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YORBA LINDA — Political commentator Bruce Herschensohn, a longtime fixture on Southern California television and radio, former aide to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, has died at the age of 88. Herschensohn’s death was announced Tuesday by the Richard Nixon Foundation in Yorba Linda. The cause of death was not released. “One word defines Bruce Herschensohn: patriot,” said Hugh Hewitt, the Nixon Foundation’s president. “A resonant, mellifluous voice for freedom, he was always calm, always insistent on the truth that people needed to be free, wanted to be free...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Bruce Herschensohn. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Bruce Herschensohn was one of the last conservatives of prominence from California. He was the author of several books warning of the post-Cold War then-nascient Chinese communist threat, and was a contributor to several publications. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in...

Does being on the left mean never having to say that you are sorry?—If you are talking about the Vietnam War and who won it 35 years later, that very well may be the case. Regarding the real truth of the Vietnam War after the fall of Saigon, Laos and Cambodia, Senator Fulbright, D-AK, who was also the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee summed up the sentiment of the 94th Congress, “I am no more distressed than if Arkansas had lost the football game to Texas.” “That started the Southeast Asian genocide. You’re talking about one quarter of the...

Library Throws Book at Nixon by Brian Calle Some controversy over the recently revised Watergate exhibit at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda has provoked some questions over presidential libraries, their value, purpose for public consumption and their role in the remembrance of past presidents. One docent at the Nixon library, my Register colleague Will Alexander, opted to resign in protest of the new exhibit after 10 years of volunteer service. And friends and former colleagues of Richard Nixon have been critical of the museum's new director, Timothy Naftali. Some critics have even suggested that the...

he Case for McCain Bruce Herschensohn August 27, 2008 One of my favorite conservative columnists recently started a column with the words, “Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee…” How was the Republican Party “saddled” with him when more Republicans voted for him than for anyone else running in the Republican primaries and caucuses? I was one of those who voted for John McCain in the California primary—and did it with enthusiasm. As someone who is as conservative as the columnist, of course I have had disagreements with Senator McCain on some issues, but...

I recently heard about this book: Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War on Islamic Terrorism by Bruce Herschensohn Amazon has this to say about it: Islamist revolutionary terrorists have taken over the United States of America. Millions of citizens have been killed, imprisoned, and tortured. The President is missing, his most trusted advisor, Eli Jared, is holed up in a secret government command center. Without weapons or any communication with the outside world, Jared must figure out how to wrest the fate of the nation away from terrorists bent on obliterating the American way of...

Come Thank Our Troops! They're Our Home Town Heroes! 11:00 AM * Thursday * April 17 Free Admission Remarks by Bruce Herschensohn Bring Family and Friends! Hear Military Leaders! Meet the families of our soldiers in Iraq! Enjoy a stirring performance by Robbie Britt! To commemorate the one-month anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Nixon Library is hosting a red, white and blue tribute to the volunteer men and women of our armed forcews--true Home Town Heroes no matter where they are from. Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd. Yorba Lnda, Calif. Call 714-993-5075 or check...