Ronald Reagan News

The Issue: Three scandals in the making hit the administration in less than a week.

Actor Steve Forrest, who was best known for a leading role on the short-lived 1970s television drama "S.W.A.T.," has died at the age of 87 in Thousand Oaks, California, near Los Angeles, his wife Christine said on Thursday.

He insists he's not running for president, but Governor Scott Walker will be in Iowa Thursday at an event that's seen appearances by previous Republican presidential hopefuls.

President Obama's approval rating in several recently released polls suggests that the three controversies his administration is navigating have not begun to hurt him.

The driving force behind Southwestern Illinois College's Hospitality Food Service Management Program for 22 years, the 87-year-old Sommer's resume included cooking for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

In the world of missing people, African Americans make up an estimated one third of those who are missing nationwide, although they make up 12 percent of the overall population.

Starting at 7:30 this morning, hundreds of non-union workers with taxpayer-supported jobs plan to go on strike in the nation's capitol.

Many a modern president has lost momentum and suffered what are termed "scandals" in his second term.

He's compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard ... (more)

It always amazes me how the obedient, uninformed lemmings follow the right-wing greed anywhere and everywhere they are led.

In " Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life ," released on May 14, Rumsfeld expounded on capitalism, and why we need more people to defend it in our society.

A trail of blood is seen at the Kirkland Heights house of Keith Clarke, who was killed by the security forces on May 27, 2010.

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan's daughter, recently speculated on where her father might stand on same-sex marriage.

The Obama administration infamously stumbled and bumbled through the Arab Spring uprisings, which challenged the undemocratic power structures of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen.

For someone who vowed to keep a low profile now that he is back in Canada, Conrad Black has been extremely visible.

Steven Miller, who until his resignation on Wednesday was the acting commissioner of the IRS, recently explained that "mistakes were made" in the IRS's deliberate targeting of various conservative organizations.

Richard Nixon had the Watergate scandal . Ronald Reagan had Iran-Contra . Bill Clinton had the Monica Lewinsky affair .

The modern American news media operates like a giant right-wing funhouse mirror reflecting back some large things as small and some small things as large.

On the evening of Wednesday, March 23, 1983 , Ronald Reagan delivered a televised address about defense and national security.

I saw the masked men throwing truth into a well. When I began to weep for it I found it everywhere.