Laughing Matters

I usually don’t find imitation Top Ten Lists very funny — but here’s a tip o’the cap to Rich Lowry for the one he emailed to “The Corner” at NRO earlier today: Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn’t Get the Olympics 10. Dead people...

It’s A Family Affair

The New York Times continues to chronicle the election of Ed Cox as the Chairman of the New York State Republican Party.  That was unanimously accomplished this morning at a meeting in Albany. The Nixon family took center stage at the state Republican Party’s...

Edward Cox To Be New York State GOP Chairman

The New York Times’ Danny Hakim has written an interesting and timely profile of Ed Cox.  Accompanying the article is a slide show of several photographs, beginning with Mr. Cox’s wedding to Tricia Nixon in the White House Rose Garden in June 1971, through...

Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be

Rule of Thumb #1 for President Obama:  When Howard Fineman starts looking fondly back to the Reagan administration, you know you’re in trouble. Members of Obama’s own party know who Obama is not; they still sometimes wonder who he really is. In Washington,...

Looking Forward

In today’s New York Times, Mark Leibovich offers up an interesting —and even relatively objective—  profile of Liz Cheney based on a speech she gave in Nashville earlier this month.  Perhaps if Mr. Leibovich read TNN more attentively, he...