President Obama and others loath to rein in federal spending would have us believe that congressional Republicans have drifted far from their icon President Reagan and what he advocated regarding the national debt and how to deal with it. The truth is that the Republican House's "Cut, Cap and Balance" legislation is a 2011 application of "Reaganomics." …

The centennial of Ronald Reagan's birth earlier this year brought an unusual sight: a round of press reports noting President Obama's admiration for his predecessor, including one he penned for this newspaper. Despite their stark differences on policy, Obama praised Reagan for how he led the nation "through an extremely difficult period, with economic hardship at…

Fifty-five years ago, freedom reigned for a brief moment in Communist Hungary. On October 23, 1956, student protesters marched through the streets of Budapest demanding an immediate end to their Soviet-dominated government. Before long, the demonstrators had dissolved the Communist regime and set up an interim government based on democratic principles. But the…

When Ronald Reagan took office on Jan. 20, 1981, our nation faced serious problems. We were in the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with high unemployment, major energy shortages, interest rates of over 21 percent, and inflation at 12.5 percent. Our military capability had deteriorated in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Observers…

They called him “Cap the Knife.” After stints as director of the Office of Management and Budget and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Casper Weinberger had a rep.  He was the guy in government determined to rein it in. So when President Reagan picked him to head the Pentagon, many expected Weinberger to continue his cost-cutting ways.  But Cap and…

For more than 40 years, Ronald Reagan’s favorite newspaper was HUMAN EVENTS, which he said “helped me stop being a liberal Democrat.”When he discovered White House aides were blocking its delivery, President Reagan arranged for multiple copies to be sent to the White House residence every weekend. He made clear HUMAN EVENTS’ importance to him by marking and clipping…

Both as governor of California and as president of the United States, Ronald Reagan was devoted to the appointment of judges who understood the proper role of the judiciary and the important limitations the U.S. Constitution sets on government. He took office as governor amid great controversy about the politicization of the judiciary and the quality of judicial…

It's been more than six years since our nation bid farewell to Ronald Reagan, born 100 years ago this month. Yet it seems at times as though he never left. Consider how Reagan‘s name surfaced repeatedly after the most recent State of the Union address as pundits - both liberal and conservative - weighed the speech’s effectiveness. His Photoshopped image is on the cover of…

In early December 1966, I found myself in the Transition Office in Sacramento, Calif., waiting for the governor-elect. I had never met the man. Ronald Reagan entered the room, gave an expansive greeting to all the old hands gathered there, then turned to me. He invited me into a small conference room he was using as a makeshift office.There, we talked for half an hour. In…

On the morning after he narrowly lost the 1976 Republican presidential nomination to President Gerald Ford, a reflective Ronald Reagan met with his downcast campaign staff. "We lost," Reagan acknowledged to advisers and workers, many of whom were weeping, "but the cause, the cause goes on." And then he quoted an old Scottish ballad: "I'll lay me down and bleed awhile.…