'SNL' Obama sketch marks end of honeymoon

..."Saturday Night Live" was formed in the crucible of the mid-1970s, when Watergate brought respect for politicians to all-time lows, the counterculture was taking over ... sketch has caused a rumble among the inside-the-Beltway chattering classes and New York news nabobs. Wrote Washington Post blogger Jonathan Capehart, "When your 'friends' start talking about you like this -- and friends with a huge ...

RIP Ted Kennedy

...Mr. Kennedy was little seen in Washington, appearing most recently at the White...marriage to Victoria Anne Reggie, a Washington lawyer. His first marriage, to Joan...in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Kennedy School of Government...Potomac River near McLean, Va., a Washington suburb. She took up residence in... and trucking industries, and the post-Watergate campaign finance legislation. He ...

'Truth' vs. 'facts' from America's media

... visited Vietnam and declared it a stalemate when nearly everyone else in the news media was gung-ho. And it was Cronkite who decided to take the Washington Post's reporting on Watergate and devote 14 minutes of his broadcast to it, thus dragging it from the sidelines into the national conversation. The truth is also ...

HAPPY ABBEYVERSARY

... back home to Seattle. In the headlines 40 years ago today: " WASHINGTON (AP) — "President Nixon said today he is trying to settle the war... on August 9, 1974, President Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal, effectively ending "our long national nightmare," in the words of ... the examiner into a river. No one was hurt. I will post the entire story later. It's just too funny to excerpt....

Russian politics, policy-making and American missile defence International Affairs 85: 4 (2009)

... of Putin’s succession and post-succession. A ‘political technologist’ could easily... power’.24 Seventeen years of post-Soviet development have demonstrated that ...’s borders are dismissed in Washington as pure propaganda. The Russian ... been fluctuating between recognition of post-Soviet realities and nostalgia for ... many Soviet officials considered the Watergate affair and subsequent resignation of ...

so I came down to crash and burn your beggars banquet

...except run the National Prayer Breakfast a "fundamentalist conspiracy." And yet many of the Watergate co-conspirators, including Chuck Colson and James McCord, were members of the Fellowship. ... need for a strong, emotional faith, and delivering it to key men in Washington, the Family has succeeded where generations of grass roots efforts have failed. Their hand is on the wheel. Original post

... that has become it's own post own. http://www.conceptbakery.com/blog/... my email, I get headlines from the NY Times and the Washington Post as well as briefs from Huffington and Politico. As I short ...'t printed in the Times or Post that day. I'm a news ... after church. We lived just outside Washington D.C. when I got interested ...reading the small story on the Watergate Burglary and talking to my mom...

Did the New York Times have the chance to break the Watergate story first?

... up on. A short time later, Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl...would become famous for covering the Watergate scandal.Neither Smith nor Phelps spoke...had also missed out on the Watergate story. Two reporters at the Associated...say they botched opportunity to break Watergate scandal (WPIX-TV New  York)... Times journalists admit: "We missed Watergate" (Telegraph) Really makes you wonder ...

New DVDs you can watch this weekend: - Washington Post

New DVDs you can watch this weekend: - Washington Post MLive.com New DVDs you can watch this weekend: Washington Post, United States - 21 hours ago The DVD comes in 2-D and 3-D versions ...well as an interactive planetarium game. · Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate ... NEW TO DVD : A return to 'Narnia'—and to ...

New DVDs you can watch this weekend: - Washington Post

New DVDs you can watch this weekend: - Washington Post MLive.com New DVDs you can watch this weekend: Washington Post, United States - 21 hours ago The DVD comes in 2-D and 3-D versions ...well as an interactive planetarium game. · Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate ... NEW TO DVD : A return to 'Narnia'—and to ...