Executive Action After Report? 
It’s like the Anna Nicole Smith saga with a slightly more charismatic Larry Birkhead.
The supposed John F. Kennedy lovechild has spoken to Canada’s Globe & Mail, thirsting for dynastic DNA.
The author of A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage is mobilized
to offer up quotes on JFK “vigor” before confessing,”It seems a little sordid, frankly.”
Whoever he is, he does have that Kennedy flair for self-dramatizing. He disdains Uncle Teddy’s choice when asked about US Presidential politics, flattering politics today’s ramshackle accumulation of notions and panders by elevating them to “dogma”!
“Jack said he did not cast a ballot in the recent Super Tuesday primaries, adding that he is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. “I couldn’t imagine my mind being hijacked by dogma like that,” he said.”
That’s sure to disappoint the Vancouver chapter chair of Democrats Abroad, who earlier enthused:
“If this was somehow true and he was willing to sort of promote Democrats Abroad and the ability of people in Vancouver and actually all through Canada to vote from abroad in the U.S. election, then I’d be happy if that was the outcome.”
The Long Courtship 
Ike’s Republican granddaughter has endorsed Barack Obama.
Susan Eisenhower got placed on the Washington Post op-ed page on a Saturday, and one suspects it will be portrayed as lacking the torchlight passing magic of the Caroline n’ Ted event last week.
Unmentioned is her husband Roald Sagdeev, Russian scientist and 
Hero of Socialist Labor.
For you all you Presidential who-went-where-when obsessives, The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry/ Civil War Musings blog has a roundup on Presidential visits to the Antietam battlefield near Washington.
With the special bonus of extensively documenting future President McKinley’s participation in the battle, where he heroically shuffled coffee to the front lines under fire.
Masks of Stateliness 
Matthew Yglesias sums up the current political search for Daddy’s old clothes:
“The Republican hagiography of Ronald Reagan is embarrassing but the JFK business is even more detached from reality.”
Arson Investigation[Simulation]
“Sleepless In Midland” gets all crime scene investigatory on the Bush home arson.
The blogger seems to believe they found the source of the crime:
“V” for Victory?
“…notice the “V” shape of the fire damage on the wall to the left of the front door suggesting that the heat spread upward from a point on the porch. And you can also see a charred spot on the cement porch that could be the spot where the fire investigators thought the fire originated. So one possible assumption is that an accelerant was poured on the cement porch and set ablaze. But a chemical analysis would be necessary to confirm that.”
Even as a long time fan of blurry grassy knoll action 
I have to confess I don’t see it.
For the Bush arson completist, the blog does provide a thoughtful link to the town’s press release regarding the fire.
Other Citizen-Journalists share their views.
In other Presidential Hot Spots, the Richard M. Nixon Recreational Center in Hyden Kentucky has had a boiler room fire. 
The Rec Center’s 1978 dedication was the scene of one of Nixon’s first public outings 
after his resignation, visiting the federal fund-loving mountain Republicans of the obscure hamlet.
