BRIAN T. KENNEDY is president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. He has written on national security affairs and California public policy issues in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and other national newspapers. He sits on the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense and is […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Why American conservatism is alive and well in the 21st century. Jeffrey Bell February 7, 2011, The debate about Ronald Reagan has never shown any sign of ending, but it is less and less about whether his presidency was consequential. As has happened with a few other high-impact presidencies—see
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FEBRUARY 10, 2011, 9:41 A.M. ET Reaganomics: What We Learned From December 1982 to June 1990, Reaganomics created over 21 million jobs. The right policies can do it again. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER For 16 years prior to Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the U.S. economy was in a tailspin—a result of bipartisan ignorance that resulted in
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Nile Gardiner Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. The greatest president of the 20th Century: the free world owes Ronald Reagan a huge debt of gratitude By Nile Gardiner World
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FEBRUARY 4, 2011 On his 100th birthday, it’s worth recalling the character and leadership essential to presidential success. By ROBERT MCFARLANEMr. McFarlane served as President Reagan’s national security adviser (1983-85), as President Ford’s special assistant for national security affairs (1976-77), and as military assistant to Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft in the Nixon administration. He
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US NEWS Obama, other presidents should embrace his sunny confidence By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: January 28, 2011 The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Ronald Reagan brings to mind my first revealing encounter with him. It was the result of the 1986 seizure by the Soviet KGB of the Moscow
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January 31, 2011 Who is this Neanderthal, sniffed the journalistic elite. By PAUL KENGOR On Jan. 29, 1981, barely a week into Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the world got a no-nonsense education on how Reagan’s America would differ from that of his predecessor. During the first press conference, ABC’s Sam Donaldson asked the new president about
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JANUARY 20, 2011 When the former B-movie actor took the oath of office on January 20, 1981, he encountered a barrage of intellectual snobbery from Europe. By DAVID DAVIS Today marks the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One wonders how the man who, by sheer force of belief, ended the
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BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times January 3, 2011 FED UP! OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON By Rick Perry Little, Brown and Company, $21.99, 220 pages Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in state history, is a constitutional scholar, a defender of free enterprise, a
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