…And We’ll Never Hear The End Of It
French President Nicolas Sarkozy joins the line of hero’s taking credit for Communism’s’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 […]

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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 […]

For Now                
London Conservative activists have received local government planning permission to erect sixteen feet of Ronald Reagan statue outside America’s Grosvenor Square embassy, but the statue may become an orphan when a new embassy is built in South London.
Westminster Council overrode its own rule that monument subjects must be dead ten years, and […]

Bridgehead Regained?
A ten-foot bronze Ronald Reagan statue somehow incorporating the Berlin Wall may overcome setbacks which would stop lesser metal, and be erected at America’s London embassy.
The proposed statue was rejected last year on the grounds Reagan had not been dead long enough,  and/or because it was “lacking gravitas.”  One account has the statue’s […]