FLOTUS 37’S COIFFURE AND AMERICA’S HISTORY

Christina Cristoforou’s interesting illustration on the op-ed page of today’s New York Times places our forty-four first ladies’ hair styles in historically cross-hatched perspective.  PN is in the middle of the second row from the bottom.  This...

Watch What We Do Not What We Say

The President held a Town Hall meeting in Annandale, Virginia, on Wednesday.  The logistics were the subject of some controversy. Before: And after (per the WaPo): In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House...

Which Revolution?

In my opinion, the best part of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address on January 20, 1961, had nothing to do with asking anyone anything. The moment to remember was when he said: The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all...

RN, Apollo, And Obits

The Smoking Gun is featuring documents that the Nixon White House prepared before the Apollo 11 mission in the event that it ended in tragedy.  Discover mutters that reading the plan “gives us the creepy feeling of reading the obituary of someone who is still...

The Washington Post, Disgraced

There are some alternate titles that came to mind as I prepared to write this, but since some of TNN’s readers are employees of the Washington Post – some of very long standing indeed – I thought it best to go with the least abrasive one that I...