Ronald Reagan Videos

The history of the discovery of global warming/climate change goes back much farther in time than people think. And no, global warming was not invented by  Al Gore.  NASA scientist James Hansen didn t discover it either, despite his 1988 testimony before Congress. Global warming theory has been around for a long time, since before industrialization.  In [...]

American politics is always been a contact sport. Heck, even the founding fathers didn t agree on many things and that s what caused the original founding party to break up but what we re seeing today is a little bit different. It started with Richard Nixon. He learned the art of divide and conquer. He used in California politics in the late 40s and again in the 60s. He used it to get elected to Congress in the early 50s. He was able to use the Vietnam war and patriotism to get elected president in 1968. So, I can think of no better expert to talk to than Rick Perlstein, author of the book, Nixonland. It was Nixon who taught Ronald Reagan. More correctly, Ronald Reagan learned from Richard Nixon. I decided to post my interview with Rick Perlstein, again. It seems we needed the perspective after the elder former President Bush decided to personally attack Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. This wouldn t be any big deal if the President wasn t calling for civility not five minutes before attacking them. What I find most reprehensible is not that he questioned the reporting or their delivery of their commentaries or even their shows but instead it was a personal attack. There are a couple of sick puppies. I think you ll find this interview informative and enlightening. Enjoy!

Marco Greenberg interviews Jackie Adams for this second episode of "How Do You Get It Out There?!". Jackie was a CBS News Correspondent 80s and is now associated with Off-The-Record.org

This is the 2nd show in our series on President Obama's Health Care Reform. In the previous show we had summarized the facts re this reform and stated our intention of exploring it in further detail during our subsequent shows. Today's guest commentary, by Craig Barnes, provides an insightful and broad historical context for the health care debate, particularly some of the underpinnings of the current opposition.Craig speaks regularly on Political Issues in Santa Fe and other parts of the country. He has authored several books and is a regular commentator on Nation Public Radio. Please visit the Guest Bios page for his full bio.Normally, Craig will be reading his own commentaries, however, I am privileged to read this one on his behalf. Download Can the free market save Democracy? | Pop-up Viewer Can the free market Save Democracy?Barack Obama is attempting to extend health care to at least the 45 million or more in America who are not rich. In response the health care industry which is very rich indeed is this year spending $1.4 million a day to lobby the Congress to preserve what they call the free market. These titans of magnificent wealth have now also promoted a country-wide campaign to disrupt town hall meetings about health care, to shout and wave the Constitution as if taxes and government laboring on behalf of all the people is un-American.One of our country s founders, Alexander Hamilton, would certainly be on the side of the insurance industry today. He argued that it is necessary to give to the very rich a distinct, permanent share in the government. In 1776, a Scotsman, Adam Smith, had written in the Wealth of Nations that the free market was as good a way as any to guarantee public morality. Adam Smith was perfect for Hamilton who could then argue that the market is moral and the mob is not. Those were two different propositions but together, and ever since, these slogans have allowed for the rich to stay rich and because the market is moral to justify everything from child labor in the mines, to unsafe factories, to today s campaign to deny health care to all Americans. When in the 1930s president Franklin Roosevelt used government to protect and empower those who did not start out rich, intending to give the middle and lower classes an equal chance to become rich, Hamiltonians resisted. They persuaded the least democratic of all our institutions, the federal courts, to strike down the New Deal. Eventually, however, Hamiltonians lost this fight and for a generation the ideals of compassion and equality of opportunity flourished in America. In the 1980s, however, after president Lyndon Johnson had used government to empower blacks and poor people, Ronald Reagan revived the idea that moral authority lies with the rich. He did not, of course, put it that way. He said morality comes from the free market. But that is just another way of saying that when 1% of the country owns 30% of the wealth it is OK, or when 10% of the country own 90% of the wealth that is OK. It was the same argument that Hamilton used to justify kings, grand estates, and palaces for priests and it was the equivalent of saying that wealth is good and poverty is irresponsible. Since the 1980s, Republicans have steadily empowered the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor, offering tax breaks for the wealthy and dilution (or abolition) of government regulation, opposition to unions, and support of whatever it may take for those who are rich to stay rich. Their mantra is not, in any sense, democracy. Like Hamilton, they are satisfied with the idea of a permanent wealthy class, insulated from democracy altogether. According to free marketeers, equality of opportunity is not the test of a good society. Fairness is not the test. Justice is not the test. Religious compassion is not the test. The market will encourage all these benefits without government. If, lamentably, greed is the driver for all this, that is acceptable because the result of great greed is great good. Further, the market determines those who are morally right so that those who cannot afford health care must be morally wrong. Morally deficient people may be vilified and attacked at town hall meetings, shouted down and embarrassed during this August recess of Congress. These mobs seek to overwhelm that other stream of American democracy, the Jeffersonian belief that wisdom and reason may be found in the common people, in their education, and in their health. The Hamiltonians are still seeking to stifle the idea that equality is also a value in America, that fairness is a value and that decency, compassion and respect were primary in settling the frontier, are primary in raising children, and will always be primary to establish a civil society. The free market may choose to operate entirely independent of these values and sometimes in outright contradiction to them. Without regulation that free market tends to value profit in the short term more than community in the long term. Without control the free market forgets and all those shouters and screamers at town meetings are forgetting that there are even more ancient rights than the right of the wealthy to remain wealthy.Commentary written by Craig Barnes

American Life League explains the dangerous consequences the Freedom of Choice Act poses to preborn babies throughout the country.

I AM ZUMWALT has unearthed this Original Reagan Girl video from 1984. Obama girl totally ripped her off!!!

Economist and 1976 Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman makes his case for Ronald Reagan's tax cuts on this 1982 installment of Meet the Press.