Sad In Springfield  
Another Presidential Library head has been arrested for thievery, and now fired.
If convicted, the Abraham Lincoln Library’s Richard E. Beard may join former Theodore Roosevelt Association director Edward Renehan in prison.
What might Beard go up the river for? Shoplifting DVDs of House and Seinfeld .
A Theft About Nothing?  
Presidential Libraries seem to attract their own criminal class, so lets get busy.
Another bust and we have a trend!
Transparency claims another victim 
Ford’s Theater announced last year that it would morph into a center for the study of Lincoln leadership, teaching timeless lessons in the shadow of a Disneyfied assassination site.
Now the glorious plans are unfolding, and an early casualty of”opening up” Ford’s may be the bloody clothes Lincoln wore the night he was shot. Conservators complain that the Theatre’s plans to display them in its fancy new lobby will allow ultraviolet rays to slowly destroy the garments.
But “producing director” Paul Tetreault says the show will go on. And Presidential museum enabler Richard Norton Smith says you can’t have a pilgrimage without relics.
All The People, All The Time 
The US Mint clambers aboard the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial with an offering of four exciting new designs to replace that tired old Lincoln Memorial.
Most problematic is the salute to Lincoln’s Kentucky birthplace, whose centerpiece is a cabin sometimes billed as the place of Lincoln’s birth.  
    The National Park Service administers the site, but even they acknowledge the building is a fake.
It Came From The Heartland! 
The apparently desperate boredom of the Great Plains has led a coven of University of Illinois students to slap together what we can only hope is the world’s first film featuring Father Abraham as a bloodsucker.
The Springfield premier is this weekend.
You have been warned.
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.
