Reagan did it!

The economy was in shambles when Ronald Reagan took office, much worse off even than when Barack Obama took office. And yet Reagan fixed it where Obama failed. This week, Bill Clinton suggested that no one could have fixed our broken economy in just four years. Ronald Reagan proves him wrong …

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Redefining “mainstream” politics

The year is 1980. Jimmy Carter is fighting for his political life in a brutal re-election campaign against Ronald Reagan. Polls show Carter with a slight lead, but the times are volatile. President Carter knows he must do something bold to nail down the election and pre-empt the politically beguiling former actor. At a dusty campaign stop in a key swing state, the former Georgia governor strides boldly to the microphone and addresses the gathered Democratic supporters …

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Tear down this wall

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8] Twenty-five years ago today was the speech everyone remembers. Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and uttered words so politically incorrect that he was reviled by the sophisticates on the Left. Said Mr. Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Watch the video above. Savor the moment once again. This…

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Three themes in this presidential campaign

By Tom Quiner The theme of Barack Obama’s campaign is fairness. Taking his cue from the Occupy Wall Street Crowd, he targets capitalism and Big Business as the root cause of our problems. Envy is the foundation of his message: you are downtrodden because the “rich” are making money on your backs. The job of…

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How to destroy a nation

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxHfYNTrnic&feature=youtu.be] It is essential to squash a people’s independent spirit to bring them down. America is the most independent nation in history. That is changing. As the chilling video above reveals, our kids coming out of public schools today increasingly have a sense of entitlement. In other words, they are increasingly comfortable…

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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 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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December 23rd, 1981

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKVYjw1Ehc] Today, international drama rages in the Mideast. During the Reagan years, it raged in Eastern Europe. A dozen days before Christmas in 1981, the communist government in Poland declared marshal law on their citizens. Poles were devastated. President Reagan sprung into action. He called Pope John Paul II and offered support.…

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