Tag: "Ronald Reagan"
Must Watch TV: Driscoll and Hayward on Reagan’s Rise
So there Ed was, just knocking around his palatial Silicon Graffiti studios, no doubt brainstorming his next miniature masterpiece, when renowned author Steven Hayward dropped by. Well, when you have a television studio and a best-selling biographer of one of the greatest Presidents in history, what can you do but tape a pretty darned good [...]
Who Would You Pick for a Sit Down and a Beer?
Matt Margolis found a fun little question that could make for an interesting discussion, if you’re game. YOU DECIDE: If you could have a beer with any politician, living or dead, who would it be? Share your thoughts. Click on “Leave a Comment” below. He expanded this one question to three. Pick one living and [...]
Forty Conservatives Gems of Wisdom (And A Few of My Own)
John Hawkins has compiled a good list of 40 conservative quotes about economics. As you might expect, it’s heavy on Milton Friedman and Walter Williams. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to make yourself familiar with them so that next time you are accosted by your unfriendly neighborhood collectivist, you can put some real knowledge [...]
Happy Birthday, President Reagan
I make no apologizes for my respect and affection for Ronald Reagan. I believe he is one of the greatest Presidents we have ever had and one of the finest men ever to occupy the White House. He passed away in 2004 and I lamented the loss then. I still lament it now. The Office [...]
A Loving Message to America’s Schoolchildren from a Canadian Friend
Can we make Wendy Sullivan our Secretary of Education now? It’s kind of a shame, though, that she (a Canadian, as you’ll find out) had to be the one to defend the Pledge of Alliegance to an American public school teacher. An entertaining excerpt: Due to the lack of decent television programming in my country, [...]
No, Sir. Liberty is Our Business.
Mark Krikorian is wrong, wrong, wrong. Two things about Laura Bush’s official White House briefing room statement on the “inept” response by the Burmese government to the recent cyclone: 1. It’s absolutely none of our business. 2. What the heck is the president’s wife doing making U.S. foreign policy?! The cult of the presidency, as [...]
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