by jpitney | Jul 14, 2024 | Reagan, Religion, Violence
Tuesday, March 31, 1981 Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breathe it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn’t ask for Gods help while at the...
by jpitney | Jul 4, 2024 | Patriotism, Reagan
President Reagan, July 4, 1986: All through our history, our Presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only permanent danger to the hope that is America, comes from...
by jpitney | Jun 6, 2024 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Military, Reagan
President Reagan, June 6, 1984: In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague,...
by jpitney | Jun 5, 2024 | Reagan
Governor Larry Hogan: Today marks the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s passing. President Reagan understood the simple truth that successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division. He won two landslide elections and changed the...
by jpitney | May 27, 2024 | Military, Reagan
Sometime back I received in the name of our country the bodies of four marines who had died while on active duty. I said then that there is a special sadness that accompanies the death of a serviceman, for we’re never quite good enough to them — not...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia, Ukraine
At Puck, Julia Ioffe interviews Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Your absence was definitely felt at Munich this year and some of your colleagues in the CODEL were saying, “He can’t come, he has a primary fight.” Your...
