Exiting history via a theater back door
Real historical research is like following not a string, but rather a dozen tangled strings, to see where they might lead. In the case of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, that research has been...
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During the Cold War the term “socialism” had some interesting connotations. Socialism is a widely practiced form of governance, and highly effective in so many aspects of life. In matters like health...
View ArticleTom Brokaw: “A bit of a moron”
We are in Gallup, New Mexico, a bustling reservation/casino town near the Arizona border. After a long and tiring day drive through snow, slush and freezing rain, I was the potential cause of a...
View ArticleIn the empire of lies, real historians have to do something else to make a...
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”(F. Scott Fitzgerald) “The worst thing to happen to...
View ArticleRecommended reading
To those of a curious bent, JC yesterday chimed in the comments with a diversionary trip down two related roads. The first, an excerpt from Avro Manhattan’s 1965 work, Vatican Imperialism in the 20th...
View ArticleCorrected link
Many people get posts without visting blog. For them: Corrected link in prior post for Vatican Clergy and Ukrainian Nationalism.
View ArticleThe deterrent value of capital punishment
Anyone who looks behind the curtain of the assassination of John F. Kennedy easily grasps that it was a conspiracy. All indicators point to the CIA as the agency that carried out the deed. Further,...
View ArticleDan Carlin’s Hardcore Huh?
*”These attitudes you have adopted – I know they comfort you. You are indifferent and incurious about the important events of our times. You are smug about it, thinking yourself wise to be so. But I...
View ArticleTyranny of mediocrity
Before the days of blogging, our best outlet for thoughtful prose was newspaper op-eds, 700-word pieces by self-appointed experts. I did my share of that. Journalists, the definition of smug, ruled the...
View ArticleThe Churchill Gang
This appears as a footnote to the post below, but since changes I make to posts do not go out to subscribers, whoever you are, I am inserting it here a a separate post: ___________________ PS: It...
View ArticleBill O’Reilly: Killing Truth
There is a woman who lives down in our area – I’ve spoken with her on the phone but would not know her if I hit her with my shopping cart at Kroeger’s. The circumstances of the conversation aside, she...
View Article“There is no refuge from confession but suicide…”
While hunting for housing back in 2009-10, I always took time to look at the book shelves. There were not many. This is not a reading culture. But there were some, and it was not unusual to see the...
View ArticleFuture fake history
I finally got around to seeing a movie I have been curious about, Interstellar, with Mathew McConaughey and Ann Hathaway, two of the least believable actors imaginable as astronauts. At almost three...
View ArticleThe Dreyfus Affair on Trial
Miles Mathis posted a paper I wrote showing that the famous Dreyfus Affair was a manufactured hoax. For those of you coming here from that paper, welcome! Below I have a brief clarification about the...
View ArticleWelcome to HELL (Part 1)
Silent Letters Say So Much … Someone asked me at breakfast the other day, “Does anyone pronounce the ‘l’ in yolk? I answered: I am unaware of any dialect that sounds out the ‘l’ nowadays, but at one...
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