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Lights Out, Nobody Home 
 America was awash with InfectiousOptimism®, as an avuncular Ronald Reagan rolled towards 1984’s crushing of Walter Mondale.  Reagan was campaigning in Hammonton New Jersey, […]

Diet Deficit Delight
Sarah Palin continues rummaging around the Reagan legend cupboard, searching for a usable past.
She fished up a gem in her Thanksgiving day ramblings, quoting the voice from beyond that
 

“all great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

What change did the master of folksy smarm propose back in those halcyon days?
His salute […]

Vanity Plot?               
Anxious to display something, anything which had touched the great man for the Lincoln Bicentennial, in 2007 the Kentucky Historical Society spent $19,000 on a pair of earrings which may, or may not, have belonged to Lincoln’s wife.
The earrings history is sketchy. Basically, it’s a letter from a guy who once owned […]

The Shadow Knows  

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As a curious world awaits Sarah Palin’s looming Oprah encounter, tiny shards  of her upcoming polemic are emerging.
For all her roguishness, the Governor follows a predicable political path, lying about Ronald Reagan.
The Associated Press prepared a catalog of her detachments from reality, and her Reagan claims are true […]

Feet Tragically Obscured     
Good news from the watery Philippines, where tragic flooding ends on a happy note.  Renowned shoe fetishist and drag queen ideal Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection at the Marikina Shoe Museum was plucked from the rising waters by […]