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Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
How can I resist this essay on The Rumpus ? It is a meditation on "Higher Love" - which is not one of my favourite Winwood songs either - and takes in Reagan, Derrida and Levi-Strauss: I would volunteer the hypothesis that no matter how abject the pop confection is, there is often a moment of the sublime hovering in there somewhere ... and that Steve Winwood, with his rather thrilling past,...
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Plunderbund (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
USA Today has a neat interactive graph that let’s you compare Presidential approval ratings. I found this comparison of Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan pretty interesting: Another worth plugging in to the comparison meter is Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. All your graph are belong to us. Boo Hoo. Ouch. (ht Andrew [...]
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The Humble Libertarian (Free subscription) | yesterday
By: Ryan Jaroncyk , T H L Contributor Since 2007, the GOP has been prolifically citing President Ronald Reagan as its primary source of inspiration. In 2007-2008, the presidential candidates mentioned Reagan a dizzying number of times in the debates, and popular conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity frequently appeal to him as the standard bearer of the Republican Party....
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WI Catholic Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
So many things he says could easily be said today.....
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The Swamp (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
President Barack Obama's public approval stood at 69 percent in the days after his inauguration in January, shown above, and reached a new low of 49 percent this week in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking surveys . by Mark Silva Public approval of the job that President Barack Obama is performing has fallen below 50 percent for the first time in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking of opinion. The 49-percent...
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Peoria Pundit (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Here’s more liberal hatred of Sarah Palin. Waitaminute. It’s actually libertarian Steve Champan in Reason, who compares her to Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, made his reputation four years earlier with an eloquent and intellectually coherent volume, The Conscience of a Conservative, which laid out a blueprint for the policies [...]...
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1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Why all the pessimism? The source appears to be a growing fear that the federal government is retreating from the free-market economic principles of the last half-century, and in particular the strong growth policies that began under Ronald Reagan. A review of the economic policies instituted by President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress lends [...]
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ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Gallup reports today: Obama Job Approval Down to 49% November 20, 2009 Gallup Daily tracking from Nov. 17-19 shows President Barack Obama’s job approval slipping to 49% for the first time in his presidency. Among post-World War II presidents, only Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan dropped below the symbolic majority approval level faster than Obama did. Also see chart I posted earlier...
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Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Here is a link to a really neat inter-active graph that let's you compare approval ratings for various presidents since the 1940s: Presidential approval tracker The Gallup organization first started asking Americans how they approved of the job the president was doing in the 1940s. See how each president since then has fared in the approval poll, look at some news events that influenced public opinion...
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They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
From Digby, Turkey Day Talking Points for liberals breaking bread with wingnut freakazoid relatives: Campaign For America's Future does yeoman's work on many important issues, most recently their campaign to bring back America's manufacturing base. They are committed progressives who put their time and effort into making the country better for average people every day. But for all the important things...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of the restaurant Paradou in trendy Park Slope Manhattan's meat-packing district, sent his employees an email in which he called them "lazy motherfuckers" because they failed to extract enough email addresses from their customers (he has a spam list and he makes it his servers' duty to get email addresses out of diners). Ponorovsky went on to call his employees...
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All in Faber (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
One shouldn't read into it more than is there- it happened to Ronald Reagan a week earlier in his first term- but President Obama has, for the first time, fallen below 50% popularity in the Gallup tracking poll. Reagan's approval remained south of that milestone for the next two years, and he was re-elected in one of the most one-sided landslides in history. But the fact remains that Barack Obama...
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Right Coast (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Obama Job Approval Down to 49% The latest Gallup Daily tracking results show 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, putting him below the majority approval level for the first time in his presidency. Although the current decline below 50% has symbolic significance, most of the recent decline in support for Obama occurred in July and August. He began July at 60% approval....
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Capping Wall Street Pay Won't Solve Our Problems--But Breaking Up the Banks Might , by the Editors Can’t Get a Flu Shot? Don’t Blame Obama. Okay, Maybe Blame Him a Little. by Marin Cogan The Final Descent of John McCain , by Jonathan Chait Cogan, Cottle, Darby, and Khimm Have a Few Things to Say About the Cervix , by Michelle Cottle Ronald Reagan: Accidental Champion of the Black Underclass...
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