I can't help emphasizing that I've known honest Republicans all my life. But with people like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Rudy Giuliani and a hoard of Congressional Republicans in the back pocket of the health insurance industry, honest Republicans are a bit overwhelmed these days. One of my favorite commentators on the national scene is Cynthia Tucker. She quotes Nicolas Kristoff today...
YOU BETCHA’ I GOTCHA’ “He [Ronald Reagan] knows so little and accomplishes so much.”–a baffled Robert McFarlane, speaking for the Washington Know-it-All Class It’s the damndest thing; for a Stupid, Stupid Girl, she just keeps on turning out to be correct: Dick Morris: The panel evaluating the effectiveness of mammograms did not find that they don’t work or...
DURING the night of March 10 1985 US President Ronald Reagan was deep in slumber when he received a phone call: Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko had died. He was the third Soviet leader to die in two years. Yuri Andropov had died on February 9 1984 after only 15 months in office. Prior to that Leonid Brezhnev had died in November 1982. Brezhnev had ruled from 1964. Stalin had ruled for 26 years from...
This coming Tuesday (November 24 th ) would have been Bill Buckley’s 84 th birthday. We think a nice way to remember Bill is the way he remembered his own life and doings - through his literary autobiography, Miles Gone By . This beautiful hardcover (a NY Times bestseller when it was first published in 2004) is nearly 600 pages, and includes a CD of WFB reading selections. W oven from personal...
Jeb Hensarling and Paul Ryan: One of the strongest factors promoting recovery from our 10 post-World War II recessions was an unshakable conviction that, regardless of the immediate trouble, the American economy is fundamentally strong. Based on this underlying confidence, recessions and recoveries roughly conformed to the principle of the bigger the bust, the bigger the boom, and vice versa. Thus...
Ronald Reagan launched his political career in 1966 in his run for the governorship in California by targeting UC Berkeley's student peace activists, its professors, and, to a great extent, the University of California itself. His oft-repeated mantra was "to clean up the mess at Berkeley." In the end, he destroyed what was one of the great equalizers in California's meritocracy. Under Reagan...
by Mark Silva President Barack Obama says he "probably won't'' be reading Sarah Palin's Going Rogue , so radio's Mark Levin asked Palin: Has she considered sending him the TelePrompTer edition? "You know what,'' Palin replied, laughing, "when I heard that, though, I thought, good, at a moment like this in history, I'd rather that he be spending his time reading the next fiscal year...
In the NYT, Nicholas Kristof offers a good piece on the reaction to Medicare legislation back in the 1960s. Medicare was called "the beginning of socialized medicine." The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page predicts that the legislation will lead to “deteriorating service.” Business groups warn that Washington bureaucrats will invade “the privacy of the examination...
All of the right-wing attacks on President Obama’s spending make me wonder–why don’t conservatives hate Ronald Reagan? Reagan’s recession lasted 16 months (July 1981 until November 1982); our most recent recession lasted 21 months (December 2007 until September 2009). During Reagan’s recession, unemployment peaked at 10.8%; during the recent recession unemployment peaked...
Now you can purchase Marilyn Monroe's, Michael Jackson's, or even Marie Antoinette's body scent. My DNA Fragrances just released a line called, Antiquity that is engineered from the DNA of some of the most recognized people in the world. Best of all, a flask of "eau du celebrity" is cheaper than a bottle of Chanel No. 5. We are not exactly sure how these scents are formulated other than the...
...Obama evidently expected that his election would change not only America's image in the world but the policies of nations both friendly and unfriendly. In saluting the fall of the Berlin Wall, on videotape, he made no mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev or Vaclav Havel, but cited as a world-changing event his own election in the United States...
"In 1986 Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million people. You know what happened, in addition to becoming 11 million a decade later? There were people trying to enter the country legally, who had done the paperwork, who were here...
In his latest attack against Attorney General Eric Holder, Rush Limbaugh took issue with Holder's comments before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the "tragic shootings at Fort Hood." The offensive comments being "tragic shootings at Fort Hood": LIMBAUGH: Now some of what Holder said today. He called the shooting at Fort Hood "tragic." No. It was a jihadist massacre....
In Salon, Gene Lyons summarizes the stupid that is pressuring President Obama to escalate the war in Afghanistan: Hurry, hurry. There's no time for thinking; it's time to act. Washington's permanent war lobby has worked itself into a veritable lather. The proper Pentagon press leaks have been made, Op-Eds written, talk show commandos deployed. No less influential a military mind than the Washington...
Jimmy Carter had made intelligence a presidential campaign issue in 1976, and it was so once again in 1980 as Ronald Reagan vowed to rebuild weakened US intelligence capabilities in order to support a stronger American policy in the world.
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