Ronald Reagan's Daughter Asks Will Ferrell to Reconsider Comedy About Her Father's Alzheimers [UPDATED]

In an open letter published on the Daily Beast, Patti Davis—daughter of Ronald Reagan—chided Will Ferrell over Reagan, an upcoming comedy he’s slated to produce and star in, about the former president’s struggles with Alzheimer’s.
Nixon Policy Advisor Admits He Invented War On Drugs to Suppress 'Anti-War Left and Black People'
Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen:
Hillary Clinton Publicly Apologizes For Her 'Inaccuracies' on the Reagans and the AIDS Crisis
Hillary Clinton’s recent misstep—praising former president Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan for helping to initiate a “national conversation” about the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, despite the fact that the record states otherwise—has led to a public outcry, and now the Democratic nominee hopeful is attempting to…
Fetty Wap Fans Petition for His Rightful Place at Nancy Reagan's Funeral
Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen,” as everyone hopefully knows by now, is a loving ode to a woman uniting with a man in emotional, spiritual, and economic matters, the latter of which involves cooking crack cocaine. Aside from being an excellent song that perfectly melds romance with nihilism, a new Change.org petition posits…
CPAC Mental Health Check-In: Ronald Reagan Edition
We’re here at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2016. Here are some regular updates about how we’re feeling about that, emotionally.
Rubio's Campaign Ad Inspires Patriotism With Opening Shot Of Canada
Remote-controlled duckling Marco Rubio has released a new campaign ad, “Morning Again in America” — a metaphorical promise of a fresh start after eight sullying years of Big Bad Obama. Of course opening scenes are often key for setting a tone, and this ad greets us with a yellow morning on the coast. The problem,…
Crazy How Anti-Affirmative Action Justice Scalia Was an Affirmative Action Hire
During a Supreme Court argument regarding the constitutionality of affirmative action on Wednesday, Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that minority students might consider going to a “slower-track school where they do well.” By that logic, Scalia should probably be on a slower-track court where he doesn’t feel so…
'Asked God's Forgiveness': Grim Yelp Reviews of Christian Vacation Spots
Welcome to Grim Yelp Reviews, a regular feature where we share people’s worst experiences at the worst places. This week: the (un)holiest of summer vacation destinations.
Reagan's 'Welfare Queen' Was a Real Person and Her Story Is Bananas
During President Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign trail, the actor-cum-politician made the "welfare queen" an integral part of his issue reform rhetoric and an evergreen trope that African Americans still battle. But recently, Slate's thorough reporting reveals that the "welfare queen" Reagan employed to stereotype a…
Elizabeth Taylor Had a Threesome With JFK and Another Dude in a Pool
In the age of designer drugs and Twitter and cell phone pictures of celebrities grinding with each other to music composed almost entirely of beeps, there's something classy about an old-school Hollywood scandal. Even Lindsay Lohan's sordid exploits can't match those of Elizabeth Taylor, whom Lohan depicts in the…
Sunday Sign-Off: It's Raining Giant Scoops of Ice Cream
Maybe you're not crazy about Ronald Reagan, but odds are, unless you're lactose-intolerant (and for that I am so very sorry), you probably love ice cream. Well, thanks to our 40th President, today you can celebrate National Ice Cream Day with whatever flavor (Ben & Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie) you can procure from…
Beyoncé And Kim Kardashian May Not Be As Close As We Thought, Which Was Not That Close
At the BET awards last night, Bey, Jay, 'Ye and something called a Kim Kardashian sat together in a royal enclave and the photos of this momentous event have already been analyzed until the end of time. Beyoncé and Kim, who sat on the outside of their respective men, "made no effort to stretch across to chinwag." Kim…
Mitt Romney Campaign Loves Ronald Reagan So Much that they Misspelled His Name
This first time the Romney campaign misspelled something important ("Amercia"), I chalked it up to an embarrassing (hilarious) oversight by some poor intern who was probably fired afterward and ran home crying to his McMansion in the outskirts of Provo. The second time the campaign released something flashy and…
