TagsTagsIn the Republican debates, Newt Gingrich is always the first to invoke the hallowed name of Ronald Reagan, taking credit for helping Reagan implement the foreign policy initiatives that led to the fall of the Soviet Union. Flashback to 1986, as Newt gives a floor speech blasting Ronald Reagan for the ...
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I can't figure out whether Rick Santorum is being really smart or really, really stupid here, but The Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein is absolutely horrified: Santorum commits Republican sacrilege: Attacks Ronald Reagan. BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum committed one of the gravest sins in Republican politics on ...
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C-SPAN has Sarah Failin's speech to the Iowa Republicans Ronald Reagan Dinner: C-SPAN Live Stream.
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The Atlantic has an exclusive report on some very cool recently unearthed footage from a TV episode featuring Ronald Reagan and James Dean acting together, unseen since 1954: Ronald Reagan and James Dean: Rare Video From 1954. In the clip, Dean is a hopped up (and really dumb) teenage delinquent who ...
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During Vice President Biden’s visit, Israel’s right wing Interior Minister suddenly issued a statement that the Ministry had approved a plan for new settlement building in East Jerusalem. This led to a minor diplomatic crisis, with Hillary Clinton saying that she considered it a direct insult. Which it obviously was ...
Israel, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, settlements, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Hate Mail
On the anniversary of the collapse of the East German police state, Commentary has a great piece by Peter Wehner on the meaning of The Fall of One Wall. It turns out that in the contest between freedom and totalitarianism, freedom does pretty well.
Berlin Wall, Communism, Ronald Reagan, East Germany, Soviet Union, Cold War
Following up on Glenn Beck’s latest attempt to warn the country, or to put it another way, Glenn Beck’s latest bugeyed freakout, here’s a little reminder that this diabolical commie plot to encourage volunteerism didn’t start with Barack Obama. Oh no, my friends! For the origin of this truly monstrous scheme ...
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The RSS headline reads, “Obama: Powell will have a role in administration.” What a shock. But clicking the link leads to this article—the latest fawning AP press release for the Obama campaign, with a new headline that probably has the Gipper spinning: Obama updates Reagan’s economic critique. TAMPA, Fla. – ...