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As Jack Kemp famously said, “”It is not enough to be against something; you have to tell people what you are for.” Last week I wrote a long analysis on Zero Hedge asking a simple question: Is the Housing Sector a Drag on

The widow of the late Lee Atwater, the man who helped win the 1980 South Carolina presidential primary for Ronald Reagan en route to his nomination, is throwing her hat into the political ring nearly two decades after her legendary husband

While slamming the “extreme hubris” and “naïveté” in what she said was President Barack Obama’s rehashed State of the Union address, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin emphatically called out Obama for claiming to care about inequality, job creation, and American

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the West, including the United States, for eschewing Christian values and opting instead for a “path to degradation.” In his State of the Nation speech last month, Putin asserted that, “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away

The biggest theft in world history is occurring right here, right now–literally, right under our feet. It’s a theft of wealth that measures in the 15-digits–wealth that’s being taken away from its rightful owners, the American people, and being sacrificed, in

“Never trust anyone over thirty” was a slogan of the 1960s New Left. The movement’s members may now be in their 70s, but many of them never really grew up. Now, one of those who did become an adult, David

Mitch Horowitz on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 discussed his new book One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life. The author told Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon that the idea of “positive thinking”

The late Baroness Thatcher has topped yet another popularity poll, further cementing her claim as Britain’s best post-war prime minister.  Members of the UK Parliament (MPs) resoundingly backed the conservative prime minister’s tenure, according to polling from February that indicated that despite

There is no person more fitting to be the Grand Marshal of the 125th Rose Parade than Vin Scully, who may be the most important and beloved figure in Southern California. Scully, who will also toss the coin at the

The reality that Pope Francis sounds more like President Obama than Ronald Reagan has put bit of a scare into the Republican party and Conservatives. Conversely, the Pope has become a darling to the Democratic party. Pope Francis’s proclivity for

Fox News: Charles Krauthammer takes a look back at William F. Buckley’s famous 1967 interview of Ronald Reagan.

Adam Carolla says living in Hollywood means displaying the American flag leaves one open to ridicule. The California resident recently moved out of Hollywood and near the home of actor Vince Vaughn. The Wedding Crashers star proudly flies an American

St. Louis publisher Really Big Coloring Books Inc. has brought out a new, hot product for the holiday season: a coloring book of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). The coloring book, titled “US Sen. Ted Cruz to the Future” has already

Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before the House Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday to defend the recent nuclear deal with Iran and to oppose new sanctions. He fielded questions from members of both parties about the terms of the

Musician/actor Stevie Van Zandt is best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and his colorful turn as Silvio in the HBO series The Sopranos.  During the 1980s, Van Zandt helped record Sun City, a politically charged anthem against South

A controversial 1988 comic book in which the DC Comics’ villain Joker character tortured and crippled Batgirl and sent photos of her naked and injured to her father has just gotten a new shot of controversy. We now know the

The left media has continued exploiting the death of Nelson Mandela to attack conservatives. The latest version is Sam Kleiner’s attack at Foreign Policy and the Huffington Post, “Apartheid Amnesia: How the GOP conveniently forgot about its role in propping up

On Thursday, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak said a big difference between the late South African leader Nelson Mandela and President Barack Obama is that Mandela embraced constraints on his power.  Pollak said the mainstream media are unlikely to

The GOP leadership has its priorities in order, and undoing Obamacare is priority number one. With the Affordable Care Act imploding by its own design and its support continuing to decline even among Democrats, Republicans are choosing not to interfere.

Although often seen as a day to kick off the Christmas shopping season, Thanksgiving is perhaps the most deeply American holiday and its tradition is connected to the idea of “American exceptionalism.” Ronald Reagan’s presidential farewell speech included a line

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) —President Obama’s 41 percent approval rating is worse than former Presidents Clinton and Reagan at the same time during their terms, CNN said. In a CNN Poll of Polls — in which five non-partisan, live operator

Rankings released by YouGov/Economist show that Ronald Reagan is viewed as the greatest president of the last 100 years, while Obama is viewed as the “biggest failure.” The poll asked respondents “to rate each president [since Theodore Roosevelt] in six

The unprecedented expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet over the last few years looks like it may be setting us up for a bond bubble and future currency crisis of historic proportions. Looking over the $17 trillion in national debt, and the Fed’s

For the New York Times Sunday book review, historian David Greenberg of Rutgers University writes a devastating review of MSNBC host Chris Matthews’ new book about Ronald Reagan and Reagan era Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neill. Greenberg’s

Col. Allen West, former GOP U.S. Congressman from Florida, said at a Thursday morning panel focused on the devastating economic impacts of amnesty that economic policies that displace black youths from jobs–like President Barack Obama’s immigration policies–have led to fads

Obamacare is hurting millions of people–much to the surprise of the mainstream media, which failed to examine the law before it passed.  (They left that task to the fledgling Tea Party, which they then called racist for its trouble).  Yet

Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) holds my top spot, but Oliver Stone’s “JFK” (1991)  is undoubtedly my second favorite film of the 1990s. When I first saw this masterpiece, I was still a liberal and therefore bought into its every

On Tuesday we reported that radio talk show host Chris Plante discovered President Barack Obama had neglected to use the phrase “under God” when reciting the Gettysburg Address for a Ken Burns film project.  The push-back on the story was

After Breitbart News had reported on Politico magazine writer Ian Murphy’s Twitter meltdown where he said former President Ronald Reagan “fucks Satan in hell,” Murphy tweeted out a gif of himself burning an American flag. “Some of you folks are

As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, American fascination with his life and especially the circumstances of his death remains strong. Though he served less than one full term and had a number of fiascoes while

One-hundred fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln stood before a crowd of journalists, soldiers, citizens, and statesmen in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and delivered perhaps the most famous speech in the English language. Viewed in context of the Civil War in 1863,