IMPACT! In this excerpt, the Islamic Front of Tunisia plays a couple of gambits in an effort to take down the carrier USS Ronald Reagan. CIC, USS RONALD REAGAN Bradshaw sat back, lighting the first Marlboro Light from a new
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that major industry figures are planning a Ronald Reagan biopic, which is slated to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million. The figures involved are Mark Joseph, Ralph Winter, and Jonas McCord. Joseph optioned
Today, in 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. The act ushered in Jimmy Carter, which ushered in Ronald Reagan. So, it was at least a wash.
From the Hollywood Reporter: The story of Ronald Reagan’s life — from boyhood to Hollywood actor to leader of the free world — is about to spill out on the big screen in a way quite different from the miniseries
A week ago a curious package addressed to me arrived at my office. Having no (known) enemies I opened it at my desk and out fell a DVD with a hand-written post-it note attached. The note was from film producer
Vignettes from my new book Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies! Don’t Practice What You Preach Warren Beatty was fired up to direct and star in the 1981 drama Reds, which told the
According to his August 30 “Obama Needs to Relearn Politicking” column, E.J. Dionne thinks all Obama needs to acquire the legendary cult status of an FDR or a Ronald Reagan is to get in touch with his inner salesman. In
As pre-November primaries come to an end, inquiring political minds will be asking Americans, “What is the singularly most important issue that will drive you to vote this year?” Almost certainly, the answer will be “jobs.” Republican proposals to reduce
The bizarre and unlikely rebellion known as the Tea Party began with only a few thousand people in a few dozen places on February 27, 2009. Those of us who were there in St. Louis or Atlanta, Chicago, or Los
The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor. -Ronald Reagan Website World Net Daily (WND) has decided to drop conservative pundit and author, Ann Coulter
The White House’s ever-optimistic economic cheerleading squad is in shambles. Over the last six weeks, Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management & Budget and Christine Romer, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisor, have now euphemistically “resigned to
Sound familiar? Most everyone has heard it time and time again. It’s the way many TV sales pitches end after seeming to give the viewing audience something for nothing. It’s a sucker’s pitch. It usually works like this: you are
The AP obit is below and points to the many highlights in Patricia Neal’s career and lowlights in her admittedly difficult and often tragic personal life. It’s well worth reading, as is her unflinching autobiography “As I Am,” which she
In 1984, a recovering Democrat named Jeane Kirkpatrick coined an immortal descriptor for those who had taken over the party she once shared with national security-minded leaders like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Ronald Reagan.
You had to live through it to recognize the metamorphosis. During those early days of June 2004, as the nation mourned the passing of Ronald Reagan, you would have never known he had been ridiculed and treated with disdain for
American political history includes periods so distinctive that they came to be known as Eras. They include The Jacksonian Era (1820s), The Gilded Age (1830s to 1890s) and The Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). There was also the Era of Good Feelings
At the impressive Jewish Museum in Berlin, which carefully documents hundreds of years of German Jewish life and achievement, as well as the catastrophe of Hitler’s rise and ruination of European Jewry, there is a temporary exhibit featuring Jewish cartoonists
—– Angelina Jolie’s “Salt” might heat up the old Cold War, but “Farewell,” which also opens (in select cities) tomorrow, takes us back to a pivotal moment in the real one: French director Christian Carion’s real-life espionage thriller “Farewell” is
Second place looms large and it is quite an honorable — or maybe onerous — award on our top ten most left-biased working American journalists list. Amusingly our number two guy even graduated from a school that foretold his future
On the latest episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Rob Long and Mark Steyn reflect on speeches given by Ronald Reagan and discuss their relevance today. Reagan argued that the beginning stage of socialism is when the state gets
A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching
A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching
A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching
“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” – The Declaration of Independence 234 years after the Declaration of Independence was ratified by the Continental Congress, many feel we have lost sight of the
A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching
