Posts Tagged ‘Ronald Reagan’
The Reagan Doctrine vs. the Obama Doctrine
From 1974 to 1980, totalitarianism was on the rise. South Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, South Yemen, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Grenada, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan fell into the orbit of the Soviet Union.
Then Reagan entered office. Under the Reagan Doctrine, the momentum of totalitarianism was more than slowed, it was reversed. Dictatorships collapsed in Chili, Haiti, and Panama during Reagan’s watch. Democracy advanced in nine more nations, including Bolivia, Honduras, Argentina, Grenada, El Salvador, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, and the Phillippines …
Presidents talk about God
This great country has been formed by our Judeo-Christian beliefs.
With Easter upon us tomorrow, I’d like to share some great quotes from American presidents on the subject of religion and its importance to us individually and collectively.
Ronald Reagan addresses a nation on Easter and Passover
The date was April 2nd, 1983.
Here is what Ronald Reagan said in a radio address to our nation:
A beautiful Christmas message from Ronald Reagan
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU0tuah-x7M] Let’s turn the clock back some thirty years to hear the beautiful Christmas address of a president who loved Christ. Ronald Reagan wasn’t afraid to call Jesus the Christ. He called a Christmas tree a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree. He gave no quarter to the politically-correct Thought Police who…
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Ronald Reagan was a man of the people.
This Hollywood Democrat landed a job hosting television’s new General Electric Theater. His life would never be the same. For one thing, he owned a piece of this wildly popular show, which is how he made his fortune.
For another, as part of his job, GE sent him all over the country to visit their plants and give speeches to their employees and customers as a PR move. Some quarter of a million people heard him speak over an eight year period.
Mr. Reagan gave a great speech, which made him popular with the working class Americans who worked in GE’s plants and factories. But something more important than celebrity came out of all his exposure to working class America. He had a chance to listen to normal people …
“God help us all.”
“It was Reagan’s fault.”
This was the expected response to my essay, “The Politics of Mental Health”:
“Ronald Reagan pursued a policy toward the treatment of mental illness that satisfied special interest groups and the demands of the business community, but failed to address the issue: the treatment of mental illness.”
How did he do this?
“Conventional wisdom suggests that the reduction of funding for social welfare policies during the 1980s is the result of a conservative backlash against the welfare state.”
The only problem is that Reagan didn’t cut funding for social welfare …
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… you love Ronald Reagan.
Set aside Ronald Reagan’s politics for a moment.
No president in my lifetime was warmer, funnier, or more sincere. If you listened to Reagan’s speech at the Republican National Convention in 1964 and compared it to his speeches fifteen to twenty years later, his message was the same.
Read MoreMixed feelings on Obama’s postponement of the mandates
In tacit admission of their collective incompetence, the administration is using the honor system in determining who will receive deep Obamacare discounts on the basis of need. Recall how candidate Obama promised “to root out waste and fraud” which is rampant in Medicare and Medicaid. They’ve taken the Reagan mantra of “trust, but verify,” and turned it on its head with their new “don’t verify AND trust” approach to governance.
Read MoreRonald Reagan’s Memorial Day remarks still resonate
This Memorial Day, we honor the dead who sacrificed their lives for you and me. We can truly honor them by redoubling our efforts to restore the rights being siphoned away by our elected officials.
Read MoreMay 13th, 5PM
I juxtapose the events of 1917, 1968, and 1981 as one of life’s many mysteries.
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