Dec 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Mike McCurry —who, along with Marlin Fitzwater, is generally considered the gold standard of modern White House Press Secretaries— has written an interesting piece (“How My Party Found God”) for the Daily Beast about the role faith could play...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Russ Smith is a Baltimore resident and occasional contributor to the Wall Street Journal. But once upon a time he was quite a potent figure in the world of “alt-weeklies,” founding the Baltimore City Paper in 1977 and a Washington counterpart four years...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today we learned that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has informed New York Gov. David Paterson that yes, she does want to sit in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacated seat on Capitol Hill. Before I get to the touching video clip featured in this post, let me...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“Tell me about the loneliness of Good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of Evil?” – Frank Langella as Skeletor (in a line he personally wrote), to Dolph Lundgren in He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe In a comment to my post about the...
Dec 14, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This review by Philip Kennicott takes note of how, as I noted earlier at TNN, Ron Howard’s film emphasizes the “giant-killer” theme – though Kennicott emphasizes the similarity to the Shakespearean treatment of history rather than the horror...
Dec 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today came word that John Harris, the chief of staff to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich who was arrested on Tuesday with his boss, has resigned his position. His attorney, Jim Sotos, stated that his client was taking this action “because it was the right thing to...
