# ronald reagan (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ronald reagan. Page: Feed: --- ## [August 23, 1926: Rudolph Valentino Dies](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-23-1926-rudolph-valentino-dies.html) _2026-08-23 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 23, 1926, 100 years ago: Rudolph Valentino dies of peritonitis, the result of appendicitis. There were no antibiotics in those days, so the biggest movie star of the moment was dead at the age of 31. He was born on May 6, 1895, 3 months after Babe Ruth, in Castellaneta, at the top of the "heel" in "the boot of Italy," with the name Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di… ## [Yanks Sweep the Birds In the Baltimore Bandbox](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/yanks-sweep-birds-in-baltimore-bandbox.html) _2026-08-21 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ Certain people who hate the Yankees, especially Met fans, claim that Yankee Stadium II is "a little league park," where it's too easy to hit home runs. They forget that the short porch in right field gets canceled out by "Death Valley" in left and center. If there's "a little league park" in the American League East, it's not The House That Steinbrenner Built. Nor is it Fenway Park, the little… ## [August 21, 1901: "What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City" Is Filmed](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-21-1901-what-happened-on-twenty.html) _2026-08-21 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 21, 1901, 125 years ago: What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City is filmed. Technically, it's a documentary, but nobody called it that at the time: Then, films using footage of ordinary scenes like this were called "actuality films." It lasts only 1 minute and 17 seconds. But it is one of the earliest truly memorable films. The camera was operated, and thus the film was… ## [August 19, 1976: Regrets at the Republican Convention](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-19-1976-regrets-at-republican.html) _2026-08-19 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ Ford welcomes Reagan to the rostrum, as Nancy Reagan (left) and Nelson Rockefeller (right) look on August 19, 1976, 50 years ago: The Republican National Convention wraps up, at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. Hearing the speakers talk of upcoming victory, in the Presidential election and in the Congressional elections, you'd never know they were 2 years out from a President of their… ## [August 19, 1951: The Eddie Gaedel Game](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-19-1951-eddie-gaedel-game.html) _2026-08-19 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 19, 1951, 75 years ago: Eddie Gaedel makes his major league debut. He reaches base in his 1st plate appearance. He never makes a 2nd. Born on February 9, 1914 in Chicago, William Louis Veeck Jr. was the son of a Chicago Cubs executive, and, in 1937, was responsible for putting the ivy on the brick outfield wall at Wrigley Field, and supervised the building of the hand-operated scoreboard… ## [August 19, 1936: The Assassination of Federico García Lorca](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-19-1936-assassination-of.html) _2026-08-19 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 19, 1936, 90 years ago: Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet, playwright and theater director, is assassinated near Alfacar, Granada, in the southern region of Spain, known as Andalusia. He was 38 years old. Born on on June 5, 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, outside Granada, García Lorca gained fame as a member of "The Generation of '27," a group of Spanish poets that tapped into the European… ## [Yanks Struggle to Score Over the Border](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/yanks-struggle-to-score-over-border.html) _2026-08-17 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ Over the weekend, the Yankees' injury-induced difficulty in scoring runs continued, over the border in Toronto. And those pesky Blue Jays took advantage, nearly sweeping the series. When it should have been the other way around. On Friday night, Gerrit Cole pitched 6 innings, allowing 2 runs, 1 of them earned, 5 hits and 2 walks, striking out 5. On Saturday afternoon, Cam Schlittler went 5 1/3rd… ## [August 17, 1986: Baseball's Last Player-Manager; or, Pete Rose's Last Game](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-17-1986-baseballs-last-player.html) _2026-08-17 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 17, 1986, 40 years ago: The San Diego Padres beat the Cincinnati Reds, 9-5 at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. John Kruk hits a home run for the Padres, and Tony Gwynn goes 3-for-5 with an RBI. For the Reds, Buddy Bell and Barry Larkin hit home runs. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds manager Pete Rose, 45 years old, sent himself up to bat, to pinch-hit for pitcher Ron Robinson. Against… ## [August 17, 1876: Richard Wagner Completes His "Ring Cycle"](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-17-1876-richard-wagner-completes.html) _2026-08-17 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 17, 1876, 150 years ago: Götterdämmerung premieres, as part of the opening festival of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. It is the 1st performance in the final part of Richard Wagner's operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) . Born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Saxony, Richard Wagner (pronounced "REE-kard VOG-ner"), 61 years old at the time of the… ## [August 16, 1996: Major League Baseball In Mexico](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-16-1996-major-league-baseball-in.html) _2026-08-17 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 16, 1996, 30 years ago: For the 1st time, a regular-season Major League Baseball game is played in a country other than the United States of America and Canada. It was the 1st game in a 3-game series between the New York Mets and the San Diego Padres at the Estadio de B éisbol de Monterrey, Nuevo León , Mexico. The reason was that the Republican Party was holding its National Convention at… ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ejnCjKEkBvi6) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [Tommy John, 1943-2026](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/tommy-john-1943-2026.html) _2026-08-16 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ Before the surgery, for 31 years, there was the man. After the surgery debuted, for 52 years, there was the man. And, as rough as the condition that requires the surgery, and the return from it, can be, you'd much rather have the surgery named for Tommy John than the disease named for an earlier Yankee star, Lou Gehrig. Thomas Edward John Jr. was born on May 22, 1943 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He… ## [August 16, 1951: The Delaware Memorial Bridge Opens](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/august-16-1951-delaware-memorial-bridge.html) _2026-08-16 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 16, 1951, 75 years ago: The Delaware Memorial Bridge opens, connecting New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware and Pennsville, Salem County, New Jersey, over the Delaware River. It is operated by the Delaware River and Bay Authority. It is 5 miles southeast of Rodney Square in Wilmington; 34 miles southwest of Center City, Philadelphia; 50 miles north of Legislative Hall (Delaware's State… ## [The King and the Sultan](https://unclemikesmusings.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-king-and-sultan.html) _2026-08-16 · Uncle Mike · Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More_ August 16, 1948: George Herman "Babe" Ruth dies of throat cancer in New York. He was 53 years old. August 16, 1977: Elvis Presley dies of a drug-aided heart attack in Memphis. He was 42. Recently, on Facebook, I saw somebody compare Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll, the greatest of all popular singers; to the Babe, the Sultan of Swat, the greatest of all baseball players. Actually, the Babe and… ## [Lincoln: "Come back to the Declaration of Independence!"](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/lincoln-come-back-to-the-declaration) _2026-05-06 · The Life and Liberty Report_ “These communities, \[the Fathers of the Republic,\] by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ ## [ICE punishes another legal immigrant for following the law](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/ice-punishes-another-legal-immigrant) _2026-03-10 · Siena Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ Hai Nguyen did all the right things to work legally in the United States. ## [Trump is lying about non-citizen immigrants voting](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/trump-is-lying-about-non-citizen) _2026-02-14 · Tom Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ Cato: "Trump’s Claims About Noncitizens Voting Are False. We Can Prove It." ## [The 25th Amendment does not require the president's cabinet](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/the-25th-amendment-does-not-require) _2026-01-21 · Siena Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ It is often assumed that the 25th Amendment requires cooperation of presidential cabinet members to determine whether a president is unfit and should be removed. ## [THE ROCKS THAT ROARED: DOLOMITE AND THE FLOOD](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/the-rocks-that-roared-dolomite-and) _2026-01-14 · Tom Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ Biblical Creation ## [CapitolCrimes.net: A faithful timeline of January 6, 2021](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/capitolcrimesnet-a-faithful-timeline) _2026-01-07 · The Life and Liberty Report_ Setting the record straight ## [Ronald Reagan 1988 State of the Union Address on trade with Canada and Mexico](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/ronald-reagan-1988-state-of-the-union) _2025-10-24 · Tom Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ Trump is the anti-Reagan [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/177040566/8b211a04465981937cf4cfb58f2bc46b.mp3) ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YiDhJUiIjLDl) _2025-10-24 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [More trade and tariff wisdom from Ronald Reagan](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/more-trade-and-tariff-wisdom-from) _2025-10-24 · Tom Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ Take that, MAGA [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/177032915/caed1389dc9e83800786643b52e15c5a.mp3) ## [Canadians share what Reagan said about tariffs, so Trump cuts off trade talks](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/canadians-share-what-reagan-said) _2025-10-24 · Tom Hoefling · The Life and Liberty Report_ Trump thinks Reagan's words in this video are FAKE and FRAUDULENT, but they're not. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/177017209/a20e8f11b23e0e0fddfd6386b7355138.mp3) ## [Message to Israel: Do NOT trust Trump](https://lifeandliberty.substack.com/p/message-to-israel-do-not-trust-trump) _2025-05-15 · The Life and Liberty Report_ Trump praised the Jihadist president of Syria as an “attractive guy,” and “a fighter” with a “very strong past.”