New York’s Top Democrats have identified the causes of the mass opposition to illegal immigration and Syrian resettlement: Anger, fear, and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election.
No historian has done a better job of chronicling Ronald Reagan’s rise to power than Craig Shirley. As always, Shirley is a perfect antidote to the “court historians” who never really “got” Reagan. Shirley’s books on Reagan’s 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns, Reagan’s Revolution and Rendezvous With Destiny, are the gold standard in describing the Gipper’s ascendence and successful capture of the White House.
On Sunday, the Huffington Post ran an Op-Ed attacking presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for claiming that Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election mostly on his conservative principles.
Monday on his radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin sounded off on those attacking Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, including those on the Republican side, who he suggested were using liberal talking points in their attacks. However, Levin also went
Monday at the end of his “The O’Reilly Factor” program on the Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly read viewers’ responses to his heated exchange with Washington Post columnist George Will over alleged inaccuracies in O’Reilly’s best-selling book “Killing Reagan.” O’Reilly
In 1967, University of California president Clark Kerr was fired by the Board of Regents for being too lenient in dealing with student protests. On Monday, Tim Wolfe of the University of Missouri resigned because he had not been lenient enough.
Rep. Trey Gowdy flew down to Florida this week to support two of his friends, former Congresswoman Sandy Adams, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 6th congressional district, as well as Rep. Ron DeSantis, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat Marco Rubio is vacating in 2016.
Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly and syndicated columnist and Fox News Contributor George Will engaged in a tense exchange over O’Reilly’s book “Killing Reagan” on Friday. O’Reilly began by saying Will’s column accusing him of slandering Reagan was libel.
This week’s election returns cement numbers proving that President Barack Hussein Obama is the greatest builder of the Republican Party since President Ronald Wilson Reagan.
A new political video produced by the Conservative Solutions PAC compares Sen. Marco Rubio to former President Ronald Reagan – pointing out that he is a “young man in a hurry” who “took on the Republican establishment.”
Speaker Ryan’s remarks were, for the most part, inside baseball. Multiple times Ryan referred to “regular order,” which to the common person sounds like a reference to getting the same fast food at McDonalds every time you go.
A cafeteria at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica was forced closed by a health inspector this week when nearly a dozen live cockroaches were found in the kitchen.
Gov. Jerry Brown will be the first governor to move into the historic Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento since Ronald Reagan lived there, when he and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, move in between the end of this year and the beginning of next.
In an interview with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, Fox News host and bestselling author Bill O’Reilly discussed his new book, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault that Changed the Presidency. The book focuses on the failed murder attempt by John Hinckley, Jr. on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in order to impress actress Jodie Foster.
The political action committee founded by Ronald Reagan called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign as House Speaker John Boehner did last Friday, so a constitutional conservative can take McConnell’s place leading the Senate.
On his Monday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offered his evaluation of the tax plan 2016 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump proposed earlier in the day. Despite all the criticism the proposal has received from some elements on the
Speaking under the hateful gaze of Che Guevara in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution — a shrine to ruthless communism — Pope Francis scolded us to “serve people, not ideas.”
In an appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show” on Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was challenged by host Stephen Colbert on carrying on the legacy of Ronald Reagan on the issues of taxes, immigration and gay marriage. According to Cruz,
SIMI VALLEY, California — Following the primetime segment of the second GOP presidential primary debate hosted by CNN, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s senior communications advisor Hogan Gidley said he thinks the Governor “crushed it” with what little time he was given.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” the adopted son of President Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan, objected to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump comparing himself to his father. Mitchell asked, “I want to ask you straight out. What does Donald Trump
Jeb Bush, dogged by accusations that he is “low energy,” tried a Clark Kent-style move on the campaign trail to emphasize his connection to Ronald Reagan–and his father, George H.W. Bush.
Contents: Russia opens a dangerous new chapter in Syria and the Mideast; ‘Putin’s Plan’ for Russia and Syria; How is Vladimir Putin different from Ronald Reagan?; Choosing the lesser of two evils
Author and columnist Michael Reagan argued that while none of the GOP presidential candidates are “Reaganesque,” Donald Trump is the least like Ronald Reagan on Saturday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Smerconish.” Reagan said of the current GOP field, “They may have traits of
Author and columnist Michael Reagan wondered if his father, former president Ronald Reagan would be considered a RINO, and stated of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, “if this keeps going forward, my father may actually say, ‘You know, the party left
Political commentator and son of former President Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan declared, “”Are you a Trump Republican, or are you a Reagan Republican? Because you cannot be both. You’ve got to be one or the other” on Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax
This week, Iranian police arrested merchants for selling clothing emblazoned with the flags of the United States and England and bearing “satanic symbols.”
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, adapted from their forthcoming book “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America,” in which they compare President Obama’s Iran deal to the infamous act of capitulation that launched World War 2.
More than a quarter-century since President Ronald Reagan left the White House to start his retirement in Southern California, the former actor and conservative icon is again making regular appearances on TV.
A well-intentioned article by Noah Rothman in Commentary Magazine offers that Donald Trump’s supporters are the right wing’s version of Obama’s vacuous “Hope and Change” acolytes. Says Rothman: “Trump is the right’s Obama, insofar as his policy preferences are ill-defined, pliable, and reflective of whatever the audience immediately before him wants them to be.” Such comparisons short-change Trump’s supporters.
On Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight,” host Don Lemon reacted to an exchange between GOP front-runner Donald Trump and Univision’s Jorge Ramos, who was in attendance at a press conference Trump was conducting before a Dubuque, IA rally. Lemon likened that moment
GOP presidential candidate Ohio Governor John Kasich sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview broadcast on Sunday’s “State of the Union,” and was challenged with accusations that he sounds like a Democrat sometimes. Kasich said that Republicans “allowed themselves
Thursday in Cleveland at the first Fox News Republican presidential debate, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) flubbed former President Ronald Reagan’s name calling him “Ronald Raven.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Roger Stone, long time political operative and an advisor to 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump, gave a preview of what to expect of Trump in Thursday’s Fox News Presidential debate, as Stone joined Matthew Boyle on the Breitbart News Sunday radio program.
The Contra Costa Times is asking if Reagan’s fiscal success was a contributing factor in this heinous crime.
“Death to America!” scream Iranians who have just negotiated an agreement that has won them invaluable concessions from Americans, which includes the releasing of over $100 billion in assets that had been frozen. That deal assures that in fifteen years
Basically Trump is giving us all a choice. Do you want recycled, teleprompter reliant, weak kneed, poll obsessed, go along to get along professional politicians or do you want an American with a remarkable track record who will not hold back in words or action?
Last week, Congress kicked off hearings for its 60-day review of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Despite Administration assurances—given even before the agreement was concluded—Congress would have this review time, Obama rushed the deal to judgment at the U.N. to bind the U.S. internationally before congressional review could be undertaken.
Ted Cruz is a proven fundraiser, and that will be necessary to defeat the Clinton machine. True grassroots candidates, like Ted Cruz, generally struggle after the first few primary states due to funding. Ted is different. He will go the distance.
Conservative talk radio host and scholar Mark Levin called in to Breitbart News Sunday and blasted “criminal politicians” on both sides of the aisle who keep praising illegal immigrants. Levin emphatically stressed that Republican voters must reject presidential candidates who will not block the left from enacting their radical goals.
Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) introduced union-backed Assembly Bill 1040 on Tuesday, which aims to reform–or destroy–California’s Proposition 13 by raising taxes on commercial properties.
