2.12.09

  Today, of course, is Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday.    This portrait, by George P. A. Healy, was one of the fifteen painted of the sixteenth President by the most popular portraitist of the day.  It was painted in 1887, twenty-two years after...

Obama Dilemma: Learn From History Or Repeat It?

In today’s column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann limn the major choice President Obama is about to have to make: President Obama must now decide whether he’ll govern from the center or from the left. President Bill Clinton faced the exact same decision in...

Over The Moon

Political advance —of which presidential advance is a subset— is an art as well as a science.  It’s not just important to move POTUS from point A to point B in the most efficient and secure way possible.  What he does when he reaches point B is,...

Stephen L. Zetterberg 1916 – 2009

Stephen L. Zetterberg, who ran against RN in 1948 to represent the 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. He was 92. His obituary appears in many papers today, among them The New York Times and...

Et tu, Leon?

Leon Panetta has come a long way since he was a maverick (and one man’s maverick is another man’s gadfly) in RN’s Department of HEW. The Wall Street Journal has just posted an article online indicating that President Obama’s nominee to head the...