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Perhaps Reagan's finest speech when he discussed a "trust me" government that we once again find ourselves encountering today: "...I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it. We need rebirth of the American tradition of leadership at every level of government and in private life as...

The battle for the heart and soul of this country has always been, and will always be an ideological contest. Every physical action, whether it is the commercials that emerge on your television to the swishing sound of the President’s pen as he strikes a new law into motion, these actions are set forth by an ideological belief system that is engrained within the individual. With that said, the two contending ideologies are that of the modern liberal and the modern conservative. If we care to cut through the fluff and get to the heart of the matter, the building...

The Coda to In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed. 9/11/01 Never Forget, Never Surrender

As I watched the tea party protests and crowded town halls, I couldn't help but think of President Reagan. For millions of us, the dismal Carter era sparked a similar political awakening, and Ronald Reagan was the key. He wasn't the source of our new vision, but he knew the source and pointed the way. He understood the trials ahead, and regularly explained them to us. Back then, most young Americans – like so many today – didn't understand what had happened to our country. We didn't fully realize the nature of "liberalism" (especially those of us who were Democrats)...

(President Ronald Reagan's) Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Area Junior High School Students November 14, 1988 The President. You know, this is a real treat for me -- having you here and to have, in a little while, the chance to answer some of your questions. Let me also offer a special hello to those of you who are watching on C-SPAN and -- or the Instructional Television Network. Thank you for inviting us into your home or your school today. This marks the beginning of American Education Week, and I'm particularly pleased to be talking to American students...

President Reagan marked the beginning of American Education Week and spoke to school students in the East Room of the White House. He talked about the foundations of American government, the values of democracy, and the regard for the United States held by other countries. He also answered questions from the students. The event was telecast in several classrooms throughout the country.

Unlike Obama, these two Presidents didn't instruct students to read their books or make posters with quotes from their speeches!Plus: Left Wing political indoctrination is pervasive in the public schools!Trying to deflect attention from Obama's planned speech to the nation's school children next Tuesday, the Dems resort to their first excuse whenever they are cornered: "Republicans do it too." As usual, that phony moral equivalence falls flat when the facts are examined. It's true that both President's Reagan and the first President Bush gave speeches to the nation's schoolchildren. But there is no evidence to suggest that either man used...

Friday, September 4 Archb.Claudio Celli, Pres.,Pontifical Council for Social Communications; & William Patrick Clark, Jr., Senior Aide to President Ronald Reagan From Wikipedia: William Patrick Clark, Jr. (born October 23, 1931), American politician, served under President Ronald Reagan as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982, United States National Security Advisor from 1982 to 1983, and the Secretary of the Interior from 1983 until 1985. A devout Catholic, former seminary student, rancher, lawyer, and aide to Reagan in the California gubernatorial years, Clark served as a justice of the California Supreme Court prior to his Washington appointment,...

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Area Junior High School Students November 14, 1988 The President. You know, this is a real treat for me -- having you here and to have, in a little while, the chance to answer some of your questions. Let me also offer a special hello to those of you who are watching on C-SPAN and -- or the Instructional Television Network. Thank you for inviting us into your home or your school today. This marks the beginning of American Education Week, and I'm particularly pleased to be talking to American students in this, the first in...

Reagan's few words to schoolchildren says more to them than Obama could say in 2 hours of speechmaking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKIZ7j20EA I can't watch this without tears in my eyes, or even just hear it. This man understood man, America, and courage.

"Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory . . . Abandoned by his party, betrayed by his friends, stripped of his offices, whoever can command this power is still formidable." - Winston S. Churchill "(I) won a nickname, 'The Great Communicator.' But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things." – Ronald Reagan "Don't tell me words don't matter! 'I have a dream'-- just words? 'We hold these truths...

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board is said to be considering removing former president Ronald Reagan’s name from the City’s airport. “National monuments should reflect an accurate picture of a society’s character and core values,” said Board Chairman H.R. Crawford. “Reagan symbolized a kind of ‘cowboy individualism’ that ran counter to the mainstream of American history. His political ascendancy was an aberration, a detour, so to speak, on the nation’s road to greater social consciousness. We shouldn’t be exaggerating that detour by having the City’s airport named after him.” Crawford suggested that “if we have to personalize it, LBJ or...

This is a really cool, old video from Ronald Reagan, about the evils of socialism. It isn't long, and is well worth your time. The video can be found on site. http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/08/video-ronald-reagan-on-evils-of.html

Shortly after the announcement of Ted Kennedy's death, I had already received several interview requests. I declined them, not wanting to be uncharitable to the man upon his death. Since then, I've seen the need to step up and provide some clarification. The issue is a remarkable 1983 KGB document on Kennedy, which I published in my 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (HarperCollins). The document is a May 14, 1983 memo from KGB head Victor Chebrikov to his boss, the odious Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, designated with the highest classification. It concerns a...

True, Kennedy was masterful at 'the personal touch' when it came to public relations. Perhaps this was his greatest strength. But the record shows that his political ideology was the exact opposite to that of the majority of the American people--sometimes dangerously so. Information has been uncovered which shows that Kennedy should have been arrested for treason. And, in spite of several publications that repoted the following facts, the media totally ignored them.

President Ronald Reagan and Sen. Ted Kennedy were good friends, according to Nancy Reagan. But that didn't stop Kennedy from trying to undercut Reagan ... with a little help from the Soviet Union. According to Peter Robinson, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former White House speechwriter, Kennedy offered to make a deal with then-Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in 1983. Robinson, writing for Forbes.com, says Kennedy sent his close friend, former California state Sen. John Tunney, to Moscow with a secret message to Andropov: Help the Democrats battle Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, and in return...

Sweetness and Light is forbidden, where they have the complete text of the letter, so, here's a repost from 2006. Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy Special Importance Committee on State Security of the USSR 14.05.1983 No. 1029 Ch/OV Moscow Regarding Senator Kennedy’s request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Comrade Y.V. Andropov Comrade Y.V. Andropov On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of...

"Here's to You Mr. Jefferson" Awesome! by Mike Church

Here is video of MSNBC's Chris Matthews last night talking with former First Lady Nancy Reagan by phone on the death of Ted Kennedy. Nancy Reagan said she and former President Ronald Reagan were very close to Kennedy, with her becoming closer in recent years because of their agreement on "stem cells." Matthews pointed out Reagan gave an award to the late Bobby Kennedy's widow, Ethel, that Jimmy Carter had held up. There was always great animosity between the Kennedys and Jimmy Carter. Note: Of course, funding for "Stem Cell Research" using Adult Stem Cells has not been the issue....

Check out creepy ad (at link) featuring models in the sack with Nixon and Reagan masks! (warning...partial nudity) Link to ad - http://cocoperez.com/category/ad-campaigns/ Link to Denimology - http://www.denimology.co.uk/

At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport. “It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner. It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory...

Yeah, keep telling us that the Reagan Revolution is dead. They'd like that, but the Revolution lives on in today's town halls. This nails what Obama and the Dems are trying to do on health care. Here's some of it in text. Video at the link. Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program... One of the traditional methods of imposing...

. . . Much of the admiring conservative literature about Reagan, like that written by liberals, also focuses chiefly and too narrowly on the Cold War story. . . . The difficulties Reagan had controlling spending and the growth of government were not lost on conservatives during and immediately after his presidency. The case for disappointment, verging at times on betrayal, was made often while Reagan was in office. For example, the Winter 1984 issue of Policy Review contained a symposium called “What Conservatives Think of Reagan.” .Terry Dolan, head of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, complained: “There has...

Yeah, keep telling us Ronald Reagan is dead and his revolution finished. That's what they would love to think, but they're seeing Reagan's Revolution continuing in our town hall meeting. This absolutely nails what Obama and the Dems are trying to do on health care. Here's a sample of the monologue. Video at the link. Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the...

There are some important reports found in Soviet archives, after the collapse of the Communist dictatorship, that provide an interesting insight into the character of the senior senator from Massachusetts. One of the documents, a KGB report to bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that "In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship" between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Sen. John Tunney (D.-Calif.). KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named...

This is a 1961 recording of what Ronald Reagan had to say about socialized medicine. He understood the consequences and tried to warn us. Link to video HERE

At a certain point, the reality that the vast majority of the American populace are politically ignorant needs to be accepted by non-Marxists the same way it has been by Marxists. Then, non-Marxists need to adapt their political strategy accordingly. Progressive/socialist/Marxists start with the premise that regular people are incapable of making decisions on how best to spend the money they’ve earned. And, because of this shortfall of the average individual, Marxists like President Obama assert that two things are necessary: A government that can manage average peoples’ labor and resources, and elitists (like Obama himself) to oversee said government....

Paul Krugman appears to be determined to try and rewrite the history of the Reagan years all on his own. He continues with this piece. Let’s talk for a moment about why the age of Reagan should be over. First of all, even before the current crisis Reaganomics had failed to deliver what it promised. Remember how lower taxes on high incomes and deregulation that unleashed the “magic of the marketplace” were supposed to lead to dramatically better outcomes for everyone? Well, it didn’t happen.

The debate over the “public option” in health care has been dismaying in many ways. Perhaps the most depressing aspect for progressives, however, has been the extent to which opponents of greater choice in health care have gained traction — in Congress, if not with the broader public — simply by repeating, over and over again, that the public option would be, horrors, a government program. Washington, it seems, is still ruled by Reaganism — by an ideology that says government intervention is always bad, and leaving the private sector to its own devices is always good. Call me naïve,...

Most of us are outraged over the Scots freeing this muslim terrorist and allowing him to go home to a heros welcome. I certainly am. Why would Obama allow this and why would the Europeans do this? Over the past several decades we have seen Europe becoming more and more a "social democracy," with horrible immigration and welfare policies. The WSJ wrote a very telling piece on the state of Europe, why Europe wants Obama to fail and how they become so weak-kneed: Europe has been riding on our economic coattails and sheltering under our defense umbrella since the end...

Ronald Reagan's Nomination complete acceptance speech 25 years ago. Youtube video.

Michael Reagan will be the keynote speaker next week... It's being billed as "the ultimate town hall for conservatives." The nonprofit Steamboat Institute promotes what it calls the five basic founding principles of the United States: lower taxes, free markets, strong national defense and individual rights and responsibilities.

Christopher G. Adamo, of realitycheck.org, wrote a very nice piece on the similarities of Reagan and Palin’s leadership styles. Mr Adamo is a managing partner of Best American Buy an e-commerce business that markets American made products (we should always try to purchase) including the incomparable Abigail Adams Bedspread Set from Bates Mills. Contact information for Chris Adamo, and his archives, can be found at www.chrisadamo.com. I posted part of the article: The healthcare fight is far from over. Barack Obama has invested the entirety of his political capital into his aggressive strategy for passing some form of medical socialism...

Defense: Overlooked in the defense budget cuts is the decimation of missile defense systems. As North Korea tested an ICBM, our defense secretary was scrapping a system that could have destroyed it with a single shot.We will miss the F-22 Raptor, perhaps the only plane that could evade the sophisticated S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system Russia is selling to Iran. Russia's S-300 system is "one of the most lethal, if not the most lethal, all-altitude area defense" systems, according to the International Strategy and Assessment Service, a Virginia-based think tank. But the aircraft we and the nation will miss the...

We don’t need to “reinvent” conservatism, but we certainly do need to reacquaint millions of Americans—especially the young—with what conservatives believe about many issues. And foreign policy is an arena where conservative vision is most needed today. If anyone had said in 1981 that Ronald Reagan would end the Cold War by building up U.S. military strength, by challenging the Soviet Union, by publicly denouncing Soviet tyranny while quietly waging relentless economic warfare against an evil empire, and even by holding Soviet communism up to international ridicule, that person would have been deemed a starry-eyed visionary. Yet that was Reagan’s...

Yeah you've probably heard it, but as my mother used to say when I asked how many times was she going to tell me something. Her response? "Until you get it!" Barack Obama enjoys identifying with Great president’s he has attempted to identify with presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan. But for all of us who are old enough to remember President Reagan we can say without question that Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan. Often one asks the question what would one of our great men of the past say about one topic or the other but rarely...

Holiday optics matter for politicians. These are people who painstakingly spend hours trying to figure out the best set-up for a speech or press conference room. They know any move they make will reveal something about themselves. So what does Obama’s vacation – and those of other leaders – tell us? President Barack Obama is heading to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts (aka Kennedyland, USA) to force a media connection between him and JFK every time they mention his vacation spot. This is what those of us in the political business call the “halo effect”. JFK is synonymous with Martha’s Vineyard, and...

Ronald Reagan in 1961 warned clearly that "liberal" is the codeword used to sell what is really "socialism," and that "socialized medicine" is a key instrument used to impose socialism on a society. Wake Up America.

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President Barack Obama has rightly been regarded as the liberal equivalent of Ronald Reagan, if not the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt. Like Reagan, the current president combines an attractive and compelling personality with superb communication skills to blunt the hard edges of his ideology and appeal to the broad spectrum of non-ideological voters who decide most elections (and who decided the 2008 election). Reagan also proved that it is possible, within limits, to govern successfully as an ideological president. Obama himself acknowledged this during the campaign, commenting that "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America ... He put us...

Sarah Palin said it: The Obama administration's health care plan could create "death panels" that could kill Americans. And people listened and acted, from the U.S. Senate to President Barack Obama. So if you think the former Alaskan governor is irrelevant or doesn't know what she is talking about (and clearly on the death panel comment she didn't), it doesn't really matter. This week, the Senate Finance Committee said it would not include advance care planning consultations in its health care bill. The panel clearly was scared off by Palin's contention and all the white-hot attention it had received, including...

From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video ...

I have posted a recording made by Ronald Reagan, speaking on the dangers of America moving toward a socialized system of medicine. He begins by quoting Norman Thomas who was a Socialist and ran for president 6 times on the Socialist Party Ticket. "The American people will never vote for a socialist...but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program." (Norman Thomas 1927) Many of you may have already heard this recording, or are aware of it, but for those who haven't I urge you to listen to it. Although it was made in...

http://wrko.radiotown.com/audio/Howie_Carr_interviews_Reagan.mp3

Click on link to hear Ronald Reagan on socialized medicine. Howie Carr crafted an "interview" with the audio from Reagan(unknown how old the audio is)

I don't know how to do this, but howie had a great "interview" with RR on his show tonight. He said anyone can use it . Just go to Howie Carr.com

I've been delving a little into Reagan's presidency to try and snuff what really happened away from the ideologues from both sides. Is there anywhere on the web or anyone that can give a good synopsis of the Tax cuts/Tax increases during Reagan's tenure as Governor as well as President?

Don Campbell of USA Today asks the question in this piece. I believe the answer is "yes." "Many commentators haughtily questioned Palin's political sanity for resigning the governorship, but their underlying message was "she's toast" and "good riddance." This about a politician who is 45 years old and has been known to most Americans for less than a year. So here's a minority view: Barring some unrevealed scandal, I believe she's not only a prime candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, but she could be a formidable general election contender as well — if she's willing to take her time...

SDI: If you missed the news, which isn't hard given how poorly these things are covered, our "unproven" missile defense proved itself again last week, when a U.S. warship downed a simulated North Korean missile in flight.The test, conducted in Hawaiian waters by the Navy and the Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA), was the 23rd firing by ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. It was the 19th success, including the shoot-down of a dead U.S. spy satellite last year. A short-range ballistic missile simulating a missile like North Korea's Nodongs or Scuds was fired from...

National Security: Iranian missile experts are helping North Korea with the imminent launch of an ICBM that can hit Alaska and Hawaii. Imagine a Taepodong-2 with a nuke. This is no time to gut missile defense.The enemy of my enemy is my friend, the saying goes. On Sunday, the Japanese paper Sankei Shimbun reported that a 15-member delegation from Tehran has been advising the North Koreans on their imminent "satellite" launch since the beginning of March. Iran recently launched its own satellite to demonstrate its global reach. The Iranian experts include senior officials with rocket and satellite producer Shahid Hemmat...