Jun 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
An article today in The Hill starts out describing House Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s unsuccessful attempts to schedule some face time with Speaker Pelosi. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) says he has requested to meet privately with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this...
Jun 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ted Rall has made a cottage industry out of provocative indignation. That’s why his call for the President’s resignation was taken with the usual shaker of salt. We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied...
Jun 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Bernard Leon Barker, Cuban-born of American parents (and a citizen of both countries since the age of 18, though an exile from the land of his birth for a half-century), died in Miami yesterday at the age of 92. At the age of 24 in December 1941, Barker became the...
Jun 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Landing on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944: “What chiefly stays in the mind…is the dreadful moment of stepping out into the bullets. Planners anticipated that 20,000 would be killed or wounded in a single day, more than a quarter of all those going ashore....
Jun 5, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Barack Obama was received in adulation on the heels of his much-anticipated speech to the “Muslim world” at Cairo University Thursday. President Obama follows a succession of presidents to visit Cairo, but administration officials and the President’s...
