How To Use Reagan In A Sentence
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Reagan advanced on her, holding his gun steady.
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The international programmes of the Reagan years are also being reinstituted.
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A product of the Reagan-Bush era, she's been steadily counterpoised to the of the right.
THE SELLING OF SEX
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Governments have a tendency not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. RONALD REAGAN
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Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Ronald Reagan
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He had an hour-long tirade using everything from Play-doh, livestock, loose leaf paper, a sword swallower, and a Ronald Reagan mannequin smoking a marijuana cigarette in opposition to Gaga.
Bil Browning: Michael Steele Trying to Recruit Lady Gaga?
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Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Ronald Reagan
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. Ronald Reagan
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Bush the gambler is betting that he will come out looking like President Reagan, whose deficits bought economic reforms and a stronger national defense.
The Budget Debate, IX, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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By this time we were well into an election year, with Ronald Reagan beginning to close in on the Republican nomination and Ted Kennedy launching a full-scale challenge for the Democratic nomination.
The Good Fight
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He was a fiscal conservative even during the Reagan deficit years.
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The policy of détente was abandoned and, under the Reagan administration, an increasingly aggressive policy was pursued towards the Soviet Union.
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We didn't have that kind of clarion message that Ronald Reagan had, a clear distinct and a positive agenda.
CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Polls Show Gore and Bush Maintaining Iowa Leads; Bradley Sinking and McCain Rising in New Hampshire - January 23, 2000
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At his lunch with Reagan and Bush just after the speech, one American asked, “Did we hear that word dismantle right?”
American Sketches
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She points to the Oscar Party Legs, the ones a drunken Jack Nicholson tried to violate after he won for Cuckoo's Nest, and the understated Nonprofit Fundraiser Legs she wore to Jerry Lewis Telethons, and the fake-tanned State Dinner with Reagan and Gorbachev Legs that the Secretary of State made her cover up with a long hemline, because their shade matched Gorbachev's birthmark.
Centipede
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BRINKLEY: The one thing that I think transcends all the other things they have in common between FDR and Ronald Reagan is both of them distained utilitarianism in guise.
CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007
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The spiv, the showman; Mr Blair promised a brave new world - a shining castle on the hill - very Reaganish... a promise he most certainly could not uphold as there was no hill, the castle was made of papier mache and when the rains came it melted away......
The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr
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Miller had received a full and unconditional pardon from Ronald Reagan before he was sentenced.
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Ronald Reagan is now being proposed as a replacement on the US dime or 10 cent piece for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the defeater of the Axis.
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Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this displeasure took the form of refusing to pay our assessed financial contribution.
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He then cited Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Ronald Reagan as the "moorings" of the GOP.
Keep the Change
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At a time when America's elites said that the United States was in an irreversible decline, and the rest of us should just get used to it, Ronald Reagan stood athwart what was then considered the tide of history and said: ‘No.’
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Sorry but it makes no sense to quote Reagan redware
Blackballing Toomey and Hating DeMint - Erick’s blog - RedState
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That Reagan has in recent years become the undisputed polestar of the American Right is itself curious.
Daniel Cluchey: Searching for Ronald Reagan
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LBJ may not have done as much in foreign affairs as Reagan, but noses him out for 3rd spot in "consequentiality" for the permanent impact of Great Society, Civil Rights legislation, NASA, and elevating liberalism and reform to institutions an ongoing operation.
Harvard sociology prof Orlando Patterson sees racism in Hillary's 3 a.m. ad.
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Cutting taxes still elates anti-tax conservatives, as it did in Reagan's day, but runaway spending by the modern party has outraged small-government conservatives.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Step 6: Thank the lord for sex, drugs and rock'n roll: Reagan and company may have hated the 1960s youth rebellion, but they sure glommed on to a key feature of it: People wanted to be liberated from society's constraints and from a government that was betraying our nation's ideals.
Les Leopold: How to Earn $900,000 an Hour While Unemployment Soars
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For example, Mr. Franklin participated in secret meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian who had acted as an arms deal middleman in the Iran-contra affair during the Reagan administration.
08/29/2004
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Reagan also stood on the corner of routes 26 and 29 in Ohio while thumbing a ride to Dixon.
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With that apercu, the President joined a long line of gaffe-making chief executives that includes Ronald Reagan ("We begin bombing in five minutes") and Jimmy Carter (who told congressmen that, if Sen. Edward Kennedy were to run against him, "I'll whip his ass").
President Bush’s Swearing Ceremony - Tuned In - TIME.com
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Throughout their years together, Mrs Reagan was her husband's champion, helpmate and closest adviser.
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Last month, Mr. Wohlberg's organization made its largest contribution: a grant of $111,000 to researchers in the departments of neurosurgery and neuropathology at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Father Seeks Cure After Rare Disease Hits Home
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Then the clip of Palin praising Reagan – followed by a video of Regan proposing a treaty eliminating 1/3 of current weapons: Note to Palin – same 1/3 you are fuming about!
Palin drills down in policy in high-profile speech
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Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
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Reagan operationalized the virtual in postmodern politics.
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House of Representatives and pretty much misrepresented her and any resident of his district sociallly to the left of Savanarola while helping to perpetrate the now-classic Reaganite Republican big con of voting for tax cuts for the rich and policies that screwed over the working class residents of his district whose interests, he swore, he was protecting by selling them out.
Random Thought Number One on The Hoosier Hypocrite
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Fair enough, even for the staunchest of conservatives, who may recall that President Reagan, in the 1987 National Security Strategy, remarked that "The United States no longer has an overwhelming economic position vis-a-vis Western Europe and the East Asia rimland.
Christopher Holshek: America: Let's Re-Invent It
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He came of age in a time when hardworking young men and women like him went to Wall Street or to Silicon Valley, and-once properly "incentivized" by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton-seemed to save the national economy, creating what appeared to be great general prosperity while doing well themselves.
Harper's Magazine
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The Republicans say they are the "party of Lincoln" (although they probably drive Bimmers), or they invoke Ronald Reagan in worshipful tones, as if just saying the name will somehow cast a spell of happy faces, white bread and "Leave It to Beaver" marathons.
March 2006
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President Jimmy Carter let it lapse in 1977, but it was reimposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1982.
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Stilmar had never left the States during the whole of the four years of Reagan's presidency.
COVER STORY
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As more mines were laid and more tankers came under missile fire, Reagan ordered U.
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Martin Anderson was President Reagan's first chief domestic policy adviser.
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‘Welcome aboard the Oberon, Captain,’ Reagan said, addressing Lawrence by the honorific he deserved as commanding officer of a ship.
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We see the teamsters support people like Nixon and Reagan.
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As for Reagan getting 51% of the vote ... he also out-paced Carter, who only got 40% of the vote, by 10 pts, which is a huge electoral victory.
Clinton Camp: "Karl Rove Is Writing Senator Obama's Talking Points"
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ROCCA: She is so intoxicatingly chic she's so regal Nancy Reagan is sending the message that taking drug is socially unacceptable that at the chicest cocktail parties taking drugs it's declassee.
CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2005
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Reagan decontrolled oil and natural-gas prices almost immediately upon moving into the White House.
Ronald Reagan's Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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But an even higher profile role came in 1987, when Ronald Reagan tapped him to be chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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An opener can also inflame, which is what Gil Scott-Heron does with his diatribe against Ronald Reagan: "Well the first thing I'd like to say is/Mandate my ass!".
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this displeasure took the form of refusing to pay our assessed financial contribution.
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Neither a minimum effort to embrace this "second choice plot" with a clear, social commitment as a real attach to prohibition and its social putrefactive actions or the need to put on top of emergence priorities the drugs law reform and definitively send the DEAs and the Reagans/Dubya philosophy to the horrors cellar....
Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant Added To Toronto Fest Lineup | /Film
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Ronald Reagan, a Hollywood actor turned governor of California before elected president, 'bookmarked' the 2004 Venus Transit down here on earth.
Red Ice Creations
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It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
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I believe that the United States, President Reagan in particular, can accomplish something in this connection.
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In order to confront Iran, Reagan and Bush administrations had incessantly backed Saddam Hussein regardless of his suppressing the Kurd and developing NBC weapons.
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Taft, a former deputy defence secretary under President Ronald Reagan, was the man to do that.
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The so-called seabed mining provisions were simply one manifestation of the problems Ronald Reagan had with LOST.
Reagan and the Law of the Sea
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The editorial criticizes Reagan for failing to follow through on those democratic revolutions.
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Back in the USA, besides the Super Bowl, one weekend highlight is the multifarious celebration marking what would have been Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday.
Looking ahead: Mubarak and Reagan
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Your State Department, your Mr Reagan, love to rant on and on about the horrors of the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua.
BLACK EAGLES
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In a memo from 1983, Roberts complains about how newspaper columnists focused on Ronald Reagan's memorable use of the word keister.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): The state says the woman once honored by Nancy Reagan at the White House for her work with children suffers from a bizarre mental disorder called Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome.
CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007
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The state funeral for Reagan was a beautiful, moving service and I'd like to just leave it at that.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's the candidate with a tax cut called Reaganesque and worthy of a new president.
CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2004
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He confesses that he had the bad luck to cross both Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush.
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But these people are cuckoo about Ronald Reagan.
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Before reagan, the system was well funded enough that poverty rates dropped even in tought economic times.
Think Progress » Rita Evacuation Exposes Class Divide
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Gates praises Reagan for 'circumspect' use of U.S. military
First full Senate health care showdown could happen next week
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Reagan campaigned for skin cancer awareness.
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Give me the criminal Nixon or the somnolescent geriatric Reagan over Dubya any day.
English-writing Israeli-bloggers
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Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
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Next, there was Iran-Contra when St. Ronnie let ollie north run the government and make illegal deals with the Iranians (who had just recently releases 44 American is had held hostage for over a year, even keeping them longer at Reagan's request so he'd look good when they got released during his inauguration) and used the money to supply arms to the Contras, who wanted to overthrow the legitimately elected gov of Nicaraugua.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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The term amnesty comes from the 1986 immigration bill, supported and signed by Ronald Reagan, which gave many illegal immigrants in the United States immediate permanent residency — green cards — with few requirements, a tiny fee and a fast-tracked application process.
America's New Know-Nothings
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But in spite of the film's fairy tale ending, the story's unflinching portrayal of class distinction in teendom is the reason that Pretty In Pink packed such an emotional wallup during its original, Reagan-era run, and the reason it still affects people so deeply in today's economically challenging times.
Susannah Gora: Pretty in Pink at 25: Still a Class Act
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The idea that the Mexican state is on the verge of collapse or that narco-violence is relentlessly sweeping north echo the kind of hyperbolized threat of Africanized bees or Sandinista convoys swarming our southern border during the Reagan era.
Ted Lewis: Bad Assumptions Guide US Policy on Day of Obama Visit to Mexico
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Reagan
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This is a worldwide treaty, negotiated by the Reagan administration and signed by the Bush administration.
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HOWARD: He was, as President Reagan would have said, he was flaky, that is to say he was very intelligent, not nearly so intelligent as he thought he was.
The First World War
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Many of these folks have legitimate concerns, but they rally on the wrong side of issues to blame Obama who is NOT the guiltiest party in this mess created since Reagan and others began the incremental erosion/elimination of U.S. Laws and government structures and controlling departments.
Tea Party Express rallies against 'big government'
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To say Obama is "Reaganesque" is demeaning by Stanimal on Thursday, Apr 30, 2009 at 4: 03: 13 PM
One Hundred Days of President Barack Obama: So Far, So Good
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Nancy Reagan was known as a screamer and Rosalyn Carter would recite the Lords Prayer at the top of her lungs.
<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-dare-you-talk-about-hillarys-voice.html" title="How dare you talk about Hillary's voice
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Nixon and Reagan were quite adept at reaching accommodations with Congress.
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In the early months, Reagan was meticulously attentive to the legislature.
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Did you ever hear Reagan say, "We got social conservatives here, we got to make sure, yeah, we'll listen to 'em but then we're not gonna pay much attention to 'em.
Mitch Daniels and the austerity trap
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Congress, will try to expunge the latter-day variant called Reaganism, and might succeed.
Paralysis: An Early Stage of Paradigm Shift
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Ronald Reagan who defined the term conservative for a generation was occasionally accused of not being conservative enough and liked to joke that sometimes his right arm didn't know what his far-right arm was doing.
Mark Joseph: Conservative Politicians Challenged From The Right
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He summed up the 2008 Presidential primaries as the search by the bases of the Democratic and Republican parties as the search for their arche-type, Robert Kennedy and Ronald Reagan respectively.
Jeffrey Buchanan: Agreeing with Bill Kristol on RFK's Legacy?
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Both the Reagan and Bush administrations had supported the judge's power to impose the fines.
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His father was Catholic; his mother was a member of the Disciples of Christ and Reagan was raised in the denomination.
Gerald Ford, 93
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Reagan famously maintained the self-delusion of his starless and bible-black follicles up till the age of 80 despite the fact that even America's entire population of three-year old immature cucumbers and most conservatives knew that Reagan's hair was actually as gray as a charcoal sketch of Al Gore.
Martin Lewis: See Bin Laden Dye! (Not For The Sensitive)
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(Romesh Ratnesar subtitles his dispensable book on Reagan's 1987 "tear down this wall" speech in Berlin "A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War.")
1989!
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Reagan's casual, almost flirtatious insolence is instantly attractive, and very modern for a 1940 rah-rah epic.
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Thr Fugs broke up in 1969 and reformed in Orwell and Reagan's 1984.
Michael Simmons: For The Benefit Of Tuli Kupferberg
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Dozens of prominent conservative politicians and activists are working to generate memorials to honor the 90-year-old Reagan.
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He was nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1987 but the Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious debate that focused on Bork's archconservative legal views.
Adam Winkler: Romney's Bork Barrel Politics
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Ronald Reagan reluctantly canceled his inaugural parade in 1985 when the chill factor dropped well below zero, endangering the marchers.
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In the 1980s, the Council for National Policy was heavily involved in channeling money from the religious right into a variety of efforts supporting President Ronald Reagan's Central America policies ranging from building support in for his policies in the United States to building ties with the international right via arms dealers, mercenaries, and other such forces (source).
Archive 2007-10-01
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Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
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Reagan wanted some briefings in Washington before he was inaugurated.
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Woodward granted former CIA director George H.W. Bush a pass by excluding him from accounts of Iran-Contra, which occurred while the notorious intriguer was vice president under the notoriously hands-off Ronald Reagan.
Russ Baker: "Obama's Wars": The Real Story Bob Woodward Won't Tell
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To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. Ronald Reagan
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This is a worldwide treaty, negotiated by the Reagan administration and signed by the Bush administration.
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Pete, I can't be fashed pulling up the figures, but, as most presidents (save Reagan) leave office after eight years in a general cloud of disappointment, I don't think these figures demonstrate anything except that nothing changes.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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Reagan's massive military buildup had sacrificed unglamorous functions like transport ships "sealift" and minesweepers to pay for high-tech programs like "Star Wars," stealth technology, fighter aircraft, attack subs and cruise missiles.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
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“Trust but Verify” - Ronald Reagan paraphrased from the Bible
Think Progress » Bush Caught on Tape: “A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. Nothing Has Changed.”
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At Trinity College at the University of Toronto, he was even more socially maladroit. He assumed the pose of young Republican and put a poster of Ronald Reagan on his wall.
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Like his film-star predecessor Ronald Reagan, he makes no great claims to artistry.
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On this week's new episode (8/7c), yet another Saturday Night Live alum makes a guest appearance: the reliably side-splitting Molly Shannon as Reagan's less-than-Superstar assistant Nancy, who Reagan (Christina Applegate) can't bring herself to fire.
Critic's Guide to Wednesday TV: The SNL Comedy Invasion, A New Whitechapel Case, and More!
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Birman's insight that the Soviet Union was far weaker than it seemed from its military prowess was implicitly adopted by Ronald Reagan when he famously predicted in 1982 that "freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.
Right From the Start
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That compares with an attrition rate of just over a quarter during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
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It turned out, though, that America -- after the coarseness of Johnson, the darkness of Nixon, the awkwardness of Ford and the piousness of Carter -- was happier with Reagan's genuine fakeness.
Paul Slansky: Spoiler Alert! I Was Not a Reagan Fan
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He's older than Reagan was when he ran, and we now know that Reagan's delightfully optimistic daffiness was probably the result of early symptoms of Alzheimers.
Hullabaloo
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I called Doro one morning to check in, and she told me that nobody at Boston College was for Reagan-Bush.
Barbara Bush
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The president hailed as the most gifted communicator since Ronald Reagan has suffered chiefly from the inability to tell a convincing story.
Barack Obama's down but not out
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Neither a minimum effort to embrace this “second choice plot” with a clear, social commitment as a real attach to prohibition and its social putrefactive actions or the need to put on top of emergence priorities the drugs law reform and definitively send the DEAs and the Reagans/Dubya philosophy to the horrors cellar….
Nicolas Cage is Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEUTENANT | Obsessed With Film
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Reagan allowed chemical and biological weapons to be sold to Iraq so they could defat iran.
Think Progress » To Justify War, Administration Pushed Claims By Known “Fabricatorâ€
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But the story of Ronald Reagan, the much-loved symbol of a US born-again after the self-hating 1960s and 1970s, still resonates with ordinary Americans.
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Enroute they passed a motorcade racing the other direction carrying Bush to join Reagan at convention hall and accept the nomination.
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The speech was a devastating critique of Reagan's economic policy.
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Ever since Ronald Reagan's henchmen coined the phrase "plausible deniability," that's become our national motto.
Ethan Casey: Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be
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For example, when Parenting says that Washington is the best city in America to raise a family because you can take your boys to a park "for front-seat views of the takeoffs and landings at Reagan National Airport," the editors are only funning with us.
Ten Best Places to Read About Silly Lists
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Take a look, to see what I'm talking about (Reagan's second term is not charted, to make this easier to read):
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- September, 2010
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In recounting his teenage travails as a Boston schoolboy growing up with a "dollop" of Catholic guilt and a full spectrum of FM stations, Sheffield navigates Reaganomics, Boy George, and Rambo with wit, self-deprecation, and not an ounce of trepidation.
Kristi York Wooten: A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)
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But Reagan was frequently paired with actresses who outshone him.
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What made Reagan extraordinary, beyond his communicative skills, was his resolute adherence to core beliefs.
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Between them they looked like the stars of a Reagan campaign ad.
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National frustration ushered in the Reagan administration.
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Reaganism" implies a deeply anti-democratic opposition to the welfare state, the labor movement, and indeed to any and all forms of public provision that empower the people, as distinct from economic elites.
Andrew Levine: Two Reaganite Presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
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But it also should be shown, UNCUT, on a cable cannel (ala The Reagans).
In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film
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Ronald Reagan pioneered this art form of disrespecting bureaucrats in the name of downsizing government, even as federal deficit spending on government programs he favored grew to epic proportions.
Rena Steinzor: Bureaucracy Bashing, Obama-Style
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I think a major reason for these shifts has been the increasing dominance, since the Reagan era, of an ideology that is indifferent to or actively celebrates inequality of income.
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If his character needed to express perturbation, Reagan furrowed his brow.
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With an eye on 2008, Obama had cast his sauciest come-hither look at Reagan Democrats and Republicans of unsteady resolve.
Deconstructing Obama
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Film acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue - speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion, and still sound like plain-spoken common sense - techniques he used so dynamically in politics.
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I hop out of the Humvee with a bowlegged cowboy swagger and a Ronald Reagan aw-shucks grin.
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Btw, Bruce is a right conservatist that wanted Bush and Cheney impeached and being he was a constitutional scholar and worked in the Reagan Administration, he was the man to listen to even if you were a rightie.
Give Obama a Chance to Do What?
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This is a worldwide treaty, negotiated by the Reagan administration and signed by the Bush administration.
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Reagan conciliated moderate Democrats when he needed to.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why President Obama Continually Hails President Reagan
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It's no coincidence that protagonists from '80s-era, Reagan-era games are these testosterone, muscle-bound rah-rah characters," he said.
A conversation with video game exhibition curator Chris Melissinos
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The Reagan White House had understood from the beginning that the press was not its natural ally.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
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As Reagan understood them: "We seek to reduce nuclear arsenals and to reduce the chances for dangerous misunderstanding and miscalculations, so we have put forward proposals for what we call confidence-building measures.
Joe Cirincione: Reagan the Abolitionist
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Bush, famously or in -, slashed taxes to levels undreamt of even by Reagan.
Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed
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You can follow the thread through to Nixon’s opposition to busing and scatter-site housing as mechanisms for reversing segregation and his “New Federalism,” or Republican opposition to “activist judges” and “racial quotas” since the 70s, or Reagan’s famous embrace of “states rights” in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Magazines Not For Liberty
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The turmoil of the past few years by no means mitigates the explosion of prosperity that has taken place since the early 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan enacted promarket reforms to free the economy from the Carter-Nixon stagnation of the 1970s.
How Capitalism Will Save Us
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Mr Keyes, a former radio talk-show host and Reagan administration diplomat, is the most eloquent of the Republican candidates.
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So, OK, bear with me while I pay another bittersweet tribute to Big Al. It won't be any gushier than Peggy Noonan's foolishly groupie-esque rhapsodizing over Ronald Reagan.
Mary Lyon: The Benediction of Big Al
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Administrations make language of past Administrations on certain issues 'inoperative'. 15 years after Reagan no one was repeating his cant about "the beloved Holy Mujahadeen Freedom Fighters" of Afghanistan.
"Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a 'great civilization'..."
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Reagan's presidency may prove to have been the high watermark of the US-Israeli alliance.
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As for the ongoing exaggeration and misrepresentation of Reagan's role, after his first term bellicosity, he did agree to arms control agreements with Gorbachev.
Was Gorbachev the Most Influential Man of the Second Half of the 20th Century?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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They also demanded that President Reagan announce an end to legal abortion in the United States.
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Abel, for example, is obviously a Democrat, as he slipped more than a few anti-Reagan barbs into his presentation.
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Mr Keyes, a former radio talk-show host and Reagan administration diplomat, is the most eloquent of the Republican candidates.
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Republicans under Reagan found that history had a direction, that America could fulfill its twin destinies: it could be a shining city upon a hill — and still lower its taxes!
The Perils of Reagan Republicanism
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Ronald Reagan was not without handicaps and dissatisfaction with both of the party's standard bearers in this election was unusually widespread.
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Reagan and Bush Sr. succeeded in falsifying, blustering, and smearing their way out of political trouble.
Did the Marines Die for Absolute Power? « Antiwar.com Blog
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And I realized: the unapologetic nature of my musical omnivorousness owes a great deal to Michael Jackson, to the ubiquitous success of Thriller, to the fait accompli integration of MTV, to the demonstration that, even in the hyper-capitalist (and subtly discriminatory) wonderland of the Reagan 80s, sheer audacious talent could refuse to be marginalized.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Reagan earned his bona fides on two issues - supporting big business and claiming he was hawkishly anti-communist.
Reviewing David Cromwell and David Edwards' "Guardians of Power"
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In a 1987 interview, he deplored what he called the ascendancy of "right-wing kooks (and) the ugly spirit (of Reagan's not so subtle message that) you should go get yours and run.
IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
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Reagan was apparently stupid and often startlingly ignorant – but he was vindicated by history.
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Hey, if Ronald Reagan can open his presidential campaign in blathering about states’ rights in – of all places – Philadelphia, Mississippi, then this century’s heirs of Lester Maddox can grow a pair.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Colorado Attorney General Explains the Obamacare Lawsuit
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George Will takes three lessons from Wisconsin, and puts Walker in some very heady company: Walker's calm comportment in this crisis is reminiscent of President Reagan's during his 1981 stand against the illegal strike by air traffic controllers, and Margaret Thatcher's in the 1984 showdown with the miners' union over whether unions or Parliament would govern Britain.
Wonkbook: Are Republicans overreaching? Or just negotiating effectively?
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Reagan's television appearances furthermore were carefully scheduled to take place just prior to critical votes on his budgetary and tax policy.
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Steve possesses deep, intimate knowledge of both Churchill and Reagan, having written books on each, though he deploys his learning lightly.
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The Reagan administration then "reflagged" 11 Kuwait tankers with U.S. colours and provided naval escort to protect them from Iran's attacks.
News1130.com
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Reagan was about two points lower than Obama in disapproval, but he was almost four points lower in approval, as well.
Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- September, 2010
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Maybe so, but George W. Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - made warm-hearted arguments for policies that Americans might otherwise have rejected as hard-hearted.
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Clearly this is not the kind of sympathique partnership that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoyed with President Ronald Reagan.
Sarkozy’s Obama Envy
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President Ronald Reagan in 1986 dismissed congressional demands for import tariffs as ‘flimflammery’ and warned against the dangers of protectionism.
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Following the collapse of the U.S.S.R. that was fueled by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's strident anti-communist policies, Germany was able to reunify.
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Even Reagan had a puzzled expression upon her face.
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But flagrant fabrications such as "Obama liking Reagan's policies" hurts not only Obama in terms of voters who may believe it, and Hillary, for those who don't, but it hurts the Democrats because it represents the kind of brutish, deceptive politics Americans now routinely hate.
Obama Winning Spin War Over Who's Victim In Campaign
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Reagan resorted to the personal touch as a matter of instinct and long practice.
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But Reagan never let his crystalline beliefs be fogged by reality, including the reality of his own behavior.
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This antipathy to conflict is endemic to Reagan and Clinton.
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In this opening chapter of the book Steve takes the measure of Reagan's accomplishment in his characteristically thoughtful and large-minded fashion.
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Reagan's greatness lies in that he clearly saw this monstrosity for what it was and relentlessly worked to defeat it.
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The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. Ronald Reagan
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No consternation which many OGXers have found it more copacetic to become conservatives (remember a Reagan Youth?); or instead to embrace what Baudrillard (a French Postmodern) would call a "soft ideologies" of ecologism as well as antiracism, instead of, say, social justice.
Archive 2009-11-01
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I'm guessing Bai is referring to Brown's last run for President, where he did run as an outsider and had some progressive things he was pushing for, but also advocated some highly unprogressive ideas like a tax plan that included a flat tax and a value-added tax, written for him by Reagan adviser and supply-side guru Arthur Laffer.
Mike Lux: A Modern Populist Movement
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The Reagan administration then "reflagged" 11 Kuwait tankers with U.S. colors and provided naval escort to protect them from Iran's attacks.
Navy Times - News
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An astute commenter - Steve-wxtalkwordpresscom - noted that as of 10 p.m. it was already down to 36 degrees at Reagan National with a wind from the northeast and a dewpoint of 25.
State of the snowstorm: Live blogging
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By claiming power under the coinage clause, Mr. Bernanke was behaving a bit like Secretary of State Alexander Haig when, after President Ronald Reagan was shot, he suggested, albeit fleetingly, that he had the constitutional authority of the president.
A Constitution Scholar for the Fed
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There are people in the building who still hold grudges from the Reagan Admin, and it shows in a good way.
More like ‘DeMint *schools* Kerry over Honduras.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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Reagan kept a solid base of conservatives by holding fast to his principles.
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Just in the past few months," [Bruce Bartlett ormer policy advisor for Ronald Reagan] said, "I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.
Dowd Defection only the first crack in the Bush inner-circle Dam?
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Their goal was to "rekindle" the vision shared by Gorbachev and Reagan at Reykjavik.
Craig K. Comstock: Causing What It's Meant to Prevent
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The Reagan New Federalism also signalled an increased dependence of urban areas on state government.
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Thatcher and Reagan could share a simple and ideologically compatible vision of the world because they had clear ideological opponents: Soviet-style communism abroad, welfare statism at home.
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They have a historical narrative that is of extreme importance to their view of the world, but the narrative is grounded in mythic figures such as The Founders, and The Greatest Generation, and REAGAN.
Matthew Yglesias » Reaganesque
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If there's anything that Reagan should be honoured for it was his preparedness to welcome the initiative offered by Mikhail Gorbachev to declare a Cold War truce.
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It is that modern version - and warped policies that could be collectively called Reaganism - that has given us an unfathomable national debt, a wide gulf between the nation's rich and poor, the denial of basic science on energy and the environment, and which was even used to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq that the real Gipper himself would never undertaken.
Attytood
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Ever since Ronald Reagan's henchmen coined the phrase "plausible deniability," that's become our national motto.
Ethan Casey: Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be
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The U.S. Defense Department said the two carriers include the USS George Washington, located at its base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, and the USS Ronald Reagan, which had been en route to South Korea.
UN: Japan Requests Disaster Help From Four Foreign Teams
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In his private diary, Mr. Reagan noted that the magazine labeled him a "turncoat" and said conservative activist Richard Viguerie sent him a copy of the magazine along with a letter.
Obama Reclaims Some Independence
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Perry gives us Reagan and Bush combined, but with their efforts to hide behind avuncularity and goofiness abandoned.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin
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After the debacle of the 1964 Barry Goldwater election, and the ascension of Ronald Reagan, the right wing has almost completely achieved their long term, relentlessly-focused goals: they have a five member working group on the Supreme Court and they have propagandized the American people so well and so thoroughly that we are all now playing on their turf.
Norman Goldman: Rescue America -- A 4-Point Plan
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Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God. Ronald Reagan
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Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. Ronald Reagan
