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My daughter asked me my opinion on an article she read in Vanity Fair attempting to debunk the presidential record of Ronald Reagan. I happily responded. The writer of the piece is veteran liberal commentator Michael Kinsley, who used to be a regular on William F. Buckley Jr.'s "Firing Line" and CNN's "Crossfire." It's not as though he appeared out of nowhere, studied the evidence anew and shared a novel theory. He's been dissing Reaganomics for decades along with other Democrats and liberals, whose only recourse is to distort the Gipper's phenomenal record. Why is this even relevant, you ask?...

Source:Evidence Jimmy Carter Abandoned the ShahA recent article has provided some provocative information regarding former President Jimmy Carter and the Shah. While I had heard or read short articles regarding what is revealed here, the new piece by Alan Peters was an eye opener, and explained so much that I had suspected. I must admit, I used to be a Jimmy Carter supporter. I voted for him to be re-elected. I cringe when people always refer to the Hostage Rescue Attempt as "Ill Fated", "Catastrophic", "Jimmy Carter's Diaster", when Carter is to be commended for at least actually going through...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to remind you of some history. In June of 1980, basically the same period in the campaign where we are now, minus a month or so, in June of 1980 Jimmy Carter led Ronaldus Magnus 39 to 32. John Anderson, third-party candidate, independent candidate at 21%. Even into August and early September, Jimmy Carter was leading Ronaldus Magnus in the polls. Now, what I'm leading up to is that Reagan won that election in a landslide. Jimmy Carter conceded on election night before the polls in California had closed, 1980. The preelection polls into September...

The talk among college professors, students and those in the conservative southern community I live in, is that Barack Obama is going to win big, whether one wants it to happen or not. The other day, someone said it could be as big a victory as FDR's overwhelming reelection in 1936. I pointed out that Democrats would do well to remember the lessons of the 1980 election. Others in the conversation dismissed such talk. After all, Obama's got a big lead in the polls. According to realclearpolitics.com polls, Obama is opening up big leads in Associated Press polls and even...

The recent Republican take over of congress was a great achievement for conservatives. But younger conservatives need to be educated on how far America has come, over the past 30 years. In 1980, America did not have Fox News. There was no conservative talk radio, because America operated under the so-called fairness doctrine. Can you imagine an America that did not have Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Dennis Prager, and other conservative commentators? There were very few nationally-known conservative columnists. There was no internet, where you could discuss conservative policies with your fellow conservatives. There was no...

RUSH: Miles in Minneapolis, you're next as we go back to the phones here on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Thank you, sir. I appreciate your taking my call. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: Sir, with regard to the article, or the bit you were talking about a while ago about people of color looking at the election and not necessarily believing in it. (sigh) Um, I'm a college professor and I'm a conservative educator which makes me kind of an oddball to start with. (sigh) And just roughly talking to my students, I'm finding out that, yes, there are a...

Biography > A Rendezvous with Destiny 1964 Became host of Death Valley Days, replacing "The Old Ranger," Stanley Andrews. He appeared in or hosted twenty-one episodes, which were broadcast from 1965-1966. Portrayed the villain in The Killers, his last motion picture. Originally made for television, it was too violent and was released in movie theaters. October 27 Delivered televised speech, A Time for Choosing, for Barry Goldwater, which launched his political career. November "Friends of Ronald Reagan," a political support group, formed. 1965 Autobiography, Where's the Rest of Me, was published. Resigned as host of Death Valley Days. 1966 November...

They are not exactly father and son, but they share a singular bond in an elite business: 25 years ago this summer, almost exactly half his lifetime ago, John G. Roberts went to work for William H. Rehnquist, and now he stands poised to become the first Supreme Court clerk in American history to sit on the bench alongside the justice he served. His 13 months in the chambers of Justice Rehnquist spanned the period of the 1980 election and the dawn of the Reagan revolution in Washington. It was a heady time of relentless work, long walks on Capitol...

Once he was the most underestimated man in American politics--a washed-up movie star, it was said, who was too old, too simple and too far right to be President. But last week, after twelve years of trying, Ronald Wilson Reagan harnessed a tide of time-for-a-change conservatism and swept Jimmy Carter out of the White House by a landslide of stunning dimension. His counter-revolution shredded the old Democratic victory coalition, overwhelmed Carter by 51 to 41 per cent at the polls and 483 to 49 in electoral votes, and led a resurgent Republican Party to control of the Senate for the...