Tag: Reagan
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The Ash Heap Of History
Today, Democrat conventional wisdom is that the USSR was going to inevitably collapse, and that everyone – well, every Democrat – always knew it. It’s not true, of course: Forty years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave one of his greatest speeches – but unlike “A Time for Choosing“, or the Brandenburg Gate, or Point du…
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Happy Reagan’s Birthday!
Ronald Reagan – by far the greatest president of my lifetime – would be 103 today. I’ll be doing my usual Reagan’s Birthday celebration; special dinner, talking with the kids (and, soon, granddaughter Watermelon, who will be old enough to learn the basics before too terribly long), jelly beans at the office. Of course, Reagan’s…
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Grenada
Today is the 26th anniversary of the invasion of Grenada. The story itself is both mundane and, in a sense, not all that relevant: Problems between the US and the Caribbean nation began in 1979 (while the Cold War was still in effect) when a bloodless coup placed the pro-Marxist Maurice Bishop as the Prime…