Author: Amy Ridenour

100,000 Undocumented Workers

From the mailbag on Fox New Channel's O'Reilly Factor: "[Mexico's President] Vincente Fox couldn't come to [President Reagan's] funeral, but he's sending 100,000 undocumented workers in his place." O'Reilly didn't mention it, but under Reagan, in 1986, illegal aliens were ...
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Reagan Commentaries

I'm indulging myself by commenting on some of the things I'm seeing on blogs and elsewhere online regarding coverage of our late President: Belmont Club praises Reagan, saying: It's hard to remember how downbeat, how beaten America was in 1984, ...
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Black Activists Decry Negative Reagan Media Coverage

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are taking issue with remarks being made by members of the television news media who are reporting that the Reagan Administration did not help black Americans during the 1980s and that Ronald ...
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Note from a Neighbor

Something nice in the mailbag today: When Ronald Regan visited Canada when he was President, my wife and I made up a large, very neat poster welcoming him ("Friends in Freedom" with the U.S. and Canadians flags, etc. - very ...
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More Praise from Black America

The National Center-sponsored African-American leadership network Project 21 issued a press release on Wednesday relaying members' sympathies to the friends and family of Ronald Reagan and praising his accomplishments. Not all of the quotes were received in time to be ...
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Krauthammer: Who’s First?

Except for the first clause, Charles Krauthammer's "Reagan Revisionism" in today's Washington Post is a must-read. Money quote: "'Optimism' is the perfect way to trivialize everything that Reagan was or did. Pangloss was an optimist. Harold Stassen was an optimist ...
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Reagan, African-Americans, and a Few Thoughts

A few words and a confession from National Center executive director David W. Almasi: In 1996, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found African-Americans almost equally split between conservative, moderate and liberal political beliefs. A Gallup Poll in ...
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Listening to Talk About Reagan

The was written by Christopher Blunt, president of Overbrook Research, a polling company. Blunt and David Almasi lived across the street from each other in college and were involved in campus political activism together during the Reagan Administration. David passed ...
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“This One Man Changed The World”

Executive Director David Almasi shares his experiences in paying respects to President Reagan at the Capitol Rotunda last night, and answers the question: Was paying respects worth standing eight hours in the heat? Immediately after the caisson carrying Ronald Reagan's ...
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Mourning the Passing of Ronald Reagan

Project 21 has released a statement, "Black Activists Mourn the Passing of Ronald Reagan." Some may also be interested in a What Conservatives Think document we published in January, "Reaganomics: Were the 1980s the Decade of Greed?" ...
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