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Reagan Showed Signs of Alzheimer's in Office: Son

President might have suspected as far back as '86

(Newser) - People have speculated about how far Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's went back since his diagnosis in 1994, but his own son now says that the former president began showing signs of the degenerative disease while in the Oval Office. In My Father at 100, Ron Reagan writes that while watching his...

Reagan-Bush Honcho Found Murdered in Landfill

John Wheeler III, 66, last seen on Amtrak train

(Newser) - Police searched for clues today in the death of John Wheeler III, a veteran of the Reagan and first Bush administrations who also helped lead efforts to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The body of Wheeler, 66, was discovered on New Year's Eve as a garbage truck emptied its contents...

GOP Must Take Down Palin
 GOP Must Take Down Palin  
Joe Scarborough
Nov 30, 2010 11:43 AM CST

GOP Must Take Down Palin

Joe Scarborough thinks Bush, Reagan digs went too far

(Newser) - Republicans are in trouble. “The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected,” yet the party leadership is tip-toeing around her, complains Joe Scarborough in a Politico op-ed. “Enough. It’s time for the GOP to man up.” Palin has...

Believe It or Not, America Fell Out of Love With Reagan

Kornacki: Conservative whitewashing obscures Gipper's real legacy

(Newser) - Republicans sometimes bristle at the comparisons between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama because of their midterm troubles. A favorite conservative theme about Reagan is that the "love fest" between him and the American people continued during and after his presidency, writes Steve Kornacki at Salon , who singles out this...

Tough Choices Loom for Obama
 Tough Choices Loom for Obama  
ELECTION 2010
Nov 3, 2010 7:35 AM CDT

Tough Choices Loom for Obama

Clinton precedent may not help with midterm dilemmas

(Newser) - President Obama is far from the first president to see his party humbled in midterm elections, but precedent may not be much help as he wrestles with tough choices in the wake of yesterday's drubbing. Obama—who plans a press conference today and has already spoken to House speaker-in-waiting John...

Palin in Iowa, Sparking 2012 Speculation

Former governor could be gearing up for presidential bid

(Newser) - Sarah Palin will deliver the keynote address at the Iowa Republican Party's Ronald Reagan Dinner tonight, an engagement widely seen as a possible step toward a 2012 presidential bid, the Washington Post reports. The dinner is an early hurdle for prospective GOP candidates, and Palin's influence is at a high...

10 Celebs' Odd Eating Habits
 10 Celebs' Odd Eating Habits 
cockroaches, yum
Aug 4, 2010 11:23 AM CDT

10 Celebs' Odd Eating Habits

Bet you never thought of rice as a gateway drug

(Newser) - Cockroaches, butterflies, peanut-butter-and-bacon sandwiches: Celebrities sure do have some odd eating habits. The Daily Beast , with the help of Matthew and Mark Jacob’s What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame, lists a few:
  • Angelina Jolie: She’s tried bee larvae, crickets, and cockroaches—and the
...

Democrats, Blaming This Guy Won't Help
 Democrats, Blaming 
 This Guy Won't Help 
OPINION
Aug 3, 2010 12:45 PM CDT

Democrats, Blaming This Guy Won't Help

Angry voters are going to blame the guy in charge

(Newser) - President Obama and Democrats are harping on a new theme as the midterm elections approach: voting for Republicans is the same as voting for a return of the ruinous policies of George W. Bush. They're wasting their breath, writes Steve Kornacki for Salon . Democrats will get trounced no matter what...

Obama 15th-Best President, Scholars Say

George W. Bush, meanwhile, finishes not quite last

(Newser) - Two years in, Barack Obama looks like a pretty good president to the nation’s top presidential scholars. The 44th president came in 15th on the all-time list, two spots behind Bill Clinton and three ahead of Ronald Reagan, in a Siena College Research Institute Poll, the New York Daily ...

Grow Up, America: He's Not Superman

And neither was any other president

(Newser) - Why do we expect President Obama to plug the Gulf oil leak, squelch the Taliban, reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians, and forge a global treaty on greenhouse gases? Because "Americans like to read politics and history as a tale of the Great Man," Paul Starobin writes in the...

GOP's Future Could Be Californian



 GOP's Future Could 
 Be Californian 
OPINION
Mar 30, 2010 5:25 AM CDT

GOP's Future Could Be Californian

Party is more electable with a Californian at the helm

(Newser) - A revived and more electable GOP could be on its way to the White House by way of California, writes David Frum. Ronald Reagan's state turned blue in the '90s as its economy and demographics changed, causing Texas to replace California as the party's anchor. The Texas-led GOP found it...

Palin's Just Like That 'Airhead' Reagan
 Palin's Just 
 Like That 
 'Airhead' 
 Reagan 
Norman Podhoretz
Mar 29, 2010 9:07 AM CDT

Palin's Just Like That 'Airhead' Reagan

Intellectuals on both sides weren't exactly crazy about the Gipper

(Newser) - It’s easy to see why liberal intellectuals hate Sarah Palin—she represents the “retrograde elements of American society” that have “stolen the country from its rightful (liberal) rulers,” writes Norman Podhoretz in the Wall Street Journal . But conservative intellectuals have come to deride her as well,...

A History of Political Cussing
 A History of Political Cussing 
it's not just you, joe
Mar 24, 2010 1:33 PM CDT

A History of Political Cussing

Joe Biden will go down in history with these other respected figures

(Newser) - Quite a big deal has been made over Joe Biden dropping the F-bomb . “But America has a long and honorable tradition of top elected officials using salty language,” writes John Dickerson on Slate . Allow him to educate you:
  • Barack Obama: Famously called Kanye West a “jackass.”
...

With Health Bill, Obama Ends the 'Age of Reagan'
With Health Bill, Obama Ends the 'Age of Reagan'
Analysis
Mar 24, 2010 6:56 AM CDT

With Health Bill, Obama Ends the 'Age of Reagan'

Marks biggest assault on wealth inequality since the '80s

(Newser) - The health care reform bill was the government’s biggest attack on economic inequality in more than 30 years, a period of time that’s seen government policy and market forces consistently push the opposite direction. That’s why Barack Obama fought so hard for it, writes David Leonhardt for...

GOP Lawmaker: Put Reagan on $50 Bill
 GOP Lawmaker: 
 Put Reagan on $50 Bill 
TAKE THAT, ULYSSES S. GRANT!
Mar 3, 2010 12:16 PM CST

GOP Lawmaker: Put Reagan on $50 Bill

A Democrat counters that he's too controversial

(Newser) - A North Carolina congressman is trying to ensure Ronald Reagan a “place of honor on our nation’s currency” by replacing Ulysses S. Grant’s mug on the $50 dollar bill with the Gipper’s. Republican Patrick T. McHenry has introduced legislation ahead of next year's centennial of Reagan's...

Ronald Reagan Grandson Wanted on Pot Charge

He skips hearing, and court issues warrant

(Newser) - As far as upstanding Republican dynasties go, Cameron Reagan is failing miserably. The 31-year-old grandson of one Ronald Reagan may be headed for the clink after a Malibu judge issued a warrant for his arrest on a marijuana possession charge. Seems Cameron was pulled over for speeding in November, and...

How Paul Krugman Became a Liberal

New York Times economist wasn't always political

(Newser) - Believe it or not, Paul Krugman once worked for Ronald Reagan. It’s not that Krugman was conservative; it’s that he just wasn’t political. He was an academic, and only vaguely aware of the growing right-left divide. “I feel now like I was sleepwalking through the twenty...

Obama, Find Your Inner Reagan
 Obama, Find Your Inner Reagan 
STATE OF THE UNION
Jan 27, 2010 12:21 PM CST

Obama, Find Your Inner Reagan

The Gipper's first year didn't go so well, either

(Newser) - Cheer up, Barack; Ronald Reagan had a rough first year, too. But he bounced back nicely, so Mark Halperin of Time pulls some lessons from his playbook for Obama:
  • Stand for a few big things: Reagan stood for three things: lower taxes, stronger defense, family values. His policies didn’t
...

Obama, Give Us Something to Cheer About
Obama, Give Us Something to Cheer About
Eugene Robinson
Jan 19, 2010 10:25 AM CST

Obama, Give Us Something to Cheer About

Prez right not to panic, but needs to hurdle the vast enthusiasm gap

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s 50% approval rating is the worst first-year score of any postwar president save Ronald Reagan, but things worked out pretty well for the Gipper, so the White House isn’t panicking. “But serenity isn’t the same as complacency,” warns Eugene Robinson in the Washington ...

Study for GOP Purity Test With Reagan App

Great Communicator's photos, speeches go mobile with iReagan

(Newser) - Studying for the Republican purity test ? A new iPhone app can help you brush up on your Ronald Reagan while you’re on the go. The Reagan Presidential Library is the muscle behind iReagan, and, packed as it is with sayings, speeches and photos of the 40th president, a...

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