He Certainly Looks Comfortable! 
Numismatic News provides a thorough if meandering round-up of past, present and prospective Ronald Reagan coins.
In the course of wandering from our old friend Grover Norquist’s Reagan Naming Mania to the FDR Memorial to the sad saga of the Reagan Ten Dollar Bill bill, the highlight is the length Reagan was willing to go for a pretty coin.
“A little known sidelight about Reagan is his devotion to medallic art. When it came time for his presidential inaugural medal to be produced, his is one of the few that is a virtual straight-on portrait (one of the most difficult to produce) – its success assured by his willingness to sit for a life mask (a process involving breathing through straws into the nostrils, while fresh plaster is poured over the face).”
It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane! 
Reagan’s ready to launch, as yet another celebration of his mad dream of missile defense is marked. This time it’s at Vandenberg Air Force Base, site of the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Site.
NATO meanwhile has signed on to President George Bush’s latest version of the scheme, or at least the parking some missile detection systems in Eastern Europe.
And lest there be any doubt, it’s not just the United States Air Force, it’s “America’s Air Force!” 
That 70s Show 
The Rockford Register Star takes a loving look back at Gerald Ford’s 1976 visit to town for some reason, and what a time it was!
What stands out is the Ron Burgundy look of the Secret Service at the time, combined with the retro auto running board.
A touching remnant of the Republican Side-burn Era
Why The Nixon? 
Fresh from hobnobbing with the Burmese junta, conservative talk radio titan and Jew-On-The-Go Dennis Prager takes his act to the Nixon Library out buildings today.
We are told that everything changed, that the Nixon Library has been stripped of it’s discredited Watergate exhibit, that steady historian hands are in charge now. Their writ may not run to the Nixon”East Room” where Prager will hold forth. 
It’s vast whale of space attached to the Library and rent-able for your function, like the White House East Room if it had skylights and an enormous Presidential seal slapped on the floor.
The Nixon Library is open enough to drive away Jewish events in recent years, but Prager is the sort to remember Nixon as the first President to visit Israel, rather than the anti-Semite the Nixon archives reveal.
Prager has his own troubles with religious minorities. His crusade against first-in-the-nation Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison using a Koran for swearing-in staging was widely mocked. Prager’s bible thumping [“America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on“] invented a rule which didn’t exist, and when he got called on it claimed he was being persecuted.
Prager is a Bush appointee on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which distanced itself from him in the controversy.
Hillary Walks! 
The Associated Press says Hillary Clinton has narrowly escaped testifying about hundreds of FBI files the White House amassed during her husband’s administration.
“Had Clinton been forced to testify, it would have rekindled a controversy in the midst of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.”
“Controversy” implies items in dispute, and the AP let the clowns suing Clinton refer to her as “the defendant.” But according to the Associated Press:
“An Independent Counsel report in 2000 found no evidence of wrongdoing by White House aides or Clinton.”
Whatever might have happened?
Clinton patsy Ken Starr deposed Hillary Clinton on this in 1998. And in the end, the Independent Counsel Final Report In Re: Anthony Marceca said Hillary didn’t do it, and it didn’t exist.
“…there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official, or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was involved in seeking confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation background reports of former White House staff from the administrations of President Bush and President Reagan.”
“The Independent Counsel has, however, concluded that the allegations giving rise to this Office’s investigation of the matter were not substantiated by the evidence.”
