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They're Not Going to Auction Reagan's Blood After All

Mad supply-side scientists wanting to clone Ronald Reagan will have to get their source DNA somewhere else, as an auction house selling a sample of the Gipper's blood has decided to cancel the sale.

By Alexander Abad-Santos

May 22, 2012

Purloined Reagan Blood Goes to Auction

Just in time for Father's Day, there's a company out there claiming to sell a vial of Ronald Reagan's blood. And for $9,888.00 it could be your father's.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 26, 2012

Ed Rollins Makes His Manly Case

Today the Atlantic Wire offered a guide to a curious species that thrives in the nation's capital: the mega-macho male political staffers described as brawlers despite having jobs for which a significant portion of daily responsibilities is getting in fights on Twitter.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Apr 3, 2012

Reagan Was Actually Always Right

President Obama told reporters that Ronald Reagan "couldn't get through a Republican primary today" because the party has become so much more conservative.

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By Seth Abramovitch

Mar 18, 2012

Reagan's Lost Doodles, and Other Treasures From the Thatcher Archives

Ronald Reagan's artistic handiwork, swiped by Margaret Thatcher herself at the 1981 G7 Summit, has been released online, among other historical curios from her archives.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jan 31, 2012

Believe Newt When He Says He's Not Done Fighting

Even if he loses the Florida primary Tuesday, Gingrich predicts the nomination contest will go one for another "six or eight months… unless Romney drops out earlier."

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jan 30, 2012

Quantifying Just How Much Newt and Mitt Loved Reagan

Of all the attacks and counterattacks made during the Republican presidential primary, the hardest one to prove is which candidate's love of Ronald Reagan is most pure and true?

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jan 11, 2012

18% of New Hampshire Democrats Voted for Someone Other Than Obama

President Obama won the other primary in New Hampshire last night with 82 percent of the 47,000 votes -- a far lower percentage and turnout than Bill Clinton got in 1996. Does it spell doom -- a lack of Democratic enthusiasm, or support in the state?

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By Adam Martin

Dec 21, 2011

Reagan's War on Drugs Reduced Crime in an Unexpected Way

As the FBI released its national crime statistics for the first half of 2011 on Monday, showing violent crime and property crime down across the board, a group of sociologists at City University of New York floated a theory for the ongoing crime reduction in New York that they extrapolated nationally: Crime is falling because drugs are getting cheaper.

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By Richard Lawson

Dec 8, 2011

Ad Watch

A Vote for Huntsman Is a Vote for Reagan, Sort Of

Today we review a new Reagan-based ad from Jon Huntsman.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Nov 15, 2011

One Press Release Encapsulates the Whole Cain Campaign

After conservatives criticized Herman Cain for his stumbling response to an answer about unions' collective bargaining power, his campaign sent out a press release that's a shorter version of the entire Cain campaign -- not-quite-factual statements, a refusal to offer details, and the hope that everyone will be distracted if he shouts "Ronald Reagan!" loud enough.

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By Ray Gustini

Nov 15, 2011