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The punchline of Richard Pryor's joke (Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?) is called to mind by this just in from Beijing Who will ever forget the thrill of watching those gigantic firework footprints marching across the sky from Tiananmen Square to the...

In today's Telegraph (London), Tim Shipman reports from Washington about the sea change of coverage involving Senator Obama. In the wake of his perhaps-a-shade-too-triumphal world tour, reporters have become more skeptical and comedians have become more enabled. Last...

The President is very much a man at ease in his own skin. And that's a good thing. But then, he is the President. The President is in Beijing to cheer on our Olympic athletes. And that's a good thing. But then, he is the first POTUS to attend an Olympics on foreign...

Nixonland credits Nixon's 1968 TV campaign to Gene Jones, who had made a fine war documentary without narration.  "Nixon's commercials would run without narration as well" (p. 333).  No, an important ad did have narration.  "Decisions" asked:  "Think about it - when...

In the American Thinker today, Russ Vaughn addresses exactly the question I had about John Edwards' purported fessing up --- aka the otherwise very modified limited hangout that he dubbed a definitive statement ("I have given a complete interview on this matter and...

We have recently lost three outstanding members of our Nixon family --- Anne Armstrong, Clay Whitehead, and Peter Rodman. In 1971 RN named Anne Armstrong co-chairman of the RNC. In 1972 he appointed her Counselor to the President with Cabinet rank. During the Ford...

The way we live now is largely influenced by people of whom we know little and of whom we hear less. The entertainment ---and particularly the comedy--- of the last third of the last century was, in no small way, the creation of Bernie Brillstein. He died last night...

The trumpets will blare and the blue ---or at least bluish--- skies will smile down on the Olympic Games in Beijing. But before the command to "Let the games begin" is given, might I suggest taking just a moment to remember the man but for whom none of this would be...

During the 1980 campaign, legend (or at least cartoonist Bill Griffith, who cites wire-service accounts) has it, Ronald Reagan was presented with a gold-plated hardhat by a group of construction workers, and replied: "Gee, thanks fellas, but I can't wear this....I'm a...

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