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46 Years ago - Choices have been made for the last 46 years and look where we are...had we listened to him then how different things might be. Is it too late? You Choose! "But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a...

Give her an A for effort in trying to blast the progressive income tax on NBC News.

With a wealth gap this wide and Wall Street still unrepentant you might think Obama had an open goal on reform – but no The latest ­shortcoming over which the ­increasingly itchy ­American left is fed up with Barack Obama concerns his failure to declare class war on Wall Streeters and the rich generally. This is not a new charge, ­necessarily, but it was given fresh ­saliency by an interview the president gave last week in which he was handed an opportunity to inveigh against the banker class – and by and large did not. ~snip~ The criticism is merely...

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,...

"Many Eastern Europeans today still feel enormous gratitude to U.S. efforts to oppose their oppressive communist-era regimes, with a particular affection for Ronald Reagan and other Republican leaders. Polish analyst Olaf Osica, with the Natolin European Center think tank in Warsaw, said the region tends to view Democratic administrations with more skepticism, fearful they will favor a "realistic" approach to Russia over the "idealism" of opposing Moscow's strength" "Had a 'realist' view prevailed in the early 1990s, we would not be in NATO today and the idea of a Europe whole, free, and at peace would be a distant dream,"...

ABOARD USS RONALD REAGAN AT SEA, July 6, 2009 – The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group relieved the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group today in command of Task Force 50 and launched its first sorties in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 22 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, July 6, 2009. Ronald Reagan relieved USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Task Force 50 and launched its first sorties into Afghanistan to support Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Apprentice Oliver Cole  (Click...

"I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast beating." It's time to get back to basics, this is where it begins. Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative. You can get it bargain priced from Barnes and Noble right now for $8.99. Make the investment. We need to go back to square one.

...It is mathematically impossible for Mike Huckabee, the last remaining major GOP contender, to capture the nomination. The former Arkansas governor even turned up on Saturday Night Live recently to poke fun at himself for not going away. Let's be clear: Mr. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, remains our choice for the GOP nomination... Aside from [McCain's] long experience and personal courage, he has a solid record of fiscal responsibility and has been on the right side of campaign finance reform and environmental issues. And he was correct and principled to lead the fight for comprehensive immigration reform last summer....

  Rudy Giuliani laughs off Judith Regan rap BY ADAM NICHOLS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, November 15th 2007, 4:00 AM Judith Regan claimed Rudy Giuliani's cronies tried to silence her; now the presidential hopeful wants to sideline her to the gossip columns. The Republican candidate said Wednesday the publishing queen's bombshell $100 million suit was no more than salacious tittle-tattle. "It sounds to me like a kind of gossip column story more than a real story," he said on a campaign stop in Iowa. "The last thing in the world you want to do when you're running for President...

Judith Regan, former book publisher, says a senior News Corporation executive encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik after he had been nominated to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him NYC police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. --SNIP-- “Defendants were well aware that Regan had a personal relationship with Kerik,” the complaint says. “.....a senior News Corporation executive told Regan that he believed she...

It’s hard to find good scapegoats these days. After taking the fall for the O.J. Simpson book deal last year, Judith Regan is back with a $100 million defamation suit against News Corp. In her case, Regan claims that HarperCollins told her to lie about her affair with Bernard K. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner. How Regan and Kerik got together remains a mystery, but conservative America is starting to seem like one big high school. According to the suit, Regan told a company executive in 2001 about her relationship with Kerik, whose memoir she published following the...

Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post.

Judith Regan, the book publisher who was fired by the News Corporation last year, asserts in a lawsuit filed today that a senior executive at the media conglomerate encouraged her to mislead federal investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik during his bid to become homeland security secretary in late 2004. The lawsuit asserts that the News Corporation executive wanted to protect the presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor, who had appointed him New York City police commissioner and had recommended him for the federal post. (Snip) The News Corporation controls a vast array...

REPORTS: PUBLISHER JUDITH REGAN TO FILE $100 MILLION SUIT AGANIST MURDOCH EMPIRE IN NY COURT; WILL BE REPPED BY SUPERLAWYER BERT FIELDS... DEVELOPING... Just a header on Drudge right now.. Regan grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971.[1] She then attended Vassar College, receiving her A.B. degree in 1975. Then in 1978, while working as a secretary at Harvard, Regan answered a newspaper ad for a reporter for The National Enquirer and got the job. In the early 1980s, Regan relocated to New York City. After the 911 attacks in 2001, Regan published...

Ron Paul was one of only six incumbent Republican Congressmen to support Ronald Reagan over Ford in 1976. In fact, Dr. Paul led the Texas delegation for Reagan to the nominating convention.

In an explosive telephone argument that led to her firing, publisher Judith Regan allegedly complained of a "Jewish cabal" against her in the book industry and stated that "Of all people, Jews should know about ganging up, finding common enemies and telling the big lie." A spokesman for Regan's former employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., told The Associated Press on Monday that the remarks were based on notes taken by HarperCollins attorney Mark Jackson, with whom Regan was discussing the future of a controversial new novel about baseball star Mickey Mantle. The spokesman, Andrew Butcher, released the comments in response...

EXCLUSIVE **7:34 PM ET** PUBLISHING GURU JUDITH REGAN LET GO FROM MURDOCH EMPIRE... Judith Regan's employment with Harpercollins has been terminated effective immediately, sources tell DRUDGE REPORT... Regan publishing program and staff will continue as part of the Harpercollins general books group... The OJ fiasco is not the main reason for terminating the world's most successful publisher, sources explain. "Many factors led to this decision," says an insider. The force behind smash bestsellers by Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Sean Hannity and others could not be reached for comment late Friday...

Once, Judith Regan's taste in men was Bernard Kerik. Now her taste in authors is O.J. Simpson. She was much better off on Kerik's side of the law. To have a reputation decline faster than hers, you have to be on a bobsled run. Soon, Regan publishes a new book from Simpson that is supposed to hint at how he might have stabbed two people to death, one of them his ex-wife. Regan also interviews Simpson next week on the Fox network. Regan says what she gets out of Simpson amounts to a "confession." The truth is, she is the...

The Harriet Miers issue has us all depressed, angry, and down. So a friend of mine sent me this hilarious excerpt from the new Reagan book, THE GREATEST COMMUNICATOR by President Reagan's strategist and pollster, Dick Wirthlin. I had never heard this story before, but it's a riot...

I was listening to a NHSTA radio commercial today and I heard them basically credit Gorbachev with bring down the Berlin Wall, I took exception and fired off an e-mail, but only got a generic response. Freepers feel free to express your displeasure with the NHSTA. I have pasted the text of my e-mail below.