Richard Goodwin was part of a group of young, idealistic, Northeastern liberals who entered the oval office with President John F. Kennedy in 1961. At 31, Goodwin had joined the administration as Ted Sorensen’s speechwriting assistant before being appointed to the role of JFK’s point man on Latin American affairs. Goodwin had come to Washington D.C. just out of college in … [Read more...]
The Truth About the Myths of Columbine (18 Years Later)
On April 20th, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated one of the largest mass shootings in American school history. Harris and Klebold, students at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, turned their firearms on fellow students and faculty alike on a day that would prove to create as much myth as it did reality. Fourteen Columbine students (including the … [Read more...]
Getting Nixon: Len Colodny’s Attempt to Interview Richard Nixon for Silent Coup
The Reagan Revolution was underway and it had been close to 15 years since America had first believed that the Watergate cover-up brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. The GOP had taken its requisite throttling in 1976, but it had come back triumphant in 1980 when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter. The Washington Post had all but taken de facto ownership of the … [Read more...]
Darren Rainey’s Death Highlights Florida Prison Abuse
As Darren Rainey screamed, “Please take me out! I can’t take it anymore!,” prison guards under the watch of the notorious Florida Department of Corrections laughed. Darren Rainey was then burned to death by four corrections officers at Dade Correctional Institution outside of Miami, Florida on June 23, 2012. In a bafflingly inhumane decision this week, Miami-Dade State's … [Read more...]
Tillerson Opens Military Option Against North Korea
Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, said today that military action against North Korea remains an “option on the table” if the threat from Pyongyang continues escalating. Tillerson did not define what he or the United States would consider continued escalation to be, nor did he define what degree or nature of military action would be warranted. Much like the periodic late … [Read more...]