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Bill Clinton: I Lifted ‘100 Times as Many’ People out of Poverty as Ronald Reagan

Posted on September 25, 2014 | Comments Off

Former President Bill Clinton declared on Sunday that his economic policies dwarfed those of former President Ronald Reagan.

“When I was president, I’ve told you this before–one of the things I was most proud of is we moved 100 times as many people from poverty into the middle class as moved under President Reagan…And everybody else in the middle did better than they did in the Reagan years,” Clinton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

Clinton’s comments mirror those his wife, Hillary Clinton, made in July on PBS.

“If I just were to compare Reagan’s eight years with Bill’s eight years, it’s like night and day in terms of the effects,” said Hillary Clinton. “The number of jobs that we created, the number of people lifted out of poverty, a hundred times more when Bill was president.”

Politifact rated Hillary Clinton’s statement as “false.”

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Ronald Reagan – 1950s Crusade for Freedom Commercial

Posted on July 17, 2014 | Leave a comment

“The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.” – Unknown

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Ronald Reagan on Communism in Hollywood (Video)

Posted on July 17, 2014 | Leave a comment

As president of the Screen Actor’s Guild, Reagan battled studios, producers and communists.

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Ted Cruz, Invoking Reagan, Angers GOP Colleagues but Wins Fans Elsewhere

Posted on April 20, 2014 | Leave a comment

Texas Senator Is a Tea-Party Favorite.

Rushing to an afternoon vote last month, Sen. Ted Cruz hopped the underground tram to the U.S. Capitol from his office across the street.

The Texan planted his black ostrich cowboy boots in the middle of the small subway car without getting so much as a nod from the other senators—Republican or Democrat—amiably chatting or huddled in their seats.

Mr. Cruz finds himself standing alone a lot these days. His response to the cold shoulders: “The establishment despised Ronald Reagan” before he became president, “but the people loved him.”

For the 43-year-old Republican, the Reagan name illuminates his political life’s fundamental dichotomy: Many senators from his own party mistrust and dislike him, but many conservatives elsewhere worship him.

He lives that contrast daily. Moving into the vast congressional hallway that afternoon, he attracted a burst of adulation from tourists. “Ted Cruz, I love you!” shouted a Massachusetts father, William Harvey, there with his young daughter. “President Cruz in 2016!”

Mr. Cruz’s quest to position himself as a latter-day Reagan has led him to defy his party’s elders on handling issues such as debt and health care, and to become the national face of last fall’s government shutdown. His methods have led political rivals to brand him as an extremist and made him the target of talk-show lampoonings.

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What would Reagan do? by Pat Buchanan

Posted on April 13, 2014 | Leave a comment

Pat Buchanan speculates about Gipper’s response to today’s foreign-policy challenges.

President Reagan was holding a meeting in the Cabinet Room on March 25, 1985, when Press Secretary Larry Speakes came over to me, as communications director, with a concern.

The White House was about to issue a statement on the killing of Maj. Arthur Nicholson, a U.S. Army officer serving in East Germany. Maj. Nicholson had been shot in cold blood by a Russian soldier.

Speakes thought the president’s statement, “This violence was unjustified,” was weak. I agreed. We interrupted the president, who reread the statement, then said go ahead with it.

What lay behind this Reagan decision not to express his own and his nation’s disgust and anger at this atrocity?

Since taking office, Reagan had sought to engage Soviet leaders in negotiations, but, as he told me, “they keep dying on me.”

Two weeks earlier, on March 10, 1985, Konstantin Chernenko, the third Soviet premier in Reagan’s term, had died, and the youngest member of the Politburo, Mikhail Gorbachev, had been named to succeed him.

Believing Gorbachev had no role in the murder of Maj. Nicholson, and seeking a summit with the new Soviet leader to ease Cold War tensions, Reagan decided not to express what must have been in his heart.

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Complete Classic Movie: Juke Girl (1942)

Posted on March 19, 2014 | Leave a comment

Stars: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale, Willie Best. Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.

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Reagan Biographer Craig Shirley: GOP Resembles a Crime Family

Posted on February 24, 2014 | Leave a comment

And the pattern is this: It doesn’t matter which establishment Party is in power; the progressive inside “leaders” work together to grow government and make themselves and their friends rich in the process.

Yesterday our old friend Craig Shirley, chronicler of Ronald Reagan’s five-decade war of ideas against liberalism and communism, defined the national Republican Party this way in an interview with Brietbart’s Michael Patrick Leahy: “The Washington Republican party is no longer a political party in the way we understand political parties. It more resembles a crime family than a movement of ideas.”

Shirley was commenting on the charge that the reason Congress has not gotten to the bottom of the IRS targeting of conservatives and Tea Party movement groups is because the establishment GOP wants the IRS to hobble these groups just as much or more than do the Democrats.

The notion that the Republican Party leadership is slow-walking the investigation of the IRS was first raised publicly by Democratic pollster and Fox News regular Pat Caddell.

“The establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties,” Caddell told Fox News on Sunday.

“When you have 71 percent who want an investigation, 64 percent who believe that it is a sign of corruption including nearly a majority of Democrats,” Caddell said, “the reason is the establishment Republicans want the IRS to go after the Tea Parties. Got it?”

According to Breitbart’s Leahy, Caddell said the GOP establishment is happy to have the IRS take the Tea Party down a notch.

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Reagan Was Right on South Africa by Pat Buchanan

Posted on December 12, 2013 | Leave a comment

“Are we truly helping the black people of South Africa — the lifelong victims of apartheid,” said Reagan in his veto, “when we throw them out of work and leave them and their families jobless and hungry in those segregated townships? Or are we simply assuming a moral posture at the expense of the people in whose name we presume to act?”

“Apartheid is an affront to human rights and human dignity. Normal and friendly relations cannot exist between the United States and South Africa until it becomes a dead policy. Americans are of one mind and one heart on this issue.”

So said Ronald Reagan in his 1986 message to Congress vetoing the “sweeping and punitive sanctions” Congress was seeking to impose.

Reagan equated the sanctions to “declaring economic warfare on the people of South Africa.”

His Treasury Secretary James Baker said Sunday that Reagan likely regretted this veto. But having worked with the president on his veto message and address on South Africa, I never heard a word of regret.

Nor should there have been any.

For in declaring, “we must stay and build not cut and run” from South Africa, Reagan, whose first duty was the defense of his nation in the Cold War with the Soviet empire, saw not only the moral issue but the strategic imperative.

In 1986, there were 40,000 Cuban troops in Angola, where South Africa was a fighting ally and backer of anti-Communist Jonas Savimbi.

In Zimbabwe, Robert “Comrade Bob” Mugabe, having butchered thousands of Ndebele of rival Joshua Nkomo, was communizing his country. Southwest Africa and Mozambique hung in the balance.

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Vandals torch statue of Ronald Reagan at famous California sports park

Posted on September 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

“The folks in a rather small town, Temecula …. got together and built themselves a sports park, held fund-raising barbecues and dinners,” Reagan said. “And those that didn’t have money, volunteered the time and energy. And now the young people of that community have baseball diamonds for Little League and other sports events, just due to what’s traditional Americanism.”

Vandals torched a bronze, life-size statue of Ronald Reagan in an apparent arson fire in a Southern California sports park named after the 40th president, The Press-Enterprise reported.

The 1-year-old statue was set ablaze at the Ronald Reagan Sports Park in Temecula, Calif. — a park Reagan praised in the early 1980s because it was built through volunteerism and fundraising and not through government handouts. The statue shows the former president in casual clothing, holding a shovel in one hand and a cowboy hat in another. The suspected arson was discovered around 7 a.m. Friday by a park worker.

“It’s an insult to the president as well as to the community,” Perry Peters, founder of the nonprofit Friends of Ronald Reagan Sports Park, told the newspaper.

Authorities have not yet identified a suspect or a motive, according to the newspaper.

While the blackened statue still stands, the heat from the fire reportedly destroyed tiles from the decorative wall behind it.

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The General George S. Patton Story (Documentary)

Posted on September 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

A remarkable and informative biography comes to the screen in “The General Patton Story” as narrated by Ronald Reagan and produced by the Army Pictorial Center. Here is a story of a soldier who lived for action and glory and reached the heights in serving his country.