Appeasement and Detente: Two VERY Different Things

The current on-going review of the history of APPEASEMENT during the 1930s and the lessons, if any, that can be applied to current geopolitics, has reminded some of the Nixonian philosophy of DÉTENTE. And there may appear to be a surface similarity. The argument goes...

Two 1968 Myths in One

In Time, Jay Newton-Small writes a sentence with a minor mistake and a major one: Richard Nixon practically perfected the transformation in 1968, initially building his “silent majority” of conservatives freaked out by hippie war protesters and inner-city...

George Carlin RIP

It’s probably a good thing that George Carlin didn’t believe in an afterlife. Because if he had, he would be turning over in his grave as a result of being remembered and lauded in the precincts of The New Nixon. He had no use and great contempt for our...

Doughnuts To Dollars

In the next day or so I’ll put up a post concerning dollars – that is to say, the estimated $300 million that Sen. Barack Obama may raise for his campaign, now that he has reversed his previous position and become the first major-party presidential...