By: Steven Chabotte | 2010-04-04 | Politics The Great Communicator Ronald Reagan delivered hundreds of speeches during his time in the public eye. Several of those speeches are ranked as some of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. Let's explore a few of these powerful and moving speeches. read more
By: Lance Winslow | 2010-04-04 | Politics US History has given Ronald Reagan a standing ovation and his legacy an A+ in its annals. What made the man, why did people love him, follow him and love every minute of it? Few Presidents have been loved by Hollywood as Ronald Reagan was, of course he was the Screen Actors Guild President and leader of its Union. read more
By: Joseph Malek | 2010-04-04 | Politics A supporter of the agenda of the, "New World Order." One certainly can't blame the late President Ronald (God Bless America) Reagan for all of the problems that the majority of the Citizens of the United States of America have today, or can one? Try has I have, I cannot think of one good thing he did that made life better. It seems that his sole reason for being President was to fight Commies and finish what Richard Nixon started without any additional constraints on Big Business. read more
By: Lance Winslow | 2010-03-31 | Politics Before 1965 it appears that the United States public trust in the government was quite a bit higher than it is today. As time has gone on the government has been less and less trusted for some reason. Many Democrats blame the Republicans. Further, they charge that it was the Ronald Reagan era that publicized the ineptness of government that started this downward spiral. But is that really the case? read more
By: Lance Winslow | 2010-04-04 | Politics A Gentleman by the Name of Hayes, wrote an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal stating that Ronald Reagan's rhetoric was underestimated by the Democrats and that is party why he won and that Obama is being underestimated now by the Republicans in the same way. I beg to differ, and will go toe-to-toe with anyone who wishes to join with Mr. Hayes to debate me on this topic, as he will need all the help he can get. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics When this rhetoric was followed by a threatened invasion of Nicaragua and an actual invasion of Grenada, North Atlantic affairs were in disarray. His foreign policies were defined by the tremendous antipathy towards the Soviet Union which he referred to as the 'evil empire'. Reagan presided over a huge military build-up, spending over 2 trillion dollars on the strengthening of the armed forces. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics His entry into politics occurred when he made a televised speech in support of Barry Goldwater's bid for the Presidential nomination in 1964. In 1966, Reagan beat Pat Brown to become Governor of California, his electoral manifesto had included imposing ten per cent pay cuts, 'to send welfare bums back to work' and to quell the anti-war and anti-establishment student protests at Berkeley. However, once in office he found that he had to compromise his ideals - taxes actually increased, he had to accept an increase in abortion rights and he increased spending on higher education. read more
By: Gianni Truvianni | 2011-02-22 | Commentary An article to commemorate Ronald Reagan. It being in an honor of what would have been his 100th birthday (on the 6th February of the present year) that I chose to write this article along with my wishes to express my thanks for his having put an end to the cold war. read more
By: Gloria H Schneider | 2011-04-11 | Health & Fitness On Monday, March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency, a mentally disturbed John Hinckley, Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in a presidential assassination attempt. Reagan suffe... read more
By: Lee Edwards, Ph.D. | 2010-04-04 | Politics Long before he became President of the United States, Ronald Reagan was seeking out ways to end the threat of nuclear attack on the U.S. Find out the history behind SDI and why Regan was so passionate about it. read more
By: Paul Fitts | 2010-04-04 | Politics We need a leader who will see our current War on Terrorism to a conclusion and a victory, we need a leader who will make sure that illegal drugs and substances are not tax-payer funded, so they'll make it necessary for all government employees (from the President to the street sweeper) to be drug screened on a regular basis. We need a leader to punish the guilty and protect the unborn. We need another Ronald Reagan. read more
By: Larry D Miller | 2010-04-03 | Politics In 1966, while running for Governor in California, Ronald Reagan's formulated what has come to be known as the Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." This was in response to the trash talk about conservative 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater by so-called moderate Republicans. In general is was a pretty useful and workable rule at the time. However today it seems to only work in one direction as we have seen in the uncivil treatment received by Ron Paul and others at the conservative/libertarian end of the spectrum. While conservatives have gotten used to the being ostracized and having lies and half truths told about them, the more moderate members of the party seem to have much thinner skin. read more
By: Ritika | 2011-01-18 | Health & Fitness In what can be termed as a startling revelation by Ronald Reagan's son, former American president had Alzheimer's disease when he was in power. read more
By: AJ Herman | 2010-03-18 | Humor The two decided to donate the extra money that they had saved up for that special dinner to a family that just needed a dinner. The two just couldn’t enjoy a forty dollar steak knowing that a neighbor of theirs couldn’t even afford the pound of ground beef to put into a box of Hamburger Helper. read more