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Americans not warming to big government
2009-09-22 02:00:00
Since President Obama took office in January, every poll (I’ve seen) measuring popular support on the relative levels of federal spending shows a substantial majority or considerable plurality preferring reducing the size of the government to increasing expenditures.  The latest Gallup poll confirms what we’ve been observing these past eight months (and even before): 57% of ...
Small Government Principles Key To Republican Revival
2009-08-22 02:32:00
While many Democrats saw their sweeping victories last fall as the sign of a new era of liberal ascendancy, polling taken then and since shows that despite Barack Obama’s brief period of popularity, America remains a center-right nation.  Conservatives outnumber liberals in every state, with nearly twice as many Americans identifying as conservative than as ...
Differing Attitudes Toward Victory
2009-08-11 10:23:00
“There is no substitute for victory” Ronald Reagan, quoting Douglas MacArthur And to the Gipper’s successor, at least in terms of U.S. efforts to defeat our adversaries, “There is no such thing as victory.”
Ronald Reagan Civil Liberties Act of 1988
2009-08-11 00:57:00
August 10, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR.RELATED: Senate bill S. 1009
Aquino?s Passing Reminds us of a Reagan Accomplishment
2009-08-02 08:40:00
Given all the issues on my plate and my departure for San Francisco tomorrow (I’m blogging before bed Saturday night in LA), I won’t have much time to blog on the passing for former Filipiino President Corazon Aquino, described by the AP as “the beloved democracy icon who swept away a dictator and inspired nonviolent ...
Obama Team?s Rhetoric Vindicates Ronald Reagan
2009-07-10 23:18:00
While President Obama and his team may be trying to undo the work of the president with the most successful economic record of the century just concluded, their rhetoric shows how much they recognize the appeal of that great man’s ideas. Obama the candidate praised the Gipper during the campaign.  And like his Republican predecessor, the ...
Sarah Palin not yet ready to take on the Gipper?s Mantle
2009-07-10 19:36:00
It has been a week since Sarah Palin announced her intention to resign as Governor of Alaska later this month.  As a Palin supporter, while somewhat sympathetic to her situation given the continuing assault from the media and their allies on the left, I am disappointed that this good woman decided not to tough it ...
Open Thread Friday At The GTL? ? Michael Jackson? Obama Waffling On Indefi
2009-06-27 04:42:00
Readers And Commentators -slash- Co-Bloggers — Your Turn To Set The Agenda Once Again Really, I don’t have writer’s block today — I could write several essays -slash- columns on a variety of topics but I really don’t know where to begin. On the plus side, the last... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
The President?s Telling Comment About FoxNews
2009-06-20 18:39:00
In 1992, the New Republic ran a piece, I believe it was by Jacob Weisberg (check spelling) on then-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, reporting something the candidate’s mother (as I recall) had said about her son.  If Bill Clinton entered a room with one hundred people, ninety-nine of them loving him, but one opposed to him, ...
Will the Spirit of Ronald Reagan Sink Obamacare?
2009-06-20 01:00:00
No Democrat has ever won the White House running against Ronald Wilson Reagan.  Walter Mondale tried, but barely won his own state.  Michael Dukakis tried to make the 1988 election about competency instead of ideology, but George H.W. Bush made it about Ronald Reagan and Michael Dukakis.   He won forty states.  Had that Bush remembered ...
President Obama Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act VIDEO
2009-06-03 02:20:00
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT: Today I am pleased today to sign into law, H.R. 131, which will create a Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission with the responsibility to plan, develop, and carry out activities to honor Ronald Reagan on the 100th anniversary of his birth. It is fitting that the life of our 40th President be commemorated on this occasion.The bill provides that the Commission will be composed of the Secretary of the Interior, four individuals whom I will appoint after considering the recommendations of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Foundation, and six members of Congress appointed by the congressional leadership. I wholeheartedly welcome the participation of members of Congress in the activities of the Commission.In accord with President Reagan's Signing Statement made upon signing similar commemorative legislation in 1983, I understand, and my Administration has so advised the Congress, that the members of Congress "will be able to participate only in ceremoni...
Athena?s Sage Advice to the GOP:Apply Reaganesque Ideas to Contemporary Con
2009-05-23 02:46:00
Perhaps because I used to listen regularly to Peggy Noonan’s reading of her memoir, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (when in law school I drove back and forth between Washington and Charlottesville), I was not surprised last night to hear her speak in the voice in which ...
Does Dick Cheney Owe it All to Lynne?
2009-05-22 09:08:00
As I was driving to the Reagan Library yesterday afternoon, listening to Hugh Hewitt while caught in traffic on the 170, I heard Hugh (or was it one of his guests?) refer to former Vice President Cheney as the left’s “favorite punching bag.”  Before leaving, I had read snippets of that good man’s speech at ...
I thanked the Gipper?s Lady; Athena thanked me
2009-05-22 06:51:00
I just returned from hearing Athena Peggy Noonan speak at the temple of her spiritual father Reagan Library.  Due to traffic, I missed the book signing, so I did not come close to the divine presence have the chance to shake her hand, but after her talk (about which more anon), I did get to ...
Obama Lacks the Gipper?s Political Courage on Gays
2009-05-14 09:18:00
You can measure a politician’s principles by his willingness to do something which he believes to be the right thing, but which carries a political cost. Before he was ever elected President, Ronald Reagan did just such a thing, showing political courage in standing up against anti-gay bigotry.  In 1978, he came out publicly against the ...
Dinner with Athena at the Reagan Library on May 21
2009-05-11 21:42:00
I just RSVPed to dine with the pundit I call Athena (Peggy Noonan) when she’ll be at the Reagan Library on May 21.  Click here to learn more about the event.  Maybe we can get a group of readers together to meet this great lady and pay tribute to her one-time boss. Drop me a note ...
Ronald Reagan: do-it-yourselfer?
2009-05-10 01:18:00
Commenting to the first post on my visit to the Reagan Ranch, Mark Noonan recalled his own visit to that beautiful but simple place: When I visited a couple years back I was impressed by the ordinariness of the place. Clearly just where Ron and Nancy Reagan liked to go and be themselves. The tool bench ...
Tea Party Success: Libertarian Ideas Still Resonate
2009-04-30 17:54:00
In his excellent (must-read) piece on the appeal of the Tea Parties and the hysteria they generate on the left, Matt Kibbe writes: Judging from the left’s hysterical reaction, something really big must have happened. But the only way to really understand the left’s misinformed and paranoid attacks is to realize that the protests represent tangible ...
With a Thatcher Honoree at Reagan Ranch
2009-04-28 07:24:00
What better way to honor Ronald Reagan than with a man honored by Margaret Thatcher.  E-mail me if you’d like to join us for dinner tonight in Santa Monica. Here’s Dr. Ashford standing in front of the front porch that the Gipper built himself.  He even laid the stone floor. Take a look at the poster behind ...
Visiting Reagan?s RanchSeeing His Greatness in Its Simplicity
2009-04-28 02:55:00
I just returned from an afternoon at a place that many readers of the site, including (and especially?) its two principle bloggers consider practically sacred.  With Dr. Nigel Ashford, the distinguished British political scientist honored by Dame Margaret Thatcher, I had a tour of the Reagan Ranch. Kudos to the folks of the Young America’s Foundation ...
Invested in the Idea of Obama:A Reflection on the Anti-Tea Party Animus
2009-04-25 23:07:00
Shortly after the success of the Tea Parties, while away from my computer, I pondered the alacrity of so many on the left and in the MSM to smear our movement, calling it Astroturf and dismissing our concerns.  I had an insight on why these protests made so many so hysterical, so I picked up ...
FINAL SCORE: U.S. Navy And Captain Richard Phillips, 50 ? Somali Pirates, 0
2009-04-13 02:45:00
MAERSK Alabama Ship Captain Richard Phillips Safe, Alive And Well On Easter Sunday After U.S. Navy Sends Three Pirates To Meet Their Maker With Love Before I launch into a “bashfest”, allow me to extend a sincere and hearty “high-five” to the U.S. Navy, the captain, his... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
GOP Task?in a Nutshell
2009-03-16 21:18:00
Roughly half the time I read articles on the task ahead for the GOP, the authors contend that Republicans can’t return to the ideas Ronald Reagan used so effectively to rally the faithful in the late 1970s and rebuild the party in the next decade as those ideas are out of date.  What worked nearly ...
They Keep Coming to Bury Reagan, Not to Praise Him
2009-03-07 18:00:00
For the past twenty-seven years at least (perhaps longer), Democrats and their allies in the media have been trying to write the obituary for Ronald Reagan’s ideas.  The latest to do so is former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich who claimed that the very unveiling of President Obama’s budget sounds the death knell for Reaganomics: It ...
Happy Anniversary Ron ?n Nancy
2009-03-04 22:18:00
Today we celebrate the 57th anniversary of the nuptials of Ronald Reagan and his beloved Nancy. Her strength and affection helped him become the great man that he was. And his appreciation of this strong woman helped define his quality as a man. Few presidents were as devoted to their wives as was the ...
The Gipper, Milk & Defeating Prop 6
2009-02-27 00:00:00
A reader alerts us to a piece in the American Spectator where Aaron Goldstein reminds us how significant Ronald Reagan’s opposition to Prop 6, the 1978 Golden State ballot initiative which would have banned gays from teaching in public schools, was to it the defeat of that pernicious proposal: There is little doubt Milk’s yeoman efforts ...
Obama to Address Congress on Economy:After Economic ?Stimulus? Passes?!?!?
2009-02-20 18:31:00
As I was reading about the president’s address to Congress, a thought occurred. First, about the address.  According to the Washington Post’s Michael D. Shear: President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, an administration official said, giving the equivalent of a State of the Union speech that promises to continue his grim ...
Did Reagan Ever Blame Carter . . .
2009-02-10 15:15:00
. . . for the economic mess he inherited after the Gipper had taken office and was making the case for his economic recovery package? Just curious, ’cause the current president has been attacking his predecessor on a regular basis, even did so last night: First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over ...
Ronnie vs. Barry
2009-02-06 20:54:00
This seems a fitting way to remember the 40th President of the United States on the anniversary of his birth. I didn’t think Obama would botch it so badly as to put his near 70-percent approval rating in peril so quickly. What?s wrong with this picture, and why, seemingly, can?t David Axelrod see it? No wonder Republicans ...
Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan!
2009-02-06 10:08:00
It seems my friend Rick Sincere was the first in the blogosphere to wish Americans a Happy Reagan Day on this, the ninety-eighth anniversary of the birth of the greatest American president of the second half of the twentieth century, the chief executive with the most successful economic policy of that entire century. In a nice ...
Steele?s Communication Skills Will Serve GOP Well
2009-02-06 03:30:00
The more I think about the election of Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee, the more hope I have for the future of my party. Not only is the former Maryland Lieutenant Governor a bright man with a natural charisma and personal warmth, but he also conveys an image of a broader-based party ...
Use the Conservative Model in Gay Marriage Debate
2009-01-27 20:38:00
In the comments section to my first post from the “Equality Summit,” another participant chimed in, offering thoughts which help define the difference between the left and right in American today. Addressing my observation about the absence of Republicans at the event, Stephen R. Stapleton wrote: I don?t think we plan much outreach to conservatives. They aren?t ...
Liberals in a Moralistic Snit
2009-01-26 01:40:00
While at the Reagan Library last month, I picked up a book that I’ve been slowly reading for the past few weeks, Why I Am a Reagan Conservative. Some of the essays included are trite, but others are insightful, notably Peter Brimelow’s where he offers as much insight into liberalism as he does into ...
On Milk, Movies & Expectations
2009-01-24 03:18:00
Almost a decade ago, shortly after moving to LA, an acquaintance in a writing group to which I then belonged, raved about how wonderful was the then-new release, Being John Malkovich.  The flick, he claimed, had multiple levels of meaning and would soon rank with the great classics of cinema. When I went to see the ...
Ronald Reagan?s Stimulus
2009-01-18 03:32:00
As the price tag for the Democrats’ stimulus packages continues to climb, even as the federal governmetn faces a record budget deficit, I ask Obama supporters, who have such hope that their man will change things in Washington, if they can provide any evidence of such hefty stimuli actually providing anything more than a short-term ...
Happy Birthday, Ethel Merman!
2009-01-16 08:45:00
Today marks the 101st anniversary of the birth of Ethel Merman, one of the great Broadway stars of the last century, perhaps the only woman who never had a flop.  Alas, that we missed her centennial last year. As I read this great lady’s biography, I learned with delight that she had her debut at age ...
On McCain?s books & his Failure as a Candidate
2009-01-14 00:42:00
During the course of the presidential campaign, I read both books the Democratic nominee had written and three the Republican nominee had written (I had read another, Faith of My Fathers, during the 2000 campaign). When, particularly during the late summer and early fall (i.e., prior to the financial meltdown), I read John McCain’s books, I ...
Rhetorically, Obama Proposes Conservative Change
2009-01-07 19:41:00
Today, in announcing his choice of Nancy Killefer as “Chief Performance Officer”, President-elect Barack Obama echoed Ronald Reagan in describing the type of change he intends to bring to Washington: We committed to change the way our government in Washington does business so that we?re no longer squandering billions of tax dollars on programs that have ...
Freedom Calendar 01/03/09 - 01/10/09
2009-01-04 02:59:00
January 3, 1933, Republican Minnie Davenport Craig (R-ND) elected as first woman to be Speaker of the House in a state legislature.January 4, 1995, Speaker Newt Gingrich appoints Republican Cheryl Lau first Asian-American woman to serve as General Counsel of U.S. House; Republican Robin Carle becomes first woman elected Clerk of U.S. House.January 5, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt nominates African-American physician William D. Crum as Collector of Customs, over racist objections from Senate Democrats.January 6, 1874, African-American U.S. Rep. Robert B. Elliott (R-SC) delivers eloquent hour-long speech supporting Republicans? civil rights bill.January 7, 1922, Death of Republican Jonah Kalanianaole, native Hawaiian who served as Delegate in U.S. Congress for 19 years.January 8, 1867, Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson?s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.January 9, 1890, Death of abolitionist and U.S. Rep. William Kelley (R-PA), o...
Freedom Calendar 12/27/08 - 01/03/09
2008-12-28 03:30:00
December 27, 1910, Birth of African-American physician Aris Allen, Chairman of Maryland Republican Party and Secretary of 1980 Republican National Convention.December 28, 1973, Banned Russian author and human rights activist Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelago; President Ronald Reagan would quote his undelivered Nobel acceptance speech in national TV address to Soviet Union.December 29, 1930, Death of Walter Cohen, African-American Republican from New Orleans; served in McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Coolidge administrations.December 30, 1842, Birth of Republican U.S. Rep. Josiah Walls, who in 1871 became Florida?s first African-American in Congress.December 31, 1898, Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools.January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans? Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect.January 2, 1895, Republicans Clara Cressingham, Carrie C. Holl...
Freedom Calendar 12/20/08 - 12/27/08
2008-12-21 03:26:00
December 20, 2000, California Republican Ann Veneman nominated as first woman to be U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.December 21, 1981, President Ronald Reagan establishes Task Force on Legal Equality for Women.December 22, 1870, African-American Republican Jefferson Long becomes U.S. Representative from Georgia.December 23, 1815, Civil rights activist and Republican diplomat Henry Garnet born into slavery in Maryland; first African-American to address U.S. Senate (1865).December 24, 1833, Birth of African-American Republican Joseph Corbin, Arkansas Superintendent of Education (1873-74)Christmas Day December 25, 1804, Birth of U.S. Rep. George Ashmun (R-MA), anti-slavery activist and Chairman of 1860 Republican National Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln.December 26, 1939, Birth of former U.S. Rep. Lynn Martin (R-IL), who as Vice Chair of the Republican Conference was the first Republican woman in a congressional leadership position; later served as Secretary of Labor in the ad...
Freedom Calendar 12/13/08 - 12/20/08
2008-12-14 03:46:00
December 13, 2001, ?No Child Left Behind? Act to improve public education for all children passes House; signed into law by President George W. Bush.December 14, 1829, Birth of African-American Republican John Langston; served as diplomat in four Republican administrations, and in U.S. House (R-VA).December 15, 2000, President-elect George W. Bush nominates Colin Powell as first African-American Secretary of State.December 16, 2003, President George W. Bush signs law creating National Museum of African American History and Culture.December 17, 2000, Republican Alberto Gonzales named as first Hispanic to serve as White House Counsel by President George W. Bush.December 18, 1852, Birth of Republican U.S. Rep. George White (R-NC), last former slave to serve in Congress; authored bill to make lynching a federal crime.December 19, 1820, Birth of Republican activist Mary Livermore, organizer of Women?s Suffrage Convention in 1868.December 20, 2000, California Republican Ann Veneman nomina...
Freedom Calendar 12/06/08 - 12/13/08
2008-12-13 09:28:00
December 6, 1865, Republican Party?s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified.December 7, 1928, Republican Octaviano Larrazolo of New Mexico becomes first Hispanic to serve in U.S. Senate.December 8, 1953, Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education; 1924 Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of ?separate but equal?.December 9, 1872, Republican Pinckney Pinchback (R-LA) becomes nation?s first African-American governor.December 10, 1869, Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs first-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office.December 11, 1895, African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans.December 12, 2003, President George W. Bush nominates African-American Alphonso Jackson as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.December 13, 2001, ?...
Freedom Calendar 11/28/08 - 12/06/08
2008-12-13 09:28:00
November 29, 1935, Death of African-American U.S. Rep. Henry Cheatham (R-NC), who served as delegate to two Republican National Conventions.November 30, 1983, Clarence Pendleton completes first term as first African-American Chairman of U.S. Civil Rights Commission; appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.December 1, 1873, African-American Republican Alonzo Ransier, former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman and Lt. Governor, sworn in as U.S. Representative (R-SC).December 2, 1863, Phillip Reid, former slave set free by Republicans? 1862 D.C. Emancipation Act, watches his statue Freedom placed atop U.S. Capitol.December 3, 2002, Jewish Republican Linda Lingle (R-HI) inaugurated as state?s first woman governor.December 4, 1886, Death of Republican George Ruffin, first African-American graduate of Harvard Law School and first African-American state judge in the North 5December 5, 2000, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate Leadership.December...
Obama is Not a Democratic Ronald Reagan
2008-12-12 02:45:00
My apologies for slow blogging these past few weeks.  I had a meeting yesterday with my dissertation adviser and spent the better part of Tuesday preparing for our get-together.  As I organized my thoughts, I realized I was far ahead of where I had thought myself to be, but still behind where I need to ...
A Weekend with the Gipper and Away from the Internets
2008-12-08 09:36:00
While Bruce was in Washington, I was at a place where I’m sure he’d rather have been, indeed the place where we last saw each other, the Reagan Library. I went up on Saturday with three Hollywood conservatives and two of their wives.  The images of the Gipper made me forget my anxiety about the coming ...
The Gipper on Gay Leaders
2008-11-19 19:12:00
To console myself in the wake of big-government victories at the ballot box (even if the Democrats didn’t campaign as such), I’ve been reading lots of Reagan in order to remind me of a Republican who could articulate opposition to such a statist agenda. Last night, while reading randomly in Reagan: A Life In Letters, I ...
Freedom Calendar 11/15/08 - 11/22/08
2008-11-16 01:32:00
November 15, 1983, President Ronald Reagan?s nominee to Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Susan Meredith Phillips, confirmed as first woman to serve as Chairman.November 16, 1948, Death of California Republican Florence Kahn, first Jewish woman to serve in U.S. House of Representatives, 1925-37.November 17, 2003, First generation immigrant, Austrian-American Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, sworn in as Governor of California.November 18, 1872, Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for 'the Republican ticket, straight'November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address, calling for 'a new birth of freedom.'November 20, 1953, Birth of Matt Fong, Chinese-American Republican elected Treasurer of California in 1994; Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 1998.November 21, 1991, President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.November 22, 1865, R...
Ronald Reagan & the 2008 Election
2008-11-10 16:15:00
By taking my official presidential portrait of Ronald Reagan to get framed sometime in 1992, I acknowledged that Bill Clinton would defeat George H.W. Bush and win election to the White House.  Placing the Gipper’s smiling face on my mantelpiece reminded me of the optimism and political ideals of our nation’s fortieth president during a ...
Freedom Calendar 11/08/08 - 11/15/08
2008-11-09 01:51:00
November 8, 1840, Birth of Judith Ellen Foster; addressing the 1892 Republican National Convention, she declared: ?We are here to help you, and we have come to stay.November 9, 1938, Republican Gladys Pyle becomes first woman elected to U.S. Senate from South Dakota; earlier had been first woman elected to constitutional office (Secretary of State) and to state legislature.November 10, 1829, Birth of Charles Mitchell, who with fellow Massachusetts Republican Edward Walker became one of nation?s first two African-American state legislators in 1866.November 11, 1880, Death of abolitionist, suffragist and Republican activist Lucretia Mott.November 12, 2001, President George W. Bush proclaims National American Indian Heritage Month.November 13, 2002, U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) elected as Chair of House Republican Conference; she is highest-ranking woman in House majority leadership in U.S. history.November 14, 1824, Birth of U.S. Rep. James Ashley (R-OH), author of constitutional am...
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