A Nixon Speaks On North Korea’s Nukes

Christopher Nixon Cox, the 37th President’s grandson who gained prominence last year as the New York executive director of the McCain campaign, explains at Fox News’s website why he thinks North Korea’s recent saber-rattling is primarily the result...

Art Imitates Life

The image has become iconic.  The group photograph of the 1945 Yalta Conference in February 1945: the unhappily marginalized WSC, the ailing, failing FDR, and the grumpy Uncle Joe greedily counting the chickens he was about to hatch. The scene will be recreated in the...

Stanley Kutler On The Sotomayor Choice

At the Huffington Post Stanley I. Kutler, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, discusses President Obama’s selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. Professor Kutler, who was the subject of some TNN posts last year concerning...

This Just In Re: 16

Four score and seven years ago tomorrow —on 30 May 1922— the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.   As the Memorial’s website notes: President Lincoln’s only surviving son was a special guest at the May 30, 1922 dedication ceremony for the Lincoln...

Reading Material

For many years I had a degree of respect —a minimal degree and a reluctant respect to be sure— for Richard Ben-Veniste.  This was partly because he had dated Mary Travers (although that may have merited props more than respect); and partly because,...