Mar 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Eleanor Clift, in a Newsweek article on Sen. Ted Kennedy’s effort to get a comprehensive health-insurance program through Congress, reminds readers that he once had a chance to help reach that goal but let it slip through his hands in the name of political...
Mar 7, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On NPR’s weekly comedy —at least they claim it’s comedy— news-based quiz show Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, the final segment is a round robin of the panelists making humorous predictions about the future. Today’s edition featured...
Mar 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
When Lyndon Johnson was a boy growing up near the Pedernales River in the Texas hill country his parents would regularly play a record on their Victrola. But it wasn’t music. It was William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, who was known for his charismatic oratory...
Mar 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Although I haven’t yet seen Watchmen (and almost certainly won’t until it’s on DVD and works its way up my Netflix queue), I unhesitatingly confer the ultimate accolade of 5 Checkers on the film simply on the basis of its basic premise: The events...
Mar 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Seventy-six years ago today:
Mar 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
As I’ve written before, one of my favorite quotations from RN is: “Politics is battle, and the best way to fire up your troops is to rally them against a visible opponent on the other side of the field. If a loyal supporter will fight hard for you, he will...
