Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all asked for advice of their predecessor, former President Jimmy Carter. But in a preview clip from his “Meet the Press” interview, Carter revealed President Barack Obama
Former CNN host Roland Martin wants Americans to “shut the hell up” about Russia’s invasion of Crimea because, among other incidents, Ronald Reagan once sent troops to the island nation of Grenada. On his TV One program, Martin attacked Americans
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev came out in public support of Vladmir Putin’s takeover of Crimea. He described the annexation as a “happy event.” In reference to Sunday’s referendum Gorbachev said, the “people really wanted to return to Russia.” This
Is it possible to snub a team when the tournament invites sixty-eight of them? Why must MMA imitate boxing’s ten-point-must system when its success has conspicuously come from doing the opposite of what the struggling sweet science does? What in
Fred Phelps, Sr., longtime pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, was excommunicated from the church last summer and is currently near death, according to his sons, Nate and Mark. Nate, who left the church years ago, wrote on Facebook Sunday
Sizing up last week’s unexpected congressional win by Florida Republican David Jolly, Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal wrote, “The Republicans who win this fall will be those who have serious answers to the attacks leveled on them –
U.S. Congresswoman and Tea Party star Michele Bachmann today addressed one of the oldest debating and speaker societies in the world: the Oxford Union. Speaking at the world famous organisation, Bachmann’s speech was entitled, “Seeds of Progress: The struggle between
The latest polls indicate a weak economy continues to drag down President Obama’s job approval rating, but those hardly guarantee any big changes in Washington. Americans may want more jobs and better wages but they also support many of the
Undeterred by a recent Public Policy Polling poll that showed he has only a 30% job approval in his native Arizona, Sen. John McCain said on Fox Business’ “Cavuto” that he is considering running for reelection. McCain denied the poll
Sen. Rand Paul continued his aggressive brush back of comments from his usual ally Sen. Ted Cruz suggesting that Paul is positioned at the left, dovish flank of the GOP on foreign policy, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity Cruz
The creator of The Boondocks, a cartoon strip and animated show that routinely courted cultural debates, is behind the upcoming Adult Swim comedy Black Jesus. The new half-hour live-action scripted comedy finds Jesus living in present-day Compton, Calif., on a
The old adage that “winners write history” is mostly untrue; historians write history. The way future generations view the past often comes through the myriad of complex and biased accounts of those who bothered to record it. In Lincoln’s Boys:
Every Republican likes to think he or she is the next Ronald Reagan. Some who say this do so for lack of their own ideas and agenda. Reagan was a great leader and President. But too often people make him
On ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said: “I’m a big fan of Rand Paul,We are good friends. I don’t agree with him on foreign policy. U.S. leadership is critical in the world. I agree we should be reluctant
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was asked by “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace about the perception that he is an isolationist. Paul said he would govern like former Presidents George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday live from CPAC, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly said that the amnesty fight that pits the grassroots versus the Republican establishment is similar same battles in the past. she said that there are more tools now that
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said the Republican party once again can become a “party of principles” that puts forth a “positive agenda” for change. This, he argued, will enable the conservative movement to win just like it did in 1980
At his press conference today Ukraine’s new prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk evoked the spirit of former President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall in 1987 by saying, “Mr. Putin, tear down this wall — the wall of intimidation, the wall
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Conservative radio host Mark Levin accepted the first annual Citizens United Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday afternoon before a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds of
Former KGB chairman and Soviet dictator Yuri Andropov was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mentor. As the great historian Anne Applebaum wrote in 2012: [Putin] initiated a minor cult of Yuri Andropov, the longest-serving KGB boss in Soviet history (1967-1982), as well as
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND–Texas’ junior senator Ted Cruz delivered an impassioned speech as the opening speaker for the annual CPAC gathering this morning. His remarks focused on two major areas; elections and the young people of America. Senator Cruz reminded voters
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who has the lead among Tea Partiers in nearly every 2016 GOP presidential primary poll, opened CPAC on Thursday. Cruz said that conservatives can win elections when they draw a clear and sharp contrast between corrupt
A Slate writer named Jillian Keenan called for the removal of Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill because he was a genocidal exterminator of Native Americans. Keenan writes that she had an “amazing” high school history teacher who made sure
Fred Dryer, the ex-NFL and All-Pro great who later appeared on popular shows like Hunter and Cheers, said that the NFL has now become an activist league that is all about the politics. Appearing on the Mark Levin Show on Friday,
On February 28th, the Democrat Party used their official Twitter account to tell followers the minimum wage is worth less than “when Ronald Reagan was in Congress.” The problem–Reagan was never in Congress. He was an actor who became Governor
Keynoting an event honoring the five-year anniversary of the Tea Party on Thursday, conservative scholar and talk radio host Mark Levin said that the Tea Party movement is the only thing standing between what is left of the country’s republic
A former Secretary of Defense is noted, among many other things, for what he calls “Rumsfeld’s Rules.” One of the most instructive of them is Donald Rumsfeld’s observation that “weakness is provocative.” We are seeing today accelerating instability worldwide. It’s
On February 22nd, former world chess champion and political activist Garry Kasparov intimated that if Barack Obama had been president instead of Ronald Reagan, the Soviet Union would still exist. Kasparov was born in the Soviet Union in 1963. He
Lyndon Baines Johnson has been declared the “worst modern president” by The Week magazine not because he was such a major failure but because he gave liberalism a bad name by talking it up too much and over promising what
The Students for Life of America (SFLA) affiliate at Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington claims it was refused permission to hang its pro-life message posters in the school. They claim the administration gave as its reason for refusal the
The City of Dallas has decided to throw its Stetson hat into the ring for host city for the 2016 Republican National Convention consideration. With Texas poised to be a keystone in the electoral vote to elect a Republican president
Amid the continuing reality of entertainment business fleeing the Los Angeles area, and California in general, a consortium of Hollywood groups created a petition calling for targeted relief from government revenue collection. You read that correct–Hollywood wants more tax cuts. After decades
As Ronald Reagan said in 1964, our republic’s main public policy fight of the era is “[w]hether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a
A sophomore at the University of South Carolina was shocked recently to find a school textbook presenting as fact the claims that Ronald Reagan was a sexist and that conservatives think people are incapable of charity and those on welfare
Barack Obama announced Saturday morning in his weekly address that he is urging Congress to pass a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage for all workers. Noting that he used an executive action in the past week to
Radio’s Mark Levin will keynote a five-year anniversary event for the Tea Party movement hosted by Tea Party Patriots in Washington, D.C., Breitbart News has learned exclusively. “The Tea Party, which consists of millions of hard working taxpayers, is to
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, presidential historian Craig Shirley said that Coca-Cola’s decision to revise their controversial “America the Beautiful” ad and specifically reference America’s unofficial motto, “E Pluribus Unum,” in the ad’s opening segment shows that the company
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.–Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik says he cut ties with Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) when he realized MAIG’s ultimate goal was “to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.” Spelling out his views in a February 5th
The economy created only 113,000 jobs in January, up from 75,000 in December. Colder than normal weather was a factor, but that does not explain two consecutive months of poor performance. These sad results are consistent with a broadly underperforming economy.
Studying and writing about Ronald Reagan is it is like unwrapping a new package each day. He may have been the most prolific writer and lecturer and commentator ever to serve in the Oval Office and he remains one of the most interesting
