Pimped Out POTUS Wheels

Today’s Daily Telegraph offers a pictorial “History of the Power Parade” — a look at the official automobiles of American presidents. There’s Herbert Hoover’s super cool 1932 Cadillac 452B V-16 Fleetwood Imperial (he may have raised...

China on the Candidates, the Candidates on China

As a student in China in 1992, there was no internet access, no international cable TV (after 1989, CNN was only available in five-star hotel rooms) and imported newspapers were days old and cost almost ten dollars. Friends at the U.S. consulate provided video...

Attention: Right Wing! Hands Off FDR

FDR (and RN) biographer Conrad Black has posted a thoughtful and instructive piece on The Daily Beast: “Why The Right Should Leave FDR Alone”. Apparently some right wingers (specifically “some supply-side economic purists”) have been bashing...

But Have Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham Been Heard From?

Yahoo’s news section has an article about the latest celebrity endorsements of Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by two video clips. In one of these, paid for by the Obama campaign, actor Ed O’Neill, none too ably channeling his Al Bundy persona from the...