A Race – And Candidate – To Watch

Nearly 65 years after his famous grandfather was first asked to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representative from that state’s 12th district, 30-year old Christopher Cox has put his hat in the ring for the seat in New York’s first district on...

1.27.73

Thirty-seven years ago today, the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam  —popularly known as the Paris Peace Accords— was signed. After four hard years, RN had achieved the peace with honor he had promised and was determined to...

Robert Mosbacher 1927 – 2010

Robert Mosbacher  spearheaded the North American Free Trade Agreement as President George H.W.  Bush’s first Commerce Secretary. Former Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher died on Sunday. He was 83. After growing up and attending college in the Northeast, he...

Nixon in the Navy

A post at the left-wing Common Dreams rails against President Obama for not being liberal enough.  It says of the Democratic Party:  “It’s the same party that could run a decorated combat hero against a war evader in 1972, only to be successfully labeled...

State of the Union

Today’s Washington Post digs into oral histories to find speechwriters’ reflections on the State of the Union.  From RN speechwriter Lee Huebner: I think it’s a schizophrenic speech. On the one hand, it’s an administrative tool, it’s a...