On a lighter note, Remnick, in a piece on current press relations, depicts the lasting influence of Spiro Agnew via the return of the Nixon-Agnew-Ford orbit to the White House. No rhetorical slouch himself, Remnick writes:

Wielding a rhetorical style that might be described as “surrealist-alliterative,” Agnew denounced opponents of the war in Vietnam as [...]

I could start things off with a question and two observations on Iraq. Question: Why has there been almost no coverage of the proposed Al-Maliki government’s peace plan and the positive response from the Sunni insurgency groups?
Observations: 1. The proposed plan runs directly contrary to significant aspects of US Iraq policy. 2. The contrast between [...]