Read All About It: Republican Teleprompter Tall Tales
Demand Your Prompt Refund! What with the tedious actual issues involved in federal budget fights, don’t we all need time to laugh?Step forward, Representative Scott Womack , sponsor of a World Net...
View ArticleBarack Obama, Grave Robber
Who’s Crying Now? From his controversial campaign embrace of Reagan nostalgia onward, Barack Obama has set Fantasy Reagan as the standard to be measured against. But he’s lacked the twinkling whimsy...
View Article9/11: What Becomes A Legend Most?
Your Presidential Libraries Never Forget The world will little remember reaching for the remote, desperate to squelch George Pataki’s insulting reading of the Gettysburg address on the first 9/11...
View ArticleLessen History
Ronald Reagan, Praise Be Upon Him Who’s the silent partner, the ghost who walks at Republican presidential debates? You know where this is going. Talking Points Memo looks at the numbers, and finds...
View ArticleReagan Deficit: Infectious Optimisim’s Troubled Past
Back In Black? Salute to hardest working man in show business David Weigel, for spotting Michael Reagan’s latest cry for help. Hopefully having exhausted the old “New Reagan” mine, the Ronald...
View ArticleReagan Real Estate: The New York Times Visits Sacramento
Castles In Dispair The Times’ “Home” section usually sticks to house porn of the bold and the beautiful. The trouble comes when they wander into check-able facts. The paper’s housing survey of...
View ArticleThe Mild, The Innocuous, & The K Street Shuffle
Over Done Fresh from mocking his real estate adventures, thoughtful observers have a new stick with which to beat mock socialogist David Brooks, while striking a glancing...
View ArticleWho’s The Leader of the Club That’s Made For You & Me?
R-O-N-A-L-D R-E-A-G-A-N! The New York Times takes note of an exciting new collaboration high above Semi Valley: the Reagan Presidential Library and the corporate heirs of Mickey Mouse, joining to...
View ArticleGiant Obama Sparks The Usual Death Wish
Gritty! The chamber of commerce from Hooters’ hometown builds a sand sculpture near the Democratic Convention site, and people pretend to be shocked that its cheesy. And the wingnut airforce rises in...
View ArticleNancy Reagan: History’s Handmaiden
America’s Widow® In Myth & Legend What can’t we recall about Eternal Former First Lady Nancy Reagan? A chronicle of her death foretold! Barack Obama’s shocking reference to Nancy’s astrology...
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