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Top of the Ticket: How the State Department tried to derail Reagan's 'Tear down this wall' speech in Berlin [video]
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Doug Ross @ Journal: A Wall, A Narcissist, and a Case of Badly Mistaken Priorities
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The Power of Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech - http://bit.ly/3oVg6Z #tcot 12 days ago |
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Great story on Reagan's leadership & doing the right thing despite what the experts think you should do. http://bit.ly/usfE4 4 Little Words 12 days ago |
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RT @Kristokoff: Four Little Words http://bit.ly/usfE4 #tcot WSJ \\"Tear Down This Wall" 13 days ago |
How the State Department tried to derail Reagan's 'Tear down this wall' speech in Berlin [video]
Top of the Ticket —
... Writing in today's Wall Street Journal, Dolan said, "With a fervor and relentlessness I hadn't seen over the prior seven years ... they kept up the pressure until the morning Reagan spoke the line." ...
Tuesday morning links, posted early
Maggie's Farm —
... and bad consequences will flow from this bill.
Explaining Rent-Seeking
Some insurance plans cover abortions? News to me. That's strange. Abortion is a totally elective procedure. Doc, I have a little growth in my uterus. What do "rights" have to do with freebies? I have the right to own guns, but not for the gummint to buy them for me.
The Obama politics of the Berlin Wall. Related in the WSJ: Four Little Words
China's race problem.
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A Wall, A Narcissist, and a Case of Badly Mistaken Priorities
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... ' Compared to Barack Obama's extraordinarily narcissistic speech in Berlin during the campaign (for which he also found time) -- "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" -- Ronald Reagan's 'four little words' in Berlin actually meant something. Idea : Richard. Labels: ...
The Wall, The Fort, and a Movie: The Real Disaster of 2012
The American Spectator —
... what all of the above advise him not to do. He cuts taxes. He pushes hard on missile defense. He refuses to negotiate with Soviet leaders when all of his predecessors have, and he walks out of a summit… something that none of his predecessors would ever think of doing. And he flatly refuses to take four simple words out of his speech in Berlin. The words are now etched in human history: " Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." For a superb recounting of this episode, here's a link to a great piece from my former down-the-hall colleague Tony Dolan over at the Wall Street ...
Peter Robinson corrects the record
Power Line —
... Thinking along the same lines we were, the Wall Street Journal published chief Reagan speechwriter Tony Dolan's account of Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech in connection with the twentieth anniversary celebration of the fall of the Wall in Berlin on Monday. We posted ...
