Dec 24, 2012 | News, Space, The New Nixon
Four decades ago this month, at about 12:40 AM EST on December 14, 1972, that Capt. Eugene Cernan, USN, lifted his foot up from the airless, age-old surface of the moon, and boarded Apollo 17’s lunar module. Thus it was that humankind said farewell to hands-on...
Nov 3, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today
Over at the website of the Philippine Star, columnist Carmen N. Pedrosa reminds her countrymen that China is the pre-eminent economic presence in today’s Pacific Rim, and that American politicians, rather than blaming the PRC for all America’s financial...
Oct 27, 2012 | News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon, Presidency, Republican Party, The Nixons
Soon, Senator George McGovern, who died earlier this week at the age of ninety, will leave his native state of South Dakota for the nation’s capital one last time. His first move to Washington, at the end of 1956, was as a newly elected Congressman. His...
Oct 21, 2012 | In Memoriam, News, Nixon Today, Presidency, Republican Party, The New Nixon, Watergate
Just before dawn this morning, former Senator George McGovern died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of ninety. Senator McGovern had been in gradually declining health for the last year or so, and three months ago had the bitter task of burying his son Steven,...
Sep 15, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
There’s no denying that the big sports story coming out of Washington right now centers around the Nationals, now a cinch to go into the National League playoffs, and maybe even on course to do the unthinkable and bring the World Series to the nation’s...
