On Social Security, A Nixon-To-China Moment

September 12, 2011

Obama has his “Nixon to China” moment, taking the Social Security debate to a place George W. Bush only dreamed of going.

Alito Takes The Bait

January 29, 2010

Never in living memory has a president chosen to bait the U.S. Supreme Court in his State of the Union message. But that is what President Obama did this week, and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took the bait. Obama and fellow Democrats are livid over the high court’s 5-4 ruling last week that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to advertise for or against political candidates. To …

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Look, Mom — I’m A Gay Republican Now

December 30, 2009

If being a Democrat can run in families, it runs in mine. My parents were one generation removed from Ellis Island and the Lower East Side. Tammany Hall’s ward heelers helped my grandparents become Americans by telling them how to vote. My father enlisted in the Navy at 16, got married at 20, and joined a lodge (the Knights of Pythias) and a union, both of which were virtual Republican-free …

Redemption For Kennedy And Nixon

August 27, 2009

On the morning of July 19, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon had to have been the happiest man in America. As the Apollo 11 mission entered lunar orbit in preparation for the next day’s historic landing, a diver recovered the body of Mary Jo Kopechne from a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Kopechne, 28, drowned when Sen. Edward Kennedy drove his car off a tiny bridge at around …

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