Ronald Reagan News

"Welcome to the GREAT place," reads the sign outside the main entrance of Fort Hood, Texas, set in rolling lawns just off US Route 190 - otherwise known as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway.

When then-Gov. Ronald Reagan introduced returning POW John McCain at a speaking engagement in 1974, the future president asked, "Where do we find such men?" He was speaking of many veterans when he answered, "We find them in our streets, in the office, the shops and the working places of our country and on the farms." In other words, President ...

As we notedinOctober, 2008, "The Greatest Danger to the Republican Party: Sarah Palin," this nation was founded on the basis of a social compact.

One unfolded in the weeks before Election 1968 and the other over a full year before Election 1980.

One year after the buoyant election of President Barack Obama, Americans are less sure about the president - voicing less confidence in his ability to accomplish a number of goals, to heal the political divisions in the nation or to control federal spending.

In his first months as president, Barack Obama has taken on some big problems-health care, the economic collapse, Iraq and Afghanistan-so it's no wonder there's heated debate going on.

In August 1984 I was a Fulbright scholar to the Federal Republic of Germany. Ronald Reagan was about to be elected to his second term as president and I was no fan of the Hollywood actor-turned-politician. The first week I arrived in Germany, Reagan made his infamous joke during a microphone check.

One of the most costly strategic mistakes that conservatives have made over the last fifty years was to focus too much on energy on political campaign victories with limited or short-term benefits while giving too little attention to the battle for ideas in universities andcultural arenas such as Hollywood and major news media.

Michael Streich Oct 30, 2009 High voter turnout percentages in U.S. presidential elections since 1960 reflect deep concerns over domestic and foreign policy issues affecting peace and prosperity.

In "What I Saw at the Revolution," speechwriter Peggy Noonan's chronicle of her time in the Reagan administration, she includes a story about sitting in the Oval Office with President Reagan when his hearing aid starts to beep.

After having three books signed, Naples resident James Ballard, far right, poses for a picture with former U.S. Congressional House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday at Barnes & Noble book store.

Nearly a year after the presidential election, the excitement of Barack Obama's campaign has faded into the reality of an Obama White House.

She's with Hoffman in NY-23, the unlikely Spanish Civil War of the GOP, and her endorsement is a shot aimed straight at the Congressional leaders who backed his rival: [B]est of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.

Oct. 20, 2009 11:26 a.m. Oh, how non-combatants love to use the term "support our troops" as they act-out their unsupported fantasies about war and its consequences.

Ronald Reagan once joked that a friend of his was invited to a costume party, so he slapped egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Not a week goes by without some star stopping by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- the latest being Marc Anthony, George Lopez and Gloria Estefan, for the Fiesta Latino concert on the White House lawn last week.

In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the Nobel committee has just made itself look ridiculous.

I don't get it. I know that's the simplistic refrain of every 10-year-old, but I'm 33 and I mean it: I just don't get it.

So much has already been said and written concerning President Obama's startling receipt of a Nobel Peace Prize this past Friday that I don't want to bore you with a regurgitated version of yesterday's news.

All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: "O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous.