Invisible Men

Thanks to civilwarmemory for pointing to a recent post by John David Hoptak, a writer and Park Ranger at the Antietam National Battlefield.

Hoptak’s Antietam presentations on the battle and the contemporaneous drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation have stirred a vicious reaction from many Park visitors, […]

Innocent Abroad
So?
His response wasn’t quite that Cheneyesque, but would-be George W. Bush Library benefactor Steve Payne concedes nothing. He claims remarks are taken out of context, says his request of confidentiality was violated, and tells some more whoppers.

“I have been a victim of a confidence game sponsored by the paper. The […]

Aiming High
The Times of London has a Bush Pioneer on tape offering access to administration officials, possibly including Bush, for a fee of $600,000 to $750,000, a third of which would be directed to the Bush Library.
Lobbyist Stephen Payne says it can be done.
“The exact budget I will come up with, but it […]

At The White House…
And Abroad…

“Sen. Rodolfo Biazon Wednesday questioned the US government’s deployment of an aircraft carrier to help in the search for survivors of the capsized MV Princess of the Stars and the retrieval of bodies trapped in the vessel. “An aircraft carrier is not designed for salvage. The USS […]

I Dream of Africa
The Ghanaian army has ended our fun, denouncing independent presidential candidate Richard Nixon Tetteh as a fraud.
Tetteh claimed to be a former Warrant Officer, but the army says he was only a private, and under the name Samuel Nixon Tettey.