Jun 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A few days ago Edward Luce, the Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times, treated the readers of that eminent newspaper to an account of his lunch with Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward at the Hay-Adams Hotel in DC. (The menu and price of the meal are...
Jun 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This week the Colbert Report is broadcasting from one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Baghdad. Last night’s first show is worth watching. A highlight is the interview with General Ray Odierno, the Commanding General of the Multi-National...
Jun 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s WaPo, Richard Leiby “Just the Sport for A Leader Most Driven” describes the President’s Sunday afternoon: Although far better known as a hoops man, President Obama seems to be morphing into a golf nut these days. He’s hit...
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...
