Since our local paper can’t and won’t run a center-left columnist, I’m happy to provide this link to today’s column by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, a Princeton professor, who suggests that the Garn-St. German Depository Institutions Act, signed…
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Ronald Reagan on Gay Rights
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
With the coming debate over the proposed amendment to the California Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman, I give you a California Icon in the battle for equal rights for Gays and Lesbians — Ronald Wilson Reagan.…
John McCain booed during his MLK Speech
by Heather Pritchard • • Comments Off
Why was he booed? McCain admits to having voted no in 1983 for a National Holiday to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He just didn’t know enough about MLK at the time to see him as a national hero…
“The President of 12% of Us”: Esquire Magazine Profiles Arnold
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
Its not online yet, but the new Esquire has a cover story on Arnold Schwarzenegger; the gist of the stry, since becoming Governor, Arnold is bigger than ever. “Big enough to lead the nation into a new kind of politics.”…
Would Reagan have been kicked to the curb today?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee gets no love from the Flash Report. Jon Fleischman has a brief post about this with a link to site about the sins against conservatives committed by “Tax Hike Mike.” Yet, based on the same…
Obama “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America”
by Heather Pritchard • • 17 Comments
 I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what’s different are the times. I do think that for example the 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America…
Ronald Reagan: Un-plugged
by Chris Prevatt • • 18 Comments
In 1948 Ronald Reagan was a Democrat. There are many in the Republican party who would like to have us forget this fact. But in 1948, two years after the Republicans took control of congress during Truman’s presidency, Ronald Reagan…
