“Oh, the Humanity!” So went the famous phrase shouted by Chicago’s WLS Radio announcer Herb Morrison as he witnessed the Hindenburg crash and burn in Lakehurst, N.J. on May 6, 1937. Though the death of three-dozen Germans and Americans in the fiery explosion 75 years ago is a far cry …
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The midterm elections are just three weeks away, yet both the Democrats and the Republicans have failed to articulate clear, coherent policies that address our country’s problems in a sensible and intelligent way. Thus far, the Democrats have bashed Republicans for failing to come up with new ideas, and warned …
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President Obama’s news conference Friday on jobs and the economy offered the American public nothing new. He blamed the Congress and Republicans specifically for our woes. The president’s remarks on the economy and Congress echo President Truman’s on the ‘Do-Nothing’ Republican Congress. On the surface, the two are in very …
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Today my take is about the Trump factor. But does anyone really know what it even is? Is it his fame as a celebrity — Ala ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ — that’s driving his rise in the polls? Or is it his tough talk on the issues that apparently a lot of …
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When my old boss Ronald Reagan gave the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984, the tradition was for the president to give the first salute only to the top 100 graduates. Reagan decided to break with tradition and saluted every single graduate, nearly 1,000 of them, …
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It’s showdown time on Benghazi: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has put a hold on all Obama administration executive branch nominees until the White House lets the Benghazi survivors testify before Congress. If he succeeds, we might finally find out what happened September 11, 2012. But if Senator Graham’s effort …
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The way people currently perceive America provides a very important backdrop to the upcoming GOP debates. Interesting to note that although we are not in any kind of a major crisis right now — a recession or major war — the majority of Americans consistently say they don’t see America …
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Historian Douglas Brinkley told CBS that although President Obama worries about facing a Republican Congress, his biggest hurdle is the Supreme Court. A ruling that guts ObamaCare would ruin the president’s legacy because, Brinkley says, Obama can’t veto the court. Dont bet on that. If Dear Leader doesn’t need a …
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Raphael Lemkin was a Jewish lawyer, scholar, and refugee who gave the world a vocabulary for one of humanity’s greatest evils. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, in which nearly 50 members of his family were murdered, he coined the very word genocide to describe the Nazi attempt to …
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Monday marksthe100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth – an occasion that brings together leadersandsupporters from acrosstheAtlantic to pay tribute to her life. We attheRonaldReaganPresidentialFoundation&Instituteare honored to participate inthecelebration, an occasion that also invites us to reflect on her legacyandconnection withRonaldReaganinthecontext of our modern era. Namely, what made her partnership with …
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