• May 28, 2012

pt important deaths

Irving Kristol Dies

by Jim Newell  4:10 pm September 18, 2009

The “godfather of neoconservatism,” Irving Kristol, died at 89 today. Although he has been quieter in recent years, Kristol’s personal political history is famous, and probably over-exaggerated, but goes something likes this: when he was an undergraduate at the “radical” City College of New York, from which he graduated in 1940, his small group of [...]

by Jim Newell  12:23 pm August 18, 2009

ROBERT NOVAK, WASHINGTON REPORTER FOR 666 YEARS, IS DEAD: Didn’t this happen like a month ago? Oh, that was Walter Cronkite. Hmm! Well, Robert Novak is dead now too. Sail on, sail on, sailor. [Huffington Post]