Mr. Reagan And The Boys

It was in the papers, but covered far from sufficiently, when Elisha “Ray” Nance died six weeks ago at the age of 94. He was well known around Bedford, Virginia, a picturesque town located at the feet of the Blue Ridge Peaks of Otter, where for years he delivered the...

Annals Of The Obama Administration

On Wednesday afternoon, while POTUS was entering Saudi air space, FLOTUS 44 was entertaining FLOTUS 40 to luncheon in the Family Quarters.  The meal —at which the two met for the first time— was served on the colorful (and once controversially costly)...

Koko Taylor     1935 – 2009

Koko Taylor was born Cora Walton on a farm outside of Memphis. The phenomenal singer died yesterday in a hospital in her home town of Chicago as a result of complications following surgery on 19 May.   She was 80, and she was known around the world as “The Queen...

Due Deference

Compare and contrast the following: EXHIBIT A: BRIAN WILLIAMS AND POTUS 29 MAY 2009 EXHIBIT B: POTUS AND KING ABDULLAH 1 APRIL 2009 What’s going on — the most common denominator of the observed phenomena:

Ed Gray’s Reply To Robert M. Smith

Last week in TNN I discussed the American Journalism Review article by former New York Times reporter Robert M. Smith in which he described a lunch he had in August 1972 with L. Patrick Gray in which (Smith now says) the acting FBI director conveyed by wordless facial...