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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Sarah Palin was 16 when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president of the United States in 1981. On Feb. 4, the former governor of Alaska will give the keynote address at the opening of two days of festivities marking the late president's 100th birthday. Her speech at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, Calif., "will draw parallels to today, while calling on young people to continue the Reagan revolution into the future," according to Young America's Foundation, the sponsor of the event. Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, says she is considering a bid for the ...
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House and once again a leading Republican voice, passionately told students at the National Conservative Student Conference that during the midterm elections they could choose between the Left -- "the job killers" -- or the Right -- "the job creators." It was classic Gingrich. "Obama, Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi and Sen. (Harry) Reid represent a philosophy that kills jobs. They believe in trial lawyers, rules and regulations and unions," he said during a speech Tuesday at the conference at George Washington University in D.C., organized by Young America's ...
This year, Christmas came early for George Washington University's politically active campus. Commencement speaker announcements always kick up firestorms of controversy, as some students find their invited speaker to be too liberal or too conservative, too radical or too reactionary -- or just too darn disagreeable -- for the student body to handle. Most university students are fairly seasoned with the resulting political drama, and dismiss it as just political posturing -- yet, they don't expect to hear the calls of controversy and bias until March, or perhaps April. So when GWU's school ...
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