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Jimmy Carter

How Reaganism actually started with Carter

Michael Lind
Think Reagan was the first modern president to preach low taxes, free markets and morality?
A small AOL placard is displayed on their offices in New York, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Internet company AOL Inc. is buying news hub Huffington Post in a $315 million deal that represents a bold bet on the future of online news. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (AP)

AOL HuffPo buy signals news, ads push

AP/Salon
AOL's shift equals a new direction
South Sudanese Catholic Archbishop Paulino Lukudu holds up mock ballots during a service attended by President Salva Kiir in Juba, Southern Sudan, Sunday Jan. 16, 2011. The Southern Sudan's president on Sunday offered a prayer of forgiveness for northern Sudan and the killings that occurred during a two-decade civil war, as the first results from a weeklong independence referendum showed an overwhelming vote for secession. About four million Southern Sudanese voters cast their ballots in a weeklong referendum on independence that is expected to split Africa's largest nation in two.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay) (AP)

Obama: U.S. to recognize Southern Sudan

Associated Press
Southern Sudan to be world's newest nation in July after last month's "successful and inspiring" referendum
President Barack Obama listens during his joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Obama says White House, CEOs must work together

Jim Kuhnhenn
President extends olive branch to Chamber of Commerce, urging cooperation and shared responsibility

Obama vs. O’Reilly

Ethan Sherwood Strauss
The president chats with the Fox News pundit. And nothing terrible happens
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama, visiting Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., speaks about the key to boosting American competitiveness, that it rests in the nation's willingness to invest in a more educated workforce, a deeper commitment to research and technology, and improvements in infrastructure, from roads and airports to high-speed internet. Under pressure to boost the economy the same message will likely be at the center of his State of the Union address Tuesday, Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File) (AP)

Obama’s budget director: Deficits force ”tough choices”

AP/Salon
Budget director Jacob Lew believes the White House will need to cut important programs, due to deficits
FILE - In this Feb. 7, 1984 file photo, President Ronald Reagan addresses a crowd of well-wishers gathered for a huge birthday party in the Dixon High School gymnasium in Dixon, Ill. Reagan returned to his boyhood home for the first time since becoming president to celebrate his 73rd birthday. Reagan was born 100 years ago Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) (AP)

Cheney to speak at Reagan centennial

AP/Salon
The former V.P. will commemorate the former president's influence
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reacts at a panel discussion during the Conference on Security Policy in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) (AP)

U.S. backs Egypt reforms

AP/Salon
Hillary Clinton supports Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman
President Barack Obama and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper take part in a joint news conference, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama hosts Super Bowl party, Bill O’Reilly interview

AP/Salon
The president plans a bipartisan football extravaganza
In this photo taken Jan. 19, 2011, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks about the upcoming vote to to repeal the health care bill at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans used their first two weeks in power, interrupted by tributes to the Arizona shooting victims, to excoriate the health law. Boehner says the next big priority is to codify a perennially renewed ban on federal funding for abortion, and to specify that it applies to health plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

House GOP to decimate domestic agencies

AP/Salon
Republicans propose to cut spending by 9 percent, which would lead to government worker layoffs
The 2008 Democratic National Convention

Dems to shun corporate, lobbyist donations at convention

Associated Press
Organizers say 2012 will be the first DNC to be financed by grass-roots activists and rank-and-file members
Egyptian protesters holding a sign with President Hosni Mubarak's face crossed out.

Obama to Egypt: Time to transition is now

Ben Feller, Matthew Lee
President says that talks about a government handover plan for Egypt have begun
In this Aug. 4, 1982 photo, unidentified unemployed auto and steel workers picket in front of the White House in Washington, Aug. 4, 1982.

We fought a war on lies, and lies won

Joan Walsh
Trashing the War on Poverty, Reagan destroyed the social compact that built the postwar American dream
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., accompanied by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2011, to respond to Republican critics on health care and the aviation bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

GOP loses health care repeal vote

AP/Salon
The Senate decides against nixing health reform 47-51, leaving matters for the Supreme Court
President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Egypt in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

US condemns violence in Egypt, chides government

Matthew Lee, Bradley Klapper
White House says U.S. "deplores and condemns the violence that is taking place in Egypt," as hostilities escalate
Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak can be seen hanging from traffic lights, as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to die on Egypt's soil, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest yet calling on him to go. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

From the Pundits: The explosive uncertainty of the Egyptian uprising

Peter Finocchiaro
Reactions to the uprising in Egypt are predictably all over the place
General view of anti-government demonstrators gathered at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 2, 2011. Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, throwing petrol bombs, wielding sticks and charging on horses and camels, fiercely attacked demonstrators in Cairo on Wednesday after the army told protesters to clear the streets. Anti-Mubarak protesters hurled stones back and said the attackers were police in plain clothes, a charge the Interior Ministry denied; the Egyptian government rejected international calls for the leader to end his 30-year-rule now. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) (Reuters)

LIVEBLOG: America condemns violence in Egypt, urges Mubarak to step down

Adam Clark Estes
Molotov cocktails fly, "paid thugs" attack, gunfire crackles, Anderson Cooper punched -- America responds
Young girls wave Egyptian flags atop an armored vehicle just outside Tahrir or Liberation Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

Egyptian army sides with Mubarak — tensions rise

Maggie Michael
While solidarity between soldiers and protesters kept things peaceful, things could take a turn for the worse
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, after their closed GOP caucus meeting ahead of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

House GOP wants EPA restrictions

AP/Salon
Republicans will release Wednesday legislation, aimed at preventing checks on greenhouse gases
President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about Egypt in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama: Egyptian protesters “an inspiration”

AP/Salon
The U.S. president speaks directly to Egypt's people, saying, "We hear your voices."
A veiled woman holds a poster calling for President Hosni Mubarak to go, in Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. Tens of thousands of people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

Mubarak angers Egypt masses, despite vow

AP/Salon
The Egyptian president's abdication promise does little to quell the protests
Democrats head to Charlotte, North Carolina for National Convention after refusing bids from three Midwestern cities.

Dems choose Charlotte for 2012 convention

Liz Sidoti
Obama prepares to "aggressively compete" on traditionally conservative land, hopes of refueling grassroots vibe
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2010 file photo, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney is seen in Dallas. This month's early under-the-radar campaigning by potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama is a reminder of something too easily forgotten: Running for president is harder than it looks, and Obama ultimately will stand against a flesh-and-blood nominee certain to make mistakes along the way. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) (AP)

Romney to Obama: Hit “pause button” on healthcare

Associated Press
But what does the putative presidential candidate say about health care reform he passed as Massachusetts governor?
A U.S. soldier of Charlie Company 1-15 Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat team, 3rd Infantry Division, passes next to a wall painted with the Iraqi flag during a routine patrol in Salman Pak, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (Associated Press)

Let’s end America’s “Middle East First” policy

Michael Lind
No more nation-building: Let's downsize the Pentagon and reassert our economic might
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