Faux news man Stephen Colbert served up some faux facts this week. The liberal funnyman’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central tried to swat at the legend of President Ronald Reagan but used some fuzzy recollections to do so. Here’s
A vote for Quin Hillyer for Congress in South Alabama’supcoming special primary election on September 24th is like gettingthe best of both worlds. Not only do youget the best possible principled conservative you could hope for, you’re alsogetting someone with
The creative community, by and large, pulled out all the stops to get President Barack Obama elected–twice. Now, its denizens are experiencing some of the fallout of that support–namely, less jobs and fewer health insurance options. The motion picture industry
California governor Jerry Brown is receiving a fair bit of good press lately, including a fanciful profile in the latest issue of Rolling Stone in which author Tim Dickinson credits Brown with a “miracle” turnaround. It’s typical leftist agitprop: no assessment
As six members of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group rallied for more gun laws on August 30, about 50 gun rights supporters hijacked the event and said that there are enough gun laws already. According to 10TV.com, the Columbus,
President Barack Obama took time away from his latest economy pivot to watch Lee Daniels’ The Butler, the new film chronicling the life of a beloved black servant in the White House. The movie casts Forest Whitaker as a noble,
Vin Scully–the best sports announcer there ever was, is, or will be–will return for his 65th season next year in the broadcasting booth. Scully and the Los Angeles Dodgers made the announcement on Friday. “I have thoroughly enjoyed the excitement
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew called on Congress Thursday to “raise the debt ceiling as soon as members get back to Washington after summer recess.” Lew delivered a strident, partisan speech, repeating familiar arguments from the 2012 presidential campaign.
The son of the man whose White House duties inspired Lee Daniels’ The Butler, says his father liked all the presidents he served. That directly contradicts the narrative established by Butler screenwriter Danny Strong of Game Change fame. Strong’s script
The flow of baseball that is being disrupted by instant replay and lawsuits has destroyed the flow that lent itself to Ronald Reagan making up foul balls to a radio audience and fans playing board games that pitted the 1927 New
Lee Daniels’ The Butler shows President Ronald Reagan as indifferent to the suffering of people of color and an opponent of civil rights advancement. Yet Jane Fonda, who plays Nancy Reagan in the film, is eager for the real First
In response to For the 1,034th Time: Conservatives, Do Not Trust the MSM: I agree with your basic premises, Joel, particularly the advice about not trusting the mainstream media. I never again want to see a Republican candidate wearing the
In an uncompromising and brilliant defense of American Judeo-Christian values, Rabbi Aryeh Spero’s book Push Back is a timely and powerful guide to the kind of force required to send the American pendulum back toward traditional American values. Spero, who
The media have claimed that conservatives must become more moderate or face permanent irrelevancy after the supposedly solid liberal Millennial generation of 18-29 year olds overwhelmingly supported reelection of Barack Obama. These dire warnings reminded me of the media
The new film “The Butler” chronicles the career of Eugene Allen, a black man who served as White House butler for 8 Presidents. According to the New York Post former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, are big
On Tuesday, Young America’s Foundation assembled a gathering of top conservative activists and students at the Reagan Ranch to celebrate the anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s historic 1981 tax cut–the largest in American history. The event also focused on the
The new political drama Lee Daniels’ The Butler isn’t kind to President Ronald Reagan. That’s not shocking, given the track record of screenwriter Danny (Game Change) Strong and the film’s hard-left cast. The film is based on an article in
It would have been too much to ask for Hollywood to give the Reagans their due in the forthcoming movie “The Butler.” You knew that going in. But either way, casting Jane Fonda in the role of Nancy Reagan was
One of the Reagan Revolution’s most loyal stalwarts, Judge Bill Clark, died Saturday at age 81 from Parkinson’s disease. Clark’s political odyssey with President Ronald Reagan went back to the California days when Reagan appointed Clark as his gubernatorial chief
Lee Daniels, director of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” can’t seem to keep his charges of racism straight. I always thought that a sure sign of racism was how much rural whites love to see black people “perform.” But now Daniels
By TAMI ABDOLLAHAssociated PressLOS ANGELESWilliam P. Clark, who rose from campaign volunteer to one of President Ronald Reagan’s most trusted advisers, has died. He was 81. Clark died Saturday at his ranch home in the central California town of Shandon
A new study by University of California-San Diego economics professor James Hamilton finds that the United States has over $70 trillion in off-balance sheet liabilities–an amount nearly six times the on-balance-sheet debt figure. The Treasury debt outstanding is $16.74 trillion.
Using anti-science exuberance, for the last few days, the media have pom-pommed someone’s ethereal projection that the economy had created 200,000 or so jobs in July. The fact that our media would consider 200,000 jobs (which hardly keeps up with
NBC Entertainment President Robert Greenblatt will be overseeing the upcoming miniseries on the political life of Hillary Clinton. If Greenblatt’s name sounds familiar, then you recall another TV miniseries focusing on a past president. Greenblatt served as director of entertainment
(AP) Police: Woman arrested in DC cathedral vandalismBy BEN NUCKOLS and ERIC TUCKERAssociated PressWASHINGTONA woman was arrested Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral, and police were investigating her in connection with
(AP) Green paint found at 2 more Washington landmarksBy BEN NUCKOLSAssociated PressWASHINGTON Three days after green paint was found splattered on the Lincoln Memorial, authorities investigated two similar incidents of vandalism _ green paint splashed inside the Washington National Cathedral
Jane Fonda, in full promotion mode, insists people shouldn’t judge the fact that she’s playing Nancy Reagan in a new film Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Yes, Fonda is an unabashed liberal playing the wife of a conservative icon, but can’t
Popular opposition to the “Lifeline” program, colloquially known since last year as the “Obamaphone” program, appears to be growing. Tracfone Wireless, the company that most benefits from the government subsidy, is now advertising on inside-the-beltway news websites in an effort
Gallup reports that President Obama’s approval rating slipped again in the 2nd Quarter, falling to 47.9%. The dip was the second quarterly drop in a row. At the end of last year, on the heels of his reelection, Obama’s approval
On NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, PBS host Tavis Smiley – the same man who once said that Ronald Reagan “tortured” blacks, despite a declining black unemployment rate of 9 percent – mildly praised President Obama’s race-centric speech to
NPR’s Nina Totenberg filed a story summing up the Supreme Court’s contentious recent term. In covering Shelby County v. Holder, the decision to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act, Totenberg managed to find some conservatives who disagreed with the
As we approach Independence Day 2013, this might be a good time to take stock on the American experience: where we are, where we came from, what we are supposed to be and what we have become, collectively, as a
Historian Allen Guelzo, author of the New York Times bestselling book Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, rhetorically asked, “Where is the president? Where is the vice president? They aren’t here,” in an interview with Stephen K. Bannon on the Breitbart News live broadcast of
On Sunday, a stunned audience sat in silence as Doris Kearns Goodwin turned the keynote address at the opening ceremony for the 150th anniverary of the Battle of Gettysburg into a political lecture focusing on women’s and gay rights. Missing from
In recognizing the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Americans would do well to remember Abraham Lincoln’s words in the Gettysburg Address to honor the sacrifice of the men who fought there. The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment made
One of the excuses we are hearing about the laughably small crowd President Obama drew for his much-hyped speech at the Berlin Wall Wednesday is that now that Obama’s is in office, that changes things. People are used to him
I’m laughing as I listen to NPR fawn over President Barack Obama’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate today. They are straining to compare his mediocre, self-referential and platitude-packed address with the stirring historic orations of President John F. Kennedy and
Against a backdrop that evoked historic speeches by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama vowed to “move beyond [the] Cold War” and to begin a push for reducing nuclear weapons, eventually eliminating them: “As long as
Dennis Prager chose Andrew Roberts to teach the latest Prager University course, in part, for the British historian’s moral clarity. “Some people and regimes and ideologies have inflicted unspeakable suffering on people and he knows that,” Prager says of the
