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Our 9,000th Post
2012-02-06 10:02:00 Normally, it’s uncanny how much Bruce and I see eye-to-eye. Even though our perspectives differ slightly, we are often struck by the same stories and reach similar conclusions. This campaign cycle seems to have upended things. Bruce mocked Jon Huntsman on twitter; I endorsed him. Bruce voted for Newt Gingrich; I just don’t see my ...
By: GayPatriot
Don?t Know Much about Ronny R
2012-01-23 14:25:00 Every now and again, you’ll run into an Obama supporter who professes to be a fiscal conservative. When you challenge them on the incumbent’s big-spending ways, they’ll reply that he had to do it because they mess that George W. Bush left him was so bad. (Well, during the campaign, Obama did say that, there ...
By: GayPatriot
Why We Need A Constitutional Conservative Candidate
2012-01-11 01:10:00 I am presenting this work in it’s entirety, with no comment from me other than a very short one at the end of this great bit of work. Why We Need A Constitutional Conservative Candidate The United States is at … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
In Kim?s Death, an Extensive Intelligence Failure
2011-12-20 21:49:00 In Kim?s Death, an Extensive Intelligence Failure WASHINGTON ? Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about … Continue reading →
By: TexasFred's
The perfect gift for President Obama
2011-12-07 18:45:00 It’s always good to study the record of a successful predecessor, particularly one whose economic policies worked pretty much as advertised. In reading about this great Republican, the Democrat might realize that the policies he claimed never worked actually worked quite well. For five days only, this handsome set is 50% off. And the Reagan ...
By: GayPatriot
Referencing Reagan, Ann Coulter?s sensible defense of GOP reluctance to rai
2011-11-26 18:02:00 As diligent readers of this blog know, I have changed my opinion of Ann Coulter in recent years. I used to think that she was a right-wing bomb thrower, saying outrageous things merely to get a name for herself. But, when I met her, I put her “outrageousness” into context. What Ann does, I wrote ...
By: GayPatriot
Krauthammer Deconstructs Democratic Demonization of the latest ?Emmanuel Go
2011-11-26 01:35:00 In this Thanksgiving weekend, we acknowledge much for which we are thankful, including this great country. I would add my wonderful family, including my very liberal sisters. And a great number of other things . . . Today, I feel like I should add Charles Krauthammer to the list of things for which I am ...
By: GayPatriot
The Republican Need for Bold Colors & Seriousness of Purpose
2011-10-28 02:18:00 Yesterday, Michael Barone reported that the Baltimore Sun?s television critic David Zurawik lambasted the White House for excluding “local press from the pool coverage of Obama?s recent San Francisco fundraiser [and] Obama for appearing on Jay Leno?s program.” Zurawik asks us to “check out” the “scripted video exchange about GOP challengers between Obama and his NBC ...
By: GayPatriot
Would Bill Clinton be an outcast in today?s Democratic Party?
2011-10-19 18:05:00 Appearing on CNN on Sunday, former Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman repeated one of his party’s standard talking points: But the bigger issue is the fact that [Herman Cain is] able to get away with this just demonstrate how extreme the Republican Party has become today. The concept of Reagan mainstream conservatism is really ...
By: GayPatriot
Kendrick Lamar - Ronald Reagan Era (feat. RZA)
2011-06-18 22:02:00 Coming into 2011, I had a lot of albums I had been eagrly waiting for that would come out, but Kendrick Lamar's LP --#Section80--wasn't really on my radar. So it's ironic that I now predict that Sec80 will be the album of the year.I've been enlighten by the songs we've heard off the album, that are ridicoulsy dope and it reminds us that TopDawgEnt. will be a force to be reckoned with, especially since their signees are Jay Rock, Ab Soul, SchoolBoyQ and the aforementioned K. Dot.Ronald Reagan Era is the latest single by Kendrick Lamar, which was released probably in one of the best week Hip-Hop has seen in awhile, and RRE is --in my opinion--the best track released in...
How Ronald Reagan Almost Became A Film Franchise
2011-05-28 00:12:00 A few weeks ago, I purchased a screenplay known as "The Secret Adventures Of Ronald Reagan". I wrote about it asking if anyone knew about the origins of the screenplay on this blog and didn't get much of a reply save for one spammer commenting. I decided to do the leg work on my own to find out the origins of this screenplay and why it never got produced. I contacted Daniel Selznick (son of David Selznick who produced Gone With The Wind) who on the telephone gave me the email of the writer of the screenplay Lindsay Naythons. The following is the entire story from the horse's mouth about how the screenplay came to be:I loved Reagan and was always...
Ronald Reagan talks strategy and 'Obamacare'
2011-02-10 17:46:00 Courtesy of jscreationzsWith government red ink facing us as far as the eye can see, I came across an interesting piece of audio on The Daily Caller website that was released by the American Medical Association. In it, Ronald Reagan discusses legislation being offered by California congressmen to offer government-run health insurance coverage for ALL senior citizens, no matter their ability to pay for private coverage. It was 1961 and the program is now known as Medicare. In the audio, Reagan talks about the "foot in the door" approach to the march to socialized medicine. His words are prescient. With today's hot topic being Obamacare, this country is again at a crossroads and this recording is amazing in that what...
Republicans celebrate Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday but forget he sup
2011-02-07 00:07:00 Republicans celebrate Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday but forget he supported amnesty for immigrants.
Ronald Reagan: Father of the Tea Party
2011-02-06 15:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We are still living in Ronald Reagan's era, despite the constant refrains from Democrats and the left that Reaganism is long dead. As we observe his 100th birthday, it is also beneficial to point out that in many ways Reagan is the father of the Tea Party Movement. It was his great success, his sunny optimism that gave the Tea Partiers the grounding and confidence that they could, indeed, make a difference. Like many politically active people today, Ronald Reagan is my favorite president in my lifetime. For me, he was also the first president for whom I could vote and I did so with glee. In fact, if it weren't for Ronald Reagan I may...
Super Bowl Sunday? Ronald Reagan's Birthday? ... Not Really
2011-02-06 15:00:00 I know that today is Ronald Reagan's birthday and that's it's Super Bowl Sunday (GO STEELERS!), but what really matters today is it's the birthday of someone very special to me. Number 1 son was born 27 years ago today. He weighed 9 lbs and 4 oz. Thanks to him, his brother and sister have perfectly round heads. Can you say c-section?Those first several months were brutal. That child screamed non-stop and no matter what we did or what the doctor recommended he continued to scream. By the time #1 son quieted down, I was pregnant with #2 son. My husband warily asked, "Do you think #2 will scream like #1?" "No," I said. "God wouldn't do that to us...
Ronald Reagan's Chicago Home
2011-02-06 07:01:00 On the centennial day, a visit to a future president's Chicago address.
Illinois Celebrates Ronald Reagan's 100th
2011-02-06 03:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I am here tonight at the Illinois Republican Party celebration of Ronald Reagan's 100 birthday. The event is being held at the Hilton on the Mag Mile, Michigan Avenue, downtown Chicago. Tonight we'll be seeing a small retinue of stars in the GOP firmament. Senator Mark Kirk, Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Congressman Mike Pence (Indiana), former Penn. Senator Rick Santorum, former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, with closing remarks by Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford. It is a packed house with over 600 diners enjoying the evening. I've also had the good fortune to have been at the press availability for some of the above and deepending on how good...
This Oughta Hold The Little FCC and Congressional Bastards!
2010-10-26 18:42:00 NBC's parent company GE presents: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough narrating an 8:47 film on Ronald Reagan. Rendevous With Destiny: Reagan's journey from GE to the White House. Cameo appearance by Tom Brokaw.Executive summary: Ronald Reagan (as host of TV's GE Theater) honed his political skills making speeches on GE's watch. GE made Reagan. Scarborough: "And from General Electric to the White House, the result was a brighter future for this country."
By: Chickaboomer
The GTL? Sunday Guest Column ? ?Ripple Down Obamanomics? By Christopher L.
2010-03-14 23:40:00 GTL? Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And “Moderately-Right-Of-Cent-er” Political Pundit Christopher L. Doster Employs His Right-Leaning Andy Rooney-ish Style Of Humor To Attack Democratic Economics And Healthcare Prinicples…” ?Ripple Down Obamanomics? The late Great... 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 GTL? Sunday Guest Column ? ?In This Present Crisis?? By Christopher L.
2010-03-01 00:19:00 GTL? Sunday Guest Columnist: Author And “Moderately-Right-Of-Cent-er” Political Pundit, Christopher L. Doster Vents And Rants About The Mainstream Media And Its Hunger For The Latest Crises…… ?In This Present Crisis?? It seems a new ?crisis? presents itself on a daily basis,... 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!
Will Obamacare Passage Lead to Inverse Cloward-Piven?
2009-12-22 01:54:00 While some conservatives have, in the past 72 hours, found a silver lining in the cloud of all-but-certain passage of Obamacare, others caution that the silver lining, Republican victories in next year’s election, will be ephemeral while the cloud, greater government control over our lives, will be permanent, a perpetual gloomy day. When, they ask, has ...
By: GayPatriot
Conservative Blogger Defends CPAC Inclusion of GOProud
2009-12-16 21:15:00 Whenever a mainstream conservative blogger addresses attempts by right-wing fringe groups to exclude gays from our movement, his commentary reflects the experiences Bruce and I have had with our fellow denizens of the rightosphere. Our fellow bloggers may not support state recognition of same-sex marriage or oppose the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell Policy, but they ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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.”
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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, ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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 ...
By: GayPatriot
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