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bastard.logic (Free subscription) | yesterday
by matttbastard So, what did we learn this weekend (besides the fact that Sarah Palin is the spiritual reincarnation of Richard Nixon and John Sidney McCain III has, according Howard Wolfson, jumped the shark)? Well, the European banking crisis is spreading; US bank failures are expected to increase in ‘09; US consumer confidence is next-to-non-existent, with a [...]
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Morgan Hen (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I found this piece by the notorious Paleoconservative Pat Buchanan highly amusing. Amusing why? Buchanan was both an assistant to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Now he is trying to reinvent himself as a Chesterton/small is beautiful type Tory. Come on now Pat! No one more than Ronald Reagan presided over more small businesses going under that they did! Buchanan was just a follower of the Chicago...
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Sierra Faith (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Just askin’. And so is Jennifer Rubin: So let’s review: Obama’s sponsor and friend Tony Rezko is going to jail, the Governor of his state whom he supported is going to be indicted and his close confident — for whom Obama got millions in earmarks — is under FBI investigation. Do you think this should be front [...]
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RssDaily (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
By Roger Cohen The New York Times In 1970, in the midst of the longest bear market since World War II, President Richard Nixon declared: "Frankly, if I had any money, I'd be buying stocks right now." The market soared. Now, I've been asking myself, just for the heck of it, what would happen if President Bush tried his own jawboning of the market and said: "Frankly, if I had any money, I'd be buying...
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The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Uppity Woman posted this excellent campaign ad—Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man'—by The Denver Group/Democrats For Principle Before Party. However, RBO has to disagree on one little inconvenient fact. Richard Nixon was clearly anti-Communist. To wit, in 1950, during the “Red scare”, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, the infamous “Red hunter”, [...]
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
By ROGER COHEN NYT In 1970, in the midst of the longest bear market since World War II, President Richard Nixon declared: “Frankly, if I had any money, I’d be buying stocks right now.” The market soared. Now, I’ve been asking myself, just for the heck of it, what would happen if President Bush tried his own jawboning of the market and said: “Frankly, if I had any money, I’d be buying stocks right now.”...
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faith in honest doubt (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Don't call him below average any more! [A] record 70 percent of Americans disapprove of George W. Bush's job performance; a career-low 26 percent approve . Just two presidents have had lower approval (Richard Nixon and Harry Truman) than President Bush, and none has had higher disapproval in polls since 1938.[emphases mine] But the news isn't all good. Upwards of 47% of Americans can still manage to...
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Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
One world leader accuses him of being deceptive and the nukes go flying, America. Oh, also, he was a POW. What a ridiculous man for a major political party to have nominated. But then, its no coincidence that he’s from the same lineage as George W. Bush and Richard Nixon.
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The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
This time we're going back to 1956 and this short, but to the point, Adlai Stevenson advert. More than anything else, it reminds one of how long Richard Nixon was at the centre of affairs. He's the dominant political personality between FDR and Reagan. Nixonland indeed.
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
This past summer, Rick Perlstein, the author of the new biography called Nixonland, looked back on the period leading up to Richard Nixon's 1968 election and told Reason magazine that in his opinion, "Bonnie and Clyde was the most...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Douglas, a liberal Democrat who ran against Congressman Richard Nixon for a California senatorial seat in 1950, was characterized as a communist. BEFORE Lee Atwater became a political hit man and before "Rovian" was written into the nation's campaign lexicon, the campaign against actress Helen Gahagan Douglas symbolized the viciousness of politics by smear.
