May 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Over the weekend, former Rep. Bob Barr managed to wrangle the Libertarian presidential nomination at that party’s convention in Denver. In an earlier post I referred to the traditional contentiousness of the Libertarians, and in their usual tradition it took...
May 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Comedian-actor-writer Jerry O’Connell has produced an amusing video that would have been even more amusing with the aid of a stern editor. But it still has its moments. And here it is (with a tip o’ the cap to The Big Lead).
May 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Because its author is Brent Bozell and the venue is Townhall.com, some will dismiss this column as conservative boilerplate.But that would be a mistake. Mr. Bozell’s quotes from mainstream sources (Jake Tapper of ABC and Marc Ambinder of Atlantic Monthly) show...
May 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a provocative review of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland from RS’s stonezone blog: A new book by Rick Perlstein traces the period between Lyndon Johnson’s triumphant 1964 victory in the near universal belief that there was a national Liberal...
May 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Dick Martin, who was Dan Rowan’s suave partner, died yesterday in Santa Monica. He was 86. Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, created and produced by TV comedy legend George Schlatter, was a phenomenal hit when it premiered in January 1968. It ran until 1973...
May 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last night I watched —because it happened to be the most recent arrival from my long and winding Netflix queue—Jean-Luc Goddard’s “missing” 1960 film Le Petit Soldat. The film’s style may be outdated but its subject matter —torture and patriotism as...
