Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 April 2018

…The cost of state dinners, paid for by the State Dept., ran about $250,000 to 300,000 (in constant 2000 dollars) from the time of Reagan through Bush43.

Then came Barky, whose average expenditure was over a million. That average doesn't include the $3,000,000 extravaganza he threw for Mexico…

…On this day in 1980 eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempted to end the Iran hostage crisis. We had a coop student at the time who said his father was on that mission and the whole thing was a CF because everybody wanted a piece of the pie and there was no coordination. Of course it was setup in the Jimmy Peanut WH.

…Here's your news aggregation aggravation for Tuesday.…