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'Ronald Reagan'

Tom Cotton offers a bleak vision of the U.S. in high-profile speech

The United States under President Biden is a crime-ridden hellscape, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton offered in a 45-minute 2024 presidential campaign warm-up speech Monday at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. 
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Does Tom Cotton really want to link Reagan with Trump? It reflects poorly on both.

Sen. Tom Cotton is giving a speech at the Reagan Library today. It's one in a series by potential contenders for the presidency in 2024.
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The GOP today: Good Old Putin

Politico offers James Kirchik writing about how the Republican Party became the party of Vladimir Putin.

Trump protests pop up in Arkansas

Protests developed around the country yesterday, including in Arkansas, to the election of Donald Trump.
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Reagan adviser rips Donald Trump's tax cut plan

Bruce Bartlett, an architect of Ronald Reagan's 1981 income tax cut, has written today in th e New York Times that Donald Trump is all wrong for embracing Reaganomics in his recently announced plan that would amount to a bonanza for the wealthy.

Hillary Clinton draws criticism for comment on Reagans and AIDS; she apologizes

In an interview before Nancy Reagan's funeral today, Hillary Clinton said President and Mrs. Reagan started a national conversation about AIDS. Critics of the Reagans' response to the AIDS crisis aren't happy about it.
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After decades of terrorism, ready response remains elusive

A great piece of perspective  this week by Ernest Dumas on the ongoing dilemma of terrorism. So complicated; so defiant of easy solutions —- no matter how cheap and easy the talk.

Tax-cut prosperity: You can't find it

Ernest Dumas writes this week on a favorite but still useful topic — the myth of tax cuts for the wealthy as an economic stimulus. There's no record of it.
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Re Donald Trump: We've elected a showman before

Ernest Dumas ponders in his column this week the question of whether the threat of nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee is for real. Maybe. The U.S. has elected a showman before, name of Ronald Reagan.

Arkansas Democratic Party considering name change for Jefferson-Jackson dinner

TV 40/29 reports that the Arkansas Democratic Party is considering following other state Democratic Party organizations and finding a new name for the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day fund-raising dinner at which Hillary Clinton recently spoke.
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Huckabee makes his pitch: Americans vote "vertically"

On an interview with CNBC this morning, Mike Huckabee was asked about the country's changing demographics, the swing toward support for same-sex marriage, and some trends toward more progressive positions on social issues among younger voters. Does someone who "emphasized divisive social issues" really have a chance of getting elected?

Age limit hits Louisiana elected officials. How old is too old to serve?

A new law in Louisiana setting an age limit of 70 for certain public officials prompts the question: How old is too old for public service.
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