Annals Of The Obama Administration

On Wednesday afternoon, while POTUS was entering Saudi air space, FLOTUS 44 was entertaining FLOTUS 40 to luncheon in the Family Quarters.  The meal —at which the two met for the first time— was served on the colorful (and once controversially costly)...

Koko Taylor     1935 – 2009

Koko Taylor was born Cora Walton on a farm outside of Memphis. The phenomenal singer died yesterday in a hospital in her home town of Chicago as a result of complications following surgery on 19 May.   She was 80, and she was known around the world as “The Queen...

Due Deference

Compare and contrast the following: EXHIBIT A: BRIAN WILLIAMS AND POTUS 29 MAY 2009 EXHIBIT B: POTUS AND KING ABDULLAH 1 APRIL 2009 What’s going on — the most common denominator of the observed phenomena:

Ed Gray’s Reply To Robert M. Smith

Last week in TNN I discussed the American Journalism Review article by former New York Times reporter Robert M. Smith in which he described a lunch he had in August 1972 with L. Patrick Gray in which (Smith now says) the acting FBI director conveyed by wordless facial...

A Nixon Speaks On North Korea’s Nukes

Christopher Nixon Cox, the 37th President’s grandson who gained prominence last year as the New York executive director of the McCain campaign, explains at Fox News’s website why he thinks North Korea’s recent saber-rattling is primarily the result...

Art Imitates Life

The image has become iconic.  The group photograph of the 1945 Yalta Conference in February 1945: the unhappily marginalized WSC, the ailing, failing FDR, and the grumpy Uncle Joe greedily counting the chickens he was about to hatch. The scene will be recreated in the...