Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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News Learning the Lessons of Reaganomics
President Ronald Reagan, who presided in the White House from 1981 to 1989, pursued an economic course that, in his time, was tagged “Reaganomics.” It was not an original invention of this Hollywood star, who used his theatrical talents to win the hearts of Americans. It was the eternal theme of conservatism not only in…
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News The Lament of the Damned Detainee
The recent scandals about the maltreatment of prisoners in Iraq have raised the question of whether such wartime captives have any rights. According to the Geneva Convention on the prisoners of war, they do. And the rights they have would have made impossible the hair-raising abuses they suffered at the hands of their American jailers….
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News From Plus to Minus
Bush’s standing with the American people is on a downward slide, according to the most recent New York Times/CBS poll. Last March, his approval rating was 71 percent. It is now down to 46 percent — the lowest point in the years of his presidency The early high came on the heels of Hussein’s capture….
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News Working Overtime To Ruin Overtime Pay
In America’s historic struggle to pull itself out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, one of the key pieces of legislation was the Fair Labor Standards Act, commonly called the Wage and Hour Law. It set a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour — a ridiculously tiny sum by current standards, but a…
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News Bin Laden: Settling Scores With Saudis
Mark April 21 on your calendar as a turning point in the history of Islam and, arguably, world politics. It is the day that a suicide bomber let loose an explosion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed at least five and wounded 148. It was unexpected. Saudi Arabia has been touted as the most Islamic…
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News Handing Over the Reins
On April 12, in one of his rare press conferences, President Bush laid out a road map on America’s approach to Iraq’s future. Just two days later, he agreed to change — really reverse — the route. What happened? Much of Bush’s opening statement at the press conference consisted of what was once famously labeled…
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News President Bush Failed To Heed His Father’s Warnings
The gruesome events in Iraq on the day before April Fool’s Day are a painful confirmation of what the elder President Bush foretold would happen if Uncle Sam decided to go after Saddam Hussein and remove him from office. On March 31, four American civilians working for a security firm in Falluja, Iraq, were ambushed…
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News Dodging Clarke’s Charges
Richard Clarke, top anti-terrorism adviser to several presidents — Republican and Democrat — has written a bombshell of a book about the Bush administration’s handling of terrorist threats. Clarke’s revelations have shaken up the White House. Clarke charges that Bush paid him no mind when he brought the issue of the threat of an Al…
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