Before the day is out I want to be sure and remember two very important people who greatly influenced my life — Ronald Reagan, who would have been 100 today, and Ethel S. Lynch, who would have been 78. It would be hard to say more than what I wrote five years ago.

President Reagan, The Great Communicator, gave focus to my political thoughts. Mom gave me values. They both accomplished these things in a very similar manner. Not by saying, “this is what you should believe”, but by living out what they believed so clearly that there was no question as to what was in their heart.

Ronald Reagan was a success in Hollywood, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, Governor of California, and as President of the United States. Mom’s highest political office was in the local PTA. Her success was in her relationships with her family and friends. Here are three brief stories.

I do invite you to read the whole thing.

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Following the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama for his incredible record of, well, nothing, I pointed to an article in The American Spectator by Jeffry Lord. In the article he suggested that a real peace prize should be created and awarded in the name of someone who actually promoted peace and liberty around the world — Ronald Reagan.

The hard cold facts of history illustrate that the peace through strength policies initiated by President Reagan were a success. His belief in the importance of human freedom, in directly opposing tyranny and protecting liberty, combined with the maintenance and, when needed, projection of a strong military, ended the Cold War and the “evil empire” that was the Soviet Union. Reagan’s strategy freed millions of East Europeans enslaved since the end of the Second World War, which in turn was brought on by the inexcusably wrong-headed, naive if well-intentioned policies of one Nobel Peace Prize winner after another.

Jeffery has taken this idea and begun action to create Ronald Wilson Reagan Prize for Peace.

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