Jul 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The director for security for the Beijing Olympic organizing committee announced today that protests would be allowed in specially designated areas in several parks in Beijing during the Olympics. According to BOCOG: “During the Olympics, in order to ensure a smooth...
Jul 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Dan Rather has always been about as tightly wound as a coot in a chicken coop, but during a recent MSNBC appearance, his brain appeared to be about as dependable as a Times Square Rolex. For all those who miss the Danisms from the days when he was on the air and in...
Jul 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland hit British bookstores earlier this month, and at the London Telegraph Dominic Sandbrook, of Oxford’s history faculty and the author of well-received books on Eugene McCarthy and England in the Swinging Sixties, reviews it. His...
Jul 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Navy Adm. Timothy J. Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Command said yesterday that he and his Chinese counterpart had agreed to conduct two bilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster response exercises. According to the Department of Defense: Keating said he and...
Jul 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The recent 2008 Major League Baseball All Star Game-and-a-half showcased not only the game’s current best and greats from yesteryear; it also starred a structure. The venue was the message. As Yankee Stadium brings athletes and fans through its gates as part of a...
Jul 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Few people were better liked in Washington, and for good reason, than former White House press spokesperson Tony Snow, who died last week at age 53, so it’s no surprise that this morning President Bush, Karl Rove, and other figures from the political, social,...
