Jul 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The passing of Walter Cronkite yesterday at the age of 92 was followed by many comments, online, in print, and on the airwaves, that it marked the end of an era. This morning, news came of the death of a man who survived Cronkite by a few hours, yet was old enough to...
Jul 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This week marked the more or less official beginning of the Al Franken Slightly-Less-Than-Three-Fifths-of-a-Decade (Saturday Night Live fans, at least those of 1979-era vintage, will recognize the reference) and it started in a suitably bizarre way. At the Senate...
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Jul 15, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In the Times of London, Daniel Finkelstein writes: There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give...