http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/reagan/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:59:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418249/posts It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. For there were but two cities people could hold as examples. The first city sat perched upon a hilltop, emitting a beacon for all to see. The city was guarded by she who proclaimed: "Give me your huddled masses..." Her torch beckoned to all around the world to come and see the wondrous beauty of that city. She stood as an example of the possibility of one's dreams. Fair Lady inspired those who came to live their lives in freedom and goodwill to one another. And so they... The Right Stuff http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418249/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417862/posts Vintage shut down on Sam Donaldson during a press conference. This man's timing was flawless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRUbwnkEPqc YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417862/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417584/posts "I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness—not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world. The nature of this emptiness becomes clear in the contrast between him and Ronald Reagan. Reagan reached the White House through a great deal of what is called "individuating"—that is he took principled positions throughout his long career that jeopardized his popularity, and in so doing he came to know who he was as... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417584/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:58:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415666/posts See video at source Youtube, Glenn Beck Show, Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415666/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:28:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415139/posts VIDEO of Ronald Reagan's inspirational, 1981 Christmas address to the nation. Merry Christmas everybody! THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415139/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:57:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415093/posts 2 videos we have all seen but an interesting and sad change. The 1st video is a Fox News clip of what is acceptable in the Obama White House verse The Reagan White House Address To The Nation On Christmas Communists 4 Obama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415093/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:20:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414845/posts I posted a 1981 video of Ronald Reagan reassuring America he is there for us and what he sees as the true meaning of Christmas. HOW BADLY DO WE NEED REAGAN!?!? You will not see any Christmas Tree Ornaments of Mao, transvestites nor with the face of the disgrace & disaster Obama on Mount Rushmore. I added it to The Palins Christmas message posting. Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414845/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:09:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414200/posts Despite all that, listen to Reagan and see if you hear doom and gloom, sky is falling, catastrophe-awaits-just-around-the-corner rhetoric, like we do today. As you listen, is there any doubt in your mind that he thinks his country is the greatest place on Earth and the wellspring of freedom for all? Is there any hint that he is not proud of his country? He celebrates American faith, families, and exceptionalism. What are the odds that Barack Obama would ever give a speech like this? Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414200/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:13:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413403/posts Barack Obama gave himself a B+ on Oprah Winfrey’s White House Christmas Special on ABC, but the American public is far less generous. The latest influential Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll of likely US voters gives Obama a thumping 56 percent disapproval rating – an F grade by any measure. 46 percent strongly disapprove of the president’s job performance, while just 25 percent strongly approve. That’s a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 percentage points, a staggering figure for a president just 11 months into his term of office. These are historically low approval ratings for a US president, that... The London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413403/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:34:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412751/posts Williams on Team Sarah put together some DOZEN great side-by-side photos comparing Sarah Palin to Ronald Reagan. To all you non believers: get onboard or join Team Obama. Citizen Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412751/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412743/posts Are you as annoyed as I am by that nauseatingly amorphous phrase “Happy Holidays?” You may be interested to know that the mindset behind the term precedes America’s postmodern love affair with political correctness, tracing back to good ole’ fashioned Cold War Communism (PC’s uglier big sister). Indeed, today’s secularist war on Christmas (yes, the one that, like God, many liberals deny exists) was waged, in large part, when Communists began attempting to supplant the deity of Christ (and His associated Judeo-Christian principles) with the false deity of the State. Ronald Reagan once spoke to this noteworthy historical factoid during... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412743/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:23:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409580/posts I noticed something buried in a book review on Free Republic sometime back. The review was of a biography of William P. Clark. That name instantly brought back memories from when I was a youngin' and a lowly campaign worker who was drawn in early to the campaign by people just a step or two from Reagan's inner circle. Bill Clark was perhaps the closest friend and advisor that Ronald Reagan ever had. He was the one responsible for "Let Reagan be Reagan". He was also an unshakable Catholic who lived his religion. Contrary to popular belief the Republican Party... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409580/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:43:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409564/posts Thatcher eulogized Reagan beautifully. This is a random posting - no significance to todays date...just a beautiful reminder of the greatness of Ronald Reagan. Obama walks in the shadow of a great man. http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409564/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:22:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408425/posts From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts. These addresses came at a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the Cold War, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. Using modern technology , Palin is using facebook the same way Reagan used Radio and is making an impact on Washington more effectively than anyone else in the opposition. The lethel blow to Obamacare that begin it's slow demise was the Palin penned death panels. In her... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408425/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:08:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407225/posts Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States and out of office for twenty years, still has the landslide support of the American people that helped him win two historic terms in the 1980s.An overlooked poll released last week by Public Policy Polling of over 1200 registered voters showed the Republican icon Reagan was the most popular of the five most recent presidents with 41 percent, impeached Democrat Bill Clinton was a distant second at 27 percent.The current occupant of the Oval Office, Barack Obama, came in third with 22 percent, thanks to a splintering of support from African-Americans.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407225/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:46:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406240/posts The triumph of Reaganism, as represented by the passage of the Kemp-Roth tax cuts in 1981, was a declaration of intellectual independence by conservatives and Republicans who decided to no longer be "tax collectors for the welfare state." Equally, the current battle to defeat plans for a national health insurance program will be a richer victory if conservatives and Republicans not only defeat the proposed legislation, but articulate a vision that rejects the fearful, risk-averse attitude intrinsic to the bills passed by the House and proposed in the Senate. Key to the case for Obamacare have been two notions: that... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406240/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405804/posts George W. Bush's State of the Union address must have baffled anyone who voted for him based on his pledge to cut the size of government. That speech has been properly and efficiently pilloried by Joseph Stromberg, Alan Bock, and others. The speech was both Wilsonian and Clintonian, which is to say that it proposed a political solution for all human problems and backed this idea with a promise of massive increases in federal spending on just about everything. But should we really be so surprised? Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased... Ludwig von Mises Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405804/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404350/posts FP: Andrew Klavan, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I’d like to talk to you today about your journey into and out of the Left. How did you at first become a member of the political faith? Tell us about the beginnings of your intellectual journey. Klavan: Well, I was always a dissatisfied liberal. I just never knew there was anything else to be. I was born Jewish to a mother who worshipped FDR and a father who thought that any Republican victory prefigured the return of Adolf Hitler. That’s not an exaggeration: he thought Republicans were all just Hitler in disguise... Frontpage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404350/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:45:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403568/posts Republicans like to point to Ronald Reagan for inspiration. However, we have to resign ourselves to the fact that Ronald Reagan is dead. Worse, his legacy was killed off by his own party, the same Republicans who say he inspired them. The only lasting legacy to George W. Bush was the nomination of two constructionist judges and a fading response to terrorism. For eight years, we saw GW insist more on getting along than being right. Even the war in Iraq was fought on the cheap, probably out of fear of the cost of waging war, which defies the logic... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403568/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:24:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403289/posts The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has launched iReagan, the official Ronald Reagan app for iPhone and iPod touch users. This FREE app, the first ever for a Presidential Library and for the National Archives, delivers Ronald Reagan right to your fingertips. Content includes: Full-length speeches including his famous Berlin Wall and "Evil Empire SpeechesIconic photos of President Reagan Stunning images and detailed descriptions of the Reagan Library's spectacular annual "Christmas Around the World" exhibit currently on display at the Library Inspirational quotes from "The Great Communicator" Reagan Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403289/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:24:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402620/posts Stanley Fish of the New York Times actually wrote a very very positive review of Sarah Palin’s: Going Rogue An American Life: Sarah Palin is Coming to Town. When I walked into the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan last week, I headed straight for the bright young thing who wore an “Ask Me” button, and asked her to point me to the section of the store where I might find Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” She looked at me as if I had requested a copy of “Mein Kampf” signed in blood by the author, and directed me... Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402620/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 05:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401703/posts "One of the traditional ways of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine" Ronald Reagan Trust me, you'll want to forward this brief clip on to your friends, folks. Narrated by Reagan himself. I miss him so! Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401703/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401700/posts What the Tea Party Movement Means for Conservatives by  Sal Russo 12/01/2009 As I have travelled across the country on the Tea Party Express buses, I have been struck by the similarity to the early days of Ronald Reagan.  The explosion of interest by every-day Americans in taking their country back, as well as the biased mainstream media trying to portray conservatives as crackpots, is all hauntingly familiar.    Will the tea party movement be the beginning of another Reagan Revolution, as I think it will, or will the left-wing media be right that we are nothing but a collection... HumanEvents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401700/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:59:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400499/posts Guest contributor Charlotte Laws says the Salahis may have made headlines by fooling Obama's security guards. But she wrote the book on party crashing. And what's wrong with that, anyway? Been There, Done That: In the mid-1980's, Dr. Laws met U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the annual Walter Annenberg party in Palm Springs, Calif. [Charlotte Laws] Not Guilty! Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400499/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:30:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399472/posts You've loaded up your iPhone with Yelp for restaurants and Shazam for music. Now get ready to download a dose of "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" from a popular political figure of the past: the Gipper. The Ronald Reagan iPhone app, introduced this week, promises to "deliver Ronald Reagan right to your fingertips," offering the speeches, sayings and photos of the "Great Communicator" to a potentially wider and younger audience, thanks to the popular mobile technology. The efforts of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley (Ventura County) mean that five years after his death, Reagan's appearance on... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399472/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:49:45 GMT