Obama-Gore?!

Somewhere up there, perhaps, Tim Russert is sending the word out to the George Clinton who did not sing “dogs of the world unite,” John C. Calhoun, Thomas A. Hendricks, Adlai E. Stevenson I, and Charles W. Fairbanks to appear on next Sunday’s Meet...

The Progressive Book Club Cometh

Today’s New York Times brings news of the latest effort on the part of liberal and left-wing media figures to sway American public opinion – the launch of the Progressive Book Club.   Its CEO, nonprofit fundraiser Elizabeth Wagley (whose father John Wagley...

Tony Schwartz RIP

The New York Times has just posted an appropriately detailed and suitably appreciative obituary of Tony Schwartz, who died Saturday at home in Manhattan; he was 84. The highlight of his long and distinguished career in advertising, media, and communications,...

Tim Russert And Father’s Day

Among the first online tributes to the late Tim Russert are this post from Kevin Thompson of the Palm Beach Post and an especially moving one from John Smyntek of the Detroit Free Press. The latter begins by discussing a column he wrote for his newspaper in 1998...

Up The Filled Tree

Robert Novak’s column today catches one’s attention: Even for the feckless Senate, last week was extraordinary. When Republicans contended that Reid broke his pledge to confirm three of President Bush’s appeals court nominees by Memorial Day, Senate...