Goodbye To All That

The Supreme Court announced this morning that visitors will no longer access the building by ascending the 44 marble steps steps and passing under the words “Equal Justice Under Law” to enter the great central hall through the massive bronze doors depicting the...

What Would Buckley Think About The Tea Party?

Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation, author of the standard biography of Barry Goldwater (and of a new book about William F. Buckley Jr.) argues that Buckley would have endorsed it: Some of you may be saying, “But wait, wasn’t Bill Buckley an elitist, the ultimate...

President Nixon And Arbor Day

I suspect that Arbor Day, as it was when I was a child, is a holiday most familiar in the elementary schools of America, since it does not involve grownups getting the day off from work, except in Nebraska (not a state famous for its orchards and forests). On a...

The Gulf Oil Disaster And Memories of 1969

As I observed recently at TNN, it was a large oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, about a week after Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 1969, that focused the nation’s attention on pollution and ecology in a dramatic fashion, and helped spur the...

PJB – C-SPAN – 5.2.10 – NOON ET

Pat Buchanan will be the guest tomorrow on C-SPAN’s monthly three hour interview and call in show In Depth. Photo: Back in the day: PJB in his EOB office. RN recruited the youngster —his first hire for his new presidential campaign— in 1967 from the...