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During the week in June 2004 when we celebrated the life of Ronald Reagan, one of the most moving offerings was written by Mark Steyn. He brought it back for a look.
… Yakob Ravin, a Ukrainian émigré who in the summer of 1997 happened to be strolling with his grandson in Armand Hammer Park near Reagan’s California home. They chanced to see the former President, out taking a walk. Mr Ravin went over and asked if he could take a picture of the boy and the President. When they got back home to Ohio, it appeared in the local newspaper, The Toledo Blade.
Ronald Reagan was three years into the decade-long twilight of his illness, and unable to recognize most of his colleagues from the Washington days. But Mr Ravin wanted to express his appreciation. “Mr President,†he said, “thank you for everything you did for the Jewish people, for Soviet people, to destroy the Communist empire.â€
And somewhere deep within there was a flicker of recognition. “Yes,†said the old man, “that is my job.â€
Yes, that was his job.
Power Line with some nifty posts. First on Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech. Then on the Dem leadership in congress.
Debra Saunders writes on the 1999 launch of a federal anti-drug program to drive up the street price of cocaine. How’s that working out?
… “Can you tell me any other product that has gone down in price in the last few years?” Curtis asked — and you can’t include technological products that change. Think milk or bread or beef.
Those consumer prices are not falling. It takes a Washington-born government program — designed to drive up the price of cocaine — to drive down the cost of cocaine. The one thing drug warriors never demand of an American anti-drug program is that it actually work.
Speaking of useless government, Instapundit with a PorkBusters update.
David Warren, our favorite Canadian says there’s “no price too high for human liberty.”
IBD’s last in the 10-part Carter series.
… It’s tempting to think of the Carter Administration’s seemingly endless series of catastrophes as an aberration brought on by a yokel peanut farmer. In fact, the former Georgia governor’s thinking as president strongly resembles that of Democrats today: …
Ed Koch, our favorite Dem mayor deconstructs a NY Times editorial page.
… When I read the Times editorial page on June 6th, I was deeply disappointed. Why? Because on one day, in the same issue, three of the four Times editorials struck me as mean-spirited, lacking balance and just plain dumb. …
… The Times is so blinded by its fury on the Iraq war and its hatred of President Bush that its editorial board can’t think straight …
Stuart Taylor in ‘let’s beat up the NY Times day’ writes on another editorial. This is somewhat long, but if you have the time, it is one of a long line of Times items that display the paper’s bias.
Same theme but mercifully short from American Thinker.