My seminal political moments occurred in Berkeley, California in 1969. It was about a little square of land known as People’s Park. I was, at that time, the proverbial flower child and about to graduate. Governor Ronald Reagan sent the
While accepting the Andrew Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Activism and Investigative Reporting at Americans For Prosperity’s annual Right Online conference last month in Las Vegas, Jon Fleischman, publisher of the influential “Flash Report” in California, told a story
Calvin Coolidge is the only president in U.S. history to have been born on Independence Day. He is also one of the few who understood the Declaration of Independence’s spiritual moorings. “Silent Cal,” as he was called, was thought to
I like to get to the heart of the matter, so I will use this column to ask one question of President Barack Obama. Who authorized Fast and Furious? Since no answer will be given, I will rhetorically ask a
The G20, comprised of the leaders of the twenty most powerful economies in the world, met in Los Cabos, Mexico last week for a scheduled meeting to discuss global financial issues. This meeting was particularly important due to the debt
The European Union is on the brink of collapse, and a ruling by Europe’s highest court may accelerate this process. The Court of Justice of the European Union, according to the New York Times, “ruled that workers who happened to
One of my all-time favorite Onion headlines was “Gay Rights Parade Sets Back Gay Rights.” Most Americans simply don’t care whether Bob finds Joe attractive or Julia wants to date Cindy. Whether its genetic or a choice is of almost
A month ago, the President had his tech team add a little something to a host of past presidents’ biographies on the official White House website, raising eyebrows across the country. At that time, team Obama thought it would be a
Filmmaker Bill Whittle has spoken to enough closet conservatives in Hollywood to know what they might face if they revealed their ideological leanings. And it’s as ugly as people on the Right suspect. “I cannot convey to you the outright
Richard Belzer, the Jewish stand-up comedian who played John Munch on “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” decided to use a Nazi salute on the red carpet in Monte Carlo as well as imitate Hitler’s moustache. It’s
From the beginning of the GOP primary season I made no secret of the fact that the number-one quality I was looking for in a candidate was the man or woman who best understood the threat the corrupt media poses
It was 25 years on June12, 1987, that President Ronald Reagan delivered his historical speech in Berlin, Germany. Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall with the full weight of the Western world upon his shoulders. He addressed the crowd assembled
On Monday, Jeb Bush made comments regarding the state of the political discourse. “Back to my dad’s time and Ronald Reagan’s time – they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support,” he said. Reagan “would
Every American high school student knows, or should know, that President Ronald Reagan went to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on this date in 1987. The President said: “If you seek liberalization, open this gate…Mr. Gorbachev,tear down this wall.”
(AP) HBO documentarians look for Bush the manBy DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterNEW YORKTourism officials in Maine will be delighted when they see HBO’s new documentary on President George H.W. Bush. The leisurely paced film has so many pictures of waves
For better or worse, Jane Fonda was born to play the hippie grandma in “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding.” Director Bruce Beresford’s new film casts Fonda as Grace, a relic from the Woodstock era who still abides by that Flower Power
Gov. Scott Walker walked his talk. He faced down a militant, union-led effort to drive him from office, never losing courage or the conviction his policies were in the state’s best interests. It took steely determination not to buckle in
The challenge of being an incumbent President is that you may have a great record, but if your messaging is poor, you could still lose. If you have a record that is mediocre, then great messaging may not save you.
Either the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the question of same-sex marriage, or it will become a constitutional right in the largest state in the nation later this year. In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in Baehr v.
(AP) Laughs: A part of the game for ‘Feud’ host DawsonBy FRAZIER MOOREAP Television WriterNEW YORKRichard Dawson brought a saucy, unabashedly touchy-feely style to TV game shows as host of “Family Feud.” The British-born entertainer, who died Saturday at age
(AP) LOS ANGELES – Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud” has
By CONNIE CASSAssociated PressWASHINGTONNothing upsets a president’s re-election groove like ugly economic numbers. A spring slowdown in hiring and an uptick in the unemployment rate are weighing on Barack Obama, while enhancing Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s argument that the president
Conservatives aren’t supposed to be funny. According to the elites, we can’t be, what with our brains so full of racism, misogyny, and greed. Thankfully, no one told this to author Bob Smiley, whose debut novel Don’t Mess with Travis is one of the year’s best, and
Let’s be honest, liberals want to raise your taxes. President Obama talked about it on the campaign trail in 2008, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid raised it again last week. They tried to do it last year in the
In late 2008–long after the election–the media revealed a long-forgotten article written by Barack Obama while at Columbia. Obama wrote the March 1983 article, “Breaking the War Mentality,” about two campus groups, Arms Race Alternatives (ARA) and Student Against Militarism
