Ronald Reagan Passes Away

It's a sad day in America, as we've lost a great man: former President Ronald Reagan.

The 40th President, he was often thought of as the face of the new Conservative. To paraphrase Ted Kennedy, in his eulogy to his slain brother Robert in 1968: Ronald Reagan need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. His legacy needs no enlargement: The ending of the Cold War, restoring faith in the United States, re-establishing the United States as the superpower it remains to this day, turning around a moribund economy, and other accomplishments to numerous to mention.

I'd like to offer my condolences to his family. They'll be in my prayers, and I hope they'll be in yours.

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