BERLIN WALL Archive

Freedom Sold Separately!  
National Treasure [& long time PresidentsRUs favorite] Al Kamen fills a Friday Washington Post column with updates on the George W. Bush Presidential Library’s exciting “Freedom Registry.”
As faithful readers are aware, the Registry lists donors to the Bush Library project, starting at the low low price of just $50.
Now Kamen reports it […]

When Analogies Fail: Freedom’s Ramparts Or Iron Curtain? 
Old Reliable, Ronald Reagan, has been summened once more to freedom’s cause.  Or something.
Wonkette brings us this playful image from a Boston Teabag rally, and we can only speculate where the poster’s creator was coming from.
It appears that the Berlin Wall, having not yet crumbled […]

…And We’ll Never Hear The End Of It
French President Nicolas Sarkozy joins the line of hero’s taking credit for Communism’s demise.
From the Daily Mail via Wonkette comes news that the small but perfectly formed pol has posted a Facebook photo and copy which appears to place him amidst Freedom’s Chiselers® taking a whack at […]

Better Read   
The Thousand Oaks Acorn visits the Reagan Library, dipped in history.
From tiny acorns some mighty old chestnuts swell, as the Reagan Presidential Library finds a willing conduit for its Berlin Wall fantasies.
The Library is going all out to forever tie the Wall’s collapse to Reagan’s utterances, with the keen […]

Media Fight Among Selves Over Who Killed Communism, Reagan Apparently Not Present
Your Role In Its Downfall 
Yet another instance of European condescension towards Ronald Reagan, The Man Who Wasn’t There®.
A spat amongst former East Berlin correspondents over who triggered an East German official’s incoherent statement which opened the Berlin Wall has somehow completely ignored Reagan.
Riccardo […]