A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an article about how the original teen-girl tabloid has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in 1965, erroneously included a parody cover, produced by the satiric newspaper The Onion, that featured a picture of President Obama.

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We’re sure Bruce Caswell is a nice man. He’s a retired schoolteacher and school superintendent. He coached his high school track team to four consecutive state championships. He has a long record of community service. He’s been married for thirty-seven years.

And, as a Michigan state senator, he recently proposed denying new clothes to foster children.

Did we mention that Bruce Caswell was also named his county’s “Republican of the Year” in 2007?

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Simply amazing: photographs only NASA can take.

Happy Oestra, everybody!

Barenaked Ladies: Easter Special

Title: “The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party”

Authors: David Horowitz and Richard Poe

Rank: 21

Blurb: “America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential and powerful Americans secretly stirring up disunion and disloyalty in the shifting shadows of the Democratic Party.”

Review: “It really opened my eyes to how George Soros and Clinton want to change America forever into a cradle to grave progressive country that is extremely dangerous to our republic and our freedoms and liberty. America needs to wake up to these evil people.”

Customers Also Bought: “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President”, by Jerome Corsi

Obligatory Glenn Beck Tie-In: Friday.

Footnote: In case you’re wondering why Hillary remains a mortal threat, the book was published in 2007.

The Shadow Party [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Donald Trump never writes us. And Donald Trump won’t shut up about Birtherism. So let’s see whether we can get some personal attention from America’s Short-Fingered Vulgarian.

We learned last week that Donald Trump gets his Birther bullet-points from WorldNetDaily, a website we’ve been following for as long as we’ve been blogging. WND inadvertently proved Obama’s Hawaiian birth beyond doubt a couple years ago, but instead of just linking back to that post again, let’s take it from the top — for Donald Trump’s benefit. We’ve even provided some scribble space for him to respond.

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In Ess Eff, it’s all about the real estate pron. And more so the parking pron. Bonus points for flummoxing the permit/planning guys when you present to them the World’s Coolest Garage Door.

[Beausolieil via CurbedSF]