The Corpse of Ronald Reagan

Feb. 2, 2007 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

Obama's Tricky Reagan Moment

Barack Obama brings up unexpected 70's rhetoric.

"...Barack Obama told the Reno Gazette editorial board that "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America." Edwards quickly leapt..."

Jan. 21, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Kennedy, Cruz, and Reagan Tourettes

GOP Senator can't even praise JFK without slavering over the Gipper

"...They can't go more than five words without shrieking "Reagan!" for no apparent reason. It's rather tragic, really, that..."

Nov. 26, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

McCain Gets the Reagan Fever

McCain wraps himself in Reagan's shadow to attract conservatives: but can it work?

"...a prisoner of war, John McCain was inspired by Ronald Reagan." McCain didn't seem to mention this much back..."

Feb. 6, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Myth of Reagan

"...Editor: Now that it's been over two weeks since Ronald Reagan's death we will be hearing more about the..."

June 22, 2004 Postmarks

I Trusted Reagan; I Got Screwed

"...Editor, As our nation says its final farewells to Ronald Reagan, I think we should reflect on what his..."

June 10, 2004 Postmarks

Idea for Reagan Memorial

"...Editor, Here's my suggestion for honoring the memory of Ronald Reagan. Have him tastefully stuffed and propped at the..."

June 10, 2004 Postmarks

Remember Reagan's Negatives

"...To the Editor: Before the deification of Ronald Reagan is completed by hysterical Republicans and before his..."

June 10, 2004 Postmarks

American Hardcore

Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history.

"...scene that lasted from 1980 to 1986 (roughly paralleling Ronald Reagan's time in the Oval Office), is both a..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pictures From a Revolution

"...that was frustrated by Nicaragua's strangled economy, courtesy of Ronald Reagan; of all nonfiction films about Nicaragua, it is..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Chris Walters

Naked City

Don't crack jokes about the man! The YCTs will get you!

"...Reaganmania continues its march across the nation – Williamson Co...."

June 25, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Making of a President

While waiting for election recount results, George W. Bush is imitating Lyndon B. Johnson while allowing his staff to run the show.

"...mansion described a candidate as scripted and coached as Ronald Reagan ever was. "Bush entered the small parlor on..."

Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Page Two

The rhetorical extremes about Ronald Reagan belie a country balanced on a rhythm of democracy

"...my take on the commentary and editorializing over President Ronald Reagan's death. Mostly it was business as usual, the..."

June 18, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...to some of those songs I wrote about [President Ronald] Reagan. We had to suffer through those years of..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Hightower Report

Forget Clinton – the Republicans are still going after FDR! And, corporations move even middle-class jobs overseas.

"...the coin and replace it with the countenance of Ronald Reagan...."

Feb. 6, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

America's Gaping Economic Divide; and The Bizarre Idolization of Reagan

"...THE BIZARRE IDOLIZATION OF REAGAN..."

Jan. 4, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

In Person

Last week Edmund Morris, the author of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, read from his controversial biography at BookPeople; Clay Smith reports from the scene.

"...a heap of controversy for Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. Morris, who was born in Kenya in 1940,..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

TV Eye

Could Paris Hilton or Jonathan Antin teach Dubya a thing or two about how to work it?

"...When former President Ronald Reagan died, I wasn't surprised at the weeklong mourning..."

June 18, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Hightower Report

Christmas tree growers treat the poor in an un-Christian manner; Oliver North re-invades Grenada.

"...Many of us remember Ronald Reagan as the fearless "Conqueror of Grenada!"..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Desert One

Inside Carter’s catastrophic mission to rescue the Iranian hostages

"...to Carter’s loss of the 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan. (The hostages, curiously, were released by the Iranians..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don Rickles

The legendary comic reveals how he 'slayed' Reagan and killed on the moon

"...DR: Well, the most outstanding thing was Ronald Reagan, rest his soul, was going to be inaugurated..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Point Austin: Race, Raids, and ... Us

Trump’s latest outrage fits a pattern from D.C. to Texas

"...of immigration to U.S. life and culture belong to Ronald Reagan: "Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to..."

July 19, 2019 News Column by Michael King

American Made

Tom Cruise is a pilot who becomes embroiled in the Iran/Contra scandal

"...historically snoozy – Oliver North, the Tower Commission, and Ronald Reagan’s morning in America – but in director Doug..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Farewell

Loosely based on historic events surrounding the end of the Cold War, this French espionage film shows how some spies are just regular folks.

"...film’s siphoning out of some too-secret documents. Images of Ronald Reagan (gamely played by Ward) watching The Man Who..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Lowdown

Bill Clinton won't go away; a Harvard economist says you're poor because you deserve to be; Charles Schwab needs taxpayer help … to hunt ducks.

"...to fame is that he once was head of Ronald Reagan's council of economic advisors. You might remember that..."

Jan. 11, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Edmund Morris' 'Theodore Rex'

Edmund Morris was spanked by critics in 1999 for introducing a fictional contemporary of Ronald Reagan's in Dutch to help explain the trajectory of that president's life. Now the second volume of Morris' study of Theodore Roosevelt has been published, and it's apparent all over again why he is one of the nation's best biographers.

"...Dutch, in which he introduced a fictional contemporary of Ronald Reagan's to help explain the trajectory of that president's..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...welcomed to the White House by none other than Ronald Reagan (that beacon of freedom held up by the..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

The Hightower Lowdown

Star Wars boondoggle, MBNA's bankruptcy fraud, and the CIA's cooked books

"...the fanciful Star Wars scheme first put forth by Ronald Reagan -- and now being revived by Little George..."

March 30, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Perry's Last Gasp

A campaign autopsy before the cadaver is cold

"...Fiorina. In fact, Perry got more headlines for saying "Ronald Raven" rather than "Ronald Reagan" during the Fox forum..."

Aug. 12, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

Being an arms pimp backfires on the U.S.; and to see our nation's future, look at Texas' miserable present.

"...with made-in-the-USA stinger missiles, supplied to Taliban leaders by Ronald Reagan and Bush the First when the Taliban was..."

March 21, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

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