Sep 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As the recently proposed massive financial bailout plan apparently needs and awaits a rescue itself, we are now witnessing the all-too-familiar practice of political posturing. Lou Grant, the curmudgeon television producer played by Ed Asner, who ruled the newsroom on...
Sep 29, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Sixty-three years ago today, businessman Herman Perry wrote a letter to Richard Nixon asking him if he was interested in running for a seat in the House of Representatives. At the time, incumbent Democrat Jerry Voorhis was representing the 12th congressional district...
Sep 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Once again you’ve got to hand it to Maureen Dowd. Even in an otherwise uneven column like today’s, she can still come up with the kind of stinging snarkism that says all there is to say about the subject at hand: Who would have dreamed that when socialism...
Sep 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Apparently I wasn’t the only one to be a bit unsettled by the image of that long empty corridor behind President Bush in his too-little-too-late attempt to address the nation’s concerns about the careening economy. (What the President was really trying to...
Sep 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
If appearances alone decided the debate’s winner, then John McCain won. His energetic demeanor helped dampen concerns that he is too old for the job. Obama, on the other hand, did not come across as the candidate of cool. His expression alternated between a...
Sep 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the Washington Post, economist James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas – who is not only one of the leading liberal figures in his field, but the son of John Kenneth Galbraith, William F. Buckley Jr’s eternal Firing Line antagonist –...
