Topic: Ronald Reagan

Q: Is it true that President Obama omitted the words "by their Creator" when he spoke in a recent public appearance of all men being endowed with inalienable rights? A: Yes, just like his predecessors Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald ...

What Is a Conservative Democrat?

In the United States, a member of the Democratic Party who holds personal political views that are conservative in comparison to those of the majority of his or her political party is known as a conservative democrat . Like liberal Republicans, conservative ...
"In a major liberal initiative to curtail discussion of President Obama's religious identity," the email began, "over 70 Christian leaders and denominational heads have signed a letter saying that questions about the religious philosophy of the president of the United States should ...
¶Although they didn't occur in a presidential campaign, Abraham Lincoln's seven face-offs with Stephen Douglas in their battle for Illinois' U.S. Senate seat significantly boosted his profile in national politics and eventually helped him win the presidency in 1860. (He lost the ...

The GOP's Poison Pearl

Sarah Palin has emerged as the right's sweetheart, a cross between a pin-up girl and Joan of Arc. These Republicans may grow to regret their embrace of Sarah Palin: But if conservatives really want evidence of Palin's limitations, they only need to ...

History of the United States

Reagan took office and pledged to reverse the trend toward big government and to rejuvenate the economy, based on the theory that cutting taxes would stimulate so much growth that tax revenues would actually rise. In December 1989 Bush ordered U.S. troops ...

More Goo-Goo Than Gipper

A number of pollsters have noted that Barack Obama's approval rating is about the same as Ronald Reagan's at a similar stage of his presidency. I think a key reason for the difference is that Reagan had a consistency to his policies ...

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As politicians spend America into the fiscal abyss, Republican Gov. Chris Christie has a novel idea: New Jersey's new governor, the successor of so many corrupt chief executives, is taking action that will make him, like Reagan, the focus of pure hate ...

Former Nixon aide, Alexander Haig dead at 85

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85.Symbolically, the closest Haig came to being president ...

The Tea Partyƕs (old) paranoia

Todays fervent ideological movement has roots in post-World War II right The federal government, under the guise of helping the mentally ill, is establishing a concentration camp in Alaska to house political opponents a new step on the path toward totalitarianism.Dan Smoot ...