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The End of the Reagan Era?

by Dr. Paul Kengor on January 23, 2013 · 2 comments

With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan era.
 
Unfortunately, I believe they are largely correct. We are witnessing a period of left-wing ascendance, marked by gay marriage, forced taxpayer funding…

America’s Growing Government Class

by Dr. Paul Kengor on January 3, 2013 · 1 comment

The latest unemployment figures are again depressing, but not for the usual reasons. They provide further confirmation of Barack Obama’s fundamental transformation of America, specifically through his creation of a growing government class.
 
The numbers show a massive increase in…

What About the Homeless?

by Dr. Paul Kengor on October 25, 2012 · 1 comment

As a biographer of Ronald Reagan, I’m constantly asked to compare today’s fiscal/economic situation to what Reagan faced in the 1980s. Today’s record debt/deficits remind of the 1980s, though today’s are far worse, with the deficit at least six times…

A Complicated Man: Ronald Reagan’s Father

by Dr. Paul Kengor on June 15, 2012 · 2 comments

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This Father’s Day, you may hear a tribute to some heroic dad who stopped a house from burning down, or stormed the beaches of Normandy. I doubt you’ll hear about a dad I’ve studied: Jack Reagan, father of President Ronald…

Obama: Maybe We Could Call it the “Reagan Rule”

by Keith Koffler April 12, 2012

President Obama recently invoked the greatest hero of the conservative movement in calling for Congress to pass his tax-raising “Buffett Rule,” saying that the measure could be renamed the “Reagan Rule.”
Obama, who spoke this morning at the White House,…

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The “DP” of Adoption Instead of Abortion

by Dr. Paul Kengor February 7, 2012

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Walls Come Tumbling Down

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. October 6, 2008

A few years ago, I toured the far north of England.  There, stretching 73 miles from coast to coast, the Roman Emperor Hadrian built a massive wall.  Constructed of stone, it was built to last, since it marked the northernmost…

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