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On today’s Daily Beast, Chris Matthews exalts Senator Edward Kennedy’s prominent ---indeed, in Matthews’ telling, pivotal--- but hitherto largely unheralded role in using Watergate to cripple the Nixon administration and end the Nixon presidency. The headline ---most...

Now that Frost/Nixon is comfortably settled in the racks of your local Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, and the touring production with Stacy Keach has run its course, Peter Morgan's play has started to be produced in repertory theater, with the Austin Playhouse's...

As I write, either on TV Land or the Hallmark Channel, the inevitable strains of Johnny Mandel's "Suicide Is Painless" are beginning, the chopper is coming down, and the men and women of the 4077th are getting ready for another session of OR drama and off-hours...

In July, in response to a post about Neil Armstrong's famous first footstep onto the Moon on 20 July 1969, Barbara Nelson posted a comment about a photograph her husband took that same day of a soldier's boots leaving their own distinctive prints in the mud of...

As defined by Wikipedia, a Morton’s Fork is “a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives.” In the health care debate, this is the choice between government run health care, or corporate run health care.  We progressives like to call this choice --- reform or...

Here's a clever bit of editing by Nick Dorazio, a citizen frusted because his Congressman wouldn't hold a real time town hall on the subject of health care. So he took the raw material of an old episode of Dragnet, in which Jack Webb (as Sgt. Joe Friday) and Harry...

In Sunday's Boston Herald, the inimitable Howie Carr ---the longtime bane of Kennedy and scourge of Kerry--- examined the odds and the consequences of Joe Kennedy running for his uncle's Senate seat. Apparently the former congressman has renounced the seat that would...

Here is your homework assignment for the coming health care debate...  Note what the review says about RN.

At the hybrid of online newspaper and blog that is www.examiner.com, Rudolf Okonkwo, urges President Obama to "be steadfast" when confronting his opponents, and, to illustrate that point, quotes another President: What I want you always remember is Richard Nixon’s...

In tomorrow's Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten devotes his weekly humor column to a departed politician - but not Sen. Ted Kennedy.  Instead, Weingarten spends several hundred words examining a long-forgotten book titled The Wit & Humor Of Richard Nixon,...