Please Send Checks 
From Ronald Reagan’s Favorite Newspaper comes word of posthumous woes for the real estate legacy of the man he almost beat in 1976, Gerry Ford.
Human Events reports that Ford’s former Arlington Virginia home, dead in the market since at least 2006, has had it’s sale price chopped again, to $800,000.
And the economic meltdown haunts another storied Ford property, his Colorado ski home. Strenuous efforts to spread presidential pixie dust have come to naught. They’ve now knocked $2 million off the price, bringing it down to a low, low $13 million.
Where it lingers still.
Because If We Can’t Laugh About Differences Over Torture… 
Light-hearted jibes about torture were in the house Sunday at DC’s Alfalfa Club dinner.
The annual gathering of Washington’s great and good is of course a temple of good natured joshing amongst the elite, the very pinnacle of our treasured bipartisanship. Thus Barack Obama found himself making light of the founding purpose of this entirely white until the 1970s dinner, honoring Robert E. Lee.
The sparkling event was brightened even more by the podium styling of “Jumping” Joe Lieberman, who the Washington Post reports wow’d them with topical laughs.
Lieberman’s rib-tickler sprang from Dick Cheney’s mysterious back-injury-while-moving-offices. “I had no idea waterboards were so heavy,” quipped the Nutmeg State Senator.
