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Nixobamians Unite 2008-03-09 01:10:30 Thanks to Sarge for telling us about this post about Jeffrey Hart, ex-RN and NR (”National Review”) guy, who’s for Obama (and he’s not the only prominent Nixobamaian, nudge-nudge, wink-wink) and also has some reflections on Manhattan’s shifting religio-ethnography.
To Share 2008-03-09 00:47:08 At the Episcopal school where I pastor and teach, each spring the 5th graders grapple with these verses from the Hebrew Testament:
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The LORD appeared to Abram and said, [...] Read more:Share
Looks Like McCain’s The Real Fresh Face 2008-03-08 19:20:45 At “Salon,” Alex Koppelman hints that both Democrats are, uh, equivocating on Iraq to get elected:
In [her BBC] appearance, [fired Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha] Power told interviewer Stephen Sackur that when it comes to his plans to withdraw from Iraq, Obama “will of course not rely upon some plan that he’s crafted as a [...] Read more:Looks
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Star Power But No Willpower? 2008-03-08 16:14:32 The New York Times reports that Senator Obama’s surprising White House run is predicated on channeling energies from his lack of power in the Senate. Read more:Willpower
A Latin American Israel? 2008-03-08 15:40:57 Yesterday, in an obvious imitation of friend Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez called Colombia “the Israel
of South America” in a statement that was meant to slander Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. It’s apparent that leftists like Chavez and his Islamo-Fascist friends of the non-aligned movement detest American
influence in the world, but its dually [...] Read more:Latin
Featured Articles — March 8, 2008 2008-03-08 13:40:34 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Europe ♥ Obama By Guy Sorman
For continental elites, the candidate exemplifies “the good American.”
Israel’s No-Win Strategy By Daniel Doron
It’s time to treat the fight against terror as the war it is.
Torn between 2 white liberal guilts By Mark Steyn
Well, we will have Hillary Clinton to kick around some more, at [...] Read more:Articles
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The Other New Nixon 2008-03-08 00:34:49 Now that she’s being so thoughtless as to persist in standing between the chosen one and the promised land, comparisons between RN and Sen. Clinton (who got her start in politics trying to impeach him) have become pretty common. In”Rolling Stone,” here, she’s dubbed “The New Nixon
.” The first-ever RN-HC pairing may have been ventured [...]
Don’t Panic Over Russian Gas 2008-03-07 23:41:13 Many in the West worry that Russia will continue to use its gas and oil reserves to bully neighbors even as the gushing revenue helps millions of its citizens bounce back from the doldrums of the 1990s. On Thursday in Washington, The Nixon Center’s executive director, former State Department official Paul Saunders (second from left), [...] Read more:Panic
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The Week in Newsmagazines 2008-03-07 20:35:31 Having followed William F. Buckley’s career since his celebrated race for New York mayor in 1965, I was quite curious to see how the three major newsmagazines would report his passing. After all, David Levine’s 1967 caricature of Buckley on Time’s cover was frequently featured in the online coverage of the conservative giant’s death, and [...]
Would They Stop The Presses Today? 2008-03-12 19:52:09 Two debatable assertions from the LA Times, both evidently made by USC journalism professor Geoffrey Cowan, co-writer of “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers,” a radio play being reprised this week in Los Angeles, as he offers comparisons between the Nixon and Bush eras:
In the prevailing political climate leading up to and sustaining [...] Read more:Presses
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A Spitzer Primer 2008-03-12 18:30:45 You’re busy. You have a lot to do. You’re already behind schedule before your morning coffee is even cool enough to sip. You certainly have no time to sort through all the emerging details of every late-breaking story the media throws at you — much less to think through all their engaging [...] Read more:Spitzer
Looking Beyond Musharraf 2008-03-12 18:05:48 State Department official Richard Boucher visited The Nixon Center this week to offer support to Pakistani President Musharraf’s political foes so long as they continue to oppose political extremists and terrorists as well. Read the AP’s coverage here; get more details from The Nixon Center.
The Dennis Hopper Commercials Skip This Part 2008-03-12 16:26:30 Economist, speechwriter, author, actor, and diarist Ben Stein, one of the best friends RN ever had, tells “Money” that we won’t even know until July if we’re in a recession. Here’s what really worries him about the economy:
There’s a real economic crisis highballing down the track. And that’s the baby boom’s retirement. There are going [...] Read more:Commercials
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Featured Articles — March 12, 2008 2008-03-12 14:04:20 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Spitzer’s Media Enablers By Kimberly Strassel
The fall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer holds many lessons, and the press will surely be examining them in coming months. But don’t expect the press corps to delve into the biggest lesson of all — its own role as his enabler.
The Pentagon vs. [...] Read more:Articles
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Yes, the New Yorker 2008-03-12 00:22:49 Everybody knows that politics breeds strange bedfellows, and this week’s New Yorker
cover —titled “I’ll Get It”— provides artist Barry Blitt’s humorous take on the current red phone controversy. Mr. Blitt’s reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent ridiculous boast at Columbia University that there are no homosexuals in Iran —made a few weeks after Senator [...]
Library Rocket Science 2008-03-12 00:09:19 A scholar hints at how we might destroy Presidential libraries. Writing in the Chicago Tribune, art history professor Benjamin Hufbauer grouses about how friendly the libraries’s museums are to the Presidents whose names their bear:
Although the archives of presidential libraries were for several decades largely above politics, because the National Archives ran them professionally, the [...] Read more:Library
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Last Night’s Late Show’s Top 10 2008-03-11 14:19:07 TOP TEN ELIOT SPITZER EXCUSES
Number 10: Oh come on, like you were never involved in a
prostitution ring.
Number 9. Hookers is fun.
Number 8. Just trying to help the economy.
Number 7. Have you ever been to Albany?
Number 6. It’s part of my new MTV prank show, ‘Sptiz’d’.
Number 5. Haven’t been myself since Roy Scheider died.
Number 4. Uh, [...] Read more:Late Show
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FBI Files Revealed 2008-03-11 10:00:19 H/T: Michael Ravnitzky
ABC has a 4 part series based on the disclosure of 5000 pages worth of secret FBI
files recently released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Hollywoodtoday.net has more.
More Unrest In Tibet 2008-03-15 11:32:19 Tibetan protest over Chinese rule has turned violent.
Though human rights groups ardently defend the protection of the Tibetan people and the preservation of their culture (as they should, the Chinese have been brutal in their reign), ironically it is no fun to be Chinese among these violent rioters in Lhasa today. 10 people are dead, [...] Read more:Tibet
Featured Articles — March 15, 2008 2008-03-15 11:19:39 Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad:
Governor Bloomberg? By Robert Novak
The disgraced Eliot Spitzer had hardly resigned as governor of New York when Republican strategists began calculating a return to power in Albany via New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Mirror, Mirror …Looking at Iraq. By Victor Davis Hanson
By now everyone sees what he wishes in Iraq — [...] Read more:Articles
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One Man’s Judgment 2008-03-14 22:16:55 From Hugh Hewitt’s blog:
Obama also said for the first time that his private real estate transactions with Rezko involved repeated lapses of judgment. The mistake, Obama said, was not simply that Rezko was under grand jury investigation at the time of their 2005 and 2006 dealings. “The mistake was he had been a contributor and [...] Read more:Judgment
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Tan, Rested, and Ready on a Bipartisan Basis 2008-03-14 21:51:40 Move over, Sens. Clinton and McCain, at various times dubbed “the new Nixon.” Our own Jack Pitney was the first to notice correlations between RN ‘68 and Obama ‘08, and now Rod Dreher says the man from Illinois needs to reach all the way back to ‘52 and make a Checkers speech. Read more:Basis
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No 35th for #37? 2008-03-14 17:03:50 This morning John McCain supporters received an e-mail from Everett Alvarez, Medal of Honor winner Bud Day, and nine other Vietnam POWs. They write that Saturday will mark the 35th anniversary of a happy day for the senator:
March is a memorable time for the Americans who were released from captivity in North Vietnam during the month back in 1973. [...]
Not the Only Election 2008-03-14 12:58:06 Today’s the day for new parliamentary elections in Iran, a key event for those following the country’s byzantine domestic politics as well as those hoping that the United States and Iran will eventually find a way to resolve their differences on nuclear issues, terrorism, and a host of other issues. Anyone interested in either topic [...] Read more:Election
Can’t We All Just NOT Get Along? 2008-03-14 09:38:31 Geraldine Ferraro’s impolitic commentary regarding Barack Obama has been widely covered and discussed. But in the rush to examine the really juicy part of her monologue, you know – the stuff about race – something else the 72 year old former congresswoman said is being lost.
Toward the end of her recent, now infamous, interview, one [...]
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