In France, we walked the shores of Normandy where the graves of 9,387 soldiers offer a moving reminder of the sacrifices made by America on behalf of freedom and where our 40th president marked the 40th anniversary of D-Day with a speech at Pointe du Hoc in the summer of 1984.
Continue reading...30. September 2008
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"... she actually offered up the highlight of the evening by saying that my disgust for socialism and communism was, "so '80s". Apparently she is unfamiliar with this little nugget of nostalgia...
Continue reading...28. June 2008
According to Dr. R.J. Rummel at the University of Hawaii: "Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked."
Continue reading...8. December 2007
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I believe I just watched one of America's most influential personalities of pop culture grab the mantle of optimism, the one claimed by winners of most presidential elections, and place it squarely in the hands of Barack Obama. It is the same mantle claimed by Ronald Reagan when he spoke of the "shining city on the hill."
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3. December 2008
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