Former Secretary of State told CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday that he was certain that President Ronald Reagan had regretted his veto of sanctions against South Africa, which was overridden. “”I’m sure he did regret it, Bob, in fact,
The left media has continued exploiting the death of Nelson Mandela to attack conservatives. The latest version is Sam Kleiner’s attack at Foreign Policy and the Huffington Post, “Apartheid Amnesia: How the GOP conveniently forgot about its role in propping up
Some of the most prominent conservative leaders of the 20th century refused to support Nelson Mandela or his political party, the African National Congress. President Ronald Reagan preferred “constructive engagement” with the apartheid regime. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opposed
On Thursday, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak said a big difference between the late South African leader Nelson Mandela and President Barack Obama is that Mandela embraced constraints on his power. Pollak said the mainstream media are unlikely to
The GOP leadership has its priorities in order, and undoing Obamacare is priority number one. With the Affordable Care Act imploding by its own design and its support continuing to decline even among Democrats, Republicans are choosing not to interfere.
Although often seen as a day to kick off the Christmas shopping season, Thanksgiving is perhaps the most deeply American holiday and its tradition is connected to the idea of “American exceptionalism.” Ronald Reagan’s presidential farewell speech included a line
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) —President Obama’s 41 percent approval rating is worse than former Presidents Clinton and Reagan at the same time during their terms, CNN said. In a CNN Poll of Polls — in which five non-partisan, live operator
Rankings released by YouGov/Economist show that Ronald Reagan is viewed as the greatest president of the last 100 years, while Obama is viewed as the “biggest failure.” The poll asked respondents “to rate each president [since Theodore Roosevelt] in six
The unprecedented expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet over the last few years looks like it may be setting us up for a bond bubble and future currency crisis of historic proportions. Looking over the $17 trillion in national debt, and the Fed’s
For the New York Times Sunday book review, historian David Greenberg of Rutgers University writes a devastating review of MSNBC host Chris Matthews’ new book about Ronald Reagan and Reagan era Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill. Greenberg’s
Col. Allen West, former GOP U.S. Congressman from Florida, said at a Thursday morning panel focused on the devastating economic impacts of amnesty that economic policies that displace black youths from jobs–like President Barack Obama’s immigration policies–have led to fads
Obamacare is hurting millions of people–much to the surprise of the mainstream media, which failed to examine the law before it passed. (They left that task to the fledgling Tea Party, which they then called racist for its trouble). Yet
Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) holds my top spot, but Oliver Stone’s “JFK” (1991) is undoubtedly my second favorite film of the 1990s. When I first saw this masterpiece, I was still a liberal and therefore bought into its every
On Tuesday we reported that radio talk show host Chris Plante discovered President Barack Obama had neglected to use the phrase “under God” when reciting the Gettysburg Address for a Ken Burns film project. The push-back on the story was
After Breitbart News had reported on Politico magazine writer Ian Murphy’s Twitter meltdown where he said former President Ronald Reagan “fucks Satan in hell,” Murphy tweeted out a gif of himself burning an American flag. “Some of you folks are
As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, American fascination with his life and especially the circumstances of his death remains strong. Though he served less than one full term and had a number of fiascoes while
In response to The Term ‘ObamaCare’ No Longer Embraced By Democrats: Charles Cooke linked to this gem on Twitter, and I couldn’t resist adding to my last post about how Democrats are no longer calling the Affordable Care Act “ObamaCare” because
One-hundred fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln stood before a crowd of journalists, soldiers, citizens, and statesmen in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and delivered perhaps the most famous speech in the English language. Viewed in context of the Civil War in 1863,
With Obamacare imploding, the unthinkable has become possible: the law could be repealed. Not just after the 2014 midterm elections, or after a new president takes office in 2017, but in the very near future. That is because many Democrats
ObamaCare isn’t the only massive failure that has been foisted on the nation by this Regime. America is currently being hobbled by a litany of federal government debacles. It’s gotten to the point that it’s hard not to conclude that
On Oct. 14, Breitbart News recalled that Congress once repealed Ronald Reagan’s “signature” health law. The article was inspired by the spurious arguments then being made by Democrats that President Barack Obama could not accept any changes to his own
It’s November 13, 2013, right? Just making sure, because I’m already getting emails about who is/isn’t electable with respect to 2016. Really, I am. I’m already seeing “He’s too conservative!” or “Not another RINO moderate!” or “He’s too libertarian!” So,
Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a self-described “Reagan Republican” who currently serves as the head of the American Bankers Association, called for open borders immigration policies in America, saying such policies would be “conservative.” Keating made the call in an
Big Hollywood contributor Gary Graham spoke with actor Ken Wahl about the meaning of Veterans Day, how Americans can show their appreciation to the men and women of the U.S. Military and a unique way that pets can help veterans
On Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went on the Tonight Show and said Ronald Reagan would feel at home in today’s conservative movement, comparing the grassroots revolution that has powered his rise with that of the 1970s that Reagan led.
Before Republicans ultimately gave in to President Obama’s demands in the shutdown/debt ceiling debate, GOP strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday the Republican Party should quit while it is not as far behind as it could be. Rove appeared on Fox
Washington political columnist Charles Krauthammer, who formerly worked for Walter Mondale against Ronald Reagan, believes the Washington Redskins should change their name because it is “a slur.” Appearing on Fox News’s Special Report on Monday, Krauthammer said though he did not
As we begin with week three of the government shutdown, I wonder how many Americans are aware just how unnecessary a shutdown was from the beginning. If the media accurately reported how continuing resolutions work and the White House embraced
The former rising star and darling of the Tea Party movement, Senator Marco Rubio, who was once considered to be the next Ronald Reagan, has plummeted in the latest polls, since he self-inflicted immigration reform wound be caused earlier this
(AP) Arm cut off of Reagan statue in PolandBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKAAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandPolice were searching on Wednesday for a vandal who damaged a bronze statue of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II in the Polish city of Gdansk by
Author Tom Clancy, best known for literary smashes like The Hunt for Red October, has died at the age of 66. The cause of death has not yet been determined. Clancy’s October catapulted him to the highest literary ranks, sparking
(AP) King says Cruz conservatives want to ‘hijack’ GOPWASHINGTONRep. Peter King is charging that tea party-backed members of the House Republican Caucus are trying to “hijack the party.” The New York Republican says he senses that increasing numbers of House
In response to The Community Organizer In Chief Appalls Again: They say there’s no crying in baseball, but there’s nothing except crying in “community organizing.” It’s just an endless series of complaints, Americans pitted against each other savage combat, with
Speaking at the United Nations on the subject of Iranian nuclear ambitions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu altered Ronald Reagan’s famous statement on Soviet militarism, “trust but verify.” Instead, Netanyahu said, the world should “distrust, dismantle, and verify.” He stated:
There’s a word missing from Bill Maher’s recent ode to liberal governance in California: unemployment. The state has the fourth-highest jobless rate in the country. So while the budget might be balanced–thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown’s accounting tricks, taking $500
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will no longer be the CEO of Politico, a position he has held since the publication debuted in 2007. On Sunday, Fred Ryan, the founding CEO of
During a September 15 appearance on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, President Obama quoted Ronald Reagan again and said U.S. pressure is keeping Syria and Russia in check. Early in the interview segment of the program, Stephanopoulos asked Obama if
I’ve wrestled with Andrew C. McCarthy’s writings on foreign policy since the start of the Arab Spring. I am one of those conservatives who agreed with George W. Bush’s articulation of human rights and democracy as the core values of
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, here he goes again. It’s the man who claimed to crack down on Mike Vick and Ben Roethlisberger, when really he coddled both. The same man who is killing our game with rule change after rule
