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When does respect for an economic theory become fanaticism? For an answer, check out Paul Krugman's increasingly desperate attempts to defend Keynesian economics against its obvious failures. The New York Times columnist doesn't claim publicly to be a religious man, but he sure acts like it when it comes to his beloved John Maynard Keynes. Any evidence that Keynesianism doesn't work must be wiped away, even if it means conjuring up mythical numbers to do so. Case in point is Krugman's latest campaign to argue that President Obama has been an austerity-driven tightwad. At the same time, Krugman says President...

There is an economic fault line running throughout America and the world which today’s economic gurus seem unable to explain or remedy: the widening wealth and income gap between a tiny rich elite and multitudes of poor in every country (including the United States), and between developed and developing nations. ... Access to capital ownership, asserted economist Kelso, Reagan's friend, is as fundamental a human right as the right to the fruits of one’s labor. Furthermore, Kelso argued, the democratization of capital credit is the "social key" to universalizing access to future ownership of productive wealth, so that every person,...

Ronald Reagan's church put this together to commemorate the birthday of Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately the war against the evil of liberalism is still alive and well, and we fight it even at Bel Air Presbyterian. The liberal Presbyterians are doing all they can to pervert the church from the inside out. Fortunately the conservative Christians are strong at Bel Air. Ronald Reagan loved Bel Air Presbyterian as I do...Enjoy!

The widow of President Ronald Reagan says she is firmly behind Romney. And she says that her "Ronnie" would have liked Romney's business background and what she calls his "strong principles." In a statement issued after the Romneys' visit, Mrs. Reagan said she believes that Romney has the experience and leadership skills that, in her words, "our country so desperately needs."

American Mosaic: Last Best Hope on Earth or a thousand Years of Darkness. The verdict will soon be decided. Video montage starring Occupy Wall Street degenerates, Ronald Reagan, Whitney Houston & Billy Graham, Jerry Springer and Billy Graham...

Nearby today readers will notice excerpts from a memo written to Ronald Reagan by his economic advisers between his November 1980 election and inauguration. We share the memo because it shines a historical perspective on our own economic dilemmas as the Presidential race hits its Memorial Day turn. The memo was sent to us by George Shultz, who later became the Gipper's Secretary of State but had served previous stints at Treasury, Labor and the White House budget office. The signers include some of the last century's most consequential economic figures, notably the great Milton Friedman, tax-cut evangelist Jack Kemp...

A great Commander-in-chief.

Ronald Reagan's church put this together to commemorate the birthday of Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately the war against the evil of liberalism is still alive and well, and we fight it even at Bel Air Presbyterian. The liberal Presbyterians are doing all they can to pervert the church from the inside out.

Barack Obama is one of history's three greatest political leaders with Irish ancestry, according to an international poll. John F Kennedy, however, is voted the greatest such leader, ahead of Ronald Reagan second and Obama third, in an online poll of over 4,000 Americans and Britons conducted by YouGov for the genealogy site findmypast.com and its Irish partner, findmypast.ie. Che Guevara, the Latin American revolutionary who also had Irish roots, ranks fourth. "The most surprising people turn out to have Irish ancestry," says Cliona Weldon, spokesperson for findmypast.ie, which marks its first birthday this month. The findmypast poll asked respondents...

The bids are lofty for a vial that once held Ronald Reagan’s blood, now up for grabs at an online British auction house. At the moment, the leading bid is $5,081 for a 5-inch glass vial with “dried blood residue from President Reagan,” drawn from him at George Washington University Hospital after a 1981 assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.

This video is the quintessential 2012 campaign speech. If every Republican, from Romney to dog catcher, would use this video as their primary campaign ad, they would win in a landslide. Reagan's principles are conservative principles. His, and ours, will live forever as long as everyone is educated about basic conservative ideas. The video is on you tube here: Ronald Reagan's 2012 Address Speech - "We Can Overcome The Injuries Done By Obama!" View it and pass it on!

An amusing letter from former President Ronald Reagan in response to a 13-year-old boy's request for disaster relief funds to clean up his room is making the rounds again on social media, thanks to a blog writer. Shaun Usher of Letters of Note tweeted the classic correspondence. Seventh-grader Andy Smith from Irmo, South Carolina, wrote Reagan in 1984: "Today my mother declared my bedroom a disaster area. I would like to request federal funds to hire a crew to clean up my room."...

Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 06:15 PM Starring Ronald Reagan, Pat O'Brien, and Gale Page Coach Rockne leads Notre Dame to gridiron greatness with star player George "The Gipper" Gipp. 1940/Biography tcm.com

Nobody can accuse Big Guy of not aspiring to be the best he can be. Remember how many times Big Guy told us “We can’t wait”? Well, as it turns out, he’s not going to. Not content with just being the nation’s first authentically half-black and all-gay president, he decided he can’t wait for future historians to write him into the history books so he went ahead and had some of his greatest hits entered into the existing Big White historical book of Presidential Biographies. Seriously, you can’t even buy propaganda historical perspective like this, butt apparently you can write...

We have begun development of a TV series based on my "Patriot's History of the United States." Here is the "vision trailer" that gives a taste of the entire series. http://vimeo.com/40949423 password: rockin Long way to go, lots of funding to raise, and so far, I have to say, we have not received anything but good wishes from ANY of the conservative organizations (who shall remain nameless :) If you're interested in helping, please Freepmail me.

...But under a bill introduced earlier this year by Republican legislators in the Democratic-controlled Assembly, President Ronald Reagan, the nation’s 40th president, would be the second. "President Reagan is honored in many other ways in other states. He did a fine job, whether you like everything he did or not," said Assemblyman Gary Chiusano (R-Sussex), a co-sponsor of a bill that would designate Route 15, a 19.5-mile state highway in northwest New Jersey, as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway.

The Republican Party has drifted so far to the right and become so partisan in recent years that President Ronald Reagan wouldn't even want to be a part of it, former Nebraska GOP senator Chuck Hagel told The Cable. "Reagan would be stunned by the party today," Hagel said in a long interview in his office at Georgetown University, where he now teaches. He also serves as co-chair of President Barack Obama's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Reagan wanted to do away with nuclear weapons, raised taxes, made deals with congressional Democrats, sought compromises and consensus to fix problems, and surrounded...

It should come as no surprise that the Republican National Committee has been “covertly” supporting Mitt Romney throughout the primaries, as POLITICO recently “revealed.” It was the worst-kept secret in Washington Reagan, the über outsider, called for a “new Republican Party” back in 1977. Reagan wanted the GOP to shed its country club, corporate boardroom image and become a genuine conservative movement, focused on the individual. Reagan’s words threatened the status quo of the scions and heiresses of the country club and corporate boardroom set. The former California governor and his conservative followers were never accepted by these insiders [...]...

Were Ronald Reagan in office today, some Republicans would "start looking for a 'real' conservative to challenge him in a primary," Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote in an op-ed published Saturday evening. "What's important is our shared belief in the broad Republican principles of free enterprise and small government," he said in the op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times. "If we continue to fight one another without being willing to compromise, we will keep losing to big-government advocates."

Tuesday May 8, 2012 at 4:30 AM Starring Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, The Dead End Kids Drama/1939 A street gang helps the district attorney's son prove his girlfriend's brother innocent of arson. tcm.com