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Scott Walker to Meet with Supply-Siders in NYC

For those who genuinely remember former President Ronald Reagan and his administration, supply-side economics was a lynchpin of his presidency, and high-profile supply-side economists like Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Stephen Moore were considered key parts of his team.

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Presidents Day: Ranking the Presidents on Israel Policy

Presidents Day 2015 comes in the midst of an upheaval about the state of U.S. foreign policy, and particularly regarding the State of Israel, whose Prime Minister will arrive in two weeks to deliver what will amount to a rebuke of President Obama’s negotiating stance on Iran. As this particular holiday lends itself to ranking the presidents from best to worst, it is worth considering how they compare on relations with Israel, which has been–despite ups and downs–a staunch ally since 1948.

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Newt on Radical Islam, President Lives in a ‘Fantasy World’

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sat down with Breitbart’s own Steven K. Bannon and Alexander Marlow during a special edition of Breitbart News Sunday covering the weekend Iowa Freedom Summit. Gingrich focused in on the heart of his Saturday speech, addressing foreign policy with a special emphasis on the worldwide crisis of radical Islam, a fight that Newt says America is losing in the world today.

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Biden on Reaganomics ‘Yeah That’s a Good Idea Man’

Thursday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, while discussing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently taking credit for positive upticks in the economy, Vice President Joe Biden admitted when he was in the Senate in the 1980s, he took

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‘The Terror Network’ Reincarnated

During the Cold War, Red terrorist groups proliferated throughout Western Europe. Claire Sterling detailed in her 1981 blockbuster The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism how, with the help of the Communist Bloc intelligence and their surrogates in the PLO and Cuba, these groups organized a sophisticated network able to provide everything from arranging travel to Cuba and Lebanon for training to guns and fake passports.

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Exclusive—Mark Levin: Jeb Bush Must Answer Whether He Stands with Boehner, Scalise Amid White Supremacist Scandal

Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Mark Levin, a former official in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, is calling on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to answer whether he stands with House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Majority Whip Steve Scalise in the wake of a blistering Scalise scandal concerning his longtime ties to a top aide to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

McCain: CIA Defenders ‘Re-writing History’

McCain: CIA Defenders ‘Re-writing History’

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) accused some of the defenders of the CIA’s interrogation tactics of “re-writing history” on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS. He ascribed “a whole range of motives, from people who were so understandably alarmed and angered

Chomsky: Reagan ‘An Extreme Racist’

Chomsky: Reagan ‘An Extreme Racist’

Professor and political activist Noam Chomsky argued that “Ronald Reagan was an extreme racist” on GRITtv’s “The Laura Flanders Show” broadcast on Tuesday. “this is a very racist society, I mean it’s pretty shocking” he declared, before launching into a

Federal Reserve Is Getting Worried about Inflation

Federal Reserve Is Getting Worried about Inflation

Despite a plethora of naysayers who doubt the U.S. economy is really gaining steam, the Federal Reserve is positioning its own investments for higher inflation and rising interest rates. As I predicted in August, once the Fed’s balance sheet peaked at just

What the GOP Could Learn from Jim Webb

What the GOP Could Learn from Jim Webb

Ten years ago in his only nonfiction book, Born Fighting, James Webb came to the defense of red-state America, standing unapologetically for the marginalized Scots-Irish stock that heavily populates the South and Midwest. On the wrong side of the cultural

Op-Ed: Straus Never Said He Was Pro-Life

Op-Ed: Straus Never Said He Was Pro-Life

During a happenstance meeting outside an early polling site on the first day of voting in the 2012 Primary, I said to Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, “I was surprised to see you get that pro-life endorsement when

Obama’s Executive Amnesty: We Are All Californians Now

Obama’s Executive Amnesty: We Are All Californians Now

While President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is unpopular nationwide, and only enjoys 47% nationally among Latino voters, Californians surveyed in August were broadly supportive of the measure. That marks a remarkable turnaround since Proposition 187, which sought to exclude illegal