Nov 7, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s Washington Post has a front-page feature by Wil Haygood, the biographer of Sammy Davis Jr. and Adam Clayton Powell, which tells the story of Eugene Allen, an octogenarian resident of Northwest DC who, from 1952 to his retirement in 1986, was a butler at...
Nov 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It’s hardly news that print media has been in steady decline ever since the moment that the ball came down in Times Square on December 31, 1999, and the world realized that these newfangled computers were not going to all crash and were here to stay. This...
Nov 5, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It was widely noted in the media yesterday morning that former Weather Underground leader and current professor of education Bill Ayers voted at the same grade school where Sen. Barack Obama (and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan) cast their ballots. But lost in...
Oct 31, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Following a period in which some liberals claimed that Dubya’s misdeeds made them wish Richard Nixon were still in the White House, this year has seen the resurgence of the customary derogation of our 37th president. For example, horror novelist Stephen King,...
Oct 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yahoo’s news section has an article about the latest celebrity endorsements of Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by two video clips. In one of these, paid for by the Obama campaign, actor Ed O’Neill, none too ably channeling his Al Bundy persona from the...
