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If you want to know just what your kids are learning from their history books, all you have to do is apply the "Reagan test," says Professor Larry Schweikart. As the Texas textbook battle continues to simmer, Schweikart says the first thing he does to determine whether a book is politically slanted is to go to any section discussing President Ronald Reagan. What you'll find there, he says, will tell you everything you need to know, he says. Schweikart says the majority of books he’s examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, and not Reagan....

Who will rock the youth vote? By Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Most analysts will concede that the Democratic Party's decline began the day it lost the middle class. With that traditional voting bloc gone, so went its low-hanging fruit -- genetically engineered youth who vote as their parents do. The Reagan Revolution was the bloodless coup credited with this middle class body-snatching. Reagan spoke with a clarity of purpose that won the hearts of Middle America and her young people. To the 20-something voters of that era, he began a relationship with the conservative cause that became a seminal moment...

Ronald Reagan By Darren Morrison To my shame I had two chances to vote for him and didn’t. I turned 18 during the same year Reagan ran against president Carter. My parents were very political and Democrats to their core. It is not fair to compare them to the loose morals and pro-socialist Democrat party of today. My parents are old school Democrats, pro-union and strong on labor issues. Yet they are still Democrats. They have been left behind by the party they support. But growing up with them as I did I was a democrat in my early adult...

LFOD GEORGE W. BUSH has surpassed Ronald Reagens Popular Vote...that would mean he has the largest popular vote of any elected President Correction...the largest Popular vote of anyone who has ran for President Ronald Reagen 1984 - 54,455,075 George W. Bush 2004 - 54,526,433

American presidents leave their marks on government by signing legislation with official names so long they are nearly impossible to recall. They leave their marks on people by signing autographs, personal notes, and photographs that trigger frequent fond memories. Ronald Reagan left many imprints on the lives of northwest Ohioans.

CNN is taking a poll on the Gipper's greatest achievement. Not many people have responded so far, but I'd like to see FR overwhelm their web site with responses. I voted 'Ending the Cold War' myself... but whatever your response, please take a second to register your opinion about a truly great man.

With the nation drowned in media JFK reminiscences, I bring good news. On this 40th anniversary of his assassination, there will be no lachrymose eulogy from me -- but a rating of the 14 presidents I've lived under, including him. We've already seen examples of youngish academics fawning over liberal presidents they've only read about, which run high in political correctness. Here's one man's star system that differs widely from academia's run-of-the-mill: Calvin Coolidge (****). Totally unappreciated now, his revenue acts of 1924-26 sharply reduced income, inheritance and gift taxes and most excise taxes from World War I, freeing up...

I ask God sometimes .."Why did you invent this vile medium? Television! What has it done for any of us???" Its laid waste the morals of our last two generations. Shown us the hate and greed of the world and its dictators-not to mention the politicians that run our country. Sex, violence and complete disregard for what this great nation stands for.We've seen freedom rants in China, fires in California and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Wars, famines, diseases and Princesses in full regalia. Violence in Iran, Iraq, Israel and among the Palestians. We are shown the Reagan family...