No More Calls Please — We Have A Winner

After a great deal of discussion and speculation, we finally have the answer: Barack Obama is the New Nixon. The clincher?  I’ll let Anthony Holden tell you in his own words from today’s Daily Beast: Among the countless blessings conferred by the election...

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

In this week’s “Wonder Land” Daniel Henninger sees next Tuesday’s outcome in little less than apocalyptic terms: I don’t agree with the argument that an Obama-Pelosi-Reid government is a one-off, that good old nonideological American...

WWND?

With the exception of a very few slam dunk no brainer topics, I am loath even to speculate on —much less to purport to know— What Would Nixon Do?. That said, a tip o’ the cap to Roger Stone for his “WWND” post on  yesterday’s...

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...

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...