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Hi! My name is John Martineu. Im 18 and a student of Dover high School in Dover Delaware. I have been assigned a final term project. We are to do a 20 page turn paper on different subjects. I am doing one on the collapse of communism. Since you coservatives know alot about this, I was wondering if you could help me out. First Id like to know what communism is and how it is different from socialism? Second I would also like to know about why Russia collapsed. Third could you tell me why you refer to certain people...

The author of a new book detailing a plan to use a Trojan horse embedded in stolen software to wage economic war against the Soviet Union fired back Thursday at charges the book´s revelations are "rubbish." Thomas C. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force and special assistant to President Reagan, detailed the stunning story in At the Abyss: An Insider´s History of the Cold War. According to Reed, the Reagan administration faced a choice in 1981 when it "gained access to a KGB agent in their technical intelligence directorate" and discovered that Soviet theft of American technology had...

<p>The author of a new book detailing a plan to use a Trojan horse embedded in stolen software to wage economic war against the Soviet Union fired back Thursday at charges the book's revelations are "rubbish."</p> <p>Thomas C. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force and special assistant to President Reagan, detailed the stunning story in At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War.</p>

A friend at work and I were having a discussion and he asked some questions that I was unable to answer and I knew I could get the answers here: 1)Why are gas prices so high and Why has the Bush administration turned a blind eye when Clinton/Gore were able to call for investigations to keep the prices low. 2)Who sold North Korea their WMDs and what did Clinton do about it? 3) Other than break-up the Soviet Union, What did Reagan accomplish other than a 12 year recession (I've already pointed out that it was Carter's fault and he...

<p>As President Reagan's birthday fast approaches, those who worked for him and others who cherish his contributions should redouble their efforts to preserve his legacy.</p> <p>Don't expect the academic community and professional writers to do that for us. University departments most likely to write the history of this era and to interpret Mr. Reagan's contributions tilt to the left. Respected writers, including Edmund Morris, are so jaded by enigmatic, Machiavellian figures they have difficulty understanding and appreciating a man who said what he meant and meant what he said.</p>

The Left Says:"The 1980s were "a time of Reaganomics, burgeoning yuppies, and the Decade of Greed." Source: Source: Matt Lauer, NBC Today Show, December 30, 2003, as cited by the Media Research Center's CyberAlert of December 31, 2003. What Conservatives Think:Conservatives think it is odd that economic growth when a conservative is president is called "greed," while economic growth when a liberal is president is called "prosperity." Nonetheless, here are facts about the 1980s: From 1982 through 1989, the years President Reagan's economic policies were in effect, corporate contributions to charities grew an average of 10 percent per year, outstripping...

In the nine years since Ronald Reagan wrote his letter to the American people announcing that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer´s disease, the public has received only sporadic updates on his condition. Although he stopped giving speeches in 1994, the occasional photograph of the president – sometimes looking confused, but other times looking much the way he did in the White House, except older, with grayer hair and eyeglasses – was released. Other than that, his wife Nancy carefully guarded his privacy and shielded him from the public eye. This left us to speculate about the extent to which...

I am doing an article on the accomplishments of President Reagan for my paper. Now it would be very easy to do research on the usual items of historical importance that he was part of, but I want a solid more personal fact filled article from Republican and former Democrats. This is obviously the best place to ask this question. List some of your top Reagan achievements on this thread. When the article is finished and linked...I will post it here on FR. Thanks MFH

<p>When President Bush signed a ban on partial-birth abortion yesterday, it marked the first congressional rollback of Roe v. Wade since the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion was handed down in 1973. And it marked the success of an idea as well. The idea, of course, is that abortion is inhuman and should be limited as sharply as possible and ultimately outlawed altogether.</p>

<p>When President Bush signed a ban on partial-birth abortion yesterday, it marked the first congressional rollback of Roe v. Wade since the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion was handed down in 1973. And it marked the success of an idea as well. The idea, of course, is that abortion is inhuman and should be limited as sharply as possible and ultimately outlawed altogether.</p>

NEW YORK (AP) - In protesting "The Reagans," the miniseries that CBS decided to pull this week, supporters of the former president were defending not just a man, or a politician, but his principles. "This was a left-wing smear of one of the nation's most beloved presidents and CBS got caught," says Brent Bozell, founder of the conservative Media Research Center, which had asked advertisers to consider boycotting the film. All modern presidents have their advocates, but Ronald Reagan's legacy is guarded with an intensity not seen among supporters of Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford. For many, Reagan personifies the...

Trashing Reagan's Legacy Humberto Fontova Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003 You expect the pinks at CBS to trash Ronald Reagan's legacy. No surprise there. But 53 congressional Republicans following suit? That's the number who joined ranks with chronically Castrophile Democrats to vote for lifting the travel ban to Cuba last week. That travel ban was President Ronald Reagan's doing. He re-imposed this "failed" policy in 1982, after Jimmy Carter lifted it in 1977. The Gipper can't be very pleased with last week's vote. Pinks and farm-state ward heelers always refer to the "embargo" as "failed." They have it exactly backward. It's...

I just finished watching a television special celebrating CBS´s 75th anniversary. This is the same network that most recently raised conservatives´ ire with its planned miniseries "The Reagans," which if described accurately by published reports will be an unfavorable and largely fictitious account of Ronald and Nancy Reagan´s public life. The celebratory program brought back memories of some classic television series, reminding me that CBS once had a lot more to offer than shows smearing a 92-year-old man incapacitated by Alzheimer´s disease and thus unable to defend himself. Of course, any prolonged discussion of President Reagan reminds me that the...

Ronald Reagan entered office at a time of great despair. The American economy was in the worst shape since the Great Depression. Inflation ran above 12%, and unemployment exceeded 7%. Consumers felt the pinch of the energy crisis and sky-high interest rates. The Unites States’ standing overseas also was diminished. We looked helpless as Islamic militants in Iran held Americans hostage for the 444 days prior to Reagan’s inauguration. In the most recent chapter of the century's great ideological conflict, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan with impunity. The Breshnev doctrine - wherever communism takes hold, it never leaves -...

If Ronald Reagan were still in his prime, presidential 1980s form, he’d be saying to Hollywood: "There you go again." There are two kinds of films about presidents. There are documentaries which usually try to dwell in factual examination; and fictional movies which have a habit of wildly making things up to satisfy the demands of making either effective entertainment, or effective propaganda. Now CBS is preparing a dramatic and quite fictional miniseries for November titled "The Reagans." CBS promised reporters it would be "meticulously researched." Researched fiction, that is. The last Reagan-fictionalizing offender was Showtime, whose 2001 film on...

<p>Ronald Reagan's legacy is under attack. For years, liberal academics have tried to explain how the Soviet Union collapsed without giving credit to the U.S. president who challenged communism head on and won. Now Hollywood is opening up another front. Next month, Mr. Reagan will be tarred and feathered in a made-for-TV docudrama by CBS. It is a transparent attempt to obscure historical fact with Tinsel Town glitz.</p>

Rumsfeld: Reagan Legacy Present in Iraq Today By John D. BanusiewiczAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2003 – Former President Ronald Reagan's legacy is present in Iraq today, as many nations freed from the grasp of tyranny now are helping the coalition bring freedom to the Iraqi people, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., Rumsfeld named 19 of the 32 countries that now have military forces in Iraq -- Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,...