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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The Powers That Be: the President and Mrs. Obama with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley making their unsuccessful pitch for the '16 Olympics. The Obamas' journey to Copenhagen has produced a narrative more suited to Hans Christian Andersen than to David Axelrod. The...
Laughing Matters
I usually don't find imitation Top Ten Lists very funny --- but here's a tip o'the cap to Rich Lowry for the one he emailed to "The Corner" at NRO earlier today: Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics 10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings 9. Obama...
The Statue In Yorba Linda
"Leader's Exhibit:" A statue of Mao ZeDong is featured with the bronze likenesses of nine other world leaders during RN's presidency at the Nixon Library. Today, as is noted elsewhere at TNN, the People's Republic of China celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. The day...
China At Sixty
China celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding today. The massive military parade, propaganda films and genuine outpouring of pride by the Chinese people are befitting China’s growing clout and influence. I can not forget sitting up at midnight on July 1, 1997...
It’s A Family Affair
The New York Times continues to chronicle the election of Ed Cox as the Chairman of the New York State Republican Party. That was unanimously accomplished this morning at a meeting in Albany. The Nixon family took center stage at the state Republican Party’s...
Sixty-Five Cents That Changed A Life
Victoria Moran is the author of a number of successful books on self-help and spirituality published by Harper and several other major imprints, and has appeared twice on Oprah Winfrey's show. In 1976 she was a writer for a local magazine in her hometown of Kansas...
William Safire 1929-2009
The nation is the poorer for Bill Safire’s passing. As a columnist, commentator, and author, he enlightened and enlivened the public square for four decades. And the extended Nixon Family is shocked and saddened by the loss of a brilliant thinker and writer, a witty...
Edward Cox To Be New York State GOP Chairman
The New York Times' Danny Hakim has written an interesting and timely profile of Ed Cox. Accompanying the article is a slide show of several photographs, beginning with Mr. Cox's wedding to Tricia Nixon in the White House Rose Garden in June 1971, through his current...
Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be
Rule of Thumb #1 for President Obama: When Howard Fineman starts looking fondly back to the Reagan administration, you know you're in trouble. Members of Obama's own party know who Obama is not; they still sometimes wonder who he really is. In Washington, the...
Looking Forward
In today's New York Times, Mark Leibovich offers up an interesting ---and even relatively objective--- profile of Liz Cheney based on a speech she gave in Nashville earlier this month. Perhaps if Mr. Leibovich read TNN more attentively, he wouldn't be coming so late...