berlin Wall to come down. It begins with this paragraph: On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a ...

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Reagan! Reagan! Reagan!

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:02:48 +0000

There's no measure I can think of by which the U.S. economy has done better since 1980 than it did over an equivalent time span before 1980.

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 25 hours ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Four a Year?

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:19:23 +0000

I love Reagan's stories, and Mankiw cites Stockman for one, yesterday: The starting point for Ronald Reagan was the idea that people respond to incentives. The incentives that he most worried about were those provided by the tax system. According to his budget director, David A. Stockman, Mr. ...

The Monkey Cage found this 6 days ago on plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com

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Conservatism Didn't Lose in NY-23

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:25:02 +0000

RUSH: These are my thoughts on New York 23. In the first place I'll have to double-check this but I'm reasonably sure that this was the highest percentage of the vote ever won on the Conservative Party line by a House or Senate candidate. I think Hoffman had a higher percentage of the vote than ...

The New Republic blogs found this 4 days ago on rushlimbaugh.com

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Carly Fiorina: Reagan Republican

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:31:35 +0000

It seems some conservative bloggers are so devoted to defeat the more establishment Republicans in the race that they assume all contests on the right are between a “stimulus” supporters like Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio or Dede Scozzafava and Doug Hoffman. Here, in the Golden ...

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Is Cost Control a Joke?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:17:48 +0000

For all of the crazy arguments against health care reform, a few of them are entirely sensible--and worth taking seriously. As I write in my latest Kaiser Health News column , which appeared on TNR’s home page yesterday , one of those is the worry that Congress won’t follow through ...

Ezra Klein found this 2 days ago on tnr.com

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Why was the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Captured in 1978?: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:06:22 +0000

Pro-regime demonstrators lampoon President Obama at the site of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on the 30th anniversary of the storming of the facility. Continuing with our coverage of the 30th anniversary of the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran, this editorial from the ...

tsteels2 posted 3 days ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Dittos

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:57:32 +0000

Glenzilla on Fred Hiatt’s “Some people think we’re too liberal so we must be doing something right” response to complaints about the paper’s rightward slant: The Post today has two former Bush officials, one former Reagan official, two right-wing politicians, a ...

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The Storming of the U.S. Embassy: ‘A Day that Shook the World’ – Kayhan, Islamic Republic of Iran

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 01:39:13 +0000

Two of the 53 American Embassy workers being held hostage with the approval of the Iranian regime, after the facility was stormed on November 4, 1979. Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was stormed by followers of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It is a day that ...

tsteels2 posted 4 days ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Sarah Palin: A Victory for Common Sense and Fiscal Sanity

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:57:05 +0000

Congratulations to the new Governors-Elect of Virginia and New Jersey! I’d also like to offer a special word of support to the new Lieutenant Governor-Elect of New Jersey, Kim Guadagno, the first woman to hold that office. Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and ...

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Undoing Reagan

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:05 +0000

Note: This is the first in a series of irregular posts on the topic of Reaganism and its consequences. In the late 1970s and early 1980s my mother never earned more $50,000 per year. And yet she sent me to private schools and then onto Stanford. Apart from a $500 per quarter Pell Grant, she ...

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MSNBC's Scarborough, Mitchell See New 'Litmus Test' In Scozzafava Repudiation

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

"A test that uses a single indicator to prompt a decision." That's how the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines "litmus test" when it's used as a political metaphor (emphasis mine). That makes no difference to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and ...

Wizbang found this 5 days ago on newsbusters.org

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The Tone of Left-Wing Radio: Dick Cheney Eats Jewish or Muslim Babies

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:12 +0000

Last Wednesday, former vice president Dick Cheney received the Keeper of the Flame award from the Center for Security Policy in Washington, where he denounced President Obama for dithering on Afghanistan . This sent several left-wing columnists and radio hosts into a rage. But there’s rage, and ...

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Reagan's 1964 Convention Speech

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:50:00 +0000

Some required viewing .

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Doug Hoffman’s Cunning Plan to Reduce the Deficit: Cutting Earmarks, Taxes

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:56:00 +0000

The teabaggers’ candidate in upstate New York, who’s a flat- earther taxer, thinks magic will bring the Bush/Cheney deficit under control . W ould you vote for higher taxes to help pay for the deficit? President Ronald Reagan said it best: “The problem is not that people are ...

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Lessons From The Reagan Revolution

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:11:05 +0000

From Morning Joe

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Hillary Clinton Explains the American Government to Pakistan

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:30:04 +0000

“We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move.” – Hillary Clinton I’m reminded of this quote when I read that: “ [G]overnment’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, ...

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Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush Tax Burden Myths

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:17 +0000

From the United States House of Representatives’ website : Conclusion The Reagan tax cuts, like similar measures enacted in the 1920s and 1960s, showed that reducing excessive tax rates stimulates growth, reduces tax avoidance, and can increase the amount and share of tax payments ...

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