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Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2010

The ultimate Hallmark Holiday comes again this year with promises of lavish gifts and romance for young couples and (almost) guaranteed “special occasion sex” for married ones!  I’m someone who likes these cultural holidays — I still love getting an Irish-buzz for St. Patrick’s Day and dressing up for Halloween parties, along with all the [...]

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Previously “Temporary” Measures Made Part of Obama’s Baseline Budget

February 11, 2010

It appears that Obama is using a bit of budgetary sleight-of-hand to help contribute to the record deficit found in his 2011 budget proposal by taking some of the “temporary” measures of the Porkulus bill and making them part of the budget baseline (as predicted here).  Seems that Ronald Reagan was right when he said [...]

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Reagan’s Birthday

February 6, 2010

Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 — June 5, 2004) would have turned 99 today.  As a rallying point to both Conservatives and Republicans, Reagan’s legacy continues to grow as the years go by.  Many historians have had to move on from their original “amiable dunce” interpretation of Reagan to grudgingly admit or contemplate the importance [...]

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Newsweek: Obama’s Really a Centrist

January 25, 2010

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham believes that President Obama is not a “Chicago Che” or an “unreconstructed Great Society liberal” (he’s at least both, by the way), but a centrist at heart who just tried to do too much too soon — Obama was merely thinking with his head not his heart.  Meacham’s apologetic and misleading about [...]

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A Reagan Rallying Cry

January 18, 2010

As the whole nation watches the special election in Massachusetts tomorrow, I think it is worth pointing out and reminding everyone what we are fighting for.  As a resident of the state of Massachusetts, I am looking forward to casting my vote for Scott Brown tomorrow.  And while this blog (along with probably every other [...]

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Still a Center-Right Nation

August 18, 2009

We can still continue to thank Ronald Reagan for his great success in turning “liberal” into a bad word in American politics.  Not only that, but Reagan’s success in promoting a conservative agenda set the basic political atmosphere we have lived under for nearly three decades.
Remember how the Democrats were the Whigs after the 2004 [...]

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The Humor of Reagan

August 4, 2009

I came across this clip of President Reagan in my morning blog reading over at Babalu Blog.  In this video, Reagan makes two jokes at the expense of Communists, showing both his understanding of Communism and his wit.  Just a fun, brief memory of our 40th President.

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Walter Cronkite Dies at 92

July 18, 2009

Deemed “the most trusted man in America,” CBS-TV journalist icon Walter Cronkite died yesterday at the age of 92.  His long and storied career in journalism spanned from World War II though the 1980s.  As a relatively new medium with only a few channels, Cronkite’s presence on the tube when JFK, MLK, and RFK were assassinated, after [...]

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Have an Active Fourth of July!

July 3, 2009

Usually the 4th is a chance to have some barbecue with friends and family, catch some fireworks, and cheer about how awesome we are.  And I hope that is the case with everyone this year – even if you’re not American, please feel free to use tomorrow as at least another excuse to drink!
However, these aren’t normal times.  [...]

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The Gipper Takes His Place

June 3, 2009

Ronald Reagan’s statue took its place in the Capitol Rotunda today, with a cheerful and tearful Nancy on hand.  A Reagan statue — it just feels good to see in the People’s House!
It was also very nice to see Nancy again.  At 87, she still looks pretty good and still symbolizes the connection many had with her [...]

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I’m Not Listening to Another Bush

May 4, 2009

Some Republican leaders have been busy going on a “listening tour.”  I get it.  Our leaders need direction.  So, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are among those trying to get their face out there between now and the 2012 election cycle, while those like elected representative Eric Cantor are trying to find real consensus to counter [...]

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The First 100 Days

April 29, 2009

One hundred days into the Obama Nation and life continues, though things seem more insecure and ominous every time Obama speaks.  And there’s 1,361 more days until January 20, 2013! 
A lot of damage has been done, which has been cataloged here since Day One: Year Zero, (January 20, 2009, in the PO calender: PO,”Pre-Obama” or in our case “PO” could easily mean “Post-Obama” [...]

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No “Fair-Weather” Patriots in Trenton

April 15, 2009

I’ve just returned from a Tax Day Tea Party in Trenton, New Jersey, in front of the State Capitol Building.  It was rainy, wet, windy, nasty — no “fair-weather patriots” as the lead organizer Brian indicated.  My feet were freezing and my throat raw, but the spirit was there from the young to the very old.  We [...]

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Reagan’s Wisdom for Troubled Times

April 1, 2009

Mark Levin, talk show host and author of the best-selling Liberty and Tyranny, a Conservative Manifesto, played audio on his radio show last night of Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech.  Patterico found a video copy of the speech and posted it on his blog, Patterico’s Pontifications.  The speech, given in 1964 before the [...]

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The Politics of Optimism

February 23, 2009

Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House takes issue with the current attempt by the GOP to harness the populist anger over the stimulus bill and the prospect of higher taxes that began with the protests in Seattle and Denver last week, and continued with Rick Santelli’s mention of a Chicago Tea Party.  Moran argues [...]

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Happy Birthday Ron!

February 6, 2009

The late great Ronald Wilson Reagan would have turned 98 years old today.  Even being the oldest elected President we’ve ever had, age was never a weakness with Reagan:

Nowadays we miss him, his steady hand guiding the ship of state, and his style of leadership dearly in these troubled times.  Perhaps he’s smiling down at us from [...]

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Reagan’s Case Against National Health Care

February 2, 2009

The Mark Levin Radio Show is always a source of conservative thought, argument, and Mark’s thoroughly entertaining quirkiness (“Get off the phone, you big dope!”).   Last Friday evening I had Mark on in the car when the voice of Ronald Reagan emerged.  It took me until just now to track down a copy of that 10-minute speech. 
With the impending confirmation [...]

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Peace Through Naivety?

January 26, 2009

Barack Obama has come out with yet another asinine proposal in his first week as President.  This time, the White House is proposing a “worldwide” ban on the use of weapons in space.  While sounding utopian on paper, Obama’s proposal ignores the fact that our world contains countries that would love nothing more than to [...]

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A Message From a Great President

January 20, 2009

Much of the United States is enamored with Barack Obama’s rhetorical skills, and for good reason. Few Presidents in our history have been as gifted as Obama in delivering the spoken word, a talent that can help usher a President down the road to greatness. That is of course, if the President’s rhetoric [...]

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

January 19, 2009

In 1983, the US Congress and President Reagan made the observed birthday of Martin Luther King Jr a federal holiday.  Twenty-six years later, and forty-one years after Dr. King’s assassination, we stand poised to inaugurate America’s first biracial President. 
Contemplating that, I ran into this CNN article which shows that nearly 2/3 of America’s black population believe [...]

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Obama’s Solution: “Only Government” Can Save Us

January 8, 2009

The One just gave us a not-so-cheery speech today on the nation’s economic situation and how He will fix our problems through obnoxious levels of government spending since “only government” can fix our problems.
So, on the theme of Presidential Inaugurations, we just heard Obama assert his firm belief that the only thing we have to fear [...]

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Look Who Showed Up to Lunch

January 7, 2009

From right to left Jimmah, Bubba, Dubya, The Emperor Zero Most High Merciful and Beneficent Lord Barack Hussein Obama, and Bush 41 all had lunch together at the White House today.  This kind of lunch encounter hasn’t happened since Reagan had Nixon, Ford and Jimmah over to chat too back in the day.  
Today, the President Club ate and [...]

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Deficits Are Wrong Unless a Democrat Is President

January 6, 2009

Democrats love to whine about increased deficits whenever there is a Republican President.  They did it after they broke their promise to Ronald Reagan that they would cut spending during the 1980s.  They did it in the 2000s when George W. Bush spent like a drunken sailor even though they wanted to spend more.  Now [...]

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Timeless Words in the Face of Defeat

November 11, 2008

Babalu Blog found a letter written to National Review by President Ronald Reagan following the defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964.  What Reagan says in this letter holds just as true today as it did then.
By now a new cliché has been added to the time-worn lit, but I know of no other way of [...]

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Obama’s First News Conference

November 8, 2008

Surrounded by a throng of economic guru’s the typical Imperial “Remember thou art mortal!  Remember thou art mortal!” mantra was lacking from the ears of Emperor Zero during his first news conference yesterday, as he performed meekly in my opinion:

He dodged answering too many specifics on the economy.
He acknowledged that the economy is a critical issue, but [...]

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A Lot of Talk About Reagan Today

October 22, 2008

What to do with Ronald Wilson Reagan? 
Some nowadays call the Reagan Revolution dead.  The Forbes piece I linked too has so many holes in it that it’s hardly worth addressing each point, and obviously was not written by anyone who made it passed PoliSci 202.  Republicans have acted stupid, whiny, impressionable and lately want to be liked so [...]

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Let Sarah Be Sarah

September 26, 2008

Like most conservatives, we here at Axis of Right are intellectually honest. So in the words of our party’s Presidential candidate, it’s time for some straight talk. Sarah Palin was downright awful in her recent interview with Katie Couric on SeeBS, and frankly, we could see it coming. The Sarah Palin we’ve seen on the [...]

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Obama Preaches to His Choir

August 29, 2008

Last night, Barack Obama accepted his nomination for President and gave “The American Promise” speech.  No ceiling could tame this monster, but perhaps 85,000 mind-numbed rubes at the oddly phallic Invesco Field Obamapolis would suffice!
The speech was well delivered, but I’ve seen him better.  Its content was remarkably average for a “hope and change” candidate.  He wrecked [...]

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McCain v. Obama at the Saddleback Church Civic Forum

August 17, 2008

Last evening, the evangelical mega-church, Saddleback Church, had a “civic forum” with the candidates to discuss issues Pastor Rick Warren wished to hear about.  It was not a debate in the usual sense.  The format was excellent: about 50 minutes a piece, one candidate at a time using the same questions with the same audience for [...]

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I Knew Theodore Roosevelt and Senator, You’re No TR!

July 13, 2008

Well, the first part of that isn’t entirely true, but I did spend fifteen months writing a rather long historiographical thesis on Theodore Roosevelt back in college.  In that work I used some of John McCain’s campaign rhetoric from early 2000 as evidence of TR’s increasing influence amongst politicians of both parties today (I also quoted [...]

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