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Comedian-actor-writer Jerry O'Connell has produced an amusing video that would have been even more amusing with the aid of a stern editor. But it still has its moments. And here it is (with a tip o' the cap to The Big Lead).

Because its author is Brent Bozell and the venue is Townhall.com, some will dismiss this column as conservative boilerplate.But that would be a mistake. Mr. Bozell's quotes from mainstream sources (Jake Tapper of ABC and Marc Ambinder of Atlantic Monthly) show that...

Here's a provocative review of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland from RS's stonezone blog: A new book by Rick Perlstein traces the period between Lyndon Johnson's triumphant 1964 victory in the near universal belief that there was a national Liberal consensus, through the...

Dick Martin, who was Dan Rowan's suave partner, died yesterday in Santa Monica. He was 86. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, created and produced by TV comedy legend George Schlatter, was a phenomenal hit when it premiered in January 1968. It ran until 1973 and it...

Last night I watched ---because it happened to be the most recent arrival from my long and winding Netflix queue---Jean-Luc Goddard’s “missing” 1960 film Le Petit Soldat. The film’s style may be outdated but its subject matter ---torture and patriotism as aspects of...

As President Bush continues to receive criticism about his recent remarks in a speech to the Knesset in Jerusalem, many are taking a fresh look at the personalities and politics of previous generations. Mr. Bush, speaking on a visit to mark the 60th anniversary of the...

Norm Ornstein wrote an appreciation of Edward Kennedy's Senate career for today's Roll Call. What has made Kennedy a great Senator? First is his hard work--incredibly hard work. When I worked in the Senate in 1970, I got to know some of the Kennedy staffers, and heard...

Some TNN readers ---the interested, the curious, the homebound, the masochists, and the ones with just too much time on their hands--- might be interested in checking out the audio of today's edition of Fresh Air . The interviewee is Rick Perlstein, author of the new...

In this week's New York Observer, Felix Gillette had an interesting article about the most recent ---and most prominent--- examples of news anchor off-camera meltdowns preserved on tape and served up for viewing across the universe. On 14 May, Torrey Meeks, a young...

There has recently been an uptick in Nixon commentary online and in the print press.  Not surprisingly, some of it is factually inaccurate.    Reviewing the Perlstein biography, Newsweek's Evan Thomas writes:  The establishment press had been flummoxed by it all. In...