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'Ronald Reagan'

Dumas: The country is in debt of all soldiers, including Bowe Bergdahl

Ernest Dumas has written a fine column on the matter of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and his exchange for Taliban captives at Guantanamo. It addresses the not-so-subtle subtext of the right-wingers that Bergdahl somehow was not deserving of rescue on account of his pre-disappearance conduct.
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An open line: They're already playing the old woman card against Hillary Clinton; Democrats have treasurer candidate; UA frat probed for racially themed party

Is Hillary Clinton too old to run for president. Mike Huckabee raises the question. Also on our open line: A Democratic candidate for state treasurer and an investigation of a UA fraternity for having a racially stereotypical party on M.L. King Day.
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The 'Welfare Queen' lives on in food-stamp myth

To appreciate the Republican triumph over America's poor last week, when the party's majority in the House of Representatives stripped food aid from the nation's farm bill, you must go back to Ronald Reagan's speeches about the Welfare Queen in his 1976 campaign for president against Gerald Ford.

Welfare queens, young bucks, T-bones and Tom Cotton

Ernie Dumas provides another useful analysis today tying historic political events — Ronald Reagan's racially incendiary use of "welfare queens" and "young bucks" dining on T-bones as a metaphor to rouse the Southern base — to current events.
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Truth telling about Republican presidents

Ernest Dumas weighs in, again, with a useful lesson in American political history. If only it could be widely read and absorbed.

Mike Huckabee: Reagan couldn't win in 2012

Think Progress wonders if Mike Huckabee is really talking about himself in remarks that Ronald Reagan probably couldn't win the Republican nomination in the current political climate on the right.
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Gene Lyons on the Reagan record

If, like me, you didn't get a daily newspaper delivered this morning, you might be missing your weekly dose of Gene Lyons.

Legislative rundown

Arkansas legislature round-up for today.
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Reagan's Alzheimer's, or not

David Corn on the family feud over whether or not Pres. Ronal Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's disease while in the White House - his sons Ron and Michael have very different opinions on the matter - and how close reporter Leslie Stahl came to reporting on Reagan's despondence after a meeting she had with the president in 1986.
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