Who Would Sarah Shoot?  
The thrilling details of Sarah Palin’s Secret Service code name have been revealed to an anxious public, usually accompanied by boilerplate explaining how pretty Denali National Park is. Passed over in Palin’s moniker acceptance is her slap at our martyred 25th president.
Denali is the Native Alaskan name for Mount McKinley, the nation’s tallest peak.  
 Thoughtful Alaskans prefer Denali to the name imposed by the Colossus of The South.
We’ve all enjoyed the disproved allegations of Palin’s Alaska Independence Party membership, while pocketing her husband’s.
  Denali-ing aligns Palin with one of the weirder parts of the AIP legend, in which white, often immigrant Alaskans try to drape themselves in the rags of the oppressed natives.
Shuffled Off From Buffalo 
Buds 
Drowsyobserver has an excellent find from the Clinton Library, in which we discover the silver fox’s heretofore unexplored relationship with the beloved Tony Orlando of sitcom television, Tony Danza.
A Very Special Agent 
The Washington Post reports new material on Gerry Ford’s proud past as one of our FBI Informant/Presidents.
Ford’s leaking on the Warren Commission to troglodytious J.Edgar Hoover has surfaced before, but the Post FOIA’d Ford’s FBI file, and has new detail.
Friend To All
Ford’s fellow Friend of the Bureau was of course Ronald Reagan.
Name In Vain 
Hope Arkansas’s Second Son Mike Huckabee graced the stage at the Republican convention’s Wednesday session, offering up democrat and god fearin’.
Sadly the Arkansas Augustus has been caught out making up a Lincoln quote, the gist of which is to make Old Abe an enemy of big government. It’s been attributed to much of the Founders pantheon, but it’s really just a Gerry Ford line from the 70s.
The whitest Republican convention in forty years remains eager to drop Lincoln’s name, the latest being both Cindi and John McCain Thursday night.
 You’d think she might shy away from the word Lincoln.
