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Gun group spokesperson suggests Reagan was senile when he backed gun control
The primary spokesperson for a guns advocacy group suggested to MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday that Republican icon Ronald Reagan was going senile when he began supporting stricter firearms regulation. President Barack Obama referenced Reagan while announcing a series of 23 executive orders he said would tackle the problem…
Bob Shrum schools Ron Johnson: ‘Fantasyland’ to credit Reagan for Clinton economy
Tea party-backed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) says that former Republican President Ronald Reagan is responsible for the country’s economic success under former Democratic President Bill Clinton and the American people “don’t really understand” economic growth. Johnson told CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Tuesday that it would not be necessary to…
Ronald Reagan shooter seeks more time out of jail
WASHINGTON — The gunman who tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan in March 1981 appealed on Wednesday to be allowed more time outside the psychiatric hospital where he has held for nearly 30 years. John Hinckley, 56, “won’t be a danger to himself and to others,” his attorney Barry Levine…
Huckabee’s ‘history’ cartoon teaches kids to idolize Reagan
Former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is hoping to earn a few extra bucks by teaching children his own special view of history. The Fox News host has launched a series of cartoons that he hopes will correct the “blame America first” attitude. “When it comes to American history, our…
Reagan shooter wants more outings from psych hospital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors are fighting to stop the man who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981 from leaving a psychiatric hospital for more family visits. On March 29, a day before the 30th anniversary of the shooting,John Hinckley, Jr. asked a federal judge to allow him an unspecified number of visits…
Judge appointed by Reagan sentenced for helping stripper buy drugs
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A semi-retired federal judge was sentenced on Friday to 30 days in prison for helping an exotic dancer buy illegal drugs, telling her “I’ll watch your back any time.” Jack Camp, 67, pleaded guilty in November to charges of aiding a felon’s possession of cocaine, marijuana and…
Top Reagan DOJ official slams Scalia for ‘secretly’ meeting tea party members
WASHINGTON – A top Justice Department official under President Ronald Reagan tore into Justice Antonin Scalia for holding a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill with tea partyers. “Justice Antonin Scalia galloped beyond the farthest boundaries of judicial propriety in secretly meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss the Constitution with Tea…
Reagan budget chief slams GOP on taxes
David Stockman says Wall Street ‘doesn’t deserve’ extension of tax cuts; US becoming ‘banana republic of finance’ A former Reagan administration budget director who was behind the largest tax cut in US history now says the US can’t afford any more tax cuts, and both major parties are participating in…
Punk popsters rock out for Gitmo guards
Update at bottom: Band members posed in Reagan, Death Squad t-shirts at Gitmo “I smoked a Cuban in Cuba,” Bowling For Soup guitarist Chris Burney tweets, “Fuck all y’all.” Oi! Nothing’s more punk rock than enjoying a cigar after rocking out for the guards who work at an infamous military…
Reagan admin ‘hyped Soviet failures into threats,’ documents show
In its efforts to keep Congress funding huge military budgets in the 1980s, the Reagan administration exaggerated the threat from the Soviet Union’s military projects, newly published documents show. Documents posted online Thursday at the National Security Archives chronicle a Soviet physicist’s efforts to dispel claims about the USSR’s secretive…
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