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Some public employees and elected officials might have been busy destroying their personal cell phones, tablets and computers this weekend after the California Supreme Court agreed to review if communications on privately owned electronic devices regarding a public matter are

On Wednesday, June 25, an extraordinary event of caring and courage will take place to honor America’s bravest… our military. The seventh annual Troopathon will take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from 1pm to 8pm Pacific time and

Newly elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy took the stage at the Faith and Freedom conference in Washington D.C. today, thanking God for the amount of opportunity he had been granted in America. McCarthy was introduced by Ralph Reed, who

It is a false choice only politicians could come up with. Either you support granting amnesty to 12 million lawbreakers who are now in the U.S. illegally, or you are a racist whose political future is doomed by the coming

National Journal’s Ron Fournier said that Hillary Clinton’s recent statement in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that there is a push for her to run because “I’ve done it” and run for president before.

With the rise of faith-based movies, things haven’t been looking great for progressive films this year. Adding to the troubles is the success of the pro-military themed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Lone Survivor, which are quite the contrast

Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully lived two blocks from Ronald Reagan, and the greatest sports announcer who will ever live paid tribute to Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library on Wednesday evening.  “We say they knock the fences

Once again former President George Herbert Walker Bush, often called Bush I, has indulged his hobby of skydiving, this time to celebrate his 90th birthday. “I got one more left in me,” the former president said on NBC’s Today. “It’ll

Art is not the object you look at. Art is what you feel when you look at the object. That is all you really need to know to appreciate art. When asked about art the average conservative’s reply to me

Hillary Clinton’s former top White House aide and campaign manager for her 2008 presidential bid was named Thursday as the new director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Maggie Williams, who served as the former First

Today marks the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, a day in which the United States led an allied invasion force to what was undoubtedly the most meaningful victory for freedom and liberation in history. Our troops brought a shining light of

On June 6, 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan stood on what he called a “lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France” to deliver an oration that would become known as his “Boys of Pointe du

Madrid’s city council yesterday approved a proposal to name a square after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The local Madrid Diario reports that the council approved the name ‘Plaza de Margaret Thatcher’ for a previously unnamed public space situated

American civilization endures because it has been placed on the rock of the Constitution. However, that Constitution, under relentless assault by those who wish to undermine and fundamentally transform it, requires support and aid from those who believe in its

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