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Samuel Gompers, one of the first labor leaders in this country, said that Labor Day was a time to pledge ourselves to an even greater effort in the coming year. Samuel Gompers knew that the key to a prosperous future is to have faith in it, and that's why for him, Labor Day stood for a celebration of tomorrow's promise and possibilities. Today, as we set our minds to a new season of work, we begin what I hope will be a new age of the American worker, an age in which all of us again are free to prosper....

Former White House pianist Bob Smith provided entertainment to presidents, their spouses and guests for more than 30 years. As such, he has plenty of stories to tell — like the one from his White House debut, with the Army Band Chorus, at Tricia Nixon’s 1971 St. Patrick’s Day engagement party. “My Three Sons” star Fred MacMurray arrived at the event seemingly inebriated and took up the saxophone. “He was just horrible. ... The most awful thing you heard in your life,” Smith recalled. President Richard Nixon asked Smith to “get rid of him,” and Smith, with help from the...

"Today we celebrate Flag Day, the birthday of our Stars and Stripes. As we think back over the history of our nation's flag, we remember that the story of its early years was often one of hardship and trials, sometimes a fight for simple survival. ... As the American Republic grew and prospered and new stars were added to the flag, the ideal of freedom grew and prospered. From the rolling hills of Kentucky to the shores of California to the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon, our pioneers carried our flag before them, a symbol of the indomitable spirit...

Happy Birthday to the Gipper! Number 40 Born Feb. 6, 1911 in Tampico, Ill. A movie star in politics? NOT a legend in his own time MAN WE MISS HIM. Happy birthday to our man Ronald Reagan. WHITE HOUSE PAGE Presidential Library Google Images

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Ronald Reagan describes liberalism and socialism. He also talks about compulsory insurance and healthcare. Very eerily similar to today.

President Obama is being accused by some of pursuing a socialist agenda. His critics claim that under Obama, the federal government will consume more and more of what the American people produce, leaving less and less to be spent by the private economy. It raises an interesting question: How much of our nation’s annual income OUGHT to be available for spending by the federal government? What’s the right level? Since 1970, the annual federal budget has been as low as 18.4 percent of our gross domestic product, and as high as 23.5 percent. (In 2008, preliminary figures say it was...

Tomorrow, February 6th, would have been Ronald Reagan's 98th birthday. In honor of him and the founding principles that he tirelessly taught and championed, please join me in demanding that Congressional Republicans RETURN TO REAGAN CONSERVATISM. -----P E T I T I O N: We Demand True Conservative Leadership----- WE DECLARE that Republican leadership the past eight years has failed. WE DECLARE that Republican politicians have compromised Conservative values in favor of "reaching across the aisle" in the name of "bipartisanship" to "get things done in Washington." In doing so, these very politicians have damaged this nation, weakened the Constitution,...

Every great program needs a great athletic director By IkeonicAll sports fans know about fair weather fans, the worst type of fan there is. The Republican Party is currently plagued by Fair Weather Republicans who ran for the hills and became Obamicans (Colin Powell, Susan Eisenhower come to mind) when storm clouds gathered on the horizon. Real Republicans stay and fight for the party and the values they believe in. Michael Steele is that kind of Republican. He truly believes in the GOP.The Republican Party must be committed to our timeless values, regardless of which party occupies the White House...

Freepers.....what haven't we seen this campaign season....dirty primaries.....hilary being dethroned?McCain beating out all comers?Biden?....I mean, Joe Biden?.....but then, blessed relief, Sarah Palin....what an utterly joyful and clever and SMART VP pick.... but then the baby questions, and the grandmother questions, and did Sarah MAKE her baby have Downs' syndrome by flying in an airplane, and what kind of mother lets her 17 yro get pregnant, and her hubby got a dwi 20 yrs ago, oh my..and the experience question....the haughty and dishonest and evil media...the absolute total pass given to anything said or done by hussein...or biden...and of course the...

On May 3, 2007, ten aspirants to the Republican presidential nomination kicked off the long campaign with a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The candidates disagreed about the issues and their respective qualifications--but each claimed Reagan's mantle. "I think it's important to remember," said Mike Huckabee, "that what Ronald Reagan did was to give us a vision for this country, a morning in America, a city on a hill." John McCain talked about Reagan's fiscal austerity: "Ronald Reagan used to say we spend money like a drunken sailor." Tommy Thompson threw in a stilted...

BARACK Obama, who is level-pegging with Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, committed what looked like a serious gaffe last week. According to the classic definition, coined by liberal columnist Michael Kinsley, a political gaffe consists of a politician telling the truth inadvertently. And in an interview with a US newspaper, Obama praised Ronald Reagan. In the eyes of left-wing activists, that was rather like a candidate for the papacy putting in a good word for Beelzebub. Worse, Obama praised Reagan not in saccharine generalities that might have been forgiven ("a great American", "he expressed America's...

I'm not one to go down easy – never have been. Not on my watch! I call upon the conservative army across this nation to rise up and fight the tides of compromise and liberalism by standing strong on the core issues and showing its true colors now! In the spirit of Ronald Reagan, "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - DNA from the recently exhumed body of college football hero George Gipp shows he was not the father of a child born shortly after his death, quelling longstanding rumors, relatives said Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Gipp's remains were taken Oct. 4 for testing from a cemetery near the Upper Peninsula village of Laurium. Rick Frueh, whose grandmother was Gipp's sister, said in a statement he authorized the exhumation, which angered some family members. Gipp died in 1920 from pneumonia and a strep infection during his senior year at Notre Dame, where he was the school's first All-American and...

Gipper’s Glass Slipper The Reagan moment is over. By Jonah Goldberg Ronald Reagan is dead, and he’s not coming back. I wish more conservatives could come to grips with this relatively simple fact. We are now in something like the fifth round of the pin-the-tail-on-the-next-Reagan game and it’s getting old. Catering to the conservative base, the GOP presidential candidates keep trying to put on the Reagan mantle the way Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters tried to cram their dogs into her glass slipper. Not gonna happen. Reagan-mania takes many forms. Some say they want another conservative unifier. Some claim they want a...

Rudy’s 50-state strategy By Salena Zito Friday, September 14, 2007 CANONSBURG, PA-One day after the anniversary of the Sept. 11th terror attacks Republican presidential nominee Rudy Giuliani zeroed in on the Democratic front-runners – stinging Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and John Edwards with the sharpest words in the presidential campaign to date. Giuliani is clearly exercising a strategic move to define himself as the Republican front-runner who hopes to cinch the nomination before his GOP rivals gain steam. And he is increasing the volume on the issue Giuliani believes can catapult him to the White House: a do-or-die fight between...

A crowd of about 280 young conservatives responded to a speech about former President Ronald Reagan, given by his son Michael Reagan, with laughter, tears and three standing ovations. "Tell the story of Ronald Reagan and the kind of man he was," Michael Reagan told the audience. "I miss him. The world misses him. We were lucky because we had him. Don't ever forget what he did for us and what you could do for the nation in the future."

On the day of the first Southern-state Republican debate on the Fox News Channel, one undeclared GOP candidate performed a media leapfrog. With the help of one 38-second video clip and a great sense of humor, Fred Thompson, the former U.S. senator from Tennessee who is one sock away from dipping his toe into the race for the White House, remained just as relevant as the other GOP candidates. And thanks to Michael Moore, the Hollywood documentarian who just can't help himself, Thompson delivered what, in time, could become his watershed moment.

What would President Reagan do? JACK KEMP - COPLEY NEWS SERVICE May 2, 2007 As the Republican candidates all gather at the Reagan Library for their first debate of the presidential campaign, what follows is my advice on “what would Ronald Reagan do?” I'll start with the economy and follow later with foreign policy. In giving thought to what Reagan would do about tax and budget policy, we must never forget the times in which he led our nation. When he was first sworn in in 1981, Reagan faced a divided government, an economy in deep recession with rising prices...

Here, death ruled, but we've learned something as well. Because of what happened, we found that death cannot rule forever, and that's why we're here today. We're here because humanity refuses to accept that freedom of the spirit of man can ever be extinguished. We're here to commemorate that life triumphed over the tragedy and the death of the Holocaust -- overcame the suffering, the sickness, the testing and, yes, the gassings. We're here today to confirm that the horror cannot outlast hope, and that even from the worst of all things, the best may come forth. Therefore, even out...