Sep 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As defined by Wikipedia, a Morton’s Fork is “a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives.” In the health care debate, this is the choice between government run health care, or corporate run health care. We progressives like to call this choice — reform...
Sep 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a clever bit of editing by Nick Dorazio, a citizen frusted because his Congressman wouldn’t hold a real time town hall on the subject of health care. So he took the raw material of an old episode of Dragnet, in which Jack Webb (as Sgt. Joe Friday)...
Sep 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In Sunday’s Boston Herald, the inimitable Howie Carr —the longtime bane of Kennedy and scourge of Kerry— examined the odds and the consequences of Joe Kennedy running for his uncle’s Senate seat. Apparently the former congressman has renounced...
Sep 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here is your homework assignment for the coming health care debate… Note what the review says about RN.
Sep 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the hybrid of online newspaper and blog that is www.examiner.com, Rudolf Okonkwo, urges President Obama to “be steadfast” when confronting his opponents, and, to illustrate that point, quotes another President: What I want you always remember is Richard...
Sep 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In tomorrow’s Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten devotes his weekly humor column to a departed politician – but not Sen. Ted Kennedy. Instead, Weingarten spends several hundred words examining a long-forgotten book titled The Wit & Humor Of...
