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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Michael Reagan</title>
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		<title>Iowa Votes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why caucus results show that nothing is certain in the race for the Republican nomination.]]></description>
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<p>Iowa caucus results show it&#8217;s still early in the game and nothing&#8217;s certain.</p>
<p>So what happened on the way to the Republican presidential nomination?</p>
<p>Well, even with a slim official win, Mitt Romney did no better in practical terms this year than he did four years ago in 2008 because of the level of competition. This proves that the road to the 2012 nomination will be anything but smooth, and that he has a tough road ahead if he is to win the Republican presidential nomination.</p>
<p>Mitt has a big problem in his seeming inability to relate to the average working man or woman. He&#8217;s a bit too self-assured. As for Rick Santorum, he threw a monkey wrench into Ron Paul&#8217;s meteoric rise by almost winning, and proved that Romney is not as unbeatable as his worshippers in the media would like us to believe.</p>
<p>Rick gave an off-the-cuff, Reaganesque speech that marked him as a staunch conservative in the style of my late Dad, Ronald Reagan. He leaves no doubt that his love for America is genuine and deep-rooted.</p>
<p>Ron Paul proved that his supporters are in there for the long haul. Moreover he proved that the GOP needs to pay attention to his message of fiscal sanity and restraint in federal spending or the average Republican, fed up with the witless squandering of our tax dollars, might bolt in November.</p>
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		<title>Left-Wing Media Has No Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why good people no longer pursue the presidency.]]></description>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Reporter: &#8216;We&#8217;re Not Going To Get Into Details Of Exactly What Happened&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>Fmr. Secy: Not the Cain I know&#8230;</p>
<p>CAIN FLASHBACK: &#8216;I&#8217;M READY FOR HIGH-TECH LYNCHING&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>Coulter: &#8216;They Are Terrified Of Strong, Conservative Black Men&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>RUSH: &#8216;Unconscionable Racially Charged Attack&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8216;Occupy Politico&#8217;&#8230;</p>
<p>The stories behind these headlines illustrate why good people no longer want to run for the presidency of the United States. They immediately become targets of the left, which almost always pulls the race card or the sexual harassment card when they have nothing legitimate to say against the people they fear.</p>
<p>In Herman Cain&#8217;s case they use both disgusting smear tactics. They have no shame!</p>
<p>The website Politico has dredged up a couple of items which they claim show that Herman Cain has a background that includes sexual harassment of two former employees of a group he once headed. The exact nature of the alleged offenses is left obscure, filed under the heading of sexual harassment. The women were given financial settlements by the restaurant association on the grounds that the allegations should be settled even if meritless.</p>
<p>The women are left unidentified and Cain heatedly denies both allegations. But the damage is done and regardless of the fact that they are baseless, as he insists, they are out there.</p>
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		<title>Crazy in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can parents allow their children to chose their gender?]]></description>
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<p>In his new book, &#8220;Suicide of a Superpower,&#8221; Pat Buchanan writes that the politics of race, culture and tribalism will be the largest problem civilization will face.</p>
<p>This item on foxnews.com proves his point. Here&#8217;s where today&#8217;s politics of culture are leading this once-great nation.</p>
<p>&#8220;A lesbian couple in California who say their 11-year-old son Tommy who wants to be a girl named Tammy are giving their child hormone blockers that delay the onset of puberty &#8212; so that he can have more time to decide if he wants to change his gender.</p>
<p>&#8220;The couple&#8217;s supporters say the Hormone Blocking Therapy has only minor side effects and is appropriate for a child who is unsure of his gender. &#8216;This is definitely a changing landscape for transgender youth,&#8217; said Joel Baum, director of education and training for Gender Spectrum, a California-based non-profit group. &#8216;This is about giving kids and their families the opportunity to make the right decision.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>The right decision? Are they crazy? How can a child born as a male choose to be a female? Who determines if he is &#8220;unsure of his gender&#8221;? He can determine that simply by taking a quick look at his body. No amount of surgery and training can permit a child to choose to become what he is not. Born male, he&#8217;ll always be a male regardless of his weird wishes, those of his &#8220;parents,&#8221; or the results of a misguided surgeon&#8217;s scalpel.</p>
<p>To begin with, Tommy is an adoptee, and I wonder if his real parents had any idea their offspring would become a poster boy for this kind of weirdness.</p>
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		<title>Obama Could Learn from Ronald Reagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to turn to policies that work.]]></description>
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<p>If President Obama really wants to get the U.S. economy going again, he could do worse than to study the results of my Dad&#8217;s 1981 Economic Recovery Act, which boosted the economy by leaps and bounds.</p>
<p>Take the matter of jobs, for example. Thanks to the 1981 act, an astounding 20 million new jobs were created. Moreover, inflation dropped from 13.5 percent in 1980 to a mere 4.1 percent by 1988, and unemployment fell from 7.6 percent to 5.5 percent.</p>
<p>Moreover, the net worth of families earning between $20,000 and $50,000 annually grew by 27 percent. At the same time, the real gross national product jumped by 26 percent and the prime interest rate was slashed by half &#8212; from 21.5 percent in January 1981 to 10 percent in August 1988.</p>
<p>The amount of individual tax revenues rose from $244 billion in 1980 to $446 billion in 1989. Moreover, total tax revenues jumped grew by almost 100 percent, rising by 99.4 percent during the 1980s. The act produced 92 months of healthy economic growth &#8212; the longest period of peacetime in the post WWII period.</p>
<p>Under my Dad, marginal tax rates were cut from a top rate of 70 percent to a mere 28 percent, while revenues to the U.S. government from all taxes nearly doubled &#8211; increasing from roughly $500 billion to an astronomical $1.1 TRILLION in 1990.</p>
<p>Such stellar economic growth was the result of my Dad&#8217;s economic policies, which were rooted in his belief in the ability of the American people to make the right decisions concerning their nation&#8217;s economic activity. Contrast that with the Obama administration&#8217;s quasi-Marxist policies, which seek to make Washington the center of the nation&#8217;s economic activity.</p>
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		<title>Blame Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the buck stopped with Bush, why not with Obama?]]></description>
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<p>President Obama, the Democrat party and their members of Congress have spent years blaming former President George W. Bush for the nation&#8217;s current economic woes, which is akin to blaming the bank&#8217;s tellers for a bank robbery, or for the dishonesty of their bosses, the bank&#8217;s executives who were looting the till.</p>
<p>Nobody in the left-dominated media bothers to note that in the last years of the Bush presidency Democrats controlled the Congress and thus had a death grip on the nation&#8217;s economy, having complete control over the nation&#8217;s purse strings. They spent and spent and spent the yet-uncollected taxes of future generations &#8212; as well as our own &#8212; as if there were no tomorrow.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t a Bush Congress that jammed the incredible costs of Obamacare down the throats of the American people and their children and grandchildren &#8212; it was our spendthrift president and his allies on Capitol Hill doing their classic imitation of the legendary drunken sailors on shore leave.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s simply common sense to understand that spending money one doesn&#8217;t have in the hopes that the future will provide the needed funds is something like believing that some beneficent tooth fairy will come up with the money in the future.</p>
<p>Now the president and the national Democrat party have suddenly discovered a scapegoat for the latest economic mess they have thrust upon the American people. They insist that the credit-rating downgrade was the fault of the tea party trying to control the nation&#8217;s purse strings. I&#8217;m not kidding. They really expect us to swallow this whopper as the gospel truth.</p>
<p>They expect us to ignore the fact that the millions of tea party members are simply Americans deeply and sincerely concerned about the nation&#8217;s economy and the tendency of the government to spend their hard-earned tax money on whatever scam strikes its fancy.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to place the blame for our economic malaise where it belongs &#8212; on the shoulders of the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress.</p>
<p>Tea party members have been the voice of reason, not the wild-eyed terrorists portrayed by the left&#8217;s crazy spin doctors.</p>
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		<title>Memo to Arnold and the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 04:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no illegitimate kids, just illegitimate parents.  ]]></description>
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<p>My adoptive parents told me I was &#8220;chosen,&#8221; but the kids at school told me I was a &#8220;bastard.&#8221;</p>
<p>The recent headlines about Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s infidelities and the son he fathered out of wedlock have stirred many old memories and emotions.</p>
<p>I was four years old when I learned I was adopted. It was just before my sister Maureen&#8217;s eighth birthday. I told her, &#8220;I know what you&#8217;re getting for your birthday.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t spoil the secret,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If you tell me, I&#8217;m going to tell you a secret!&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, that was the wrong thing to say! I had to know what she was keeping from me! I said, &#8220;You&#8217;re getting a blue dress for your birthday.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maureen said, &#8220;And you were adopted.&#8221;</p>
<p>I ran off to find our mother, Jane Wyman, in the den. I asked her, &#8220;What does &#8216;adopted&#8217; mean?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mom&#8217;s eyes flashed dangerously. &#8220;Where did you hear that word?&#8221; she asked.</p>
<p>After Mom finished dealing with Maureen, she sat me down and explained adoption to me. &#8220;You are a chosen child,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and that makes you special. We love you very much.&#8221;</p>
<p>I could tell that being &#8220;chosen&#8221; was a good thing. But I also realized for the first time that Mom wasn&#8217;t my &#8220;real&#8221; mother &#8212; that I had another mother who had mysteriously given me away.</p>
<p>One day, when I was in the second grade, I got into a playground argument with another boy. We took turns one-upping each other. &#8220;I&#8217;m better than you,&#8221; I said. &#8220;I&#8217;m special &#8217;cause I was chosen! I was adopted!&#8221;</p>
<p>The other boy didn&#8217;t know how to answer that, but the next day he came back to school and laughed at me. &#8220;My parents told me what &#8216;adopted&#8217; means,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re not special &#8212; you&#8217;re a bastard! Your real mother wasn&#8217;t married, so she gave you away &#8212; bastard!&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s when I realized there was something horribly wrong with me. I never again bragged about being &#8220;chosen,&#8221; and I never again felt &#8220;special.&#8221; But I did feel marked.</p>
<p>I wondered, &#8220;Why did my birth mother give me away? Was it because I&#8217;m a bastard?&#8221; I figured Mom couldn&#8217;t have known I was illegitimate or she wouldn&#8217;t have adopted me. And I didn&#8217;t want her to find out!</p>
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		<title>NLRB vs Boeing &#8212; Tyranny vs Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shocking dictatorial practices in the US. ]]></description>
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<p>One of the shameful hallmarks of a dictatorship is the restriction of movement &#8212; telling citizens or groups they cannot travel or relocate freely.</p>
<p>We are now witnessing a shocking example of that dictatorial practice at the hands of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is insisting that a major U.S. employer may not move some of its operations from one state to another because to do so might somehow violate workers’ rights.</p>
<p>The case in point involves famed aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, which is building a second assembly line for its new 787 jetliners in South Carolina. That’s a no-no, says the NLRB.</p>
<p>Huh? A federal government agency which is supposed to monitor relations between employers and their employees to insure fairness is taking into its hands the power to say which manufacturer may or may not relocate its facilities on what it sees as the basis of good business practice.</p>
<p>Boeing, whose aircraft have helped secure the liberty and safety of Americans in countless wars, wants to move some of its facilities from the state of Washington to South Carolina which happens to have a so-called right-to-work law, which permits employees of companies with facilities in the state to choose whether or not to join a union.</p>
<p>Big labor hates that kind of law. Big labor insists that employees, like slaves, must either be forced to join a union or have dues extracted from their paychecks, even if they are unwilling to part with a segment of their pay used to finance Union’s leftist political activities which they often oppose.</p>
<p>The NLRB has filed a complaint against Boeing, a firm headquartered in Chicago, for daring to choose where they may locate one of their plants. In this case, Boeing is being told it cannot make the move on the specious grounds that the move constitutes an unfair labor practice.</p>
<p>The unfair labor practice? South Carolina has a state right-to-work law, which ensures employees the right to either join a union or not to join a union as they see fit. Imagine that, a law that allows a worker to choose whether or not to join a union!</p>
<p>That NLRB decision has drawn fire from South Carolina’s gutsy Gov. Nikki Haley, who defiantly told the agency, “We absolutely will not allow them to bully our businesses or mess with our employees. As governor, I absolutely will not stand for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Teddy Roosevelt would have said, “Bully for her.”</p>
<p>Also angry is U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who rightly said the NLRB’s request for a court order that would force Boeing to build the assembly line in Washington shouldn&#8217;t be taken seriously.</p>
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		<title>The Day of Reckoning Arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 04:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fanatical Islam learns it is on the losing side of history. ]]></description>
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<p>They got him. Put a couple of slugs in his face. Then they dumped his body in the sea &#8212; something for the fish, which don’t much care what they eat, to feed on.</p>
<p>No matter how you look at it, this was a masterful stroke by a group of Navy Seals who went about their business with great skill and steely nerves. Naturally, great credit went to the president who stuck with an operation that was set in motion by his predecessor, George W. Bush.</p>
<p>We’re told that President Obama not only approved the strike, but actually watched it unfold. As one of his predecessors would have said, “Bully for him.”</p>
<p>One hopes that the al-Qaida thugs have learned an important lesson from the death of their leader: that it doesn’t pay to fool around with Uncle Sam. He has a long memory and a strong sense of resolve. That should ensure that any thoughts of some kind of murderous retaliation for the death of Osama bin Laden will be met both surely and swiftly.</p>
<p>One has to stand in awe in the face of an operation carried out with both great courage and professionalism. It should be a clear warning to our enemies that it’s neither nice, nor wise, to fool with Uncle Sam. He may be slow to act, sometimes, but he will act &#8212; and act decisively &#8212; even under a president not widely known for decisiveness in such matters.</p>
<p>I have no idea of what the aftermath of this affair will be. Al-Qaida is threatening some kind of vengeance for the execution &#8212; and that’s what it was &#8212; of their leader. They will learn that any such retaliation will be handled exactly as was the killing of bin Laden.</p>
<p>Terrorism, as a weapon, seldom produces anything but seething anger among its victims &#8212; anger and a determination to deal harshly and swiftly with the terrorists. It is, therefore, inevitably self-defeating.</p>
<p>To the certifiably insane thugs who make up al-Qaida’s terrorist strike forces and who kill with total disregard of the innocence of their victims, terror is their sole weapon. Without it they are defenseless.</p>
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		<title>The Party of Nero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left plays its welfare state fiddle, while ignoring the flames of a looming debt crisis.  ]]></description>
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<p>The current furor over the national budget is ample proof of the fact that federal budgets should be completed in time and based on reality, and not based on welfare-state politics.</p>
<p>Instead, Congress keeps kicking the can down the road by enacting so-called CRs (Continuing Resolutions) that have become nothing more than legislation that allows Congress to enact all the legislation they could not get through standing on their own.</p>
<p>Example: the infamous Boland Amendments (1982 and 1984), which while outlawing assistance to the Contras fighting the leftist Nicaraguan government, at the same time allowed assistance to them for what was called “other purposes.”</p>
<p>That’s called “weasel wording.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let’s face facts. The government of the United States of America is broke &#8212; flat broke. We are up to our ears in debt, thanks to Congresses that spent money that wasn’t there on programs not needed, but created to buy votes with the voters&#8217; money, piling a mountain of debt on our children and grandchildren.</p>
<p>My father, President Reagan, fought the battle of the budget by finding areas of agreement with Congress, and went on from there to hammer out a budget.</p>
<p>Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has offered what he calls a “roadmap for the future,” which attempts to deal with the looming fiscal and economic crisis created by the ever-burgeoning federal spending on health care.</p>
<p>His roadmap would, in the words of Heritage Foundation experts Robert Moffit and Kathryn Nix, “reduce the deficit, allow Medicare to become truly sustainable, establish equity and efficiency in the federal tax treatment of health insurance and improve access to health care for middle-class and low income families.”</p>
<p>While Washington burns, however, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama continue to play the legislative fiddle as did Nero when Rome was afire. To them, the welfare of the Socialist-leaning Democrat Party comes before the welfare of this nation.</p>
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		<title>The Unbridled Idiocy of Government Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[82 federal programs for "teacher quality"? ]]></description>
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<p>Uncle Sam is spending a lot of your tax dollars on programs that do the exact same thing as other federal programs, and you are paying the tab, a shocking new report shows.</p>
<p>According to a report by the watchdog Government Accounting Office (GAO), Uncle Sam hosts 47 job-training programs, 44 of which do the same things. The federal government also runs 80 programs for what it calls the &#8220;transportation disadvantaged.&#8221; Count ‘em: 80 &#8212; paid for by your tax dollars.</p>
<p>The report cites a total of 82 other programs spread across 10 separate agencies that are supposed to improve what it calls “teacher quality” &#8212; something of concern to local school districts and not Uncle Sam. It’s a classic example of the left hand not being aware of what the right hand is doing, and it’s costing us, the taxpayers, untold billions of our tax dollars.</p>
<p>I agree with penny-wise Republican Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., who was outraged by the scandals uncovered in the report and has vowed “to get our fiscal house in order’ saying &#8220;Now again, we have said enough is enough ….”</p>
<p>An equally outraged Oklahoma GOP senator, Tom Coburn, said the report “confirms what most Americans assume about their government. We are spending trillions of dollars every year and nobody knows what we are doing. The executive branch doesn&#8217;t know. The congressional branch doesn&#8217;t know. Nobody knows.&#8221;</p>
<p>The GAO report was mandated by Congress the last time it raised the debt limit in January 2010. Coburn said the report makes lawmakers look like &#8220;jackasses.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Coburn said.</p>
<p>It’s about time they knew. This is the money we earned by the sweat of our brow and they’re squandering it as if it were their money, not yours and mine.</p>
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		<title>A Fool with a Badge Is Still a Fool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Sheriff Dupnik trying to draw heat away from Pima County law enforcement by implicating conservatives in the Arizona shooting?  ]]></description>
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<p>When a would-be assassin shot my Dad, President Ronald Reagan, nobody questioned the fact that the shooter was certifiably nuts.</p>
<p>Authorities recognized that fact and put him in a mental institution as his obvious disturbed mental state demanded.</p>
<p>Now we have another attempted killing of a public official, Arizona’s widely admired Rep. Gabby Giffords, and just about everybody recognizes the fact that the shooter, one Jared Loughner, is crazy as a loon.</p>
<p>Moreover, the fact that Loughner is probably nutty as a fruitcake, and perhaps dangerously so, could not have escaped the attention of local law enforcement authorities such as Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who already had Loughner in his sights yet failed to do anything to prevent Loughner’s obviously foreseeable skilling spree.</p>
<p>Yet we don’t hear a word of repentance for his failure to foresee what transpired in Tucson last Saturday. Not a word, mainly because Sheriff Dubnik is too busy attacking Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives to turn his rhetoric loose on the shooter.</p>
<p>In Dubnik’s twisted logic, Loughner may be a murderer but somehow or other it’s all Rush’s fault for his unforgivable habit of calling a spade a spade and referring to liberals as being mentally disjointed as the majority of them are.</p>
<p>This kind of ridiculous response to a tragedy is becoming what the French would call de riguer &#8212; the liberal’s order of the day when one of their failures to recognize reality results in people getting killed.</p>
<p>As my more plainspoken friends would put it, Dubnik shoulda seen it coming, and he’s now trying to obfuscate that fact by striking out at people who had not a single thing to do with Loughner’s deadly actions.</p>
<p>&#8220;All I can tell you is that teachers and fellow students were concerned about his bizarre behavior in class to the point where some of him (sic) were physically afraid of him,&#8221; Dupnik admitted to ABC News.</p>
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		<title>Repealing Obamacare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest expectation of the new Congress. ]]></description>
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<p>Our country was founded on a revolutionary concept &#8212; a new kind of government both empowered and controlled by its citizens.</p>
<p>This idea, the very foundation of our great experiment in democracy, was betrayed with enactment of the new healthcare act. Every poll showed that a majority of Americans rejected this legislation and yet Congress ran right over the majority will of the American people and enacted it into law.</p>
<p>This act must be repealed for this reason alone but there are many more good reasons.</p>
<p>Our objections were legitimate &#8212; not simply an expression of a political ideology. We were told that costs would be controlled, but all the evidence shows that private insurance costs and taxes are going up. We were told that our own insurance coverage would remain intact, but it has become clear that will also prove false. We were told that seniors would not be hurt, but hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare will make doctors wary of taking the elderly on as patients. Our country can ill afford the costs and assaults on healthcare that this act will bring about.</p>
<p>The mid-term elections are now over and the face of Congress has changed. We will face the prospect of gridlock but, we, the people, have the power to break the impasse. The clearest demonstration of our determination and will to restore the proper voice of the American people is outright repeal of the healthcare act.</p>
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		<title>Anywhere But Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Reagan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build the Ground Zero mosque somewhere else. ]]></description>
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<p>Plans to build a mosque and Islamic center just 200 meters from the former site of the World Trade Center where 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are not merely inappropriate, they are an outrage.</p>
<p>This isn’t about some sort of reconciliation between Muslims and their New York neighbors, it’s the equivalent of plunging a dagger into the very heart of America. If the Muslim community had any sense of compassion for the feelings of their fellow Americans, they’d find someplace else to build their mosque. Instead, they choose a site that forever serves as a reminder of that fatal blow against the American people.</p>
<p>Incredibly, the proposed $100 million development is located at the site of the former Burlington Coat Factory in Lower Manhattan, which closed after the landing gear from one of the 9/11 planes hit the building. It is about 200 meters from World Trade Center, where 3,000 people died in the terrorist attack.</p>
<p>Do the members of the Muslim community have any idea of how the American people feel about the site of that cowardly attack on the World Trade Center buildings? Do they not understand that the site itself stands as an indictment of the perfidy of the 9/11 sneak attack and is the least appropriate site for a Muslim religious complex that will stand as a stark reminder of that attack and the people behind it?</p>
<p>The proposed mosque will be part of what is known as the Cordoba House project, a 13-story Muslim community center planned to include a theater and sports facilities, including a swimming pool.</p>
<p>I agree with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who asked “peace-seeking Muslims, to try to understand that a Ground Zero mosque is unnecessary provocation; it stabs hearts.&#8221;</p>
<p>That fact failed to impress Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who is reported to have said “there is controversy and there are parties that have a political agenda and want to intimidate the American people against the mosque project which has not yet begun.” He singled out Republican Congressman Peter King, whose opinion, he said, “should not be considered because his ideas are extreme.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Today, Brown is Golden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stern rebuke of the Democrats’ national agenda.]]></description>
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<p><span><span>Last Tuesday, the voters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sent an incredibly powerful message to the Democrats in Washington that their out-of-control spending and efforts to rush through healthcare legislation will not be tolerated by the electorate. In a stunning upset, Republican Scott Brown defeated his Democratic opponent in the bluest of blue states to capture the United States Senate position left vacant by the passing of the late Ted Kennedy.</span></span></p>
<p>Only a year ago pundits across the nation were proclaiming the Republican Party dead in the water &#8212; causing many Democrats to feel they had free rein. However, things are about to change in a different direction than anticipated by the president just one year ago.</p>
<p>There’s just no way to oversell this victory. Massachusetts hasn’t fielded a Republican Senator for 31 years. Senator-elect Brown will be the only Republican in the entire state delegation to Congress. Less than a year and a half ago, Barack Obama took Massachusetts by 26 points, which makes Scott Brown’s triumph a 31-point reversal.</p>
<p>Today, many Democrats are rushing in to do damage control &#8212; claiming that this was a case of a bad candidate in a challenging local environment, as was also claimed after Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this year. However, coming into this race, Martha Coakley was not an unknown commodity who was quickly cast on the most public of stages. Rather, she came into this general election only after having earned her party’s nomination due, in part, to her position as a popular statewide figure who had previously received over 78 percent of the statewide vote earning her the commonwealth’s attorney general position. And she also had one of the strongest political machines in the country at her disposal. No, this was not a case of a bad candidate struggling in a tough local environment. (How anyone could call Massachusetts a tough local environment for a Democrat while maintaining a straight face is beyond me.) This was clearly a rebuke of the Democrats’ national agenda.</p>
<p>And not only did Scott Brown win a political race &#8212; he may have helped delay or defeat one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation to sniff passage in decades. And for Democrats who may hold on to the hope that the Massachusetts results were not about the Democrats’ national agenda &#8212; they only need to be reminded the Republican candidate Brown was victorious in Ted Kennedy’s own precinct.</p>
<p>I don’t often give advice to my friends across the proverbial political aisle, but I feel compelled to do so today. Democrats need to step back and realize that a wave of populism is taking hold in this country, uniting Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike.</p>
<p>If the fact that over 20 percent of registered Democrats in Massachusetts gravitated to the Republican candidate does not help my Democratic friends come to this realization, nothing will. Just 11 percent of voters in Massachusetts are Republicans. Republicans did not carry this victory. The people of Massachusetts did, people of every political stripe.</p>
<p>Democrats need to immediately suspend debate and votes on healthcare legislation until Scott Brown is seated &#8212; as was articulately stated by Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia. They also need to realize that when polling shows that a mere 38 percent of Americans support that legislation, it is time to make significant changes to their agenda.</p>
<p>It should not be lost on them that the 38 percent number equals former President George W. Bush’s approval at the end of this presidency &#8212; a number that Democrats once pointed to as proof that Americans clearly rebuked the policies of his administration past his final day in office.</p>
<p>Three consecutive times now &#8212; in the races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia, and now in Massachusetts &#8212; independents have surged against the president and brought the Republican candidate to victory. Now that’s a rebuke!</p>
<p>The results in Massachusetts demonstrate that a tide of real change is finally taking hold in this country &#8212; rejecting excessive spending whether it is promoted by Republicans or Democrats. Republicans would be wise to take advantage of this sweeping movement by returning to their party&#8217;s roots of promoting a smaller, smarter and more efficient government &#8212; a government that is not in the business of running our nation’s healthcare programs.  Working together, holding to Americans&#8217; core principles, and speaking for the people, the Republicans can carry this momentum westward to electoral victory, even in the most blue of states and districts.</p>
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		<title>Terror in the Skies Requires Real Action on the Ground &#8211; by Michael Reagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. President, we can’t afford any more of your on-the-job training.]]></description>
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<p><span><span>This country is on alert now in a way it has not been for almost nine years. Between the attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack, the bombing of the CIA headquarters in Yemen, and near-daily airport scares, we have been forcefully reminded that a real war against terror continues to be waged here at home and abroad.</span></span></p>
<p>And even as I applaud Americans for not letting recent events unduly disrupt their lives and thereby giving the terrorists a minor victory, I remain deeply concerned about the current state of our homeland security.</p>
<p>Shortly after the incident on Northwest Flight 253, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano first insisted that “the system worked” regarding the Christmas Day attempt. This particularly blatant act of defensive self-protection was such an obvious falsehood that Counterterrorism Czar John Brennan has had to go from news show to news show offering a retraction. This bumbling effort is not exactly the type of first response that Americans should expect from those tasked with protecting our country.</p>
<p>Indeed, as the days progress, we are beginning to see just how great a retraction was needed. American authorities knew, before he ever boarded that plane, that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had extremist views and received training from Al Qaeda. In an act of tremendous courage, Abdulmutallab’s own father apparently had reported him as a person of concern to the U.S. embassy and CIA station chief. Abdulmutallab was on a government watch list. He had been spending time in a country with known terrorist activity.</p>
<p>With proper communication between security and counterterrorism agencies and proper scrutiny, this young man would have been put on a high-priority list. At the airport, he would have been flagged, he would have been searched, and he would have been caught. Instead, it is only through the grace of God and the courage of a passenger that the lives of over 200 were saved this Christmas.</p>
<p>In Afghanistan, we were not so fortunate, and seven American operatives were killed.</p>
<p>We do not have to live in fear in order to be smart about the dangers. We do not have to be an international bully to rightfully assert our position and interests around the world. The Obama administration, however, cannot seem to get a handle on the wide middle ground between “fear-mongering” and cowering in submission.</p>
<p>In many ways, this Christmas Day attempt is a great opportunity for the president. With no loss of life, systemic and human errors were revealed and can now be fixed. And they must be fixed.</p>
<p>We need to move forward with a comprehensive strategy to connect our intelligence dots. We can already see that tremendous strides have been made since the disastrous intelligence failure of 9/11, but we learned two weeks ago that we have not come far enough. Whatever motivation or resources are required, we need to improve our intelligence and make full use of it, rather than letting cases like Abdulmutallab’s fall through the cracks.</p>
<p>It would be all too easily to blame this on poor screening at airports here and overseas, and to reactively devote all our energies to bigger and better checkpoint technologies. To some measure, some of these recommended upgrades may be appropriate. But the greatest challenge will be for the president to take a step back and look at the entire system with all its moving parts and streamline the process. In doing, he must act with the conviction that the threat is imminent and real.</p>
<p>It’s time to step up to the plate, Mr. President. You signed up for this job, and we can’t afford any more of your on-the-job training.</p>
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		<title>The Haze of Copenhagen &#8211; by Michael Reagan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the global climate conference is not in America’s interest. ]]></description>
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<p>Thousands are now gathered in Copenhagen to embark on an aggressive plan to reach a framework for reducing carbon emissions, with the goal of instituting a more formalized, binding agreement within six months.</p>
<p>Now, many others have rightly criticized and written on the faulty research used to support the panic of “global warming” and supposedly retreating icebergs. In the past two weeks, this justified skepticism has gained significant traction in light of the recently released “ClimateGate” e-mails, wherein researchers and peers of the notable Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University appear to concede that climate change is due to natural, not human, activity.</p>
<p>However, in this week’s column I want to pivot around that important debate for a minute to talk about the politics and economics of this week’s climate gathering.</p>
<p>Predictably, the United States is the main target of the thousands of protesters, media and conference participants &#8212; all more than willing to wave the finger of blame on our nation for all the world’s perceived climate ills. You see, folks in Beijing, Bandung and Bangalore all want the United States to accept stringent restrictions on her own industries without accepting even less stringent restrictions on their own countries.</p>
<p>In one of many possible examples, just Wednesday India reiterated its refusal to accept any sort of binding restrictions limiting carbon emissions for their country &#8212; while at the same time demanding an increase in proposed cutbacks for our country!</p>
<p>It seems as though negotiators are utterly ignoring the official projections from the Indian government which indicate that Indian emissions will triple or quadruple in the next 20 years, even as American emissions are projected to drop. Yet we&#8217;re not even asking for cuts in Indian emissions, just a slower rate of growth. In a similar position, Chinese leaders have been equally antagonistic to the United States.</p>
<p>Beyond even projections, this idea of the United States as the Great Polluter is increasingly less justified. In recent years, China has risen to become the greatest emitter of greenhouse gases. According to the World Bank, Indonesia clocks in at third, with India, Russia, and Japan also sitting at the top. The U.S. still ranks second, but is the only top-ranked country which has been curbing, rather than increasing, emissions of greenhouse gases.</p>
<p>At the same time, these nations expect astronomical levels of financial assistance from the same countries they claim are not doing enough. Developed, Western nations have proffered a significant $10 billion annually to aid new technologies and industrial developments in developing nations to help them implement emissions changes without severely damaging their economies. But these poorer nations insist that price tag is absurdly low &#8212; never mind the global economic recession which has hit Western nations the hardest.</p>
<p>I wonder if any of the 10 percent of Americans looking for jobs today or the millions of others simply trying to make ends meet really want their tax dollars to be directed to ensure that China, Indonesia or India’s economies remain stable while they implement tougher carbon restrictions based on faulty science.</p>
<p>Even if we were to accept the dubious scientific and environmental arguments which have sparked these Copenhagen negotiations, the idea that America should sign a binding legal treaty when other nations are given a free pass is absurd. Not only it is a blatant disregard of our sovereignty, but it would also only lead to the exporting of dirty jobs and industries to China and other privileged-status nations, boosting their economy at the expense of ours and doing nothing to accomplish the treaty’s environmental goals.</p>
<p>The United States must never allow other nations to dictate our interests and objectives. We can, and should, partner with the world in friendship, but all friendships have limits. If the developing nations of the world expect our help, they will have to do their part.</p>
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		<title>Harry Reid, Uncensored &#8211; by Michael Reagan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The apologies the Senator owes.]]></description>
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<p><span><span>On the Senate floor this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid abused the dignity of his position with yet another desperate attack on Republicans and other Americans who understand the dangers of President Obama’s flawed health care proposal.</span></span></p>
<p>Rather than debating the unremarkable “merits” of the Democratic plan, Sen. Reid arrogantly and prematurely declared that he was on the “right side of history” and that the Republicans were on the wrong side. More than that, he insisted these Republicans were the same types of people who opposed ending slavery and giving women the right to vote.</p>
<p>I suppose no one in Sen. Reid’s office could be bothered to learn that it was a Republican president under whom the slaves were freed and that it was Republican President Teddy Roosevelt’s third-party movement which was the first to support women’s suffrage. Who needs facts when you can make wild allegations?</p>
<p>More than that, though, Sen. Reid’s comments display the Democrat’s fundamental inability to sell their health care proposal with real arguments and facts.</p>
<p>Harry Reid would have you believe that Republicans should lose this debate because they are inconsiderate and blind, morally culpable for the failings of our health care system, and as guilty of pushing down their fellow Americans as those who oppressed women and enslaved an entire race. If he’d had more room in his speech, perhaps Republican actions would also have been likened to those which drove American Indians from their homes and interred Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.</p>
<p>Harry Reid would have you believe this, because it’s much easier for him to face than the reality that he’s peddling a flawed version of “reform” which the American people just won’t buy.</p>
<p>The Democratic party controls the White House. They have a considerable majority in the House of Representatives and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.</p>
<p>Let’s go through that again. The Democratic Party could, without a single Republican, pass any health care bill they wanted through both houses of Congress and get it signed by a Democratic President. If they cared to, Democrats could cobble together a socialized, single-payer system which covered our insurance bills by selling Maine to Canada, and there’s not a single thing Republican Congressmen, voting completely in unison, could do to stop them.</p>
<p>It is not simply the Republican Party &#8212; much less some mythical monster of slavery-loving Republican terror &#8212; which is stopping Harry Reid and his posse from passing his beloved monstrosity of a bill. No, the people in his way are ordinary Americans, the same ones who rallied at town hall meetings, who are fighting to preserve their independence in their health decisions and to keep our country from piling on even more debt.</p>
<p>The Republicans are not arguing, as Reid seems to suggest, that our health insurance system is above reform, or &#8212; heaven help us &#8212; that we are better off with several million people with limited access to health care. No, the Republicans, in concert with the American people, are arguing that this proposed reform is no reform at all, and it will only serve to make our country, and our health care system, worse off than it is now.</p>
<p>Many have asked Sen. Reid to apologize for his crass remarks, something he has adamantly refused to do. Me? His comments were undeniably arrogant, foolish, and undeserved. But if we’re going to push for an apology, let’s push for the ones we really need to hear.</p>
<p>Let’s ask Sen. Reid to apologize for ramming an unwieldy, bureaucratic nightmare of a “reform” bill down the throats of the American people without taking the time to look beyond his liberal talking points for a real solution to the problems.</p>
<p>Let’s ask Sen. Reid to apologize for spending more time behind closed doors playing political games than transparently addressing and debating different aspects of this proposal with the American public.</p>
<p>And then let’s ask Sen. Reid to work with us to find an alternative solution which won’t ration our medical care, weaken our economy, and remove our choices. This country deserves better than what Sen. Reid and the Democratic Party have been offering.</p>
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		<title>A Half-Hearted Afghanistan Strategy &#8211; by Michael Reagan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pitfalls of a publicized end date.]]></description>
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<p><span><span>As many of you will recall, in previous writings I urged President Obama to do the right thing when it came to providing Gen. McChrystal with his requested troop increases in support of the war effort in Afghanistan. And during the early debate over troop levels, I even accepted the president’s request for reasonable time to meet with his advisers to discuss all options available to obtaining military victory in Afghanistan.</span></span></p>
<p>I am pleased and encouraged to see that President Obama heeded the counsel of his generals on the matter of increased troop levels that are so critical to our continuing battle against terrorists and those who house and support them. He has called on us for unity and support, and that is how we should respond.</p>
<p>Sadly, we are already seeing many members of the president’s own political party take exception to an increase in troop levels &#8212; many pushing for a retreat from the fight against those who took the lives of so many innocent victims on September 11, 2001 and who are continually plotting for the next great attack against Americans on our home soil and/or abroad. How did so many Democrats forget that fateful day &#8212; a mere eight years ago?</p>
<p>The Taliban and Al Qaeda are now on notice that 30,000 more of America’s best and brightest military personnel are gearing up to take the fight against terror to the nearest town, village and even cave to track down and eradicate those who have done or desire to harm America and her interests.</p>
<p>But I do take exception to the fact that the Taliban and Al Qaeda have also woken up to news that this massive American military surge, one that will increase our troop levels to close to 100,000, already has a publicized end date.</p>
<p>Yes, that is correct. Our enemy has been put on notice by the president himself that by July 2011, we will begin pulling back our troop commitments in Afghanistan. What makes this date even more disconcerting is the fact that it will take us several months to implement the 30,000-troop influx that is so central to this new security offensive &#8212; hopefully in time for the often-called “Spring fighting season” there.</p>
<p>This means we will begin leaving just a year after all the troops arrive &#8212; but conveniently in advance of the beginning of the 2012 election season.</p>
<p>Now I am not a general or even a military historian, but it doesn’t seem to me that it makes any sense to let your enemy know when you are coming and when you plan to leave. All they should need to know is what you plan to do: win. And our troops on the ground need to have the confidence that these decisions and timelines are based on sound military principles rather than political calculation.</p>
<p>In his speech, President Obama had a golden opportunity to borrow a line from my father &#8212; one that would have brought the house down and instilled more confidence in the plan he appeared half-heartedly to support. All he had to do was announce: “We win &#8212; they lose.” But rather, the president’s message and demeanor presented more of a détente approach to American foreign policy, in a speech where he never once made victory our goal.</p>
<p>Gen. David Petraeus, leader of the Iraq surge and now head of U.S. Central Command, acknowledged after President Obama’s speech that there was “tension” between the desire to win the conflict and the desire to pull out quickly. Those desires are both real and understandable, but no one knows better than Gen. Petraeus how much meeting both can sometimes prove impossible.</p>
<p>Moving forward, the American people, Afghan President Karzai, and our NATO allies must now rise to the task before us. But even as I move to follow my president, I can only hope that it is this pattern, rather than political timelines, which he follows in the next two years.</p>
<p>To the men and women who now bravely go to serve, you have my deepest thanks, hopes, and prayers. You are the soul of this country, and your service will not go unmarked.</p>
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		<title>Forgetting the Cold War’s Heroes – by Michael Reagan</title>
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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This past week I have been in Europe to  help commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I went  into this trip with a great deal of enthusiasm and an expectation that the  heroes responsible for that momentous event be justly recognized. Sadly, I was  instead reminded of how much we have willingly forgotten.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Over the past several months, the Reagan  Legacy Foundation has been working hard to ensure that Berliners remember the  vital role my father played in bringing down the wall and defeating communism.  Amazingly, there are no major statues, memorials or tributes to Ronald Reagan —  the president, the man who sided with freedom over tyranny. Thankfully, in  partnering with the “Checkpoint Charlie” museum, we have now unveiled a Ronald  Reagan permanent exhibit to help educate Berliners and their international  guests of what would have been an unpardonable omission in modern historical  analysis of that period.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">During these ceremonies I fully expected  the legends of this period to be honored…to at least be mentioned. But over the  course of this celebration that included fireworks and a re-enactment of the  fall of the wall, I heard nary a mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher.  This was both frustrating and alarming.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">One only has to review modern education  textbooks to see that this omission is not limited to an important celebration  on a cold Berlin night. Rather, it is a trend — a trend that is removing the  reference of the great heroes and leaders of the Cold War battle and replacing  it with a softer, perhaps less controversial revision.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Last year, a German study revealed how  disturbingly little German youths understand about their divided history just a  generation back. Two-thirds of the schoolchildren surveyed did not believe East  Germans lived under a dictatorship. Nearly as many thought the East German  economic system was preferable to West German’s. Communism,  preferable?!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">When we allow such a travesty, we  disregard not only who the heroes were, but that there was ever any need for  heroism at all. The Berlin Wall did not simply divide a city. The focus of  Monday’s celebrations should have been life and freedom, not unity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The facts are what they are. We cannot  and must not forget that the Soviet Union murdered and oppressed millions of  people before, during and after World War II in an effort to conquer more  territories, gain more resources and grab more power. And while the world  trembled, a select few leaders of that era finally took a stand in defense of  freedom-loving people who lived under separate and distinct flags.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Germans are not the only ones who have  forgotten. This lazy softening of history is equally a problem in our American  classrooms. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress,  American students test worse in history than they do in any other subject. A  survey in 2007 concluded fully a third of 17-year-old American students did not  know that the Bill of Rights guarantees our freedoms of religion and  speech.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">These are the principles our nation’s  veterans have fought and died for over the centuries, on our own soil and across  an ocean, in places like Germany. These are the principles for which men and  women like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher made such courageous stands. This  is the bedrock of who are, who we have been, and who we must remain in the  future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Thomas Jefferson told us, “Enlighten the  people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like  evil spirits at the dawn of day.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">I was proud to stand there and remember  the fall of that terrible Wall. But until we remember in full, we leave  ourselves open and vulnerable to the seditious creep of socialism, communism,  and oppression.</span></p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan Test &#8211; by Michael Reagan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avoiding failure has to be a non-negotiable.]]></description>
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<p><span><span>Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama’s personal choice to lead U.S. and coalition forces and operations in Afghanistan, has officially made a request for between 30,000 and 40,000 additional troops. He asserts that without this troop infusion, we run a very real risk of failing to meet our military objectives in Afghanistan, failing to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and ruining the hope of providing a stable enough atmosphere that the Afghan military and police can eventually assume control of their internal security and defend against external threats.</span></span></p>
<p>McChrystal is not alone in this request. Gen. David Petraeus, the brilliant architect and manager of the United States’ successful “surge” in Iraq who now commands United States Central Command, has attached his name to the growing list of supporters for the troop increase request. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, has also indicated that more troops will be needed to avoid failure in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Avoiding failure on this front is a non-negotiable. Such a failure, in both military and political terms, would be catastrophic to American interests at home and abroad. Such a scenario would likely include a revitalized Taliban and Al Qaeda that are ceded strategic territory in which to thrive, train and plot. And just as importantly, it would give these murderous thugs the type of public relations victory they have been seeking since the September 11 attacks &#8212; similar to their failed effort to bog down and cause a hasty retreat of U.S. troops in Iraq.</p>
<p>President Obama, it is time to listen to your field generals over liberal Washington politicos, just as you did in February of this year when you approved an initial increase of 21,000 troops. President Obama, it is now time to give Gen. McChrystal the troops he needs to get the job done.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that sending our brave men and women into harm’s way is one of the most difficult decisions a president has to make. No one should criticize the president for taking a few weeks to thoroughly review this latest request &#8212; especially in light of our numerous obligations throughout the globe which have stretched our troops and their equipment quite thin recently. A troop increase of this magnitude requires consideration and long-term planning.</p>
<p>However, in this case, I am concerned that the president is weighing not only the military calculations, but that, due to his political party’s internal politics, he is also being forced to weigh the intra-Democratic Party political consequences of his decisions at a time when liberal voters, interest groups and political operations are gearing up for the critical 2010 mid-term elections.</p>
<p>President Obama owes much of his success in the primary elections to his early opposition to the Iraq War, and the loyalty that gave him from the anti-war left. Now some of that block are trying to collect on a conflict where not long ago President Obama told us, “the world cannot afford the price that will come due if Afghanistan slides back into chaos.”</p>
<p>Vice President Biden has also been in his ear opposing the troop level recommendations. Speaker Pelosi and the lead Democratic Senator on the Armed Services Committee have both stated their strong opposition to any additional troops. Some have even started to talk of a timetable for withdrawal.</p>
<p>There are no easy decisions when waging a war. Right now though, President Obama has personally talked with the commanding officer in Afghanistan only once in the 70 days Gen. McChrystal has been in command, and I can guess how that stacks up against conversations with his party’s vocal left-wing. There may not be easy decisions, but the best decision our president could make right now is to turn that ratio inside out so that he can start making the right decisions to win this war and bring our troops home with victory.</p>
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