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GOP Chairman Michael Steele thinks Republicans have "screwed up" for the most part in the years since Ronald Reagan was president. And, he adds in an interview on the heels of his new book's release, Republicans won't win back the House in fall elections and might not be ready to lead even if they do. Complete Story...
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the GOP all too often lost touch with typical Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: "We screwed up," he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party's resurgence.
William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died. He was 95.
A distressed economy is widely blamed for President George H.W. Bush's re-election defeat in 1992, and a decade earlier, for the loss of 26 House seats in midterm elections by Ronald Reagan's Republicans. Yet in both instances recession had already ended or was winding down.
- The Beltway consensus, aka the conventional wisdom, has turned on President Barack Obama.
Ever since President Ronald Reagan proposed building a ballistic missile shield in 1983 to prevent a doomsday scenario, the idea has been dogged by an unanswered question: Will it work?
The documentary has moments of impact but doesn't have the focus that "Sicko" had and doesn't work when Moore pulls out his "Roger & Me" shtick.
Controversy over President Barack Obama’s address to children recalls a similar uproar over President George H.W. Bush’s appeal in 1991 for kids to send him ideas and reminds Americans that Bush and President Ronald Reagan made multiple such speeches.
John Carney was born the same year the Beatles played their first concert in the United States. He kicked his first NFL field goal when Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
John Hinckley, who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan nearly three decades ago, is being allowed by a federal judge to spend more time away from his psychiatric hospital and apply for a driver's license.
This time, Ronald Reagan really was larger than life.
Nancy Reagan watched with delight as a bronze statue of former President Ronald Reagan was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol.
President Barack Obama is reaching out to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims with a speech in Egypt.
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is being honored with a statue in central London.
A statue of former President Ronald Reagan will be unveiled June 3 as California swaps one notable speaker for another as part of a collection in the U.S. Capitol.
President Barack Obama's startling call Friday for a "world without nuclear weapons" brings to mind Ronald Reagan's idealistic, unfulfilled dream of eliminating the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Jimmy Carter came to Notre Dame in 1977. So did Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George W. Bush in 2001.
President Barack Obama heads to California today, where he will preside over a couple of town hall-style meetings and become the first incumbent chief executive to appear on "The Tonight Show." The visit comes at a time when California is being hit hard economically.
CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta won't be the next surgeon general, the Obama administration confirmed Thursday.
- Pundits are declaring Barack Obama’s speech to Congress was “Reaganesque” in style and tone.
The public face of the probe into the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 is a 62-year-old former Air Force fighter pilot and stunt flyer deemed so trustworthy he once carried the nuclear codes for President Ronald Reagan.
Nearly 38 million Americans watched inauguration coverage of President Barack Obama on Tuesday, the most popular inauguration day on television since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.
Looking beyond expected House approval of his $825 billion economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama said Wednesday the nation is at a "perilous moment" requiring swift and decisive action.
The National Archives and Records Administration is responsible for preserving all presidential records under a federal law passed in 1978. Before that, all presidents got to keep any of their White House records for themselves, but since President Ronald Reagan they have been publicly owned.
Democrat Barack Obama moved from defense to offense Thursday as he characterized Republican John McCain's approach to taxes as nothing more than "putting corporations ahead of workers."
President Obama: I'm Getting 95% of What I Want on Reform in Health Care BillJIM LEHRER: Mr. President, welcome. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you so much for having me.
Dateline NBC: About us'Dateline NBC,' the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime, premiered in 1992. Since then, it has been pioneering a new approach to primetime news programming.
Zombie Reagan raised from grave to lead GOP (Video)"When he moans at them, they're going to listen!"
Sarah Palin's Reagan QualitiesSarah Palin has taken the country by storm, electrifying the grassroots conservative movement in a way no Republican presidential or vice-presidential candidate has been able to in a very long time.
Reagan Still Points the Way for Republicanswe combined conservatives, libertarians, and independents, all inside a big Republican tent before --and we can do it again. Today, conservatives and Republicans--not always one and the same, as we have seen recently in New York State--are feeling rightfully emboldened.
Palin and the futureA generation ago liberals taught me to believe that Ronald Reagan was an extremist and a lightweight. Then I went to a Republican caucus in 1980 as a Bush supporter and met the Reagan supporters.
Reagan Never Went RogueAs Sarah Palin embarks on a publicity tour for her book, conservative commentators have again taken to likening the former Alaska governor to the GOP's revered conservative icon Ronald Reagan. Palin, like Reagan, brands herself as an articulate conservative.
RNC Web Site Pays Tribute To Ronaldus MagnusThe new Republican National Committee Web site has been derided for its "GOP Heroes" section -- which teaches us that almost all of the great Republicans lived in the 1800's, and about half of them were black -- but there's another illustrious name on the list: Ronaldus Magnus.
The Truth About the Republican Messiah, Ronaldus MagnusCan you imagine how the right-wing noise machine would react if President Obama: Increased federal spending as a percentage of the economy to levels previously seen only during World War II.Tripled the national debt.Dramatically increased Social Security payroll taxes on employee …
Right Time---Right PlaceThe most interesting person I met at the Tea Party Express Rally in Orlando, Florida.
Liberals are Very Small, Mean People How do you mark the Berlin Wall coming down without including Reagan?
World Freedom Day 2009 - 20th Anniversary of Reagan's achievementI wish I'd posted this the day before yesterday - on World Freedom Day... Americans for Tax Reform is an organization that has been especially successful, in promoting the Reagan Legacy. Please check out this link, from ATR. Celebrate VICTORY over communism!!
The Myth of the Berlin Wall's Fall: Reagan's RoleThe Berlin Wall, toppled 20 years ago today, was brought down by Ronald Reagan's hawkish stand, right? Peter Beinart explodes conventional wisdom—crediting Reagan's dovish side instead...
The Victory of the Cross by Newt Gingrich, Callista Gingrich, and Vince Haley As we remember in gratitude the demise of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of Soviet Communism, let us also remember that when human freedom and dignity were under assault during the Cold War, Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan were in agreement that the spiritual nature …
Note: It is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ronald Reagan: 0 Nobel Peace Prizes President Obama: 1 Nobel Peace Prize The Politics Of Healthcare Supersedes The Security Of The Country
Was Ronald Reagan an Even Worse President Than George W. Bush?There's been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase "Worst President Ever," though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition...
It was a good election night for Republicans/conservatives, and an bad one for Obama and the Democrats. Here is the definitive analysis:
The "Big Tent" GOP of Ronald Reagan seems in danger. Reagan's rule of not speaking against a fellow Republican was thoroughly rejected in the 2008 races as candidates sought to distance themselves fron the Bush-Cheney years.
If the men in 1998, would have listened and not discounted her as a mixed up Woman, Brooksley Born may have spared us the 2008 recession or at least limited its depths.
Perry-Hutchison fight may cause major fallout in GOPTexas Democrats watching the state's top two Republicans fight for their party's gubernatorial nomination are glad that Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen.
Sean Hannity on Nobel Peace Prize: "Frankly, I would've given it to George Bush."HANNITY: [Yasser Arafat] got the Nobel peace prize. Excuse me, a terrorist got the Nobel peace prize. Some people deservedly so. You know who else deserved it? Ronald Reagan. And frankly, I would've given it to George Bush.
Chip Reid Concern Trolls WH Briefing on Obama's Nobel Prize; Worries That Prize Is "Partisan" and "Liberal"excerpt: "" When news came that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I looked at my husband and said, "just watch, the wingnuts will lose it over this." And sure enough, I was right.
It has become such a cliche' that it has become a standing joke.
Reagan and Obama by Jean Kaufman Is America a city on a hill or a country in decline? Ronald Reagan spoke of the American Exceptionalism and inspired us all. Obama believes in Obama's exceptionalism. Obama and his fellow leftist reframed American Exceptionalism to American tyranny.
Rebooting American Foreign Policy It has been a bad decade for America's foreign-policy and intelligence establishment. We've seen a devastating terrorist attack in America's largest city, followed by two protracted wars fraught with strategic missteps.
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