Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Give Me Land, Lots Of Land 
Southern Methodist University had a gleam in its eye over George W. Bush’s Presidential Library even before Bush was president, according to lawsuit depositions. University officials and Bush hanger-on Harriet Miers in a dispute over land SMU bought for possible Bush Library use.
Former condo owners bought out by the university claim they were underpaid, with the land’s value going up with the Library announcement.
The Triumphant Return Of Reaganomics!  
Beloved Broadcaster Paul Harvey always claimed to have invented the term “Reaganomics,” and the sponsor of a proposed Reagan Centennial Commission is marking Harvey’s death with some classic Reagan-style accounting.
With 19 heroes opposing, the House of Representatives has just passed a power grab by Ronald Reagan’s heirs, allowing them to control all federal observation of Reagan’s Centenary. Representative Elton Gallegly’s bill creates a Reagan Centennial Commission controlled by the Reagan Library foundation, in contrast to the broad public boards directing all previous presidential centennial commissions .
The Congressional Budget Office says a Reagan Commission will cost a million dollars, but Gallegly claims “No federal money can be spent on the commission or its activities,” a story he got his home town paper to buy into. What voodoo economics does Gallegly perform to lose the costs?
The CBO says:
The Representative may be drawing unexplained distinctions between this Bill’s authorization and a later appropriation, or the CBO says the Commission might be free if takes in donations to cover its costs.
Gallegly may want to get this done while he can. He’s identified with the Reagan Library to the extent that it’s in the header 
for his web page, but he’s announced and rescinded his retirement before, and Barack Obama carried his district.
Roosevelt Gone Aground  
The dream of a Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library on an Oyster Bay, Long Island appears dead. Plans fluctuated between building on a flood plain, or above a tidal pool, and they never had any “Papers” for the “Library,” but they blame the economy’s collapse.
Or maybe it was all just a mad dream.
For My Next Trick, I Disappear! 
More than a year ago, a local resident tried to pin down the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s James Bruns on how it planned to pay for the estimated $120 million library. co
“Mike Giardina asked, “How much money does the TRA have in the bank?â€Mr. Bruns said they have pledges of $1 million.
Mr. Giardina: “And in the bank?â€
Mr. Bruns, “I’m not going to divulge that.“
Mr. Gardina: “You have zero. You have no website. Come on.â€
Destiny In Trunks          
Harvard is restoring the swank apartment occupied by Franklin Roosevelt during his undistinguished Harvard years, as a tribute to our last beloved depression fighter. The university has his sink and pull toilet, but everything else will have to be guesswork guided by FDR’s letters home and contemporary material. In the spirit of the Roosevelt Era, a fabulous dinner will be served in hopes the downtrodden benefit eventually, by example, or something.
What role if any his Harvard years played in Roosevelt’s political evolution is unclear, but at some point he developed enough self-awareness that he could laugh at his own class, and “welcome their hatred.” Â The university seems to want to grab what it can of our exciting new era of the common man.
FDR, Fellow Scribes
So Lifelike! Â 
It was probably just liberal Marxists off for a spoof, but for some the dream was real.
The year was 2004, and someone claiming to be “Ann Cuolter” didn’t care enough about their fraud to come up with a better fake name. In September of that year “Ann” launched a petition to put George W. Bush on Mt. Rushmore.
To call the response tepid would be to insult lukewarm water. Only 137 have signed in four years, and many did so only in order to broadcast their hatred of Bush and the notion, or to promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Actual Ann “It’s Never Too Warm For Leather” Coulter shown here in all her finery. 
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