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Mitch PerrySeptember 15, 2015

With the second Republican Party presidential debate taking place this week at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, we’re hearing more references than ever references by the GOP candidates to the the nation’s 40th president, who remains as powerful an iconic figure as anyone in Republican politics. That certainly includes Jeb Bush, whose op-ed in today’s […]

Phil AmmannApril 15, 2015

In nearly two centuries, Florida went without creating as so much a ripple with White House contenders. For the 2016 presidential race, that could change dramatically, as the Sunshine State faces the unique status of fielding not one, but two bona fide candidates – Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. As Rubio launched his presidential campaign Monday, […]

Martin DyckmanApril 8, 2014

In one of those eerie coincidences that make a point, Charles H. Keating Jr. died just two days before the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical majority subverted the nation once again in its hideous McCutcheon decision. For those who don’t know or who choose –like the Congress and the court — to forget, Keating personified what’s […]

Tag: Alan Cranston

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