April 13, 2009

Tea Parties, Tax Revolts and Real Change

On April 15, hundreds of tax day tea parties are going to the held both throughout Mississippi and the country. These gatherings of thousands average citizens throughout the country is an effort to show the concern about the current direction of...

August 29, 2006

Missile Defense: From Reagan's Vision to Today's Imperative

One day a madman could come along and make the missiles and blackmail all of us. — Ronald Reagan, to Mikhail Gorbachev, 1985 No doubt, President Reagan would have agreed with the Jack Ryan's, the hero of Tom Clancy's novels,  mentor in th...

July 11, 2005

Ex-communists and capitalism

Reality can sometimes be stranger than fiction.  In perhaps one of the most ironic turns in history, many of the countries from the former Soviet Union have enacted polices that Ronald Reagan would have enthusiastically supported.  Sev...

June 7, 2005

Ronald Reagan and the Opening Salvos in the War on Terror

We must all work to stamp out the scourge of terrorism that in the Middle East makes war an ever—present threat.а — Ronald Reagan The primary foreign policy focus of Ronald Reagan's Presidency was confronting and ultimately defeating the ...

May 13, 2005

Legacy lost: Ronald Reagan's tax simplification

To put it simply, our tax system is unfair, inequitable, counterproductive, and all but incomprehensible. I've mentioned before, and this is absolutely a fact, that even Albert Einstein had to write to the IRS for help with his Form 1040.  ...

April 13, 2005

Reagan's vision for Social Security reform

It has been over sixteen years since President Ronald Reagan saluted us from the steps of Marine One and left the world stage. Yet the power of his vision is still being felt. While it was not the centerpiece of his Presidency, Ronald Reagan was an e...