The American Spectator

Washington Post

Columnist Dana Milbank taps out his syndicated column to the ignoramuses and all are happy to have Ronald Reagan back—talk about speaking ill of the dead:

After he switched to the Republican Party in 1962, Ronald Reagan famously quipped: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”

Now, the Republican Party is doing the same thing to him—and Democrats are happy to take Reagan back.

At Tuesday morning’s meeting of the House Democrats, caucus chairman John Larson rallied his colleagues for the day’s debt-limit debate by playing an audio recording of the 40th president.

“Congress consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility,” Reagan says in the clip.

(July 20, 2011)

New York Times

Devotional readings from the Sunday New York Times’s long-awaited Sunday Review:

I have wonderful friends. In this last year, one took me to Istanbul. One gave me a box of hand-crafted chocolates. Fifteen of them held two rousing, pre-posthumous wakes for me. Several wrote large checks. Two sent me a boxed set of the Bach sacred cantatas. And one, from Texas, put a hand on my thinning shoulder, and appeared to study the ground where we were standing. He had flown in to see me.

“We need to buy you a pistol, don’t we?” he asked quietly. He meant to shoot myself with.

“Yes, Sweet Thing,” I said, with a smile. “We do.”

(July 10, 2011)

Wall Street Journal

As White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said back in 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”: