Archive for November, 2007

They Dream of Disney?

The suburban Pittsburgh Upper St. Clair School District has settled on how they will honor Ronald Reagan after three years of discussions. They’d pondered naming a school or a theatre after the late President, but have decided on a “Hall of Presidents.” Just what the Hall will contain isn’t clear, […]

Sword of the Republic,Sheathed
The Washington Post sends us hurtling back in time to the white hot passions of the Clinton Impeachment Trial. One time Impeachment Trial Manager James Rogin lost his House seat in the wake of the trial, and is now a state judge in California.
He’s been reaching out […]

The Youth of Today: No respect.
“Went out Friday in Long Beach, stayed in Saturday, and went to the Nixon Library on Sunday where I touched a large piece of the Berlin Wall (so cool).”

In the {Philadelphia Inquirer, Jack Ayer reviews Conrad Black’s Nixon opus, and pulls a fine Black apologia for Nixon:
“The aggregate is what must rank as one of the oddest summaries for any career: “not a uniquely sleazy president, but was treated as one.””
Haunting parallel alert: Black faces sentencing Friday.

That Bush-Reagan Thing
“…he wasn’t a part of that Bush-Reagan thing, I was a part of that Bush-Reagan thing”
With these bold if inarticulate words, Mike Huckabee affirms his Reagan Correctness and threw down the gauntlet to would-be Reagan lover Mitt Romney.
Romney wrapped himself in Reagan’s banner and responded with his own […]