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California’s state capitol is finally getting a statue of Ronald Reagan, the Golden State’s only governor-turned-president to date. The statue was reportedly commissioned by Doug Elmets, a former staffer for Reagan, when he realized that his former boss was “the

Reverend Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, long-time radical Foreign Minister of the Marxist-inspired Sandinista regime in Nicargua, has had his 29-year long priestly suspension lifted by Pope Francis, allowing the 81-year old priest to say Mass and resume other pastoral activities. The American-born priest

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 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

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