(CNSNews.com) – As tributes pour in and Britons wrestle over her legacy at home, few around the world would dispute that Margaret Thatcher’s foreign policy left Britain more respected, and the West stronger, during a pivotal decade of the 20th century. Britain’s first woman prime minister, who died Monday at 87, will be remembered for [...]

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via Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures While the Reagan recovery averaged 7.1% economic growth over the first seven quarters, the Obama recovery has produced less than half that at 2.8%, with the last quarter at a dismal 1.8%.  After seven quarters of the Reagan recovery, unemployment had fallen 3.3 percentage points from its peak [...]

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If Barack Obama is allowed to “finished what he started,” government dependency is all that we’ll have left. Barack Obama and his supporters at the Democratic National Convention will mostly avoid the topic of unemployment, as unfavorable a subject as that is for Democrats’ reelection chances. Still, we will inevitably hear a mantra like “the [...]

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Stephanie Cutter, President Obama’s deputy campaign manager, recently boasted to Willie Geist of MSNBC that, from an employment perspective, the recovery of the economy under President Obama compares favorably with the Reagan recovery.  Her claim seemed adequately outlandish to warrant comparing the two recoveries based on two criteria of central importance to the American people: [...]

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Obama: We could call the Buffett Rule the \”Reagan Rule\” As President Reagan used to say to Carter, “There you go again.” It gets so old listening to Obama constantly bring up President Reagan’s name in his speeches trying to persuade people that he is much like Reagan.  That couldn’t be further from the truth.   [...]

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Obama says Reagan couldn\’t get through GOP primary This president longs to be loved and admired as  Ronald Reagan and continues to bring up his name to make political  points.  Not only is he not worthy of the presidential elite, he will go down as the worst president in the history of the United States. Share [...]

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My pal Joe Weisenthal over at Business Insider just wrote a piece – in response to a post I wrote earlier today — with the delightfully provocative and contrarian headline, “Why The Obama Recovery Has Been Much More Impressive Than Reagan’s.” Nope, I’m not making this up. See for yourself. Let’s be perfectly clear, the [...]

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On this day last year, I posted two charts that I developed using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s interactive website. Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s. But perhaps that was an unfair comparison. Maybe the Reagan recovery started strong and then hit [...]

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Oh Lord………please let this guy be the Republican VP nominee in 2012. Share on Facebook

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The press is trying to paint me as trying to undo the New Deal.… I’m trying to undo the Great Society. – Ronald Reagan, in a January 1982 diary entry via The American Spectator : What Would Reagan Cut?. Share on Facebook

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