http://thenewnixon.org Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:32:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New York Times: “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it’s on MySpace or sending instant messages,” said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the [MacArthur Foundation] study, “Living and Learning With New Media.” “But their participation is giving them the ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/21/department-of-wishful-thinking/ Veteran GOP operative Roger Stone: There have been many times I've regretted [helping George W. Bush win in 2000]. When I look at those double-page New York Times spreads of all the individual pictures of people who have been killed [in Iraq], I got to think, 'Maybe there wouldn't have been ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/21/two-stones-roger-and-oliver-of-one-mind-on-iraq/ Left Wing Anti-War groups fear too many hawks in Obama administration: The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for top security posts ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/team-of-rivals-hawks/ Pres.-elect is expected to name NY-Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State after thanksgiving, she is expected to accept: President-elect Barack Obama is "on track" to name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of state shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides said. Financial disclosure issues have been worked out, ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/expecting-to-be-accepting/ Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech in Washington D.C., and didn't immediately regain consciousness: Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and was being taken to a hospital. Associate Attorney General Kevin O'Connor said Mukasey began shaking while addressing the Federalist Society at a Washington hotel. "He just ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/prayers-for-ag-mukasey/ Back in the '80s, Rich Hall invented Sniglets: Words that should ---but don't--- appear in the dictionary. Such as: ACCORDIONATED (ah kor' de on ay tid) adj. Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time. CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/aglet-another-name-for-a-whatjermecallit/ As the big boys from the big three pressed their case this week for a taxpayer funded bridge or bailout (pick your metaphor), the role of big labor in Mr. Obama’s coming administration is being seriously tested even before the guy gets to say “so help me God.” Of course, at ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/what-would-the-sage-of-fair-lane-think/ Robert Novak suspended his column last summer when he learned he had a brain tumor.  The long-time Washington observer and uber-reporter arrived in the capital in the latter years of the Eisenhower administration. In this month's Washingtonian magazine, he talks at length with Barbara Matusow for her "What I've Learned" column. "The ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/a-summing-up/ Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in Gm. Hat tip to Andew Sullivan http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/poleto-allegro/ Erica Heller is a New Yorker in her fifties.  In her twenties and thirties she worked in advertising. Then she dropped out of the field and wrote a novel, Splinters - a natural thing to do when one is the daughter of the late Joseph Heller, author of Something Happened, ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/catch-2008/ The IAEA is reporting that Iran has enough nuclear material for an atomic weapon: Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in Wednesday's report, has to date produced some 630 kilograms of low-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear fuel. That milestone is enough to produce a single nuclear weapon, about the ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/the-looming-threat-from-teheran/ As a budget crisis looms in Arizona, Gov. Janet Napolitano's likely acceptance of the DHS job might just be her way of getting out of dodge. Jim Geraghty reports that this will help the Republican down ticket with incumbent advantage in 2010: The Democrats have lost their best candidate in Arizona. ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/gop-salivating-in-az/ Joe the Plumber has signed a book deal. The book is clearly intended to be a serious literary effort --- as indicated by the currently requisite colon in its title: Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream Having written off, so to speak, the option of dealing with one ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/reaching-for-the-fifteenth-and-a-half-minute-of-fame/ Hat tip to my friend Tracy Wood, Vietnam war correspondent, investigative editor, newspaper consultant, and (if anyone is) an architect of the resurrection of American journalism: The story of how a Longmont, Colorado newspaper owner invited his employees to park cars at his holiday party. At least two have accepted ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/then-put-the-cat-out-and-the-bulldog-to-bed/ Just in time for our not worrying about inflation anymore -- as we (can it be?) pine for our summertime fretting about mounting gas and food prices -- comes Robert Samuelson's not exceptionally well-timed new book. From an "Economist" review: Milton Friedman was wrong. Inflation is always and everywhere a social ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/price-slashed-on-new-inflation-book/ There's more controversy over a birth that became an issue in the recent Presidential campaign. Why won't the candidate simply release better hospital records and put the nagging questions to bed? Trig and Gov. Palin? The President-elect. A few are still pushing the discredited idea that he was born in Kenya ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/call-andrew-sullivan-obama-born-in-kenya/ Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: Failure is Not an Option By Victor Davis Hanson We all remember the advice about failure we received from our parents and teachers. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." "Learn from your mistakes." "Failure breeds success." Two Wrongs, No Right by Alvaro Vargas Llosa In ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/20/featured-articles-november-20-2008/ Politico reports that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has been selected, and is likely to accept the position as Department of Homeland Security Secretary. She has apparently adeptly thread the needle on immigration politics, but does her nomination allow an issue barely talked about in the last election cycle to become ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/19/border-going-to-consume-dhs/ Ted Stevens conceded defeat in his bid for re-election to the Senate today, strengthening the Democratic hand in the upper chamber but at least saving the GOP elders some embarrassment.  This eliminates the prospect, at least immediately, that Gov. Sarah Palin, as speculated by some earlier this month, might appoint ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/19/pen-to-paper-or-finger-to-keyboard/ There's a lot going on in Jason Horowitz' short article ---"Why Would Obama Proffer State Gig to Clinton?"--- in the New York Observer today. People are speaking the unspeakable, thinking the unthinkable, whistling past the graveyard, making a virtue of adversity, and ---just in case she actually gets it--- doing some ... http://thenewnixon.org/2008/11/19/secretary-clinton-some-reasons-why/