One Man’s Lyric is Another Man’s Law

In Sunday’s New York Times, national legal correspondent Adam Liptak reported the breaking of some serious legal ground over at One First Street NE. Hidden away on page four of Chief Justice Roberts’ dissent in Sprint Communications Co., L. P., et al, v. APCC...

Clay Felker. Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice

No website dealing with news and commentary about Richard Nixon, his Times, and his Legacy, can fail to note the passing of Clay Felker, who died earlier today at his home in New York. He was 81 and had been battling mouth and throat cancer for some time. More than...

Department of Dog Bites Man

Politico today proudly features a non-story with a misleading headline. (I assume they’re proud of the story because the text is accompanied by a video of reporter Jonathan Martin pretty much reciting it.) The headline is: “John McCain doesn’t work...

George Carlin RIP

It’s probably a good thing that George Carlin didn’t believe in an afterlife. Because if he had, he would be turning over in his grave as a result of being remembered and lauded in the precincts of The New Nixon. He had no use and great contempt for our...

Tony Schwartz RIP

The New York Times has just posted an appropriately detailed and suitably appreciative obituary of Tony Schwartz, who died Saturday at home in Manhattan; he was 84. The highlight of his long and distinguished career in advertising, media, and communications,...