Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing | Words To Live By

Very recommendable! Have a rendezvous with destiny!

Very timely! Most is still very true today! One of his best speeches! This speech contains many of his famous expressions!

Will President Trump live up to expectations if elected?

Barry Goldwater: Photographs & Memories of Arizona

This new, upcoming PBS episode ought to be interesting!

 

"Barry Goldwater is known worldwide as a politician [presidential candidate in 1964] and statesman, but this is the story of the man behind the camera and the passion for photography and Arizona that shaped his life.The program features photographs taken during the 1930s and 1940s as Goldwater traveled throughout Arizona, capturing images of indigenous people and landscapes."

From the Vault preview - Arizona PBS

Very disappointing Arizona 2020 election results

At this time (11/4/2020, at about Noon MST), only 85% of the votes were counted as reported.

However, it seems that Biden won in the Barry Goldwater state! This is probably due to a significant extent to the huge net migration from other states into Arizona in recent years (especially from e.g. California).

There was also libertarian running for president in Arizona. Unfortunately, this candidate diverted at least 1.4% of the votes!

Now, AZ will have two dimocratic U.S. Senators. Horrible!

Arizona's voters approved two controversial ballot initiatives. I blogged here and here about them.

One is sadly reminded of one of Ronald Reagan's most famous quotes: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Arizona, a state where you would have expected rugged individualism to prevail in the end succumbed to socialism and Big Government!
Time to think about moving away from Arizona! Maybe Texas?

Reagan’s A Time For Choosing Speech

Posted: 7/14/2018

I don’t think I have ever heard or watched the entire about 30 minutes long speech by Reagan before today. I probably have heard or read excerpt of it before. Thanks to YouTube and the Reagan Foundation I finally watched the entirety of this original recording of his famous speech here.

Perhaps one of Reagan's very best speeches! Goldwater most likely would have been a much better president than LBJ.

Reagan's speech is still so true today it is almost scary and it is a sad state of affairs in the U.S. Even the probably best U.S. president since President Calvin Coolidge could not reverse Big Government and the expanding socialism in this country as he had described it so vividly in his excellent speech of 1964.

What If You Live In The Desert And Your Last Name Contains Water

Posted: 12/4/2016

Meet Barry Goldwater and Herb Drinkwater (a.k.a. Mr. Scottsdale, longtime Mayor of Scottsdale, AZ, who made Scottsdale into what it is today). Both are prominent and fairly contemporaneous politicians from Arizona.