Living in the Whine Country (Free subscription) | yesterday
When one hears about an impeachment of a President a person thinks about the last two memorable situations. Richard Nixon who stepped down and waved “I’m not a crook.” And the media circus that was Clinton’s impeachment for infedelity (yes I know there was a “real” reason but it was stupid). Yet through all of [...]
Otto 子's War Room (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
It’s been hard to do, but prez. George Bush has managed too up Prez. Richard Nixon’s status as one of the worst presidents in our history. Bush has taken this countries foreign policy on a reckless and opportunist ride to one of the bloodies conflicts in modern times. Not only has he killed a lot of people in his own presidency, but who ever takes his place will be bogged down in war for possibly centuries,...
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Cash from chaos from Baghdad to Basingstoke Solomon Hughes details the activities of one of the private firms which has made a great deal of money from the occupation of Iraq DEEP Throat, the whistleblower who unravelled President Richard Nixon's corruption, told journalists to expose the...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
First Obama sent his past criticism of the Iraq surge down the memory hole . Now he’s deleted his past support for public campaign financing. You couple that with Obama’s picking -and- choosing which reporters he’ll talk to and you begin to wonder: Who does this guy think he is? Richard Nixon? Then again, given his entire campaign boils down to “Change You Can’t Define” it’s little wonder Obama’s stances...
History News Network (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
One of the great pleasures of my work is being able to find and read or listen to documents and recordings from the presidencies and congresses of the early Cold War era. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon? They’re all still very much alive in my brain. So, too, is John F. Kennedy, most recently because of a story by R. Jeffrey Smith in the Washington Post (“ Terrorism Funds May Let Brass...
Palousitics (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
It was a weird political twist in a Washington gubernatorial race already full of them, strangely reminiscent of Richard Nixon's famous 1952 Checkers speech , where Nixon denied receiving any gifts from supporters other than "a little cocker spaniel dog...our little girl-Tricia, the 6-year old-named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Dominic Sandbrook reviews Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
The Sundries Shack (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
So, Nancy Pelosi thinks that President Bush is “a total failure”, does she? It takes one to know one, I suppose. Historical Note: Richard Nixon’s approval rating, about ten days before he resigned, was 23 percent. George Bush’s approval rating in mid-June was twice what Pelosi’s Congress is right now. So she’d probably be better [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
To the Fiberal Dummycrats every war is Viet Nam, any hint of a scandal is Watergate and every Republican is Richard Nixon. And the scientific community is united in that fact . That's the prism they're looking through when they deny the United [...]
Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Gail Collins on the Massachusetts repeal of the 1913 law: Back in 1970, when Americans were still adjusting to the Supreme Court ruling that people of different races had a constitutional right to wed, someone suggested to President Richard Nixon that same-sex marriages would be next. “I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000,” Nixon rejoined. Nixon was a little early, but extremely prescient, especially...
The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The DEA, which our great moral leader Richard Nixon created in 1973 and charged with the impossible but politically useful mission of winning the "all-out global war on the drug menace," turned 35 on July 1. So, how's its track record after 35 years of difficult, often dangerous drug-war-making? If the DEA were a heroin addict, it would have overdosed on its own incompetence by age 6. I guess that...
Weazl's Revenge (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Worries About War Crimes Heat up in the White House By Frank Rich, The New York Times We know what a criminal White House looks like from "The Final Days," Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's classic account of Richard Nixon's unraveling. The cauldron of lies, paranoia and illegal surveillance boiled over, until it was finally every man for himself as desperate courtiers scrambled to save their reputations...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
It is essential as Members of this House that we defend vigilantly the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. But we must bear in mind that the rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the destruction of the very government which protects the freedom of an individual to express his views. February 18, 1947
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I recall a conversation with a good friend back in 1968 when the presidential choices boiled down to Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey or George Wallace. The question was whether or not Nixon and Humphrey, as the major candidates, would have a debate and, if so, whether they'd permit Wallace to join them. "Oh no," my friend protested, "they can't let Wallace in there. The snake would have all the best...
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
I've overdone it lately, but won't have much time in the next few days. The three things I really want you to look at are: Bob's beats: Arabs, anger, etc Music post on Natascha Atlas, suicide bomber chic in Primal Scream, and Richard Nixon's visit to Egypt Brass Music post on brass music from the Balkans, New Orleans, New Mexico and elsewhere Anti-fascism: where next? On Searchlight's Hope Not Hate...
