Reflections on Easter Sunday
These subjects also help one see connections among public beliefs, private knowledge, and responsible action. Eventually these thoughts may nourish hope, as Easter does.
Tag Archives: JFK
Murder Most Foul
Kennedy’s last words
When we let Kennedy’s murderers go, they recreated the country in their own image: a country of bondage, war, and bitter quarrels. To reclaim Kennedy’s vision, reclaim power from the people who killed him.
The Guilty Men
Video recording about The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
The Mad King
We have reached a new level of prevarication in the Never Trump movement. From the moment election results came in …
JFK, 9/11, and trust in government
If you perceive the state’s activities as patriotic efforts to protect all of us, then Snowden is indeed a traitor. If you see state secrecy – and everything the state does behind that veil – as self-serving efforts to preserve both autonomy and influence, then Snowden and others who drop the veil are heroes. I don’t see any other way to look at it.
Collapse of authority when authority deserves contempt
Don’t think it can’t happen here. Rather, don’t think it can’t happen twice. I’m not thinking about a second civil …
Snowden, Comey, and Trump
As many stars revolve around the pole star while earth rotates, remember one constant principle: if Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump in the White House, the deep state regards Trump as a threat. Watch the contest continue.
The car on Elm Street, v. 2
We should pay equal attention to evidence about the bullet or bullets that hit Connally. Everything we do know – about when he was first hit, the location of his wounds, and the direction of travel of the bullet or bullets that hit him – indicates more than one shooter.
Hannah Arendt and government lies
We still have our friends, we still have faith in ourselves, and most of all we can still reason effectively. Government can shut down a lot, but it can never shut down rational, free thought.
Comments on Infamy and related research
I decided way back when I wrote about Reagan that persuading people to change their minds about politics is not something I would ever try to do. It is like trying to change people’s minds about God or religion in general, another thing I never try to do.
“What happened?” vs. “Who did it?”
If you want to understand the despair that led to election of a strongman two weeks ago, look back to another leader, executed on a sunny Friday afternoon as he waved from his car.
The Jeffersonian 