Trumpism and Reaganism
Nearly fifty years ago, former Vice President Spiro Agnew said, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Nearly fifty years ago, former Vice President Spiro Agnew said, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Contents: Turkey’s military strikes Kurdish positions in Syria, north of Aleppo; Saudi Arabia and Turkey plan joint ground troop incursion into Syria; The death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia

Sen. Marco Rubio was asked to define the term “amnesty” on stage during the CBS debate, causing him to resort to his old talking points on the Gang of Eight bill.

After a campaign rally in New Hampshire, Senator Marco Rubio revealed to a voter what kind of guns he and his wife own.

The GOP candidates have been attacking each other’s positions on abortion, specifically the abortion “exceptions” such as in the cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is endangered.

Saturday at at 7:15 p.m. ET/4:15 pm PT, the Young America’s Foundation will host a panel discussion called “Rawhide Declassified” featuring six of the military aides to Ronald Reagan, reunited for the first time since the presidency, at the Reagan Ranch Center

Tuesday on his radio show, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh remarked that three of the top four finishers in Monday’s Iowa caucuses were Reagan disciples, to which he included Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio

Ronald Reagan’s biographer and author of the new book, Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan, Craig Shirley tells Breitbart News that when Ronald Reagan skipped an Iowa debate of Republican presidential candidates in 1980 “it was not a similar situation at all.”

Following National Review’s effort to take down GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, 91-year-old conservative legend Phyllis Schlafly fired back at the publication and explained that the magazine has never been “the authority on conservatism.” As an example, Schlafly cited William F. Buckley,

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be more manageable by the establishment than fellow candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and Trump has the ability to tell Republicans “that they’re f*cking idiots” for refusing
In a Monday interview, acclaimed Reagan biographer Craig Shirley described GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as “a breath of fresh air” and explained that in Trump’s candidacy “We might be witnessing a new form of American conservatism emerging.”

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is continuing to throw punches at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, telling reporters in New Hampshire on Monday that Trump is different than President Ronald Reagan, but also adding that he won’t engage in

Monday Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took on his opponent Donald Trump over claim he is like former President Ronald Reagan who was a Democrat before becoming a Republican. A reporter asked, “Donald Trump says Ronald Reagan had

The following is an exclusive Breitbart News interview with Victoria Coates, Sen. Ted Cruz’s national security adviser.

In an interview that aired on Bloomberg’s Thursday broadcast of “With All Due Respect” on MSNBC, GOP presidential front-runner discussed his campaign, which he had described as a “movement.” Trump acknowledge it was “great,” but said none of it matters unless

Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau hints that Americans should expect a Reagan-style speech from President Obama during tonight’s State of the Union address.

During the January 10 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said armed citizens remind bad guys that “bullets go both ways.”

Justice Stephen Breyer will not express an opinion on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in keeping with two centuries of Supreme Court tradition. But he did express an opinion on a related point: American courts are unlikely to allow Muslims to be held in detention camps.

In a bizarre leap of logic, Democrat mega-donor George Soros is accusing Republican frontrunners Donald Trump and Ted Cruz of fear-mongering and sats they’re playing directly into the hands of Islamist terrorists.

Christmas is upon us this week, and for Christians, we not only celebrate with family, trees, and gifts. The birth of our Savior is the true reason we celebrate, and during this season, my family and I reflect on Christ’s teachings and their impact on our lives and and our world.

On Monday, Weekly Standard editor-in-chief Bill Kristol tweeted out what the rest of the Republican establishment is thinking: better Hillary than Donald. Here’s the tweet:
Crowd-sourcing: Name of the new party we’ll have to start if Trump wins the GOP nomination? Suggestions welcome at editor@weeklystandard.com
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 20, 2015

The great arbiter of true conservatism, The New York Times, has now declared the modern Republican Party unfit for the mantle of its onetime leader, Ronald Reagan.

In his remarks to Sen. Ted Cruz’s Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness hearing concerning ongoing attempts to silence dissenters to climate change dogma, Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts—one of the greatest enemies of free speech in government today—made an analogy between the threat of communism and climate change.

Over on what we think of as the right side of the political spectrum, critiques of Donald Trump often include laments and/or teeth-gnashings over his “splitting the Republican Party,” and/or his “not being a conservative.”

New York’s Top Democrats have identified the causes of the mass opposition to illegal immigration and Syrian resettlement: Anger, fear, and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election.

No historian has done a better job of chronicling Ronald Reagan’s rise to power than Craig Shirley. As always, Shirley is a perfect antidote to the “court historians” who never really “got” Reagan. Shirley’s books on Reagan’s 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns, Reagan’s Revolution and Rendezvous With Destiny, are the gold standard in describing the Gipper’s ascendence and successful capture of the White House.

On Sunday, the Huffington Post ran an Op-Ed attacking presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for claiming that Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election mostly on his conservative principles.

Monday on his radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin sounded off on those attacking Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, including those on the Republican side, who he suggested were using liberal talking points in their attacks. However, Levin also went

Monday at the end of his “The O’Reilly Factor” program on the Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly read viewers’ responses to his heated exchange with Washington Post columnist George Will over alleged inaccuracies in O’Reilly’s best-selling book “Killing Reagan.” O’Reilly

In 1967, University of California president Clark Kerr was fired by the Board of Regents for being too lenient in dealing with student protests. On Monday, Tim Wolfe of the University of Missouri resigned because he had not been lenient enough.

Rep. Trey Gowdy flew down to Florida this week to support two of his friends, former Congresswoman Sandy Adams, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 6th congressional district, as well as Rep. Ron DeSantis, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat Marco Rubio is vacating in 2016.

Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly and syndicated columnist and Fox News Contributor George Will engaged in a tense exchange over O’Reilly’s book “Killing Reagan” on Friday. O’Reilly began by saying Will’s column accusing him of slandering Reagan was libel.
This week’s election returns cement numbers proving that President Barack Hussein Obama is the greatest builder of the Republican Party since President Ronald Wilson Reagan.

A new political video produced by the Conservative Solutions PAC compares Sen. Marco Rubio to former President Ronald Reagan – pointing out that he is a “young man in a hurry” who “took on the Republican establishment.”

Speaker Ryan’s remarks were, for the most part, inside baseball. Multiple times Ryan referred to “regular order,” which to the common person sounds like a reference to getting the same fast food at McDonalds every time you go.

A cafeteria at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica was forced closed by a health inspector this week when nearly a dozen live cockroaches were found in the kitchen.

Gov. Jerry Brown will be the first governor to move into the historic Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento since Ronald Reagan lived there, when he and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, move in between the end of this year and the beginning of next.

In an interview with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, Fox News host and bestselling author Bill O’Reilly discussed his new book, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault that Changed the Presidency. The book focuses on the failed murder attempt by John Hinckley, Jr. on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in order to impress actress Jodie Foster.

The political action committee founded by Ronald Reagan called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign as House Speaker John Boehner did last Friday, so a constitutional conservative can take McConnell’s place leading the Senate.

On his Monday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offered his evaluation of the tax plan 2016 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump proposed earlier in the day. Despite all the criticism the proposal has received from some elements on the
