Topic - Ronald Reagan

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  FIELDS: Oscar reflections of a smaller America

  If you're tired of watching the Republican debates, tune in Sunday night to the Academy Awards. The night will show off beautiful eye candy for both men and women, diversion with glitz. We once worried about protecting the children from "inappropriate" movies, but now the candidates talk about condoms and abortions and adultery scandals. With pop culture awash in sex and violence, movie themes can hardly shock. This year's crop of Oscar movies is mild indeed.

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  KEENE: Time to stop kidding ourselves

  Rick Santorum's surge in Michigan and beyond has everyone in a tizzy. Those who like Rick believe he'll make the strongest general election candidate or the best president. Those who just don't like Mitt Romney are ecstatic. Yet voters who don't share either the strong opinion of Rick or his chances should he actually win the GOP nomination don't quite know what to do.

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  Inside the Beltway

  High noon, Presidents Day, the Washington Monument: a highly charged venue for Veterans for Ron Paul, who will march in military formation from monument to White House on Monday to show their devotion to the Republican presidential hopeful.

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  Romney shows trouble keeping supporters from 2008

  Mitt Romney's second go-round at a presidential run is not going so well. Nine states have voted so far, and in six of them the former Massachusetts governor has received fewer votes than he did four years ago.

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  STANLEY: MSNBC blacklists Buchanan

  It's official: Pat Buchanan has been fired from MSNBC. Mr. Buchanan broke the news with a blistering column that charged liberals with "blacklisting" him from the network. He wrote, "The modus operandi of these thought police ... is to brand as racists and anti-Semites any writer who dares to venture outside the narrow corral in which they seek to confine debate. All the while prattling about their love of dissent and devotion to the First Amendment, they seek systematically to silence and censor dissent."

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's unilateral disarmament

  President Obama is working to realize the leftist dream of unilateral nuclear disarmament. This will leave the United States pitifully weak and create conditions for catastrophic deterrence failure.

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  PEIKOFF: Holding out for a political hero

  Now more than ever, Americans want to be inspired by their political leaders, and true leadership is needed desperately. The economy, not just in the United States but worldwide, is in dire straits. Rapidly escalating debt, overextended entitlement programs, immigration and health care all present domestic problems that require intelligent, principled solutions.

• HURT: Pious pretenders should blame themselves

  The shocker out of the fracas over President Obama forcing contraceptives on everybody has been how all these suddenly pious politicians and appeasing religious leaders who paved the way for Obamacare pretend to be surprised that the right to rubbers, diaphragms and pills has been enshrined in the pantheon of American rights, up there with free speech.

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  The List: Best Valentine's Day movies

  "Lady and the Tramp," "Heaven Can Wait," "A Star Is Born" and "Gone With the Wind" are just some of the films perfect for a romantic evening this Feb. 14.

• WILLIAMS: Conservatives win elections

  Democrats are, and have always been, getting their way on taxing and spending. Here's proof of that: Government spending went up in 2011, despite the debt-ceiling showdown over the summer and at least three potential government shutdowns.

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  KNIGHT: Paper-thin cover for liberal agenda

  Although I get a lot of news online, I love to read real newspapers. You can linger forever on a particular page without getting eye strain, or you can physically flip it with gusto to show your contempt for what some editor thought should be holding your interest.

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  Lawmaker: Obama wooing youth vote with tuition costs

  President Obama keeps tossing ideas to curb rising college tuition costs against the wall in the hope that a few will stick and re-energize young voters ahead of the November election, the Republican chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee contends.

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  More airports to get less-hassle screening

  A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, including all three Washington-area airports by year's end, the government said Wednesday.

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  Worried conservatives descend on Washington's CPAC

  Bound by a common desire to deny President Obama a second term, restive activists gathering Thursday for the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington find themselves lacking a clear champion in the suddenly scrambled Republican race to choose an alternative.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Romney isn't the one

  I must express my frustration and despair over the deceit in this election year of the mainstream media, as well as the gullibility of the "moderate Republican" establishment.

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