Aug 14, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Kansas City Star sports columnist Joe Posnanski is —where else?— in Beijing. In today’s paper he reports about the role ping pong plays in everyday life in China — and how that helps explain the impact that the American ping pong team had when...
Aug 14, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In today’s New York Post, Max Boot surveys our reactions to the unfolding events in Georgia and concludes that “all indications are that the will of the West has been found wanting. The Bush administration has limited its reaction to a few statements of...
Aug 13, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
One of the unexpected bonuses of the current Olympic Mania (Phelps Division) is the revelation of a diet that I might actually be able to observe without cheating. Or at least, in the spirit of John Edwards, not cheating that much. Swimming sensation Michael Phelps...
Aug 12, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
“Peace at the center”: RN smiling at Marie Abplanalp’s wedding Saturday, April 16, 1994 was a great day in the life of the 37th President. Marie Abplanalp, daughter of his friend Bob, was getting married in Bronxville, New York. President Nixon was a...
Aug 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Kagan’s column in today’s Washington Post is important and disturbing. Historians will come to view Aug. 8, 2008, as a turning point no less significant than Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Russia’s attack on sovereign Georgian...
