http://www.presidentsrus.com Remembering history the way they wished it had been Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:26:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/25/mr-president-is-in-the-field/ Little Professor Presidential Memorializing continues spinning backwards in time, with the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library the latest fatuous exercise. Wilson was born in Staunton Virginia, but his parents left town when he was four. From these slender roots the town has metastasized a Presidential Library, now to receive ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/23/remembering-woodrow-wilson-now-with-visceralness/ Seeking Judgement They lost the delegate vote at a Methodist regional conference, but Bush Library opponents have another shot at trying to block the tribute: Activist Judges! Library opponents have launched an appeal to the Methodist Judicial Council, seeking a ruling that the Bush Institute attached to the Bush ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/19/bush-library-opposition-to-high-court-legislate-from-the-bench/ Communism Point & Click So little is left of the Berlin Wall that Reuters reports authorities have resorted to handing tourists a GPS powered device if they want to recreate that closed in feeling. We know where the Wall went: vast chunks carried off to America for victory displays. ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/18/mr-reagan-give-them-back-their-wall/ Executive Assurance The Methodist Church will not try to block the Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University, according to the Dallas Morning News. Unless a full regional meeting Thursday rejects it, the South Central Jurisdictional Conference resolutions committee is putting it's faith in fair treatment from ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/17/bush-library-methodists-embrace-hope/ 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 ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/17/foreigners-out/ Invisible Men Thanks to civilwarmemory for pointing to a recent post by John David Hoptak, a writer and Park Ranger at the Antietam National Battlefield. Hoptak's Antietam presentations on the battle and the contemporaneous drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation have ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/16/lincoln-loathing/ And The Thoughts & Prayers Of The Nation All eyes turn to Dallas, where a regional United Methodist Church body may vote to kill the proposed George W. Bush Library at Southern Methodist University. The South Central Jurisdictional Conference meeting starts Wednesday. This comes after a national Church body ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/15/bush-library-without-a-home/ Dallas Deficit The Dallas Morning News has covered the would-be rise of the George W. Bush Library at SMU in lavish detail, but has so far found itself unable to pass on to local readers allegations about Houston fixer Steve Payne and his offer to clean up a ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/14/payne-avoidance/ Zoned Out? Time to dust off those crumpled copies of the Constitution every old coot pol seems to carry in their pocket for all occasions, and read up. Specifically, Article II and the 14th Amendment, the portions demanding that presidents be a "natural born citizen" and the mid 19th Century ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2008/07/14/new-fun-from-founding-fathers/