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Morning Bell: Today Is Your Day—Vote, America
In urging the delegates to a New York convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788, Alexander Hamilton emphasized the principal strength of the new… Read More
Morning Bell: The Next President and the Supreme Court
Every vote counts. And this year, it could count double. One vote could decide both the immediate election and the course of constitutional law for… Read More
FEMA Disaster Website Suddenly Less Transparent
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been out of control in its disaster declarations, and the Obama Administration has issued more of these than… Read More
Echoes of 1980
For those old enough to remember 1980, the current campaign can seem mighty familiar. Back then, for example, the presidency of Jimmy Carter was besieged… Read More
Eisenhower, Goldwater, and Reagan on GOP Foreign Policy
In an election year dominated by worries about jobs and the economy, it’s easy to forget that the president’s major constitutional concern is supposed to… Read More
VIDEO: Ed Meese Is Optimistic About America’s Future
Edwin Meese III was one of President Ronald Reagan’s most trusted confidants, serving the conservative icon during his governorship of California and his presidency in… Read More
Fareed Zakaria’s Poverty of Ideas
Globe-trotting journalist Fareed Zakaria is on suspension from his posts at CNN and TIME magazine after he admitted to plagiarizing sections of a column on… Read More
Reagan 32 Years Ago Today: Tax Cuts, Defense and Energy Policy (VIDEO)
Many campaign slogans and speeches read more like museum pieces than modern calls to action. But Ronald Reagan’s 1980 acceptance speech to the Republican National… Read More
Mirroring Political Greatness
It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day attacks of a political campaign: Which candidate is mean to dogs versus which candidate has eaten… Read More
The Culmination of Reagan’s Foreign Policy: “Tear Down This Wall!”
Twenty-five years ago today, President Ronald Reagan stood in West Berlin on a temporarily erected platform. The gray buildings of Soviet-dominated East Berlin were visible… Read More
