[Mudboy Slim]

"As the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan said at the time, the Left wanted a strong government and a weak country."

A quarter-century and nothing has changed...MUD

[SPRINK]

I fell in love with Reagan listening to his radio commentaries in the late 70's....sheer greatness...seems like just yesterday
RIP Ronald Reagan

[E Rocc]

On page 133 of his book, Hundt noted that a "far-sighted, or accidentally smart" ruling by the Reagan-era FCC prohibited phone companies from levying "access charges" on data, as distinct from voice transmissions. "In the absence of the FCC's decision," Hundt writes, "the Internet would have been so expensive that [founder Marc] Andreesen's Netscape would not have been a hiccup, much less one of the first bubble stocks of the Internet." Let's pause over this for a moment. Even a pro-Gore Democrat concedes that the biggest pro-Internet inflection point dates back to the early 80s. In fact, if one looks up the case -- MTS and WATS Market Structure Order, 97 FCC 2d 682 (1983) -- one sees that the FCC was then chaired by Mark Fowler, a Reagan appointee. And so Gore looks less like a prime mover, and more like a free rider.

For Reagan's libertarian-minded FCC, such a decision was by no means "accidental". They're best known for two things: this, and rolling back censorship.

-Eric

[Tribune7]

Reagan invented the internet. :-)

[Ff--150]

The choice we face between continuing the policies of the last 40 yrs. that have led to bigger & bigger govt, less & less liberty, redistribution of earnings through confiscatory taxation or trying to get back on the original course set for us by the Founding Fathers

And President Reagan would flamed as a what?? on this forum for such outlandish beliefs [/sarcasm]?