News on Ronald Reagan

Insight: In 2012, some "Obamacons" turn back to Republicans

2011-10-31T22:30:07Z

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - In contrast to 2008, Democratic President Barack Obama cannot count on a wave of support for his re-election bid next year from well-known moderate Republicans.

Unhappy with Obama's handling of the economy, conservative backers from three years ago...

Obama urges Republicans to follow Reagan example

2011-07-13T01:30:12Z

President Barack Obama urged Republicans to draw inspiration from the hero of fiscal conservatives, Ronald Reagan, who had agreed to revenue increases to cut the US deficit.

"Ronald Reagan repeatedly took steps that included revenue, in order for him to accomplish some of these larger goals," Obam...

First Republican presidential debate postponed

2011-03-30T08:00:28Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first scheduled debate of the 2012 Republican presidential nominating race has been postponed from May to September because of a lack of candidates.

The May 2 debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library will be moved to September 14 to allow time for Republicans to enter the ra...

Reagan, reconsidered

2011-03-29T03:30:29Z

Conservatives should pay attention to the real man, not the myth

Republicans are gathering this weekend at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of nation's 40th president. They will kick off a series of e...

Palin rallies US right for Reagan centenary

2011-02-05T06:30:18Z

Tea Party matriarch Sarah Palin has urged the US right to draw inspiration from Ronald Reagan, as she kicked off a weekend of commemorations on the ex president's 100th anniversary.

The former Alaska governor rallied conservatives ahead of Sunday's centenary of the Republican icon's birth, saying they ...

Defining Patriotism and American Greatness

2010-11-29T14:53:37Z

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William F. Buckley's National Review Makes Debut

2010-11-29T14:53:16Z

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Reagan, Clinton roared back from midterm grief

2010-11-29T14:40:34Z

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Plans under way for Republican presidential debate

2010-11-12T12:30:57Z

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Just more than a week after Republicans made big gains in congressional elections, former first lady Nancy Reagan is inviting leading contenders for the party's 2012 presidential nomination to a debate next spring.

"Ronnie would be th...

Ronald Reagan: Opening the door to today's Hollywood political wannabes

2010-11-29T16:04:00Z

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Oops: Campaign season of gaffes and gotchas

2010-10-29T02:00:12Z

Rise of political rookies makes for a gaffe-heavy campaign this year and plenty of gotchas

Memo to novice political candidates: Know thy Constitution. Don't tell Hispanics they look Asian. Pay special attention to what you say when you are in front of cameras. Which you almost always are. Expect your chitchat to go viral.

And, really, try your best to stay out of court.

Now relax. Be yourself — if you dare.

This is the year of the neophyte ...

Book reviews: Upstream, the Ascendance of American Conservatism, by Alfred S. Regnery

2010-11-04T14:33:16Z

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Reflections: William F. Buckley, Jr.

2010-11-04T14:01:18Z

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It Ain’t What You Eat it’s the Way How You Chew it: Lessons for Democrats

2010-11-03T03:11:31Z

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AMERICAN APPEASEMENT

2010-11-03T03:11:05Z

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OBAMA AND REAGAN A COMPARISON OF CONTRIBUTIONS

2010-11-03T03:12:00Z

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Republican Party Hamstrung By a Buffoon by Merwin

2010-11-03T03:13:18Z

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The Black Republican

2010-11-03T03:13:32Z

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Why Obama is Wrong for the United States

2010-11-03T00:17:39Z

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OPEN SEASON ON THE POOR: THE CONSERVATIVE ATTACK ON CALIFORNIA'S LESS FORTUNATE

2010-11-03T00:08:41Z

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Acceptable Presidential Disrespect

2010-11-03T00:17:18Z

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Andrew Jackson Very Briefly Compared and Contrasted to Barack Obama

2010-11-03T00:16:59Z

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Obama Second Supreme Court Nominee ?

2010-11-03T00:07:38Z

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Military and politics

2010-11-03T00:07:39Z

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Obama's Palin...

2010-11-03T00:09:20Z

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Which Republican Can Challenge Obama in 2012?

2010-11-03T00:09:41Z

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Can President Obama Deliver Change

2010-11-03T00:19:39Z

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Liberal Ideology Versus Conservative Facts

2010-11-03T00:07:40Z

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Can Obama Persuade Voters to Stay the Course?

2010-10-04T03:05:39Z

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Obama Can convince voters to stay the course?

2010-09-28T08:03:45Z

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Obama Quotes Declaration Without Mentioning 'Creator'

2010-09-23T07:07:57Z

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What Is a Conservative Democrat?

2010-11-05T11:12:18Z

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'No Free Speech for You': President Obama's Faith Protectors

2010-09-12T00:07:01Z

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Top 10 American debates From the fabled Lincoln-Douglas debates through the turn of the millennium, the Sun counts down the 10 most significant and memorable political square-offs in American history.

2010-08-31T02:15:33Z

¶Although they didn't occur in a presidential campaign, Abraham Lincoln's seven

face-offs with Stephen Douglas in their battle for Illinois' U.S. Senate seat significantly boosted his profile in national politics a...

The GOP's Poison Pearl

2010-11-02T12:25:52Z

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History of the United States

2010-10-27T08:03:18Z

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More Goo-Goo Than Gipper

2010-10-25T08:34:35Z

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Other Comments

2010-10-25T08:34:25Z

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Former Nixon aide, Alexander Haig dead at 85

2010-04-16T07:01:48Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85.

Haig sought the U.S. pr...

The Tea PartyÕs (old) paranoia

2010-06-12T09:32:26Z

TodayÕs fervent ideological movement has roots in post-World War II right

The federal government, under the guise of helping the mentally ill, is establishing a concentration camp in Alaska to house political opponents a new step on the path toward totalitarianism.

Dan Smoot and other historical footnotes made the allegation in 1956, and it briefly became an obsessive cause of the right-wing grass roots, with eac...

Stock Politics

2010-10-22T14:41:09Z

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What Sanford and SC Republicans Can Learn From Tiger Woods

2010-10-24T10:53:04Z

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GOP's New (Old) Hope: Zombie Ronald Reagan?

2010-10-22T13:24:17Z

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Still Not the Party of Ideas

2010-09-10T11:30:27Z

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Yes You Can!

2010-10-22T14:31:41Z

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The danse macabre of USstyle democracy

2010-10-22T12:06:18Z

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A ringside seat at the Diana circus

2010-10-22T12:06:20Z

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Why the All-American Fuss over Health Care?

2010-10-24T09:54:56Z

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The Party Of Medicare

2010-10-22T07:44:41Z

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He Belongs to History

2010-10-22T11:19:29Z

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Obama: The New Reagan?

2010-10-22T07:43:54Z

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Reagan Coopted

2010-10-22T11:00:32Z

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Hero Worship

2010-10-22T10:56:06Z

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REORIENTING THE DEBATE ON PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING STATEMENTS THE NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY IN THE PRESIDENTS CONSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIONS RESERVATIONS AND ASSERTIONS OF POWER

2010-10-22T10:08:05Z

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Reagan Doctrine

2010-10-22T09:50:31Z

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Fmr. US attys general doubt interrogations probe

2010-06-25T21:14:13Z

Former US attorneys general doubtful about wisdom of investigating post-9/11 interrogations

Six former U.S. attorneys general expressed doubts Friday about the wisdom of launching a federal investigation into whether interrogations of terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks violated the law.

Such an investigation wouldn't fix policies that have been criticized because the new administration alre...

Airbrushing Ronald Reagan

2010-10-26T20:53:36Z

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Obama's travel draws usual gripes

2010-06-25T21:53:08Z

Like those before him, Obama shrugs off critics of his presidential trips

President Barack Obama is drawing fire for a recent "date night" with his wife in New York City and for a family vacation in Europe. Complainers similarly have harassed previous presidents about the cost to taxpayers of such private out...

Palin's lawyer says proper credit given in speech

2010-04-16T11:55:01Z

Palin's lawyer rebukes accusations she lifted from Gingrich article for Anchorage speech

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech, but her lawyer says proper credit was given to the former House speaker.

Blo...

Ronald Reagan Was Far From A ?Reagan Conservative?

2010-10-06T10:09:28Z

While arguing that the Republican Party should move to the ideological right by purging more moderate members, the conservative inteligencia has apotheosized President Ronald Reagan as the paragon of Conservatism. ?Reaganism? has become the foundation from which all conservatism rests. The radio airwaves are consumed with self-professed ?Regan Conservatives.? They point to Reagan as a man who enjoyed immense popularity with the American people because he was never recreant to conservati...

Ronald Reagan statue unveiled in Capitol Rotunda

2010-04-16T11:58:21Z

Nancy Reagan tears up as bronze statute of beloved 'Ronnie' is unveiled in Capitol Rotunda

This time, Ronald Reagan really was larger than life.

Seven feet tall, in fact, cast in bronze and unveiled Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda next to another popular Republican president, Dw...

Political Wisdom: Is the Obama World Too Elite?

2010-10-24T09:56:06Z

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GOP: Resurgence or R.I.P.?

2010-10-24T09:53:36Z

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Margaret Thatcher: The Old Ideas Were Best

2010-10-23T23:38:22Z

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The GOP & the State of Modern Conservatism

2010-10-21T09:30:01Z

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McCain Threatens to Oppose Interior Nominee Over Reagan Remark

2010-10-23T21:31:59Z

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Divided We Fall

2010-10-21T09:54:07Z

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Stimulus Politics Is Fleeting, the 2008 Realignment Isn't

2010-06-26T02:38:15Z

On Sunday's Meet the Press, David Gregory confronted David Axelrod, one of President Obama's chief advisers, with a respected economist's grim conclusion that the stimulus package Obama will sign on Tuesday simply isn't big enough and that the unemployment rat...

Bobby Jindal Gets an Honor and Maybe a Curse

2010-06-11T20:21:38Z

Bobby Jindal has been selected to deliver the televised Republican response to Barack Obama's February 24 address to Congress, which means Jindal will now be the subject of a wave of news stories hyping him as a rising national star.

Take it away, New York Times: "The RICHARD NORTON SMITH ON OBAMA AND THE ECONOMY

Even Barack Obama's critics and skeptics would concede that in this moment of global distress, the installation of the young senator from Illinois as America's first African American Presid...

Change And Challenge

2010-06-12T11:38:24Z

The slender man with the odd name, the charismatic senator with the soaring rhetoric, will make history today.

When Barack Obama becomes the nation’s first African-American president, historians say it will be one of America’s watershed moments.

“I distrust saying anything’s historic before it happens,“ said Ed Ayers...

Barack Obama, The New Ronald Reagan

2010-10-21T09:49:10Z

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GOP: Don't Whine, Rebuild

2010-04-16T13:49:16Z

Right wing pundits and politicos moaning about this year's election need to snap out of it muy pronto and get to work devising victories for the future.

Though you could never guess it from all the breast-beating and teeth-gnashing, the conservative/Republican cause has been much further down than this, only to come back quickly in decisive fashion. Of course, most of the people now wailing that all is lost weren't around back then, and apparently haven't studied the comeback with ...

Shades of Reagan: Sarah and the Leaks

2010-10-23T19:09:53Z

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Patrick

2010-10-26T20:52:15Z

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Obama Will Overreach and We Will Bounce Back

2010-10-13T14:04:39Z

A few weeks ago my wife and I visited Bob Novak who, while he is no longer writing regularly, was following this year's campaign very closely and still keeping in touch with many of his legendary sources. And while we were discussing the closing days of the campaign he began chuckling about the fact that, as he put it, "Democrats I'm talking to think they've died and gone to heaven."

He then made the point that we should all b...

GOP Killed Reagan Era and GOP Can Rebuild It

2010-04-16T14:09:47Z

If you believe Newsweek magazine - something that usually requires a serious suspension of disbelief - the Reagan Era is dead. Politico also chimed in, proclaiming the death of the Reagan Revolution.

Newsweek doesn't go on to tell you who killed the Reagan Era, so I will. It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was th...

Google CEO to Speak About the Future of Tech in DC Next Week

2010-10-26T20:49:27Z

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Why America will not turn to the left

2010-04-16T14:33:39Z

It certainly had the look of a revolution. Across the country, Republican stalwarts were kicked out of office. States that had not voted Democrat in a generation turned blue. In city after city, tens of thousands of people took to the streets. At the gates of the White House, a crowd gathered and shouted: 'Obama! Obama!'

Now, as America faces up to the fact that <...

The Reagan Counterrevolution

2010-10-21T09:11:24Z

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Franken tries the switch from comic to Congress

2010-06-12T01:04:02Z

Al Franken faces unique challenge as he tries to make switch from comic to Congress

Moving from celebrity to senator isn't exactly an untraveled path. But that doesn't mean comedian Al Franken, who is vying for a Senate seat in Minnesota, will coast to Capitol Hill on a wide, smooth road.

Franken, a Dem...

HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?

2010-06-26T00:41:41Z

1. Rumors have it that both John McCain and Barack Obama will name their vice presidential choices before their national conventions. Who was the last major party candidate for President to name a running mate during a party convention?

2. Who was the last major-party candidate for President to name a running mate after he was official nominated?

3. Who was the last m...

Obama's Shifting Poll Numbers

2010-04-16T14:56:19Z

Steve Kornacki writes that the recent set of polls that show Barack Obama's lead over John McCain dwindling have a precedent in electoral history--voters even got cold feet about Ronald Reagan, for a time.

A few thoughts on how to handle the world's most potent political weapon

2010-06-26T00:43:42Z

Dear Mr President-Elect,

I thought I'd try to get in early and drop you a line. I'm sure you know of the tradition in which an outgoing president leaves a handwritten and confidential letter to his successor, tucked into a draw in the Oval Office, setting out what he learned in the job &amp;#8211; and warning of the pitfalls ahead. Well, you'll have to wait three months, till your inauguration on January 20, for...

Liberal paranoiacs, breathe easy: the swift-boating of Obama isn't working

2010-04-16T15:00:09Z

Emotions run hot on election eve, and few emotions are more a-boil right now than liberal paranoia. I hear it constantly: I don't care about the polls. I won't believe it until I see it. The Republicans stole 2000 and 2004, and they'll steal this one.

This dark pessimism is fortified by a corollary anxiety that each new revelation about Barack Obama will...

The Obama Court

2010-10-21T09:43:56Z

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Four Questions For: Sarah Vowell, Author of "The Wordy Shipmates"

2010-10-23T16:08:56Z

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Reagan Wisdom for Sarah Palin

2010-10-23T19:08:06Z

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Are You Better Off?

2010-04-16T13:23:48Z

WASHINGTON – During the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan, in a debate with President Jimmy Carter, famously suggested that voters answer a simple, but potent, question.

“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

That’s the way everybody remembers it, but when I went back to check, I found that Reagan didn’t stop there.

It's GOP's world; elitists just live in it

2010-04-16T13:26:43Z

Differing visions: GOP rejects `elitist' America, crafts its own narrative

Snowmobiles are good. NASCAR is very good. Football metaphors about God are better. "Sam's Club Republicans" are the salt of the American earth. Hollywood, the media and academics are suspect at best, subversive a...

James E. Campbell

2010-10-26T20:51:11Z

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Bush Speechwriter and Republican Elders Celebrate Their New Joan of Arc

2010-04-16T13:29:10Z

This morning, Michael Gerson, the former Bush Administration speechwriter, participated in a panel discussion on democracy and America’s role in the world alongside foreign policy mandarins like Henry Kissinger. Afterward, I walked up to him, and without missing a beat, he said: “You want to talk about

Blair Boland

2010-10-26T20:51:05Z

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Charles

2010-10-26T20:51:05Z

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The Experience Question, cont.: Palin vs. Obama

2010-10-26T20:51:04Z

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The Elephant in the Room

2010-11-03T08:10:57Z

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The Young Republicans' Last Stand

2010-11-03T08:10:57Z

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Tony Snow: Defender of the President and the Faith

2010-10-23T19:06:56Z

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The 2008 Presidential Candidates: Fred Thompson

2010-10-26T20:16:55Z

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Obama & the Battle Still to Come

2010-10-26T12:32:02Z

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Rose Parade Float

2011-01-01T08:31:03Z

A float honoring former President Ronald Reagan that will appear in Saturday’s Rose Parade waits to be moved to Pasadena from the warehouse where it was built in Irwindale, Calif. on Friday, Dec 31, 2010. Former President Ronald Reagan will be honored in the 2011 Rose Parade with a s...

Margaret Thatcher

2010-12-30T08:00:27Z

FILE- In a June 7, 1984 file photo, President Ronald Reagan has a word in the ear of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at a reception given by the British Government at London's US Postal Service shows a postage stamp honoring former President Ronald Reagan, a design which is included in the 2011 US postage stamps collection. (AP Photo/USPS)

Presidential Comebacks

2010-11-16T00:32:07Z

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 1984, file photo, President Ronald Reagan points to a reporter during a brief news conference in the White House press briefing room in Washington. Reagan got his shellacking in the 1982 midterm elections, with his party suffering big losses in the House. Twelve years later, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)

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