Bag of Randomness

  • Several of my Canadian readers alerted me to this Fort Worth Star Telegram article that they did not favor.
  • Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison and her husband are an interesting couple, both ran for governor of Texas and lost.
  • Other things I didn’t know about her – this is her second marriage and she was preceded in the Senate by Bob Krueger – I always thought she was preceded by Lloyd Bentson.
  • Rush Limbaugh’s Fifth Avenue penthouse is for sale, here are some pictures of the inside, which isn’t what I quite expected.
  • One of my friends at work, who is of the same age as me, asked me to rank the presidents of my lifetime from worst to first.  That was harder said than done.
  • I didn’t have a problem with the kids in the JFK tower giving a few commands for take-off, they seemed well supervised, but if they had anything to do with landings that would bother me.
  • A YouTube baby bib
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Congressman wants Ronald Reagan to replace Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill

He already has an airport after him — Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside of Washington D.C. And recently, lawmakers unveiled a statue of Reagan at the U.S. Capitol.

Now Republican Rep. Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina wants to sub Reagan on the nation’s $50 bill for President Ulysses S. Grant, a union general during the Civil War who led the North to victory and later became the nation’s 18th POTUS. Grant, a champion for African Americans, died broke, so he probably appreciates the money. But if McHenry has his way, Grant will be retired to the dustbin of history.

“Every generation needs its own heroes,” McHenry said Tuesday. “One decade into the 21st century, it’s time to honor the last great president of the 20th and give President Reagan a place beside Presidents Roosevelt (on the dime) and Kennedy (on the half dollar).”

McHenry did not mention Reaganomics, the theory of trickle-down spending whose viability seems to be in dispute at the moment. The congressman’s case: Polls of presidential scholars consistently show Reagan outranking Grant, including a Wall Street Journal survey in 2005 that ranked Reagan sixth and Grant 29th.

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