During the Bush administration, when America accumulated $6 trillion in debt, with a Republican Congress and White House, at a time that there was absolutely no need for it and before the baby boomers had even started to retire, a Republican commentator stated that Reagan had...
By Robert Parry
In the debt-ceiling debate, both Republicans and Democrats wanted Ronald Reagan on their side. Republicans embraced the 40th president’s disdain for government and fondness for tax cuts, while Democrats noted that “even Reagan” raised the debt limit...
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Michael Tomasky
The Boston Globe ran a chart last Sunday that I’d buy billboard space to reproduce in every decent-size city in America, if I were running the...
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/102-102/4859-ronald-reagan-enabler-of-atrocities Deception of the American public – a strategy that the administration called “perception management” – was as much a part of Reagan's Central American...
By Robert Parry December 12, 2010 Ten years ago, the United States stood at a crossroads though the dimness of the future made it hard for many to see which path led toward a brighter day and which headed toward disaster. ...
One statement frequently heard from Republican politicians is that tax cuts always create prosperity. That has not been shown to be true by recent history.Tax cuts created prosperity when Kennedy did it because at that time the taxes were ridiculous, with the tax on the...
There are many voters who are dissatisfied with the economic situation. What many don't understand is that Obama was bequeathed by the previous administration a vast economic crisis - a crisis far worse than what Jimmy Carter had bequeathed Ronald Reagan. Reagan's economic...
While much breath has been wasted by the Tea Party on making ridiculous claims of Obama administration being Communist, or totalitarian, or even Nazi, the fact is that the Tea Party constitutes the true...
For two decades going now, we are seeing American Right continuing to claim credit for the breakup of Soviet Union and to equate the American Democrats with Stalinists and their crimes. Not enough has been done to change and to challenge this line, either in America...
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IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would...
I am not writing much these days, but when a story grabs me, I have to comment. Comparing the best Republican, presumably Ronald Reagan, to Barrack Obama in first term performance is a great idea. The...
Just when I thought that the Tea Party movement could not get any more ridiculous, I've found on the website of a Southern Tea Party candidate a claim that Bush and the Bush-era Republican Congress were liberals,...
Republican candidates are again repeating the same false claim: That America was founded on Christianity, and that Biblical beliefs created America. They are wrong.America was not founded on Christianity. It was founded on European Enlightenment philosophy designed by such...
The American political debate has become more and more vicious, and in all the noise it is the message that tends to get lost. Others may have more slyness, more aggressiveness, more experience, and more skill as bullies. I have less of these things than Pat Robertson or Rush...
When drawing opinion conclusions - like while Obama has been in office thing have gotten that much worse, y'all! You have to take into account what happens when you have - to some - the ability of hindsight, that great thing where we can look back into history and see what...
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