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Originally Posted by ottopilot
....are you saying that cronyism may actually exist? Oh my? Again...balance my friend...that's a rock in a glass house.
On another topic... This is exactly what it means 
Host (and all TFPers) I truly wish you and yours all the best for the Holidays. Turn on some Bing Crosby, have some eggnog, be with someone you love, and refrain from Google for a day or two. Enjoy the season and have a very merry Christmas.
otto
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otto, T'was the night before christmas....Reagan's admirers were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads:
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...g0MTg2NTdlNzk=
November 20, 2007 7:00 AM
Reagan, No Racist
Racing through the record.
By Deroy Murdock
.....Especially with the White House at stake, Leftist hacks like Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert will keep trying to smear Ronald Reagan as a racist. The obvious implication is that those of us who love America’s 40th president also are either racists or self-hating blacks.
These annoyingly immortal, liberal fantasies are just a steaming pile of lies.
— Deroy Murdock is a New York-based columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution.
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http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...23&postcount=2
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Pol...ophy/HL380.cfm
Imagine, if you will, a future wherein the media willfully support the foreign policy objectives of the United States. A time when the left can no longer rely on the media to promote its socialist agenda to the public. A time when someone, somewhere in the media can be counted on to extol the virtues of morality without qualifications. When Betty Friedan no longer qualifies for "Person of the Week" honors. <h3>When Ronald Reagan is cited not as the "Man of the Year," but the "Man of the Century."</h3>
The news and entertainment media will continue to effect the cultural health of America. If we succeed in our mission to restore political balance to this institution, future generations win benefit and thank us. It's worth fighting for, now.
L. Brent Bozell, III is Chairman of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia.
He spoke on January 21, 1992 at The Heritage Foundation in the Resource Bank series of lectures
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http://www.mediaresearch.org/bozellc...ol19990930.asp
Time's Slanted Century Polls
by L. Brent Bozell III
September 30, 1999
......I mean choosing “Endangered Earth”, as they did in 1989. Or their pick for Man of the Decade in 1990, when they might have selected Ronald Reagan, whose domestic policies gave our country its biggest peacetime economic expansion in history while his foreign policy drove the Soviet Union into the trashcan of history. Somehow the Gipper didn’t qualify; the award went to that other grand success story, Mikhail Gorbachev.
Now Time’s at it again. Visit their website to see their nominations for the Man of the Century. It won’t tell you too much about the most important people these past hundred years but it will tell you boatloads about Time magazine..........
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....when out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter, they continued to dream of sugar plums, oblivious to their "man of the century's" actual record:
Here's a segment of a speech of a recent chairman of BofA, from that company's website. Could he be a "leftist".....???
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http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/in...eches&item=138
Remarks at the Governor's Emerging Issues Forum
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
Remarks at the Governor's Emerging Issues Forum
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
“What Is, and What We Hope For”
February 24, 2000
Raleigh, North Carolina
...Finally, I'd like to say a few words about why diversity matters ... and how racial discord continues to haunt our children's educational experience.
I believe public school desegregation was the single most important step we've taken in this century to help our children. Almost immediately after we integrated our schools, the Southern economy took off like a wildfire in the wind. I believe integration made the difference. Integration -- and the diversity it began to nourish -- became a source of economic, cultural and community strength.
That said, our experience with desegregation has not been entirely without struggles, missteps and bad feelings......
....In Charlotte, we recently reopened these wounds in our court case on busing. In that case, some argued that the benefits of neighborhood schools now outweigh the benefits of racially diverse classrooms. Others argued that de facto "separate but equal" schools are inherently unjust, and that busing should continue. No one argues that neighborhood schools are inherently bad. Nor does anyone argue that diversity is inherently bad. But we seem resigned to the idea that we can't have both.
This is what I want to know: if diversity is such a great thing, why do we put the burden on our children to achieve it? Why should a seven-year-old sit on a bus for 45 minutes to go to school in the name of diversity when the adults in her life won't buy a home in a racially or economically diverse neighborhood? Is diversity more important for children than for adults?
These are questions we must ask ourselves, and, frankly, I don't think the economic excuse holds water. Sure, our neighbors at the very bottom of the ladder have limited choices about where to live. <h3>But the rest of us segregate ourselves at every income level.</h3>
My own judgment is that diversity is vitally important, and that <h3>we should continue busing as long as it is the only way to achieve diverse schools.</h3> But I also believe that when adults choose to self-segregate based on race, our rhetoric rings hollow, and we reveal ourselves to be less enlightened than we think.....
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Back in 1984, here was "Ron the uniter", declaring the exact opposite of what BofA CEO McColl said, above:
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http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archive...84/100884a.htm
Remarks at a Reagan-Bush Rally in Charlotte, North Carolina
October 8, 1984
The President. Thank you all very much.
Audience. Reagan! Reagan! Reagan! ......
....They favor busing that takes innocent children out of the neighborhood school and makes them pawns in a social experiment that
nobody wants. We've found out it failed. I don't call that compassion....
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http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu...-20-CBS-7.html
CBS Evening News for Monday, Apr 20, 1981
Headline: Charlotte / Busing
Abstract: (Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Charlotte, North Carolina) Success of busing for school desegregation here examined. <h3>[November 11, 1980, Ronald REAGAN - calls
busing a failure.]</h3> Beginning of busing concept for United States recalled occurring here; details given. [1971 school board member
Jane SCOTT - thinks city was committed to making it work.] [Civil rights attorney Julius CHAMBERS - praises leaders] Current
situation outlined; carryover of busing into integration of neighborhoods noted. [William POE - thinks city has adjusted well.]
Poe's opposition to busing 10 years ago recalled. [POE - praises program.] Continued hope of antibusing proponents discussed.
[Senator Jesse HELMS - calls busing a folly.] [Dr. Carlton WATKINS - responds.]
REPORTER: Ed Rabel (WBTV file film)
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...57C0A964958260
Busing Is Abandoned Even in Charlotte
By PETER APPLEBOME,
Published: April 15, 1992
...Charlotte, or the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, as the city-county district is known, holds a distinctive place in American public education. During two decades when court-ordered busing was fiercely opposed in many places, this was a community that took enormous pride in the racial harmony and integrated schools that its busing produced.
Dead Silence for Reagan
"I remember when Ronald Reagan made a speech here and described busing as a social experiment that has not worked, and he was met with dead silence," said Jay M. Robinson, the school superintendent from 1976-86. "What happened in Charlotte became a matter of community pride." ...
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http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,951327,00.html
Monday, Oct. 22, 1984
Charms and Maledictions
By LANCE MORROW
After Louisville, a national pageant takes on new possibilities
Searching for a street-level reading of the nation 's political mood, and the nuances of its shifts, Senior Writer Lance Morrow traveled with the Reagan and Mondale campaigns for 2½ weeks, before and after the presidential debate. His report:
...It was not merely that Mondale was something of a lusterless and dispiriting alternative to a personally popular sitting President in a period of peace and economic recovery. A more mysterious and complex process was occurring in the American psyche. Americans considered Mondale with a merciless objectivity. But many of them came to absorb Ronald Reagan in an entirely different and subjective manner. They internalized him. In recent months, Reagan found his way onto a different plane of the American mind, a mythic plane. He became not just a politician, not just a President, but very nearly an American apotheosis. The Gipper as Sun King.
A dispassionate witness may say that it was all done with mirrors and manipulation, with artfully patriotic rhetoric and Olympic imagery, the Wizard of Oz working the illusion machine. But that does not entirely do credit to the phenomenon. In an extraordinary way, Reagan came in some subconscious realms to be not just the leader of America but the embodiment of it. "America is back," he announced with a bright, triumphant eye. Back from where? Back from Viet Nam, perhaps, and Watergate and the sexual revolution and all the other tarnishing historical uncleannesses that deprived America of her virtue and innocence.
Partly by accident of timing, partly by a kind of simple genius of his being, Reagan managed to return to Americans something extremely precious to them: a sense of their own virtue. Reagan-completely American, uncomplicated, forward-looking, honest, self-deprecating- became American innocence in a 73-year-old body. (The American sense of innocence and virtue does not always strike the world as a shining and benign quality, of course.)
Whatever the reasons, the campaign of 1984 did not stack up exactly as an equitable contest. Until last week, Reagan's aura purchased him surprising immunities. The polls showed a majority of Americans disagreeing with him on specific issues but planning to vote for him anyway.
Not long ago, Reagan went to Bowling Green State University for a political appearance that looked and sounded like every Big Ten pep rally of the past 20 years compacted into an instant. Reagan's helicopter, deus ex machina again, fluttered down onto the grass outside, visible to the waiting crowd through a great window, and the students erupted in an ear-splitting roar, waving their Greek fraternity letters on placards. REBUILDING AN AMERICA THAT ONCE WAS, said one sign. <h3>The young these days seem prone to a kind of aching nostalgia for some American prehistory that they cannot quite define, but sense in Reagan. The chant of "We Want Ron!" elided into the Olympic chant, "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" To some extent, they were merely exuberant kids making noise, but their identification with, their passion for, a 73-year-old President was startling.</h3> And so was their equation of the man with the nation he leads. Who would have thought that an aged movie actor would be, for so many of the young, the man for the '80s? ....
The day after the Louisville debate, the White House "spinners" were hard at work on the press plane, on the buses. The President was heading to Charlotte, N.C., for an appearance with Senator Jesse Helms and then to Baltimore. The spinners, a patrol of top White House staff members, have the task of chatting with the press and trying to get a favorable spin on stories. They were working that day at damage control.
The debate was a sudden deflation. One could hear the air rushing into the vacuum. Now Reagan seemed flat and disconcerted and, weirdly, somehow a stranger to himself. <h3>In Charlotte, a city that takes pride in having made its busing program a model for the rest of the country, Reagan denounced the practice of busing and was greeted with silence.</h3> The Baltimore event was curiously disheveled. Reagan was there to unveil a statue of Christopher Columbus at the Inner Harbor. The crowd was dotted with protesters ("No More Years! No More Years!") and anti-Reagan signs (DEAD MARINES FOR REAGAN.) Back on the press bus, Donaldson bellowed to his constituency: "Big Mo ain't here today!" ...
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...and just to be sure he had his way, ole Ron appointed to the federal bench, a lawyer named Robert Potter, on record as a critic of busing. Potter, at no one's request, took the law into his own hands:
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http://groups.google.com/group/soc.c...95bc5ee207d189
Case key to magnet schools' future
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
April 20, 1999
...Presiding over the trial will be Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Potter, a Reagan appointee.
A public opponent of busing before his appointment to the bench, Potter unsettled black parents
during a court hearing last month. He said, on his own initiative, that he would consider releasing
the school system from all court supervision if he found that the lingering effects of segregation
are gone. His announcement was unusual because none of the parties had requested such action. ....
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8479694.html
The Boston Globe
Date:
April 14, 1998
Author:
Michael Grunwald, Globe Staff
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- This is not just the city where court-ordered busing began. Charlotte is also known as the city that made court-ordered busing work.
When Boston's busing wars were raging, students from Charlotte came north to spread the word that peaceful integration was possible. In a federal study of the nation's 125 largest school systems, Charlotte-Mecklenberg was rated the most integrated. When President Reagan attacked busing during a campaign speech in Charlotte, his own supporters responded with stony silence. The next day, the Charlotte Observer replied with an editorial titled "You Were Wrong, Mr. President," calling school desegregation the city's "proudest achievement."
But history may be turning in its tracks. Last month, a federal judge here reopened Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education, the landmark desegregation case that launched the nation's busing experiment. Now the city where race-based busing was ruled the law of the land may become the city where race-based busing is ruled illegal, even though the mixing of black and white schoolchildren has evolved into a point of civic pride here, as knitted into Charlotte's fabric as banking or auto racing.
"It's an extraordinary situation," said Harvard education professor Gary Orfield, the author of "Dismantling Desegregation." "The Charlotte schools became a national model for desegregation after the courts forced them to do it. Now the courts might come in and say they can't do it anymore."
The danger, critics like Orfield say, is that the end of busing and other race-based assignment policies may mean a return to segregated schools. But in the new legal landscape, as the Supreme Court tilts toward color-blindness and away from race-conscious policies on issues like affirmative action and congressional redistricting, many school boards are finally being released from strict federal desegregation orders. The Charlotte-Mecklenberg school board does not even want to be released from the Swann order, but it might not have a choice.
The lawsuit that could stop the buses was filed by Bill Capacchione, a white parent and neighborhood school activist who asserts that his daughter Cristina was denied admission to a Charlotte magnet school because of unconstitutional race-based assignment policies. Similar cases are under way in Boston, over Boston Latin School, and in several other cities, but specialists say Charlotte may be the national test once again. Role reversal
One reason is that the case has landed before Judge Robert Potter, a conservative Reagan appointee and former anti-busing activist who drew up a petition protesting the Swann ruling nearly 30 years ago. (The petition attracted more than 10,000 signatures in two days.) At a preliminary hearing last month, Potter stunned the schools' attorneys by reopening the Swann case even though no one had asked him to do so. And he quickly put the onus on the school board to come up with a compelling reason why it still needs a court order to run a discrimination-free system.
For a case brimming with ironies, none is more telling than this role reversal: In the legal and racial climate of the '90s, it is now the longtime desegregationists in Charlotte who clamor for local control of schools and grumble about activist judges. And it is their opponents who simply point to the law, to the Constitution, to the direction set by the Supreme Court....
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racism? Ron? Nooooo, it can't be....it's just a leftist smear.... <h3>and visions of sugar plums danced in our heads....</h3>
I just spotted your next post, otto....here you go:
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...04&btnG=Search
Published on Sunday, May 23, 2004 by the Denver Post
When Advocates Become Regulators
President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.
by Anne C. Mulkern
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otto, why all the references to "google"...and searches? Do you have an aversion to the actual record? As long as the information posted can be verified, how does who posts it, and the process of searching for it, come into your opinion about it? If something is posted that is credible and verifiable, even if it contradicts a common belief, does it matter if it is posted on 12/24, or on 10/31? If the preponderance of evidence indicates that Ronald Reagan was a divisive, race baiter, and not "the man of the century", shouldn't that be told, especially when David Brooks is using his highly visible NY Times "pulpit" to communicate the opposite of the Reagan record?
....and, what about "states rights", why is Bush's EPA suddenly denying California an option of stricter environmental standards?
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