Aug 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Director-writer-producer John Hughes died on 6 August while taking a walk in New York City. He was 59. Ben Stein calls John Hughes “the poet of human exaltation, the poet of human happiness” — and it’s impossible to imagine a more infectiously...
Aug 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
An article by Richard J. Cross III in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun deserves quotation in full. Mr. Cross IDs himself somewhat in the piece; more recently he was press secretary and speechwriter for former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich. In February, America...
Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
We think that when someone dear to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we think that when we suffer a defeat, that all is ended. We think, as T.R. said, that the light had left his life forever. Not true. It’s only a beginning — always. The...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
There is a new addition to the national Pronunciation Wars. Nuclear (nuculer), Taliban (talleyban), and Pakistan (pockistan)* are now joined by Sotomayor. She says “Soto-my-or”; many say “Soto-may-or.” Among the many is Chief Justice John...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
