Re: "Another look at Democrats," by Don Snowden, Thursday Letters. Our debt quadrupled during the Reagan/Bush years, declined slightly under Bill Clinton and doubled under George W. Bush, from $5.73 trillion to $10.7 trillion. Snowden's statement that President Barack Obama...
Re: "Elusive remedies -- Finally, the nation has proof that Obama isn't The One, says Jonah Goldberg," Monday Viewpoints. Goldberg seems to be a smart fellow, so he must have taken a hot shower with Lava soap after writing this...
Events in Iran are vindicating the underlying principle of former President George W. Bush's Middle East policies, particularly the liberation and creation of a fledgling democracy in Iraq. Bush's theory, widely ridiculed by the liberal intelligentsia, was that once the...
Put aside political party differences. How could you not feel the emotion when Nancy Reagan unveiled the statute of her late husband, the former president Ronald Reagan? Such a touching moment....
Re: "GOP's internal battle goes public -- Conservatives and moderates make their cases on Sunday shows," Monday news story. If Gen. Colin Powell says he is a Republican, then I guess he is. But what principles and policies differentiate him...
Re: "Hands off worked for Reagan," by John Castles, Wednesday Letters. The laissez-faire policies championed by Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich and their ilk in Congress, their rabid deregulation and no-oversight policies are precisely what led to the economic debacle we...
When Ronald Reagan was elected president after the disaster of Jimmy Carter, the economy was a lot worse than it is today, despite the rhetoric out of the White House and Congress. But, because of Reagan's policies, we had a...
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