Salon Magazine Articles: "The Real Reagan

                   

"Future Generations Will Despise Ronald Reagan. Here's Why"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/future-generations-will-despise-ronald.htmll

George Will Documents Reagan's Collusion With Saddam's Use Of Chemical Weapons

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/george-will-documents-ronald-reagans.html

Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of Ronald Reagan Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/pax-on-both-houses-compendium-of-ronald.html

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What the right won’t admit about Reagan

What happens when a caller confronts Rush Limbaugh with the Gipper's actual record?

GENE LYONSWEDNESDAY, FEB 9, 2011 08:30 PM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, WAR ROOM

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When Reagan was (much) less popular than Carter

Will Bunch, author of "Tear Down This Myth," explains how the Gipper was transformed into a conservative demigod

STEVE KORNACKISUNDAY, FEB 6, 2011 11:01 AM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, RONALD REAGAN

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Reagan’s embrace of apartheid South Africa

His foreign policy legacy includes an alliance with a racist government

JUSTIN ELLIOTTSATURDAY, FEB 5, 2011 11:01 AM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, WAR ROOM

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Ronald Reagan cared more about UFOs than AIDS

He often dreamed of the world coming together to battle spacemen, but never gave much thought to an actual killer

ALEX PAREENEFRIDAY, FEB 4, 2011 03:30 PM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, WAR ROOM

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The era of big spending and massive deficits

We talk with Ronald Reagan's first budget director about the long-term fiscal consequences of the 1980s

ANDREW LEONARDFRIDAY, FEB 4, 2011 12:01 PM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN

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We fought a war on lies, and lies won

Trashing the War on Poverty, Reagan destroyed the social compact that built the postwar American dream

JOAN WALSHFRIDAY, FEB 4, 2011 08:30 AM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, RONALD REAGAN

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The scandal that almost destroyed Ronald Reagan

"We did not -- repeat -- did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages. Nor will we"

ROBERT BUSBYTHURSDAY, FEB 3, 2011 08:30 PM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, WAR ROOM

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The “Southern Strategy,” fulfilled

When Ronald Reagan's invoked "states' rights" in 1980, it helped seal a massive political realignment

STEVE KORNACKITHURSDAY, FEB 3, 2011 03:11 PM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, WAR ROOM

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The divisive underbelly of Reagan’s sunny optimism

It wasn't all patriotic homilies: Just ask the "welfare queens," "radicals" and "filthy speech advocates"

MATTHEW DALLEKTHURSDAY, FEB 3, 2011 11:31 AM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, RONALD REAGAN

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Introducing The Real Reagan

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we'll leave the mythology and hagiography to others

SALON STAFFTHURSDAY, FEB 3, 2011 11:30 AM EST
POLITICS THE REAL REAGAN, RONALD REAGAN