Ronald Reagan

As with many things, propaganda can be used for good or for ill, depending on who dispenses it. During World War II, American propaganda was considered a necessary tool in the pursuit of victory in a moral cause. Germany and Japan had their own propaganda machines to advance an evil agenda. The Nazi propaganda effort was headed by Joseph Goebbels to whom the term “The Big Lie,” meaning if one…

Bookstores now sell only certain kinds of children’s books. “Go into Barnes & Noble,” says Bethany Mandel in my new video, “and you will be met with a wall of biographies. Probably 27 different books about former Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Great. A ton about Kamala Harris. Great.” But where are the biographies on conservatives? There weren’t any. She found lots on people…

A stroll through the latest New York Times Sunday Book reviews reveals a shocking contrast of treatment between a democratically elected American president, Republican Ronald Reagan, and peripatetic Communist Che Guevara, who murdered and imprisoned thousands and supervised firing squads and founded forced labor camps in Cuba and elsewhere. Which figure do you figure received a more…

President Biden’s speech from Warsaw Saturday night, reminded me of two previous presidents who delivered speeches confronting the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and is now Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, a man Biden has rightly called a war criminal. On June 26, 1963, Kennedy spoke before the Berlin Wall which the Soviets had erected to stem the flow of Berliners out of the communist…

Morning Joe was out in force with its shovels on Monday, doing the dirty work of cleaning up after President Biden's latest -- and most dangerous -- gaffe. Co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed the major verbal mistake was far less serious than Reagan having joked about bombing the Soviet Union, ignoring the fact that Reagan was obviously joking and Biden was dead serious. Scarborough…

On Tuesday's At This Hour, CNN senior political correspondent Abby Phillip told host Kate Bolduan on Tuesday that the reason some Republicans "are willing to villainize" the idea of a black woman Supreme Court justice is because that is what fires up the party's base.

You know the left is flailing in their attempts to defend President Biden when they start comparing him to beloved former President Ronald Reagan on national television. That is exactly what NPR's Michele Martin did on Sunday's episode of This Week.

Four years ago this week, CBS managed to question the mental fitness of two Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, in one show. Almost four years later, the same network would only gingerly, mildly bring up the topic with Joe Biden. On January 12, 2018, then-CBS This Morning co-host Norah O’Donnell pushed veteran CBS anchor Bob Schieffer on whether Trump had some kind…

New York Times economist Paul Krugman is once again making a fool of himself by letting everyone know he believes that 2021 was actually a great year for the economy. Really.

Appearing as a guest on MSNBC's The Sunday Show, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss charged that Virginia Republican governor-elect Glenn Youngkin "played the race card" to get elected, and was "perfectly happy to connect with Virginia's horrible, violent, ugly history, which is centuries of slavery, white supremacy politics."

It's not easy to get to the left of Bernie Sanders, but CNN managed on Wednesday morning to pull off that dubious feat. On New Day, co-host Brianna Keilar interviewed Dem Rep. Ro Khanna, who was a co-chair of Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign. The topic was the apparent paring down of the Democrat $3.5 trillion spending bill. Keilar consistently hit the compromises from the left.…

MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid has built a career on rhetoric full of incitement and truly hideous rhetoric against tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans or anyone who dares to stray from her worldview, so it was no surprise on Tuesday when she warned that, unless they’re put down, “[w]e may be in the waning years of America as a democracy” as the “Jonestown”-like right…

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, Scarborough reacted vehemently to the news that a federal judge has ordered the unconditional release of John Hinckley Jr., the attempted assassin of President Reagan. Scarborough was similarly outraged at the recommendation of a California parole board earlier this year to grant parole to Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Palestinian who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy…

Washington -- Or should I dateline this column "Mid-Atlantic" or just "On the Ground at Heathrow?" Whatever, I feel this column is being written at 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, and I am anticipating great fun when I arrive in London. London is always great fun: nightclubs, restaurants, dozens of literate friends -- even a few useful lectures and concerts. Years ago, I could boast of…