Fake news as a social phenomenon
We are all Cartesians in that respect. God created us to follow his light, which is to say, our own inner voice. Nothing in the world, outside of our minds, contradicts that creative principle.
Tag Archives: Jack Ruby
November 22, 1963 – November 22, 1917
Fifty-four years later, the CIA prevented release of documents that would show Lee Oswald was a U. S. intelligence asset. Once you know that about Oswald, several other mysteries about his life – and his death – make sense. Once you know the CIA used Oswald, and I mean used him, you no longer have to wonder why Kennedy died.
November 22 – 24, 1963
The forty-eight hours from noon on Friday, 11/22/1963, to noon Sunday, 11/24/1963, represent the most critical events in American history …
Economy in explanation: James Douglass, Lee Oswald, and the CIA
Yesterday I wrote a post about a key factor that makes an explanation believable or persuasive. A persuasive account needs …
Cosby-Buress effect: how to use social acceptance to dismiss criminals
If serial rape by America’s dad seems too serious a subject for jests, what about fears that your own American flag heralds a state that assassinates leaders and blows up buildings with people in them?
Why he died and why it matters
When the Warren Commission’s report came out on September 24, 1963, TIME’s writers worked thirty-six hours straight to prepare a …
Was Bobby Kennedy in on the plot to kill JFK?
Before you say, “Good God, another nut, another nutty theory,” stay with me for a few minutes. Consider these arguments. …
“It would be very dangerous to the country”
If I told you what I really know, it would be very dangerous to the country. Our whole political system …
Dallas Love Project on the 50th Anniversary
Dallas may think its reputation will never recover, after it hosted President Kennedy, Kennedy’s entourage, and Kennedy’s assassins fifty years …
What accounts for outrageous acts?
out·ra·geous adjective of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander. grossly offensive to the sense of right or decency: outrageous behavior; an outrageous remark. passing reasonable bounds; intolerable or shocking: an outrageous price. violent in action or temper. Jack Ruby murders Lee Oswald in Dallas on Sunday, November 24, 1963. What …
“All I know is what I read in the newspaper”
News people are saying this week that Kennedy was the first television president, and that the end of his life …
City of Complicity
I came across a post I wrote in October about Dallas’s Love Project, where school children made posters on the …
The Jeffersonian 