The Donor Party
Beyond giving work to Congressional and Homeland Security investigators, the Bush Library pay to play scandal has generated renewed attention to just who pays for these hulking mausoleum/fun-zones. Past and future Librarians rush to assure us that none of that foreign cash shall corrupt our American values, at least […]

Leaving So Soon?
President Bush’s thanks for the memories European tour came to London Sunday, with exciting news he’s swinging for the fences, trying to kill Osama Ben Laden before his term ends.
History is clearly on Bush’s mind. He’s huffing about his own steadfastness:

“I want it to be said about George W […]

It Ain’t Fitting
Via the abrahamlincolnblog comes word of an Oregon Lincoln statue decapitation, now headless for the 5th time.
Ashland Oregon is the scene for this repeat crime, the latest of a string dating back to the 1950s.

It Walks Like Men
“Office of President Clinton” has responded to the epic Vanity Fair catalogue of his sins. One thesis of the piece is that Clinton has in many ways lost it, and on the basis of his response one has to agree.
It’s a weird mish-mash of misstatement, whining that […]

Whinnie Ways
Public resource Michael Abramowitz reports in the Washington Post on a little noticed vignette in Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’s “Wiser in Battle” Iraq memoir.
Sanchez has President Bush rallying the troops via video conferencing, teeing off the illustrious Battle of Fallujah, with what we might call an uncertain […]