Laughing Matters

The bad news is that both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have, over the last few months, decisively jumped the shark.  Maybe they changed writers; or maybe the old writers just ran out of snark and irony and steam, and decided that polemics were as funny as...

And That’s The Way It Was, March 22, 1935

The late Walter Cronkite learned the craft of journalism working for his high school paper in Houston and later for the Daily Texan at the University of Texas in Austin. One day in late March of 1935, he was sent to interview a visiting writer who was to speak at Hogg...

Buchanan Discusses The Nixon Comeback

The former RN staffer makes some interesting insights into RNs comeback in 1966-1968, as part of a comparison between RN and the former governor of Alaska. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Uncovering the Nixonian Holy Grail

From “Mother Jones”, there seems to be a new attempt afoot to find out what was on the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap on the tapes.  Not from the tapes, but Haldeman’s notes during the meeting.