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The morning after.

Right turn. Plus: Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan!

Right and wrong.

Compare and contrast.
Class warrior John McCain Edwards at last night’s GOP debate held at the Reagan Library (transcript):
I think that we’ve got to return to the principle that you don’t lend money that can’t pay it back. I think that there’s some greedy people on Wall Street that perhaps need to be punished.
HOOK: [...]

Rancho del Cielo.

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John Hawkins at Right Wing News writes “In Defense of Matt Sanchez.”
B. Daniel Blatt skewers leftist attackers and argues:
Matt Sanchez is a part of all that he has met. His past figures into the man he has become. But, people do have a right to their own private lives, to deal with their past mistakes [...]

Ronald Reagan, CPAC speech, February 2, 1982:
We must ask ourselves tonight how we can forge and wield a popular majority from one end of this country to the other, a majority united on basic, positive goals with a platform broad enough and deep enough to endure long into the future, far beyond the lifespan of [...]

Bryan Preston, Ian Schwartz, Erick Stakelbeck, and I will be covering the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference for Hot Air. I’ll also liveblog events and photoblog here at mm.com throughout the 3-day conference. If you’re planning to attend, we’ll have a booth in the exhibitor hall that opens at 10am later today. In addition [...]

***update: Dec 27 756am Eastern Bush speaks…Ford “was a true gentleman who reflected the best in America’s character…he commanded the respect and earned the good will of all who had the privilege of knowing him…for a nation that needed healing and an office that needed a calm and steady hand, Gerald Ford came along when [...]

One of America’s greatest intellectual heroes of freedom passed away last night.
Here’s the Friedman Foundation’s statement:
Today, upon news of the death of Nobel Laureate economist Dr. Milton Friedman, Gordon St. Angelo, president and CEO of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, offered the following statement:
America has lost a true visionary and advocate for human [...]

Just when the MSM focus had fixed on the Democrats’ culture of corruption and business-as-usual, along come Beltway Republicans to remind us of how lame the GOP leadership is.
Trent Lott is back.
Flashback 2002: I called Trent Lott the Republican Party’s eternal Maalox moment.
Nothing’s changed.
Meanwhile, RNC chair Mel Martinez is demonizing grass-roots conservatives who support [...]

Moonbats disrupt the Connecticut Senate debate. Three men (and one useless journalist wincing on the side) are on the stage. What do they do?
Democrat Ned Lamont sits on his hands.
Independent Joe Lieberman pouts.
Moderator George Stephanopoulos wheedles.
Republican Alan Schlesinger shows ‘em all how it’s done.
Watch the video and learn.
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The only thing Schlesinger forgot to [...]

The National Moment of Remembrance takes place at 3pm local time today for one minute. Our minute-long tribute over at Hot Air is here.

La Shawn Barber shares reflections.
Castle Argghhh! has a three-part Memorial Day series. Start here.
Take time to read the Mudville Gazette and Milblogs, where Wynton Hall issues a challenge:
Attention all enterprising milbloggers:
CNN’s [...]

Remind me again which party has the majority in the U.S. Senate? Via Reuters:
Senate leaders on Thursday announced a bipartisan compromise on an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, giving some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and creating a temporary worker program.
“I think we’re looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon,” Senate [...]

Reader H.J.T. has kindly sent me the full, 16-page “whiny kids grow up to be conservatives” study in PDF format.

Click here to download and read the entire document.
Update: Removed for copyright
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RightWingDuck spoofs.
Dr. Helen: The Politicization of Psychology Continues
Helen and Glenn’s recent podcast explores this very topic with Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a past President of the [...]

I’m heading home in a bit after an enjoyable event at Oberlin College kicking off the Ronald Reagan Lecture Series. It was refreshing to see a healthy, engaged group of College Republicans on campus, and some wonderful professors on their side grounded in reality. C-SPAN covered the speech, which will probably air in the next [...]

Remembering the Challenger disaster:
Dr. Sanity, a former NASA flight surgeon, was at Cape Canaveral in Florida on that fateful day 20 years ago assigned as the Crew Surgeon for Mission 51-L.
Below the Beltway remembers.
Mike’s Noise has a link-filled tribute and recommends this video commemoration at Chris Valentine’s.
NASA remembers.

Space.com remembers.
I’ll never forget how President Reagan brought [...]

Yes, blogging has been light. Among many other duties, I’ve had my hands full trying to potty-train our two-year-old son. It’s a losing battle so far, although Spongebob has been helping.
Meantime, there are lots of good reads ’round the Internet.
*Belated congrats to Rusty at The Jawa Report on his two-year blogiversary. One of my favorite [...]

Good lunch-time surfing…
John Noonan at The Officer’s Club reflects on the 25th anniversary of the end of the Iran Hostage crisis:
While the Iranian regime was still taking its baby-steps, we revealed to the Ayatollahs our greatest weakness: upsetting the American public is our Achilles heel. Two years later, Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists twice bombed US [...]

GOP and the City is covering the NYC transit temper tantrum:
Estimated daily cost of a strike to the city - $400,000,000
Average Salary for a Subway/Bus operator - $62,000
Starting Salary for a NYPD Police officer - $25,100
Trying to get support from a public that makes less money (on average), will get less salary increases (3.5% versus [...]

So, President Bush is at the border this week paying lip service to new “immigration reform”–even as he pushes his same old, enforcement-undermining amnesty plan.
Back at the Department of Homeland [In]Security, crony nominee Julie Myers has may be given a recess appointment to head up the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency, reports Debbie Schlussel. And [...]

It’s the first anniversary of President Reagan’s passing. Trey Jackson has a lovely tribute.

(3/4, 1:13am. Check out the Ted Rall update below.)
The cold-blooded murders of Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow’s mother and husband have rightly focused the MSM’s attention on right-wing, white supremacist Internet sites. A sample:

Traffic Heavy On Hate Sites After Lefkow Murders
Extremists applaud murder of judge’s relatives
Killings spotlight supremacist group
Hate groups multiply online
The bile on these sites [...]

We made it. Barely! Still feeling queasy and exhausted (thanks for all the kind get-well e-mails), but was glad I held out long enough to meet so many nice, cool people at CPAC yesterday.
Hubby and kids had a great time wandering around the cavernous Ronald Reagan building, a behemoth, federally-subsidized architectural irony which I went [...]

My Ronald Reagan moment

Trey Jackson’s RR birthday round-up

The Reagan commemorative stamp unveiled
In the Face of Evil–new documentary on Reagan and the triumph over Communism

President Bush threw a bone to fiscal conservatives in tonight’s speech with these lines:
America’s prosperity requires restraining the spending appetite of the federal government. I welcome the bipartisan enthusiasm for spending discipline. So next week I will send you a budget that holds the growth of discretionary spending below inflation, makes tax relief permanent, and [...]

CPAC has an open call for bloggers. The conference will be held this year from February 17-19 in Washington, DC at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Credentialed bloggers at CPAC will receive the same media benefits as traditional press outlets:
* All-access passes to all areas of the conference (including the sponsor’s lounge, [...]

Browsing through the “New Non-Fiction” section at my local Borders today, I came across the following cover:

Yes, believe your eyes! It’s the latest publication from the trustworthy narrators of history at CBS News–who are cravenly attempting to cash in on President Reagan’s death in time for the holiday book-buying season. I just about spit my [...]

My column is about the now-thoroughly-discredited myth that higher turnout benefits Democrats. Here’s the intro:
Despite apocalyptic claims of systemic voter suppression, upwards of 120 million Americans were able to navigate traffic, traverse bad weather, find their polling places, stand in line without fainting, elbow their way past United Nations nosybodies and MoveOn.org mobsters, press their [...]

Well, now that the talking heads don’t have to say “Too Close To Call” anymore, a new batch of mindlessly repeated phrases are polluting the airwaves
“The Country is Deeply Divided.”
“It’s Time to Heal.”
“We Need to Heal.”
“The President Must Reach Out.”
Oh, blecch. Yes, civility is all well and good. But it is hard to stomach the [...]