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 […]

He Says She Said 
Widespread mirth at Daddy McCain’s plea to Ms. Curic for a Palin test makeover has blocked attention to Daddy’s effort to fix Sarah Palin’s Place In History.
And what a place setting it is!  Apparently, Palin isn’t just the New Reagan, she’s the New Clinton as well!
 
    
“This is not the […]

Not On My Watch?   
A sunny side of the Sixties is on display in the film Virtual JFK, portraying a happy time when a wise and unassassinated President Kennedy manages to avoid the Vietnam War.
How’d he do it?     In this happy world Kennedy  apparently emerged sadder and wiser from early […]

Who Would Sarah Shoot?  
The thrilling details of Sarah Palin’s Secret Service code name have been revealed to an anxious public, usually accompanied by boilerplate explaining how pretty Denali National Park is.  Passed over in Palin’s moniker acceptance is her slap at our martyred 25th president.
Denali is the Native Alaskan  name for Mount McKinley, the […]

On to Buffalo!
William McKinley’s last use in a contemporary campaign was Karl Rove’s mad scheme to present George W. Bush as the Big Mc of our generation, achieving solid Republican rule by persuading the scruffies to vote against their interests.
It worked with Bush, at least as far as the minstrel show 2000 […]