Remembering Reagan Right   
The Reagan Legacy Project has an exciting new look, and new worlds to conquer.
Gearing up for the late president’s 99th birthday has seen a flurry of activity from Projectors, who seek to plaster Reagan’s name, face, or scared relics over as much American real estate as they can grab. In their sights: Nevada.
He Glows! 
Silver State Gipper fans paint a future both poignant and optimistic, when “future generations of Nevadans can look up at Mount Reagan one day and ask, “Mom, Dad, who is Reagan?â€
The organizers complain that Reagan’s greatness is unmarked in Las Vegas, when actually he’s all around:Â The Reagan Era has become Vegas code for all things worn, played, and clapped out.
The Excalibur Hotel & Casino 
“The room, however, seemed like a relic from the Reagan years compared to the other places we’ve stayed in Vegas“
 Bally’s Las Vegas   
“It was clean except for the windows which… hadn’t been cleaned on the outside since the Reagan administration.”
 Riviera Hotel & Casino   
” The rooms haven’t seen new wallpaper or carpeting since the Reagan administration.”
First In War, First In Peace, & Not On The Tip Of Sarah Palin’s TongueÂ
Twenty-Twelve Dream Twixie Sarah Palin continues making the rounds of the Fox News Legends she now resides among, only to be caught out by Glen “
I Know It When I See It” Beck, of all people.With the spunk and verve that have stunned America, Palin managed to fumble through
answering history’s biggest softball:Who is your favorite Founding Father?
  The Secret Word Is “Washington”  
“It should be noted that this comic is neither a piece of Reagan sycophancy, nor is it political satire” –Talking Points Memo
What’s with these guys? First the vaguely progressive Huffington Post faithfully reprints Associated Press’s recycling the disproved George W. Bush Jacket ‘n Tie fetish myth.
Now Talking Points Memo, with a staff that actually writes stuff, endorses a Ronald Reagan comic that’s kind of a mess.
TPM may not find the work sycophantic, but it’s certainly the product of a sycophant.
Comic author Don Smith doesn’t fake the fawning. Did you know that, unlike some, Ronald Reagan “really loved this country.”
It’s true!
“I mean he constantly was saying, ‘The United States is a city set on a hill… He constantly would say, ‘The United States’ best days are still ahead.’ I mean that is amazing!“
Smith’s command of facts amazes as well, managing to work wrong dates into the assassination attempt panels.
And Smith confidently applies the simple truths of the Reagan Era to our present difficulties, with a happy result:
“Regarding radical Islam terrorism, I think his philosophy would be “We win, they lose,†just as it was regarding the Soviet Union back in the 80s. And frankly, that kind of moral clarity is desperately needed right now!“ 
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INTRODUCTION TO THE ROTUNDA
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      When you walk into the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library, the first thing you should see is the rotunda and what is exhibited there.
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Odessa Texas’s Presidential Museum threatens to close July 1, despite being on track to attract some 3,650 visitors this year. They have somehow managed to survive for 45 years, given a boost when the semi-local Bushs stumbled to the top.
The museum is an exciting confection of early Bush 
 home replication, the vaguely presidentialy related, and misinformation.
      “We have some very rare, interesting items for our visitors to see. An example is the registration desk used by President Eisenhower when he was commander of the European forces during WWII. The museum acquired this piece in the 1960’s and it serves to illustrate the unique collection we have, it is not all about buttons and posters.“
The museum’s web page is a melange of odd choices and factual errors. Their timeline for the 1860s and 1870s finds no space to mention either Lincoln’s election or assassination, but the Chicago Fire gets a mention.
Prize oddity comes when they sound the alarm in the 20th Century:
AREA 7:
DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II
AMERICAN SOCIALISM: WHAT HAPPENED?
 “Not satisfied with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and its initial work/relief programs, left-wing politicians Louisiana’s Huey Long and California’s Father Coughlin advocated radical changes to the American system-tax the rich to provide welfare for the poor.”
What ever are they saying here?
 Long is usually viewed as a populist and/or fascist, rarely as a man of the left.
 Father Coughlin was a Detroit based fascist, although the Townsend Movement for old people’s pensions started in California.
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 failings being structural:
“The original sculpture depicts Reagan leaning on a pedestal, but [statue fabricator] Walker said this design was rejected for the British statue because the pose would be seen as weak in that part of the world.“
 Alfred the Leaner 
How these obstacles can be bypassed is unclear, but Westminster reportedly will ponder the question again. This urge to create facts on the ground is endemic in the fabled Westminster Council, where the Tories came to grief in the nineties for selling off public housing as a means of driving out Labour voters. One Conservative Council Member committed suicide during the “homes for votes” investigation, and another paid 12 million Pounds as punishment.
The statue scheme is another effort to shape the battlefield, plunking Reagan in front of the US Embassy during its final days in Grovesnor Square, allowing the statue to then land at the new South London Embassy site as a package deal.
Sadly no representation of the proposed statue is available, but let’s take the leaping stallions 
at the College Station Bush Library’s Berlin Wall, and in our minds eye substitute a spry, youthful Ronald Reagan. 
