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...The album probes the faultlines of US foreign policy and the ways in which the Reagan administration gave tacit approval to Jean-Claude Duvalier to crack down on press freedom....
...The post has often been held by political heavyweights such as James Baker, who served in the job for Ronald Reagan, and Leon Panetta, for Bill Clinton....
...Letter in response to this article: New York requires the ‘riff-raff’ as well as the rich / From Michele Perez, Fort Lee, NJ, US...
...Michele Swers, a Georgetown University politics professor, said the outcome was a setback for Mr Trump “because his basic message is he is a winner and now he lost the first contest for which he was ever...
...“This has been building for a long, long time, especially on the Republican side,” says Angelo Codevilla, a former Reagan official and professor emeritus at Boston University, who has warned for several...
...A Vietnam veteran and former senior official at the department of veteran affairs during the Reagan administration, Mr Hagel is considered an experienced Washington insider with friends on both sides of...
...“Kerry was almost certainly a better choice than Rice,” he said, “and, for my money, Michele Flournoy [a former senior Pentagon official] would be a better choice than Hagel.”...
...“It is the most impressive insurgent performance for someone seeking the Republican nomination since Ronald Reagan in 1976,” said Ralph Reed, a long-time conservative activist and chairman of Century Strategies...
...Take, for example, this splendid piece from the Wall Street Journal by Peggy Noonan, who used to write Ronald Reagan’s speeches....
...His rivals are also set to benefit from the withdrawal from the race of Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party conservative whose supporters, though relatively few, are now up for grabs....
...It has awarded brief frontrunner status to absurdly unlikely types, such as Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain and, most recently, Rick Santorum....
...“There’s no [Barry] Goldwater, no [Ronald] Reagan to lead them this time,” said Mr Schneider, referring to the Republican conservative nominees in the 1964 and 1980 elections....
...“Ronald Reagan was a governor, but what made Ronald Reagan great wasn’t his governing experience as a governor. It was his core set of principles.”...
...That is not because I necessarily consider Thatcher to be the perfect solution to the current woes in Britain or America (never mind that politician Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party darling and former Republican...
...Consider the last few months; Donald Trump, the ultimate vanity candidate, along with Newt Gingrich, streaked like a comet and fell to earth like a spent satellite; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann wowed ‘...
...But the Tea Party movement and the followers of Michele Bachmann, the rising star of the Republican party, see it as far more than that....
...There, he will hope to absorb support from voters who were previously planning to back Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman, who has withdrawn her campaign....
...“I love von Mises,” Michele Bachmann told one interviewer. “When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises.”...
...Apart from God, who purportedly called on no fewer than Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain to run, but who apparently changed his mind on all of them, most of the big figures are holding back....
...“It took a Jimmy Carter for us to get a Ronald Reagan, so it may very well take a Barack Obama for us to get a Michele Bachmann,” he says....
...Jimmy Carter’s peanuts and Ronald Reagan’s jelly beans added to the snack mix....
...Now not even wannabe Mr Smiths like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry can seduce voters....
...The opening animation lauds the achievements of conservative icon Ronald Reagan....
...The brassy Michele Bachmann, founder and chairman of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives, won the hearts of the audience with her pithy promises to oust Mr Obama....
...A majority of Americans is not going to vote for Michele Bachmann, he insists. “They’re not going to vote for crazy.”...
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