Ronald Reagan

The Shorter New Yorker

Fun free stuff from The New Yorker this week: Jack “Deep Thoughts” [from SNL] Handey plots the perfect bank robbery. What could possibly go wrong?: The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen:.. —Most...

Pro-Abortion Religious Groups Lobby Obama

"Especially abhorrent is RCRC's advocacy of government funding for unrestricted abortions. This mindset illustrates how RCRC and its member denominational agencies are morally vapid and divorced from traditional Christian and...

Why Obama Will Continue Star Wars

Missile-defense skeptics yearning for a fresh look at the wisdom of pumping $10 billion annually into missile defense aren't going to get it from Barack Obama when he moves into the Oval Office. Even in a Democratic-run...

Just A Little Bit to the Right

In writing about the House Republican leadership contest for the main site, I was reminded of the 1998 gubernatorial primary between Paul Cellucci and Joe Malone in Massachusetts. The two Republican statewide elected officials...

Barack Obama’s Change Administration Full of Old Faces

There are two models for staffing the administration of a new president who rode promises of change to an electoral victory. Over the past 36 years, Democrats and Republicans alike have come to Washington promising to change...

Jack Colwell: Mitch is No Hot Chick

By JACK COLWELL SOUTH BEND - If John McCain really wanted a running mate qualified to serve a heartbeat away, ready to step in as president, he should have picked a different Republican governor, Indiana’s Mitch Daniels instead...

E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Which GOP Will Obama Face?

There is a second transition underway over which President-elect Barack Obama has no control -- the transition of conservatives to minority status. How they do this will have a powerful impact on the new presidency.

Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech...

Bret Stephens: 'No Excuses' for Liberals

"I make no excuses, I only wear them." Too bad the brand is long gone, since we're at yet another No Excuses moment in American politics. With the election of Barack Obama and huge Democratic majorities in Congress, liberals...

Carrier Ronald Reagan stops at Pearl Harbor

The USS Ronald Reagan, on its way back from a six-month deployment to the Middle East, made a stop today at Pearl Harbor on its way to its homeport in San Diego, Calif. During the deployment, the Ronald Reagan and its Carrier...