Posts Tagged ‘Reagan’
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Republican Rubik’s Cube
Posted on July 29, 2014
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Putting together a governing political coalition is like figuring out a Rubik’s Cube: To win, you have to get all the pieces to fit...
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Shining City on the Hill
Posted on January 11, 2012
Shining City on the Hill Twenty-three years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave his exit address where he spoke eloquently about John Winthrop’s famed “Shining City Upon a Hill.” I only...
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GOP’s Silent Majority
Posted on September 27, 2011
“And so tonight — to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans — I ask for your support.” In November of 1969, Richard Nixon uttered this line in...
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Credibility vs. Crassness
Posted on August 10, 2011
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell put some real thought into their picks for the Joint Super Committee that will decide the fate of so many spending programs and perhaps the...
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Collapse of Cold War Consensus
Posted on June 15, 2011
It took awhile, but the Cold War consensus is finally shattering. The Cold War consensus centered around a basic proposition: America was going to both pay and provide the military...
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