This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Satellite pictures detail massive Buddhist on Muslim violence in Burma U.S. Navy moves destroyer off coast of Korean Peninsula Influence of extremist groups in the Balkans grows David A Stockman says our economy is
The United Network of Rational Americans (UNRA) is running an ad that shows footage from the attempted 1981 assassination of Ronald Reagan, then references Reagan’s 1991 pro-Brady Bill op-ed to make it sound as thought the Gipper supported universal background
UNRA: “Thirty-two years ago this week, armed Secret Service agents couldn’t protect Ronald Reagan…”
On Saturday, Frank Gaffney, the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy, told Breitbart’s Uninvited panel at CPAC that the Obama administration’s policy of unilateral de-nuclearization has “profoundly hurt our nation’s national security.“ Very few people are paying
ForAmerica chairman Brent Bozell mashed the Republican establishment in his speech to CPAC on Saturday. “John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy: You said all the right things to conservatives to propel the GOP back to the majority and you
Yeah, yeah, I know. Jay-Z called himself a product of Reaganomics because of the drug trade in the black community. (That’s a discussion for another day.) This is why I call Jay-Z a product of Reaganomics: Why do most blacks
In the 1970s Jerry Falwell founded Lynchburg Baptist College and then worked to increase the political participation of fundamentalist Christians who had viewed politics as something to avoid. Now Liberty University will be known to a lot of people, as
***UPDATE: From an email: “Nolte’s Reagan-Obama job rate analysis is skewed in O’s favor because, sinceClinton, workforce dropouts are no longer included.” Below, a commenter accurately notes, as well, that Reagan expanded the workforce and still lowered the unemployment rate. Obama, however,
Former President Jimmy Carter hailed deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez on Tuesday as a visionary who left “positive legacies.” “We hope that as Venezuelans mourn the passing of President Chávez and recall his positive legacies — especially the gains made
On March 1st, 2012, I woke up to a text message from a friend I had lost touch with over the previous year. Naturally, I was intrigued. It had to be something important. And it was not just a single text
The directors behind the new hunger documentary A Place at the Table graced The Daily Show’s stage last night, and they boiled the current food crisis down to one bumper sticker-sized slogan. Blame President Ronald Reagan. Documentary filmmakers Lori Silverbush
This morning on “Mornings on the Mall” on WMAL-FM in Washington DC, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) used the memory of Ronald Reagan to give himself cover for a tax increase he helped engineer. Once considered a strong contender for
In response to Reagan’s 11th Commandment is FUBAR: First of all, if Republicans were obligated to adhere to this ‘commandment,’ what would become of the primary elections? Ronald Reagan himself broke this approach of not speaking ill of afellow Republican
In response to I Agree 100% – Time To Invoke Reagan’s 11th Commandment: Wrong. Reagan’s 11th Commandment has never held water throughout Republican circles. The commandment is merely an excuse to scare Republicans into not bashing establishment candidates and elected
Al Cardenas of the American Conservative Union says it’s time to knock off the infighting: “It has become fashionable among some conservatives to devote a preponderance of their time to finding things about other conservatives they don’t like. I do
Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) told an influential Republican audience in Ohio that President Barack Obama’s lasting legacy will be a new generation of Republican leaders. “We got clobbered the last time around, but we are continuing to see a
Hippies ruin everything, Exhibit 8,346,788: My wife and I are currently in Los Angeles on our annual sabbatical from Chicago’s subarctic wintertime cruelties. After a pleasant President’s Day afternoon at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, we returned
In the previous installment, we examined the current DC buzz about third parties, on the middle and on the right. In US history, third parties have arisen when a disaffected sector of the population felt that it had no
When legendary Lakers owner Jerry Buss bought the franchise for $20 million in 1979, Los Angeles was a baseball town and the NBA’s future was in doubt. Buss passed away on Tuesday, 33 years after buying the team, and the
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the “Great Society,” if he were elected president. According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those
Lloyd Green, who writes for the Daily Beast, noted how ferociously Breitbart News has gone after Karl Rove for trying to anoint Establishment candidates in Republican primaries who may hold values antithetical to those held by the “Jacksonian” conservatives who make
Two politicians involved in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign have contradicted GOP strategist Karl Rove’s boast of directing the conservative icon’s Texas operation that year. Both Ernie Angelo, Ronald Reagan’s Texas campaign manager in 1980, and Rick Shelby, the 1980
Conservative author Craig Shirley, a Ronald Reagan biographer, told conservative leaders on Friday that he cannot find any records of GOP strategist Karl Rove having ever worked for Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. “In the course of my research for Rendezvous
In response to Happy Reagan Day: In addition to Obama, ten of our nation’s governors also don’t get Reagan’s “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you” joke. In case you were wondering who refused to issue a
Former George W. Bush advisor, Karl Rove said that Rubio was “the best communicator since Ronald Reagan.” Rove appeared on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier with Democrat Joe Trippi, who also believes that Rubio is the glue that
