Tag Archives: Lyndon Johnson
Let’s look for our leaders elsewhere
Donald Trump is not responsible for crimes committed before he was elected president, but he sought leadership of the government that committed them. Do you want to follow him?
Free yourself from childlike trust, and from fear of ostracism
The feds show their incompetence even when they finger a patsy. What does it say about the feds’ case against …
Thought experiment
Was Bobby Kennedy in on the plot to kill JFK? Before you think, good God, another nut, another preposterous theory, …
A Time for Choosing
I have Reagan set up as a key word in my Google news feed. If a news item appears on …
Resistance and the first conspiracy theorist
David Talbot, in Brothers, writes that Bobby Kennedy was the first conspiracy theorist. The very day of his brother’s murder, he …
“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 …
Make the Evidence Fit the Crime
Arlen “Make-the-evidence-fit-the-crime” Specter died October 2012, at 82. People will praise his long service in the Senate. They’ll speak admiringly …
“Without consent we invite paralysis”
Here is the paradox of our times: big lies are transparent, while the truth remains in every respect secret. Here’s …
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 