Ronald Reagan

WASHINGTON -- I am engaged in reading a very fine book by my colleague, Paul Kengor. It was written six years ago, so do not feel bad if you missed it. You still have time. It is called “A Pope and a President.” It covers the lives of John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, and, as its coverage is chronological, I just read its treatment of the assassination of President John Kennedy. This will be the…

Behind the refusal of the House Republican Party’s so-called freedom caucus to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the caucus’s skepticism that he will actually “rein in government spending.” I’ve never quite understood why all Republicans do not belong to the Freedom Caucus. If the Republican Party supports low taxes, light regulations and strong national security, why is a Freedom…

When it comes to the election to be Speaker of the House, nobody is safe from the late night liberals. If you support Kevin McCarthy they relish in your failure, if you oppose Kevin McCarthy they will denounce you as an extremist, and if you’re Ronald Reagan and have been dead for nearly 20 years, CBS Late Night host Stephen Colbert will take the opportunity to suggest you are in hell…

During the last presidency, CNN hosts like Don Lemon routinely insisted Donald Trump was mentally unfit for office, and then would compare him to a six-year-old. On Monday's CNN This Morning, Lemon greeted Joe Biden's 80th birthday by lamenting anyone who…

Netflix is paying Barack and Michelle Obama millions of dollars to produce shows for them. The latest Obama documentary series is “The G Word.” “G” for government. As Netflix documentaries go, this one is remarkably stupid. It’s big-government propaganda. Obama begins by claiming that he does his own income taxes, saying, “It’s actually easy.” I think he’s joking, but it’s not clear.

The University of California, Berkeley is known for many things, some good and some very bad, even outrageous. In 1964, a ban on campus political and religious activities launched what was called the free speech and academic freedom movement that quickly spread to other campuses. To many of an older generation, it quickly got out of hand.

The New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman’s so-called “rules” for Bidenomics that he preached just days before President Joe Biden took office aged like spoiled milk.

Political humorist and satirist Andy Borowitz joined Walter Isaacson on Friday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss his new book Profiles in Ignorance which purports to report on the country’s growing anti-intellectualism. However, Borowitz’s segment prove the book is actually just an anti-Republican screed as he blames the problem on Ronald Reagan and defends Democrats…

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at a recent event with a liberal audience, praised Justice Clarence Thomas, her ideological adversary. Sotomayor said, “He is a man who cares deeply about the court as an institution.” She added that while the two often disagree over judicial decisions, “We share a common understanding about people and kindness towards them.”

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and former Obama car czar Steve Rattner offer surprising praise for Margaret Thatcher, saying her tough economic policies saved Britain from "becoming France."

During all the tributes and stories on the death of Queen Elizabeth II, many media outlets — somewhat surprisingly — fondly commented on the enduring and close friendship between Ronald Reagan and the Queen, calling the conservative icon “the best,” the man who “got the relationship right” and was Elizabeth’s “favorite.” 

MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross lamented on her Saturday show that President Biden was not hard enough on Republicans during his Thursday speech. With LaTosha Brown of Black Voters Matter, Cross expressed dismay that Ronald Reagan and the GOP “of the 1970s, the 60s, the 50s” was not included in Biden’s denunciation because such references are necessary to overcome racism.

With Mikhail Gorbachev dying earlier in the week, Walter Isaacson wondered on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS, how the fall of the Soviet Union has impacted conservatism. To get his answer, he turned to author Nicole Hemmer who claimed that conservatives are attempting “to attract voters through racism.”

The New York Times continued to overpraise the Soviet Union’s last ruler, Mikhail Gorbachev, upon his death in Moscow at 91, with an 8,000-word front-page tribute from obituary writer Marilyn Berger. The print edition front-page banner headline read “Visionary Soviet Leader Who Lifted the Iron Curtain” over a photo of Russia’s last dictator. As NewsBusters’ Rich Noyes wrote: “It’s…