Ben Stein On Father’s Day

At AOL News, former Nixon White House speechwriter and American legend, Ben Stein, tells of the lessons he learned from his father, Herbert Stein, who was RN’s chief economic advisor.  (By the way, I once saw a photo of Ben in a Corvette, sporting a hairdo that...

Civility Counts

At the Des Moines Register, John Oler writes about the importance of civility, that vanishing aspect of American life, and offers an example especially fitting for Father’s Day, and worth quoting in its entirety: There has been a lot of talk about being civil in...

Father’s Day With The Whitings And Bradlees

As I mention at the blog around this time every year, Father’s Day, which arrives this Sunday, was first officially proclaimed a national holiday by President Nixon in June 1972. Here’s a moving column by David Whiting of the Orange County Register, who...

Noonan on the Politics of Predecessors

Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal: There is still a sense about Mr. Obama that he needs George W. Bush in order to give his presidency full shape and meaning. In this he is like Jimmy Carter, who needed Richard Nixon, or rather the Watergate scandal,...