Dec 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Avery Robert Dulles, who was elevated to the Cardinalate in 2001, died this morning in the Jesuit Infirmary at Fordham University Hospital in New York. For the last twenty years he was a Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham. He was 90. Cardinal Dulles was a...
Dec 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As President-Elect Barack Obama moves toward the transition finish line, he has been busy putting his cabinet together, collecting what is now routinely referred to as a “team of rivals.” But this may be more than a reference to the fact that he is trying to avoid...
Dec 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The difference in overall tone between Peter Morgan’s play Frost/Nixon and the film version directed by Ron Howard is noteworthy. The action of the play, right up to the point where David Frost begins to interview President Nixon, is light in tone, frequently...
Dec 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
POTUSE Obama is very likely planning another top secret Lower Zambudan mission for either or both of the Jesse Jacksons, which would explain why he sent Senator John Kerry on a top secret mission to Poznan. Senator Kerry is now literally as well as figuratively...
Dec 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As we approach Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the discovery of Saddam Hussein down the most famous spider hole in history, we now have the story of the intelligence, ingenuity, dedication, and, to be sure, luck, that led to his capture. Army Staff Sgt. Eric Maddox...
Dec 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
This morning the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the Golden Globe awards, and as expected Frost/Nixon led the field with five nominations (along with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Doubt; four nominations apiece went to...
