Ahem…maybe someone else noticed this or maybe I’m being cranky–but what kind of journalism are MSNBC and Politico practicing? During last night’s reality TV show AKA the Republican debate, the network ran a video that was a historically inaccurate and shameful suck-up to Reagan. I’m really sorry if they were trying to be nice […]
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Sucking Up To Reagan and Crossing The Line
Posted on 09 September 2011.
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What Planet Do They Live On?
Posted on 24 August 2009.
This guy–Allan H. Meltzer, a political economist at Carnegie Mellon University–is seriously delusional: Mr. Meltzer says the risk lies not in pulling back too soon but dithering too long. And he would scrap the stimulus program immediately and replace it with cuts in marginal tax rates for individuals and businesses. "It’s certainly not a […]
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Ronald Reagan Saved Social Security
Posted on 08 January 2005.
FDR created social security–and Ronald Reagan saved it… Hard to remember but when Social Security was supposedly facing a financial bind back in the 1980’s, Reagan made a deal with Tip O’Neill (then-Speaker of the House in the days when Democrats still controlled Congress): no benefit cuts and a hike in taxes. True, it was […]
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