Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As the big boys from the big three pressed their case this week for a taxpayer funded bridge or bailout (pick your metaphor), the role of big labor in Mr. Obama’s coming administration is being seriously tested even before the guy gets to say “so help me God.” Of...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Novak suspended his column last summer when he learned he had a brain tumor. The long-time Washington observer and uber-reporter arrived in the capital in the latter years of the Eisenhower administration. In this month’s Washingtonian magazine, he talks...
Nov 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Erica Heller is a New Yorker in her fifties. In her twenties and thirties she worked in advertising. Then she dropped out of the field and wrote a novel, Splinters – a natural thing to do when one is the daughter of the late Joseph Heller, author of Something...
Nov 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Ted Stevens conceded defeat in his bid for re-election to the Senate today, strengthening the Democratic hand in the upper chamber but at least saving the GOP elders some embarrassment. This eliminates the prospect, at least immediately, that Gov. Sarah Palin, as...
Nov 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
While there’s still time — if there’s still time — some FOB —Friend of Barack— should do him a real solid and slip him a copy of What Do We Do Now? — Steve Hess’ “Workbook for the President-Elect” hot off the...
Nov 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The improbable upward career of the improbable hit Frost/Nixon continues. The film, which will open in theaters on December 5th, premiered in New York last night at the Ziegfeld Theater. If you believe Fox News’ super savvy entertainment reporter Roger...
