OPINION March 24, 2020 Craig Shirley: What coronavirus-era Americans can learn about sacrifice from the World War II generation Sacrifice? commitment? Americans of the 21st century have no idea of the sacrifices made during World War II.
OPINION July 11, 2019 Newt Gingrich, Craig Shirley: The real story of the Clinton crime bill As Democrats continue to pummel former Vice President Joe Biden for his vote on the Clinton administration’s crime bill in 1994, we thought it was important to set the record straight on what that legislation was – and what it wasn’t.
OPINION May 7, 2019 Richard Viguerie and Craig Shirley: Trump’s next battle: McConnell and the GOP Swamp Trump is by nature a disruptor and conservatives like us have yearned for a fighter against the Washington establishment.
OPINION October 31, 2018 Trump shouldn’t withdraw from nuclear arms control treaty with Russia A crowning achievement of the Ronald Reagan presidency – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987 – could soon be eliminated by President Trump. Trump’s announced intention to withdraw from this important arms control treaty with Russia would be a big mistake that would make our dangerous world even more dangerous.
Taxes October 9, 2017 Mr. Trump, Reagan used tax cuts to check the power of the state. You can, too Tax-cutting fever is in the air again and many of Washington’s talking heads are citing the tax policy of Ronald Reagan but with many of them getting the Gipper wrong.
Europe June 12, 2017 Reagan's Berlin Wall speech 30 years later: 'Tear down this wall' still stands It was President Ronald Reagan – provocative to some, strong to others – who looked at the Soviet Union straight in the eye, and did not blink.
Opinion May 7, 2015 Commonsense Reagan vs. Elitist Obama President Obama is a product of the Facebook generation, superb at self-promotion, less talented in other areas.
Opinion May 7, 2015 There's No Similarity Between Reagan and Obama Enough with the incessant comparisons between 1982 and 2010. There is no comparison, mainly because even though Reagan's popularity had sagged and support for Reaganomics had fallen, when pressed, the American people still believed in Reagan's prescriptions. Not true for Obama.
Opinion May 7, 2015 Days of 'Malaise' and Jimmy Carter's Solar Panels Let's cast our mind back to the days of Jimmy Carter. Here's the truth. -- There was no energy crisis. There was a crisis of harebrained government regulators, interfering with the free market, who created the problems in the first place.
Opinion May 7, 2015 Barack Obama A Better President than Reagan? No Chance Objectively, how does one really put Obama ahead of Reagan, who unlike FDR, solved his economic calamity in two years (and in the process, tamed the high inflation, high interest rates and created 19 million jobs in the private sector) and, oh by way, won the Cold War.
