Forty Years Later …
Yesterday, the day that President Obama invoked executive privilege, was the fortieth anniversary of The 18-Minute Gap in the Watergate scandal. It is interesting to compare and contrast WaPo’s...
View ArticleWhich President is in Office Now?
Remember the riff about the Obama Administration being Jimmy Carter’s second term, and how some of us predicted that as a best case scenario? Does it seem that Barack Obama’s second term is turning...
View ArticleTeam Kimberlin Post of the Day
Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt has testified that he can’t remember complaining about having to work on President’s Day. Perhaps this will refresh his memory. OK, so who got President’s Day off? Huh? Raise...
View ArticleLike Watergate?
I’m beginning to hear rumblings of “just like Watergate” in discussions of both the Benghazi and IRS v. Tea Party stories. Really? Watergate, after all, was only a third-rate burglary according the...
View ArticleIt Looks Like They’ve Lost Bob Schieffer
(H/T, Instapundit) Well, yes, those of us who were working in the news business back in the early ’70s do see certain similarities to Nixon. I have to tell you that is exactly the approach that the...
View ArticleForty Years Later …
Yesterday, the day that President Obama invoked executive privilege, was the fortieth anniversary of The 18-Minute Gap in the Watergate scandal. It is interesting to compare and contrast WaPo’s...
View ArticleBarack Milhous Obama
Back in 2008, it was fashionable in some quarters of the Blogosphere to predict that Obama’s administration would be like Carter’s second term. There were those of us who suggested that might be a best...
View ArticleHillary Milhous Clinton
The Hill reports that the Clinton campaign is preparing to spin the email hacks by comparing them to the Watergate break in. Uh, huh. Well, what’s a few deleted emails compared to 18-1/2 minutes of...
View ArticleI’m Old Enough to Remember When …
… Democrats thought that government spying on political campaigns was a bad idea. Attorney General Barr is about my age, and he seems to have similar memories of the ’60s and ’70s. K. S. Bruce has a...
View ArticleA Similarity and a Difference
Both the 1972 and 2016 presidential elections were plagued with irregularities committed by persons associated with the party that was in the White House during the election. However, IIRC none of the...
View ArticleForty Years Later …
Yesterday, the day that President Obama invoked executive privilege, was the fortieth anniversary of The 18-Minute Gap in the Watergate scandal. It is interesting to compare and contrast WaPo’s...
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