Ronald Reagan News

American Presidents have become known for 'signature' statements and responses to foreign policy and national security challenges.

As I was watching the Republican presidential hopefuls spewing vitriol on each other, I had an epiphany.

This is no empty boast: Last year, Gallup asked Americans whom they consider the greatest president.

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In the wretched political climate of today, openly debating the issues is kind of like being mercilessly bludgeoned with a 20-pound sledgehammer: It will almost certainly induce a headache of some kind, and the only tangible result will be a blunt device soaked entirely in blood.

A new exhibit about the 1980s is opening at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art , featuring interpretations of icons like Ronald Reagan , Andy Warhol and Jesse Jackson , along with pieces that reflect on important issues from the decade: drug use, nuclear proliferation, AIDS and feminism.

Syria's military continued its brutal assault on neighborhoods of Homs, a center of civil disobedience against the regime, on Thursday, killing over 100 persons, including children.

Been reading some blogs here and there. The big CPAC convention is in Washington DC this weekend.

A picture, the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, we have only about 550 with which to appraise a picture that raised eyebrows across the country late last month: In it, Arizona Gov.

I am amazed at how, every four years, many otherwise sane human beings want to become president of the United States.

The current furore over Egypt's highly public effort to put a group of NGO staff members working at the International Republican Institute in Cairo on trial because they have been working on democracy issues and electoral training may actually belong at the feet of Ronald Reagan.

In 2008, when Barack Obama was running for president, he began a minor furor by saying that "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.

The three presidents since World War II who were not re-elected - Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush - all had job approval ratings below 50% in the last Gallup measure before the election took place.

Ronald Kessler Reporting from Washington, D.C. - Registration for this year's Conservative Political Action Conference is running 10 percent ahead of last year, breaking records, Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which runs the event, tells Newsmax.

Mormonism, he claims, is "an insidious contemporary fraud." The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is "an American cult," he professes.

The America that Ronald Reagan was born into 101 years ago was in many broad ways similar to the America of today, columnist and Fox News commentator Michael Barone said Monday night at Eureka College at an event marking the birthday of that school's most famous alumnus.

Greatest? No, but in the top 10 certainly, simply for taking down the USSR. Dead Julius said... Americans rate Ronald Reagan as the greatest president... That is some strange propaganda.

Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.

The Egyptian Government has released the names of nineteen American citizens that it intends to prosecute for their role in fomenting anti-government protests - a charge they deny.

Rachel's probably a sad NFL fan today. Honest! I didn't think anyone would take seriously my request for laughing gas to be pumped into the Colts training facility while the Patriots were there! The next time 1 of those claw toy games tries your patience & lightens your wallet, get this kid to help! Now, if THIS beer had been in Kansas City when ... (more)