I am devastated to have to bring you the sad news that my friend Andrew Ian Dodge passed away last night after a second battle with cancer. Dodge was 46 when he died, and leaves behind his wonderful wife Kim.
On Thursday’s “Outnumbered” on the Fox News Channel, panelists Tucker Carlson and Kirsten Powers had a heated exchange over the ongoing border crisis and whether or not it was this country’s so-called Christian duty to grant those unaccompanied minors entering
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has once again triggered a series of events leading to the deaths of children and innocent civilians – this time, an attack on an area including a UN school that has left 15 people dead.
“The establishment is the establishment for a reason,” says talk radio host Laura Ingraham, reflecting on her 2014 endorsements of long-shot Republican challengers to incumbent politicians. “They usually win; they kind of have it all tied up.” Once a speechwriter
Wednesday on MNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Andrea Mitchell slammed President Obama for failing at the “optics of leadership.” MSNBC anchor Mitchell said: The golf course is not the best place to be, even though you don’t really see him out there.
Hockey Hall of Famer Mike Modano stirred a Twitter hornets’ nest when he tweeted “Where is Ronald Reagan?” on Monday bringing out the Reagan haters and riling the Obama apologists of the Twitterverse. The former Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars center
Ronald Reagan won two presidential elections by fighting for the “Forgotten Man,” and Sarah Palin said Republicans will only win presidential elections in the future if the party sticks up for the “little guy” and the “Forgotten Man” of all
The spiritual connection between authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, one that inspired some of the most profound storytelling of the 20th century, is the inspiration for an upcoming film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. London- and Brisbane-based Attractive Films’
Directed by Michael Winner in 1974, “Death Wish” is about a successful liberal New York architect turning to vigilantism as a way to work through his grief after his wife is raped and murdered by home-invading street thugs. With his
When the definitive history of Republican presidential dominance in the late 20th century is written, Richard Nixon will be seen as the architect. Indeed, a half-century later, in the early 21st century, when Republican presidential fortunes are once again on
Friday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” the son of former president Ronald Reagan slammed the Republican base as the “the most ignorant 20 percent of America.” “Here’s the Republican Party once again presenting themselves with all sorts of Catch-22 situations,” Reagan said.
Young Americans elected President Barack Obama, but his poor performance in office may turn young people coming of age during his tenure into conservatives. Writing in the New York Times, David Leonhardt recalled that “less than a generation after young
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Politico’s Mike Allen reported on a Quinnipiac University poll released today in which voters ranking President Barack Obama the worst president since World War II. According to respondents, Ronald Reagan won the was the least
A terrible polling season just got humiliating for President Obama. On top of collapsing personal and job approval numbers, and a stunning loss in public confidence, a new Quinnipiac poll shows that the American people now see a president who
Breitbart News contributor Michael Patrick Leahy argued that educating young people about conservative ideals is key to winning over young voters in an interview on “The Laura Ingraham Show” on Tuesday. He stated “people who are millenials … generally support
Thousands of rabbis and well-wishers flooded Brooklyn Monday and Tuesday to observe the 20th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubaivch Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, which is ubiquitous on college campuses and far-flung
Some public employees and elected officials might have been busy destroying their personal cell phones, tablets and computers this weekend after the California Supreme Court agreed to review if communications on privately owned electronic devices regarding a public matter are
Rumors surrounding pronounced Democratic Hollywood Actor George Clooney’s possible transition from the silver screen into politics have been gaining traction, as a friend of the actor recently revealed he might be eyeing the California governorship; most likely in 2018. This
On Wednesday, June 25, an extraordinary event of caring and courage will take place to honor America’s bravest… our military. The seventh annual Troopathon will take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from 1pm to 8pm Pacific time and
Newly elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy took the stage at the Faith and Freedom conference in Washington D.C. today, thanking God for the amount of opportunity he had been granted in America. McCarthy was introduced by Ralph Reed, who
It is a false choice only politicians could come up with. Either you support granting amnesty to 12 million lawbreakers who are now in the U.S. illegally, or you are a racist whose political future is doomed by the coming
CITY OF LONDON, United Kingdom – General David Petraeus, the former CIA director and head of the international forces in Afghanistan (ISAF), has today said that the United States is suffering deeply because of partisanship, and said that the country
National Journal’s Ron Fournier said that Hillary Clinton’s recent statement in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that there is a push for her to run because “I’ve done it” and run for president before.
With the rise of faith-based movies, things haven’t been looking great for progressive films this year. Adding to the troubles is the success of the pro-military themed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Lone Survivor, which are quite the contrast
Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully lived two blocks from Ronald Reagan, and the greatest sports announcer who will ever live paid tribute to Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library on Wednesday evening. “We say they knock the fences
LONDON (AP) — Angelina Jolie can add royal recognition to Hollywood stardom. The Oscar-winning actress has been named an honorary dame — the female version of a knight — by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. Jolie, a United Nations special envoy,
Once again former President George Herbert Walker Bush, often called Bush I, has indulged his hobby of skydiving, this time to celebrate his 90th birthday. “I got one more left in me,” the former president said on NBC’s Today. “It’ll
Art is not the object you look at. Art is what you feel when you look at the object. That is all you really need to know to appreciate art. When asked about art the average conservative’s reply to me
Hillary Clinton’s former top White House aide and campaign manager for her 2008 presidential bid was named Thursday as the new director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Maggie Williams, who served as the former First
Today marks the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, a day in which the United States led an allied invasion force to what was undoubtedly the most meaningful victory for freedom and liberation in history. Our troops brought a shining light of
On June 6, 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan stood on what he called a “lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France” to deliver an oration that would become known as his “Boys of Pointe du
Madrid’s city council yesterday approved a proposal to name a square after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The local Madrid Diario reports that the council approved the name ‘Plaza de Margaret Thatcher’ for a previously unnamed public space situated
American civilization endures because it has been placed on the rock of the Constitution. However, that Constitution, under relentless assault by those who wish to undermine and fundamentally transform it, requires support and aid from those who believe in its
Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War without firing a shot. He willed himself to victory over the Republican establishment during an era when Rockefeller Republicans had more firewalls, and brought America out of Jimmy Carter’s malaise. RFK loyalists from 1968
It’s been 10 years since “Rawhide” died. Ten years today, June 5, 2014. Ronald Reagan–code named “Rawhide” by his Secret Service detail–was 93 and had sunken deep into the dementia of Alzheimer’s. To honor President Reagan–and out of respect to
1. You never appreciate what you’ve got until you lose it At school in Britain in the Eighties – a private school, full of kids with the kind of parents who ought to have been four-square behind the Reagan revolution
On Saturday, June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan passed away. The national–and international–response was overwhelming. Watching the events of the following week unfold, one got the sense that the media, though ready with pre-packaged retrospectives, was unprepared for the outpouring of
The week of the tenth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death brings me to my only Reagan story–one I’ve told so many times that my fingers are pretty much on auto pilot here, while my brain is thinking about the fried
It is poignant and poetic that Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004, just a day before the 60th anniversary of D-Day–the day Reagan helped re-instantiate into our collective consciousness. Indeed, on D-Day Minus One, June 5, 1944, the ships
Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter about Ronald Reagan’s funeral from Alfred S. Regnery’s 2007 book, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, about the conservative movement in America. Thirty-five years before he died, when he announced that he would
