It's starting out as a bumper year for bumper stickers, what with everything coming unglued in this country.

One of the more popular bumper stickers, glued mostly to Republican-owned vehicles: "So, how's that 'hope' and 'change' working out for you?"

Otherwise, we're not quite sure what to make of the bumper sticker (he actually forwarded an entire stack to Inside the Beltway) sent to us by Washington-area attorney David I. Bledsoe: "I for one welcome our new Marxist overlords."

GIPPER'S TEAM

President Reagan's former Labor Secretary Ann McLaughlin Korologos and his one-time legal counsel Theodore B. "Ted" Olson have just been appointed to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation Board of Trustees, joining the likes of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Forbes, and T. Boone Pickens, to name a few.

"I know that it would mean so much to him to have them both back as part of the Reagan team, especially during this important time of growth for the foundation," former first lady Nancy Reagan said in making the announcement.

Mr. Olson, who was U.S. solicitor general under former President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004, continues to hold the record for presenting the most cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. And he's not slowing down any. He told Inside the Beltway this past weekend that he still leaves for work every morning at 5:30.

MORE MOUSEKETEERS

So, are you presently reading this column on printed paper or via the Internet?

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism says when it comes to obtaining the latest news, audience migration to the Internet is rapidly accelerating.

"The number of Americans who regularly go online for news jumped 19 percent in the last two years," says Pew. "In 2008 alone, traffic to the top 50 news sites rose 27 percent."