Rest in Peace, Dutch. Ya Done Good.

I will not be blogging today, in respect for Mr. Reagan, though I may have some comments tonight.

“When Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, The New York Times wrote, “Men will thank God a hundred years from now that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House.”

It will not take a hundred years to thank God for

In the spring of 1987 President Reagan and I were driven into a large hangar at the Ottawa Airport, to await the arrival of Mrs. Reagan and my wife, Mila, prior to departure ceremonies for their return to Washington. We

“Mrs. Reagan, Patti, Michael and Ron, members of the Reagan family, distinguished guests, including our presidents and first ladies, Reverend Danforth, fellow citizens, we lost Ronald Reagan only days ago but we have missed him for a long time.  We

“Mrs. Reagan, members of the President’s family, colleagues, distinguished guests, members of the diplomatic corps, fellow citizens:

Knowing that this moment would come has not made it any easier to see the honor guard, and the flag draped before us,

We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend.

In his lifetime Ronald Reagan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy to forget what daunting

The Genius is gone.

I just watched him the other night with Travis Tritt… what a show that was, and what an entertainer he was.

Slings And Arrows posts part of a NYT article which seems to answer the questions about saddam and WMD;

“Mr. Perricos accompanied his briefing with a report showing satellite photos of a fully built-up missile site near Baghdad in May

The reason you’ve not heard in the news about a G8 protest is that in practical terms, there wasn’t one.
Dizzy Girl has photos of the about 500 or so people that did show up. she says, among other things,

Podhoretz in the New York Post this monring, making pretty much the same arguments he made on C-Span yesterday morning:

“MEMO to all those who believe that Ronald Reagan is being unfairly lionized in death: Bring it on. ”

Michelle Malkin has started her own Blog. She writes very wel indeed in long form. I wonder how she’ll do in the hit and run style Blogs usually end up in.

Of course, I asked that about myself a little

New York Post is running a story today:

“June 9, 2004 — DAN Rather and Tom Brokaw work for different networks but agree one thing …. Coverage of Ronald Reagan’s death has been excessive, they say. “

Even Jennings has

The Globe and Mail is reporting this morning:

“Ottawa – Prime Minister Paul Martin decided yesterday not to go to Washington to attend the state funeral of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, two days after his letter of condolence raised

I just caught some footage on the tube of the crowds in Simi Valley, trying to get to pay respects to President Reagan. Report after report from around the country piles in, including some freinds of mine out in SouCal

Captain Ed gets online to spread the news:

“…the First Mate has her new kidney and it’s functioning already! I spoke to the surgeon in charge about a half-hour ago, and he was very pleased. No complications, she was stable