Jun 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
While the question of what women, in general, want may still be up in the air, this afternoon a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll sheds considerable light on what Democratic women want. In a survey of Democratic voters, 60% of the women polled stated they hoped...
Jun 6, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Barack Obama’s choice to involve Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, as part of a three-person team leading his search for a running mate is another not-so-subtle example of his very real desire to be seen as the present-day embodiment of Camelot. It may...
Jun 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yesterday the Washington Post reviewed the revival of Russell Lees’ two-character play Nixon’s Nixon which is running at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, until June 22. (A previous post at TNN linked to an earlier Post article about this...
Jun 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As John Taylor pointed out a couple of days ago, Obama’s victory speech had an odd passage: I honor [McCain’s] service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. It was reminiscent of another speech, from 1962. The speaker had...
Jun 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
My favorite detail from last night’s still apparently anti-climactic events in the Obama-Clinton combat is this one from today’s New York Post: He tried to call her twice following the speech – but got her voicemail. She finally returned the call as...
Jun 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the current issue of the American Spectator (you’ll have to go to a bookstore or newsstand, or subscribe to the magazine, to read it, since the print version’s contents are not online) Fox News correspondent James Rosen (whose very well-researched and...
