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Friday, February 4, 2011

We fought a war on lies, and lies won

We fought a war on lies, and lies won: Ronald Reagan gave America so many pretty sayings, but when it comes to social equality, he'll go down in history for his lyrical lie, "The federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won." (He said it many times, many ways; that exact quote is from his 1988 State of the Union address.)