Jun 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As John Taylor pointed out a couple of days ago, Obama’s victory speech had an odd passage: I honor [McCain’s] service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. It was reminiscent of another speech, from 1962. The speaker had...
Jun 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
My favorite detail from last night’s still apparently anti-climactic events in the Obama-Clinton combat is this one from today’s New York Post: He tried to call her twice following the speech – but got her voicemail. She finally returned the call as...
Jun 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the current issue of the American Spectator (you’ll have to go to a bookstore or newsstand, or subscribe to the magazine, to read it, since the print version’s contents are not online) Fox News correspondent James Rosen (whose very well-researched and...
Jun 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Evan Thomas is back subtracting from the sum total of human knowledge. A few weeks ago, he declared that nobody in 1966 thought that Richard Nixon would win the 1968 GOP nomination. In fact, Nixon was already the frontrunner. Now Thomas has written on what would...
Jun 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The Associated Press just declared that Sen. Barack Obama has “effectively clinched” the Democratic presidential nomination, based on the wire service’s tally of delegates. Still, Sen. Hillary Clinton presses on. A few hours ago the AP reported that...
May 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
According to Liz Smith’s column today: SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie “Bernard and Doris,” is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada....
