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Showing posts with label Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reagan. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

How We Got Here

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by Nomad
Monday, February 10, 2020

Trump's Acquittal: The Ultimate Triumph of the Imperial Presidency

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by Nomad I n 1973, in the throes of the Nixon scandal, author Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. published a book entitled "The Imperial...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Notes on Intolerance and Conformity from a Shining City on the Hill

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by Nomad A Turkish/Canadian friend of mine- we can call him Metin- told me that he was sitting on the grass in a seaside park recentl...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Backlash from the Past: One Angry Ex-Reagan Supporter Turns Her Back on the GOP

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by Nomad
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Accountability and the Employee of the People

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by Nomad An event some 35 years ago underscores a vital question that presidents and their staff too often ignore. The question of acco...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Government for Sale: An Interesting Discovery in the CIA Files on Donald Trump

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by Nomad Newly-released CIA files offer us a bitter look back at what we used to laugh at decades ago. A satirical op-ed piece is a tim...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Why America's Love Affair with Rule-Breaking Leaders Provided an Open Door for Trump

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by Nomad A recent poll revealed an interesting and somewhat disturbing trend in politics. When it comes to leadership, nearly half of the...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Remember When Reagan Nominated an Anti-Labor Lobbyist of a Neo-Nazi, Pro-KKK Propaganda Machine?

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by Nomad Early in Reagan's first term, the administration suffered a minor setback with one of its nominations. The problem? The no...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Here's Why Mitch McConnell's Blanket Rejection of all SCOTUS Nominees is such a Dangerous Gamble

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by Nomad The decision by Senate Majority Leader McConnell to block each and every nominee submitted by President Obama could be a ver...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Candidate Trump and the Last Hurrah of the White Republican Voter

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by Nomad The GOP has long ignored the warnings and continued to court a shrinking audience of angry white voters. Indeed, his rise to the...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Reflections on the Quiet American Hero, Jimmy Carter

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by Nomad It's time to give credit where credit is long due. A look back at the remarkable retirement of Jimmy Carter , the humanita...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Surprising Connections You Might Not Know Between Religion and Income Inequality

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by Nomad Religion may be the "opiate of the masses" but there's another side to this story and it's not pretty. If re...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Unitary Executive Theory: How the GOP in Congress is Destroying Cheney's Life Work

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  by Nomad Former vice president Cheney must be watching in dismay as the Republicans in Congress are tearing apart a doctrine that he...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

How We Came to Accept Police Brutality as the Norm 2/2

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by Nomad In Part One of this two part series we discussed the origins of the present problem between the black community and law enf...
Monday, December 8, 2014

How We Came to Accept Police Brutality as the Norm 1/2

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by Nomad With all the protests around the country against abusive law enforcement, it is a good time to ask how we as a country got i...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Bust: How Republicans Lost the War on Drugs 3/5

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by Nomad In past installments in this series on America's war on drugs, we examined Nixon and Ford . Now we turn to the Democratic p...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

America's War on Illegal Drugs: The Shocking Scope of the Failure

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by Nomad If the War on Drugs has been a failure, it's time to ask what exactly went wrong. That's a question we will be taking a ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Key to Happiness and the Death of the American Dream

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by Nomad A recent study on happiness can tell us why Americans are so angry with Washington. It has, the study suggests, been a long tim...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Reagan Quote: Setting the Record Straight

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by Nomad B uried in the past post was a quote by Reagan and I think it is worth highlighting. It's a quote that many on the Right hav...
Monday, April 28, 2014

A Nation Adrift: Studies Confirm The Slow Sinking of the US Middle Class

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by Nomad Due to economic policies of going back 30 years, studies show, the American middle-class is withering on the vine. While the ...