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Lots of interesting stuff today…

18 January 2005

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A new book claiming that Sirhan Sirhan was a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy is getting some attention. This theory (Sirhan is hypnotized, comes in shooting wildly to distract from the real shooter standing behind RFK) has been around forever. When put with the forensic evidence–too many shots, different calibers, and the fatal shot coming from [...]

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Anonymous Defends the Weather Underground

28 November 2004

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Some readers might remember a post I made a while back after watching “The Weather Underground,” a documentary on the radical group of the late 60s-early 70s. Yesterday, an anonymous reader sent this comment: “If you weren’t there you couldn’t possibly understand. How bad were the Weathermen as compared to a coke snorting, draft dodging [...]

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This fight’s been going on for decades

22 November 2004

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To mark the 41st anniversary of his assassination, I thought I’d pass along a quote from JFK. It struck me when I read it, how similar the battle lines were, then and now. “If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone [...]

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