Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War without firing a shot. He willed himself to victory over the Republican establishment during an era when Rockefeller Republicans had more firewalls, and brought America out of Jimmy Carter’s malaise. RFK loyalists from 1968
It’s been 10 years since “Rawhide” died. Ten years today, June 5, 2014. Ronald Reagan–code named “Rawhide” by his Secret Service detail–was 93 and had sunken deep into the dementia of Alzheimer’s. To honor President Reagan–and out of respect to
1. You never appreciate what you’ve got until you lose it At school in Britain in the Eighties – a private school, full of kids with the kind of parents who ought to have been four-square behind the Reagan revolution
On Saturday, June 5, 2004, Ronald Reagan passed away. The national–and international–response was overwhelming. Watching the events of the following week unfold, one got the sense that the media, though ready with pre-packaged retrospectives, was unprepared for the outpouring of
The week of the tenth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death brings me to my only Reagan story–one I’ve told so many times that my fingers are pretty much on auto pilot here, while my brain is thinking about the fried
It is poignant and poetic that Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004, just a day before the 60th anniversary of D-Day–the day Reagan helped re-instantiate into our collective consciousness. Indeed, on D-Day Minus One, June 5, 1944, the ships
Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter about Ronald Reagan’s funeral from Alfred S. Regnery’s 2007 book, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, about the conservative movement in America. Thirty-five years before he died, when he announced that he would
For those who are considered to be members of the Reagan family–White House staff, campaign staff, writers, biographers, affiliated memberships–all have often heard over the years from their fellow citizens about Reagan, “He made me feel good about myself.” For
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of President Ronald Reagan. As significant as this anniversary is to America and the world, there is a more important Reagan anniversary this year. I am referring to the 50th anniversary of
Ronald Reagan famously quipped that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; it left him. A variation on the theme seems apt regarding Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. The Obama administration’s flaks insist they had to trade five of the world’s most dangerous
Media critic Neal Gabler calls the NFL a league for white males. Did he intend to hit the “H” on his keyboard instead of that “F” two buttons away? “It isn’t a coincidence that the rise of the National Football
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) told reporters at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans Saturday that too many Republican campaigns rely upon “top down Soviet style” campaigns to win their elections. (video courtesy of ConservativeIntel.com) Cruz gave his own race
According to my copy of The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama is deeply disturbed by “income inequality,” access to health care for poor people and having U.S. troops on aimless missions abroad. If only he could be in charge, he
Johnny Football and Renan Barao surely feel a bit groggy in the wake of Memorial Day Weekend. Welcome to the Sports Hangover. Johnny Vegas Johnny Manziel partied by the pool with Rob Gronkowski and DJ Pauly D and a bunch
LONDON, United Kingdom – In an extraordinary intervention in British politics, former US President Bill Clinton today called for Scotland to stay in the United Kingdom – and then insulted the EU and members of the European Parliament by calling
French Socialist economist Thomas Piketty made a big splash in the U.S. recently with his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The 600-page tome argues that since the owners of capital end up with capital, it must be globally taxed
Breitbart News announced that this year’s Troopathon-7 2014 will be will be broadcast live on Sirius XM Patriot Radio channel 125 on June 25 at 1 p.m. Pacific time from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Troopathon has
On Wednesday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama does not hold officials in his administration accountable for their scandals because he is lazy. “When you hold someone accountable, it takes energy and resource, and Barack Obama is
Anybody who knows the French right-wing knows it has never been anything like the American right-wing — at least, not until now. In an interview on Monday with the Financial Times, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French right-wing Front
On Monday’s “The Colbert Report,’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made an appearance to tout her latest book, “A Fighting Chance.” In that appearance, she explained her view of why the middle class had collapsed, which she tied to the presidency
The Coalition has been branded a “zombie government” for taking an early break this week, apparently on the grounds of having insufficient new bills to debate. According to Shadow Commons leader Angela Eagle, it’s a sign that “this government hasn’t
It has forever been perfectly fair game in prudent political discourse to demand that politicians seeking higher office reveal information about their physical fitness. Everyone remembers when Democrats and the press tried making an issue out of Ronald Reagan’s advanced
A day after writing an op-ed in favor of amnesty legislation that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, Sal Russo, the co-founder and chief strategist of the Tea Party Express group, claimed on Thursday
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, MSNBC host and NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd weighed in on Karl Rove’s alleged statements about potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s health, in particular speculation she may have suffered “brain damage.”
On Sunday, Ken Adelman, Director of the U.S. Arms Control Agency for President Ronald Reagan during the 1986 Reykjavik summit, sat down with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon to discuss his book, Reagan at Reykjavik–Forty-Eight Hours that Ended
