Trig Wins
Andrew Sullivan’s modified limited hang-out on the Palin pass-the-baby story. Having let his adjutant rebut him last week on his own site, “The Daily Dish,” he has announced a suspension of the...
View ArticleCome Monday, In The Senate….
Today’s Washington Post featured a highly interesting article by Paul Kane about the four seats that will be “up in the air” in the United States Senate when it convenes Monday. One of these seats will...
View ArticleTeam Of Rivals, Minus One
This afternoon New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, President-elect Obama’s onetime competitor in the 2008 primaries and the P-E’s choice for Secretary of Commerce, announced that he was withdrawing...
View ArticleGoodbye SNL ‘75-’95; Hello Matthew 5:5
“This victory is incredibly humbling…” - opening words of Playboy contributor Al Franken’s statement upon being certified the victor in the US Senate race in Minnesota by that state’s Canvassing Board.
View ArticleAbsolutely (?) Mr. Franken; Positively (?) Mr. Burris
Last night, as I indicated in one of my briefer posts, comedian Al Franken borrowed the language of the Beatitudes to express his reaction to being certified the winner of the US Senate race in...
View ArticleA Day To Remember
I have lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, since November 1997, and so have been within a twenty-minute subway ride to downtown Washington for the last three Presidential inaugurations. But I didn’t go...
View ArticleBipartisanship or Groupthink?
“They could write like angels and scheme like demons.” This is how author Edward J. Larson describes two of our nation’s founding fathers – Thomas Jefferson and John Adams – in his book, A Magnificent...
View ArticleMichael Steele’s Moment
“This is the moment,” President Obama was fond of saying many, many times on the campaign trail. (Although he would vary it from time to time by speaking, in vaguely Churchillian fashion, of a time...
View ArticleTending Toward Statism
During the Oct. 15 Presidential debate, Sen. Obama ducked a $200 billion question from Bob Schieffer. If he’d answered it, would he still have won the election? Read more here.
View ArticleNixon The Communicator
The recently released C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey is an interesting, if predictable, snapshot of scholarly opinion about past chief executives. Honest Abe towers over the...
View ArticleBlue Orange?
(Cross posted from Epic Journey) Orange County, birthplace of Richard Nixon, may be on the cusp of political upheaval. In the Orange County Register, Dena Bunis reports: Orange County Democrats have...
View ArticleA New Chapter In Revisionist History
As President Obama travels to Europe to confer with leaders there about how to come to grips with the worldwide recession, Kate Pickert, at Time.com, compares the trip to earlier Presidential travels...
View ArticleRude Awakening, or The Edwards Zone Redux
“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” — Karl Marx, The...
View ArticleGay Marriage Reaches The Crossroads
The Obama Administration enjoyed a number of small triumphs this week. The Dow stayed well over 8500. Despite an increase in unemployment, the overall economic picture has been showing signs of...
View ArticleThe President At Notre Dame
Tomorrow President Obama will receive an honorary degree at the University of Notre Dame, the nation’s quintessential Catholic institution of higher learning, and will deliver an address to the...
View ArticleUnclubbable Man Joins World’s Most Exclusive Club
Robert Nedelkoff has examined the mathematics of Senator-Elect Franken’s “victory.” The Wall Street Journal today examines the ethics of the Franken camp’s found-votes recount strategy: What Mr....
View ArticlePalin, Nixon, Power, And The GOP
In the Times of London, Daniel Finkelstein writes: There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about...
View ArticleBob Greene, Richard Nixon, Civility, And Mystique
Yesterday, Bob Greene – the veteran journalist, not Oprah’s trainer – wrote a column for CNN.com about the nation’s winter of partisan discontent. (Well, yes, it is September, but the air did get...
View ArticleRN, BHO, and KSM, continued
When RN mistakenly declared Charles Manson guilty during his trial, problems ensued. From a contemporaneous report in Time: In Los Angeles, the effect of Nixon’s remarks on the Manson trial was...
View ArticleObama/Edwards: The Ticket That Never Was
In recent months little has been heard about the scandal that forced former Senator (and 2004 Democratic vice-presidential candidate) John Edwards from political life. A grand jury in North Carolina is...
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