Ronald Reagan Passes Into History
Sat June 5th, 2004 17:41 MSTRonald Reagan finally slipped into history today. One of the greatest human beings to hold the office of President of the United States is no longer with us. This is a sad day, and the freedom loving peoples of the world should mourn his loss.
History will show Reagan as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. He was a great yet humble American who made his way from a radio sports announcer to an actor to a governor to probably the most significant president of the 20th century.
More people achieved freedom as a result of Ronald Reagan’s actions than ever before in history.
Farewell, Gipper
Let the mudslinging begin…
The left has lost little time in beginning their smearing of Reagan.CNN: Reagan will be remembered for his action against the air traffic controller’s unionReagan not only fired the controllers but also refused to negotiate with the union while it…
Well I have to say that this is one of the saddest weekends I’ve had in a long time, the passing of a great president and remembering those who gave their lives on the beaches of France June 6, 1944. Neither President Reagan nor those brave young men will ever be forgotten.
I will always remember President Reagan with great respect and admiration and IMO, there was not a single president in the 20th Century who even came close to his greatness. Even though I was a teenager in the ‘80s who was brainwashed by the liberal media and parents with the “Republican’s are for the rich” mindset. I will remember the release of the hostages in Iran. His speech where he said to the Russian President, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”! I will always remember when he took the bombs straight to Muammar Gaddafi and Libya in response to their terrorist acts against Americans. I will always remember a president who took a strong stand for religious liberty by signing into law a bill that permitted religious meetings in public schools in 1984. Despite liberal challenges, the Supreme Court upheld the law in 1990. I will always remember a president who left his country and world a whole lot better off than anybody of my generation ever imagined. His family is in my prayers, and he will be forever missed by this nation and world.
PS. John, I surfed across your website last Friday morning and found it to be exceptional. I’ve just within the past two years realized just how brainwashed the liberal media had made me. I’m finally starting to learn how to think and not what to think (if that made any sense). I would appreciate if you would recommend any good reading material for me.
Here’s a link to the Ronald Reagan memorial, for those interested.
Ronald Reagan memorial
Thanks John and God bless!
Mayo
Thank you for your sentiments and your comments.
I am not sure what kind of reading material you are looking for, so I’ll just sort of give a scattershot.
Online:
Washington Times It is a conservative paper in DC. Some people ridicule it because it is owned by the Moonies, but I have seen no evidence of Moonie influence.
Frontpagemag.com - This is an organization dedicated to fighting PC’ism and leftist bias on university campuses. It is run by David Horowitz, a former hard leftist and cofounder of the ’60s primary leftist magazine, Ramparts. He has, needless to say, switched sides but not style.
National Review Online - The on-line portion of National Review, William F. Buckley’s long respected and influential conservative magazine. It is a good magazine for political commentary, with Catholic roots.
The Weekly Standard (online) - This is the primary magazine of the neo-cons. It is spends more time than National Review on “insider” politics (or wonkery).
The American Spectator (online). TAS is a monthly magazine edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell. It tends to be more contentious and often funnier than other conservative magazines. It also did a lot of original investigative reporting on Clinton’s activities in Alabama as governor. One caveat - its articles on science are usually wrong - the writer, in my opinion, knows enough to be dangerous. The magazine is sort of a printed Rush Limbaugh in that sense.
Roger Simon’s Blog This is not a conservative site, but has many pro-Bush liberals and recent converts to some level of conservatism. It is a very popular blog, with huge number of readers. Roger is a mystery novelist and Hollywood screen writer. I recommend this because Roger is a great webmaster and picks good topics and writes well about them, after which a very high level of intellectual debate in the comments section and exposes pro and con arguments on many subjects. Roger is conservative on international affairs, very liberal on social issues (gay marriage, abortion, etc), and I’m not sure where he stands on economic issues.
Traditional media is below. All of these folks have on-line presences, and many of the radio folks can be heard through the internet if they are not locally available.
Conservative talk radio. I recommend Rush Limbaugh, who is a very good political analyst and an outstanding entertainer. Caveat again - his understanding of science is basically zero - so when he talks about scientific issues that have political context, don’t believe him.
Michael Medved. He is a film critic, but more importantly has a syndicated conservative talk radio show out of Seattle. He is the most intellectual of the talk show hosts (although Gordon Liddy is also extremely smart), and offers great explanations of conservative views - social, econommic, international. He is a serious practicing Jew and thus provides interesting perspective on religious issues.
There are a number of others (#2 is Sean Hannity, but he also appears on Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” and I think he is a bit light-weight).
Fox News - This is the only network that, to some extent, sees beyond the press group-think. It has smart anchors (interestingly, most are lawyers) which means you don’t just have talking heads reading from teleprompters - these people, unlike those on the major networks, can think and think independently. Fox also has some serious, well known conservative commentators including Tony Snow and Cal Thomas, and Fred Barnes, a neo-con and a founder of The Weekly Standard. Their war reporters are good, and two of them are marines - retired Lt. Col. Oliver North (who also hosts a great military history show on Fox on Sunday, Prime Time) and Greg Kelly, a current Marine pilot.
I am not sure what books to recommend. Certainly Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom.” Ann Coulter’s “Slander” is worth reading because it shows press bias, and both books on the subject by former long time CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg give an insider view of how the main stream media works (or, in my mind, misfunctions).
Other commenters can probably provide other recommendations.
John (and Mayo)
John, I don’t want to bump into you on the issue of reading material; the list you gave is really great, but I would add (for polemics):
Anything by P.J. O’Rourke who has an unbeat and modern take on everything we find of value (an ex-Lefty who still writes for Rolling Stone).
Anything by Mark Steyn, Canadian-born journalist and last surviving Canadian conservative.
Any compilation of essays by George Orwell, which go way beyond the over-quoted “1984″ into the realm of an incisive Liberal/Labor mind trying to cope with the contradictions of Leftism.
Any of the either religious or journalist oriented memoirs of Malcolm Muggeridge, who seemed to be present at the creation of everything of interest since 1925. Another socialist with the scales knocked off his eyes.
Novels by Kingsley Amis, often vulgar but really great if you need to identify with conservatives adrift in a lefty world.
John:
Afterthought: Limbaugh is indeed weak on science issues and he embarrasses me. His conservativism is often too close to utilitarianism too, which is a dangerous place for conservatives to be. We don’t just admire or encourage the things that work, or live by the market or bread alone. The issues of character, self-restraint, morality and other humane matters precede our faith in the system.
We want more than for “people to be the best they can be”, also, which is much too unclear and evasive, and preceded by Limbaugh’s insistence that conservatives “love people”. It always rings false to me and I often wonder just what it is that Limbaugh actually believes in.
You’re right about Rush being a good political analyst, but I cringe at his interpretations of conservat(ive)ism. This may be heretical, but I think it has to be said.
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