Bidding a Sad Farewell to Peggy Noonan

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  March 11th at 04:32 PM  | 

I have a few sad thoughts to add to this more thorough, magisterial deconstruction of Peggy Noonan’s column today on Donald Rumsfeld’s Known and Unknown. Through the years I have tried to like Noonan, primarily because there are so few prominent female writers on major editorial pages, and even fewer that are conservatives. Also, as she frequently reminds us, she worked for Ronald Reagan and what | Read More »

Finally Asking My Question of Donald Rumsfeld

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  February 13th at 12:53 PM  | 

Promoted from Diaries – DM I had a novel experience last Thursday–I had lunch with my boss in our office conference room, not as we have untold numbers of times, but as a blogger hoping to get a question in. In a way it was a lunch more than four years in the making.

Rich Lowry Writes A Book Report!

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  September 14th at 02:13 PM  | 

Rich Lowry published a book report on Bob Woodward’s The War Within on NRO today. I would like to call the piece a review, but that term implies Lowry employed some critical judgement. As far as I can tell, he simply regurgitated Woodward’s talking points because as we all know Bob Woodward has an impeccible record of objectivity and factual accuracy. This reads like a | Read More »