Kennedy and Cuba, Trump and Yemen: Contrasts In Failure

As details emerged, it became clear that our new Commander-in-Chief had initiated a military failure. Enemy resistance had been severely underestimated. People had died. The President immediately acknowledged the disaster, labeling it what that it was.

The Short, Miserable Life of A Presidential Turkey

Every November, deep in the White House’s rose gardens, the President of the United States raises his hand above a specially-selected turkey’s head, and gives it a Presidential pardon.

Conservatives and the Blood Soaked Logic of Religious and Ethnic Division

Even as a youngster, I read many theories about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy. Some did indeed speculate about right wing, communist, organized crime, government, and other groups. I do not recall any false confessions or other planted evidence designed to implicate conservatives, or any rumors of such planted evidence.