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A Slate writer named Jillian Keenan called for the removal of Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill because he was a genocidal exterminator of Native Americans. Keenan writes that she had an “amazing” high school history teacher who made sure

On February 28th, the Democrat Party used their official Twitter account to tell followers the minimum wage is worth less than “when Ronald Reagan was in Congress.” The problem–Reagan was never in Congress. He was an actor who became Governor

Keynoting an event honoring the five-year anniversary of the Tea Party on Thursday, conservative scholar and talk radio host Mark Levin said that the Tea Party movement is the only thing standing between what is left of the country’s republic

A former Secretary of Defense is noted, among many other things, for what he calls “Rumsfeld’s Rules.” One of the most instructive of them is Donald Rumsfeld’s observation that “weakness is provocative.” We are seeing today accelerating instability worldwide. It’s

Lyndon Baines Johnson has been declared the “worst modern president” by The Week magazine not because he was such a major failure but because he gave liberalism a bad name by talking it up too much and over promising what

The Students for Life of America (SFLA) affiliate at Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington claims it was refused permission to hang its pro-life message posters in the school. They claim the administration gave as its reason for refusal the

The City of Dallas has decided to throw its Stetson hat into the ring for host city for the 2016 Republican National Convention consideration.  With Texas poised to be a keystone in the electoral vote to elect a Republican president

As Ronald Reagan said in 1964, our republic’s main public policy fight of the era is “[w]hether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a

A sophomore at the University of South Carolina was shocked recently to find a school textbook presenting as fact the claims that Ronald Reagan was a sexist and that conservatives think people are incapable of charity and those on welfare

Barack Obama announced Saturday morning in his weekly address that he is urging Congress to pass a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage for all workers.  Noting that he used an executive action in the past week to

Radio’s Mark Levin will keynote a five-year anniversary event for the Tea Party movement hosted by Tea Party Patriots in Washington, D.C., Breitbart News has learned exclusively. “The Tea Party, which consists of millions of hard working taxpayers, is to

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, presidential historian Craig Shirley said that Coca-Cola’s decision to revise their controversial “America the Beautiful” ad and specifically reference America’s unofficial motto, “E Pluribus Unum,” in the ad’s opening segment shows that the company

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.–Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik says he cut ties with Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) when he realized MAIG’s ultimate goal was “to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.” Spelling out his views in a February 5th

The economy created only 113,000 jobs in January, up from 75,000 in December. Colder than normal weather was a factor, but that does not explain two consecutive months of poor performance. These sad results are consistent with a broadly underperforming economy.

Studying and writing about Ronald Reagan is it is like unwrapping a new package each day. He may have been the most prolific writer and lecturer and commentator ever to serve in the Oval Office and he remains one of the most interesting

As Jack Kemp famously said, “”It is not enough to be against something; you have to tell people what you are for.” Last week I wrote a long analysis on Zero Hedge asking a simple question: Is the Housing Sector a Drag on

In an obvious admission that the end is near, President Barack Obama’s friends have launched a planning committee for the official Barack Obama Presidential Library. The group is fronted by Obama’s former campaign treasurer, Marty Nesbitt; Obama’s fundraiser and deputy

The widow of the late Lee Atwater, the man who helped win the 1980 South Carolina presidential primary for Ronald Reagan en route to his nomination, is throwing her hat into the political ring nearly two decades after her legendary husband

While slamming the “extreme hubris” and “naïveté” in what she said was President Barack Obama’s rehashed State of the Union address, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin emphatically called out Obama for claiming to care about inequality, job creation, and American

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the West, including the United States, for eschewing Christian values and opting instead for a “path to degradation.” In his State of the Nation speech last month, Putin asserted that, “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away

From state academic standards and tests to charter and virtual schools, the K-12 education world has changed in the 30 years since President Ronald Reagan’s landmark “A Nation at Risk” commission diagnosed the myriad problems with public schooling in America.

The biggest theft in world history is occurring right here, right now–literally, right under our feet. It’s a theft of wealth that measures in the 15-digits–wealth that’s being taken away from its rightful owners, the American people, and being sacrificed, in

“Never trust anyone over thirty” was a slogan of the 1960s New Left. The movement’s members may now be in their 70s, but many of them never really grew up. Now, one of those who did become an adult, David

Mitch Horowitz on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 discussed his new book One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life. The author told Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon that the idea of “positive thinking”

Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan suggests Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t being authentic when says he wants to avoid a government shutdown on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday:

The late Baroness Thatcher has topped yet another popularity poll, further cementing her claim as Britain’s best post-war prime minister.  Members of the UK Parliament (MPs) resoundingly backed the conservative prime minister’s tenure, according to polling from February that indicated that despite

There is no person more fitting to be the Grand Marshal of the 125th Rose Parade than Vin Scully, who may be the most important and beloved figure in Southern California. Scully, who will also toss the coin at the

The reality that Pope Francis sounds more like President Obama than Ronald Reagan has put bit of a scare into the Republican party and Conservatives. Conversely, the Pope has become a darling to the Democratic party. Pope Francis’s proclivity for

Fox News: Charles Krauthammer takes a look back at William F. Buckley’s famous 1967 interview of Ronald Reagan.

Adam Carolla says living in Hollywood means displaying the American flag leaves one open to ridicule. The California resident recently moved out of Hollywood and near the home of actor Vince Vaughn. The Wedding Crashers star proudly flies an American

St. Louis publisher Really Big Coloring Books Inc. has brought out a new, hot product for the holiday season: a coloring book of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). The coloring book, titled “US Sen. Ted Cruz to the Future” has already

Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before the House Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday to defend the recent nuclear deal with Iran and to oppose new sanctions. He fielded questions from members of both parties about the terms of the

Musician/actor Stevie Van Zandt is best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and his colorful turn as Silvio in the HBO series The Sopranos.  During the 1980s, Van Zandt helped record Sun City, a politically charged anthem against South

A controversial 1988 comic book in which the DC Comics’ villain Joker character tortured and crippled Batgirl and sent photos of her naked and injured to her father has just gotten a new shot of controversy. We now know the