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Art Callaham: O'Reilly's book on Kennedy a good read
I was never a “Kennedyphile” — lifelong southern conservative Republicans usually are not. Sure, I was a starry-eyed 15-year-old who understood “Camelot,” liked the pictures of bikini clad Jackie-O (as she was later to be...Tags: Assassinations, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Interior Policy
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Respect Boston's pain, bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev somewhere else
What kind of power do the living have over the dead? It’s a question that a Massachusetts town answered Sunday, when Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy said he would not allow Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the Boston Marathon...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), The Boston Globe, Religion and Belief, Values, Islam
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Oswald's gun and the decline of U.S. politics
Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Don'...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Assassinations, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Reading for mental health, but not 'self-help'
A good book is like good medicine. This is the message that comes to us from assorted British health professionals, and reiterated last week by the U.K.’s leading librarians. Why take a pill when you can pop open a metaphor? Why sit in line at...
Tags: Bill Bryson, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Gun Control Letters
Blogging with Bill WhiteI got quite a bit of response to my gun columns (here and here), so I thought I would share excerpts from some of those emails. If you’ve been following our letters to the editor, you’ve seen many of these...... -
Atheneum Showcases Art Of Politcal Paranoia
The Hartford CourantDeb Sokolow's 'Some Concerns About the Candidate' 'Something about this doesn't feel right." These are the words of an anonymous narrator, who's keeping a journal about participating in a political campaign. Within weeks of enthusiastically joining...Tags: Arts, Jim Jones, Sleep Deprivation, Arts and Culture, Paranoia
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James Badge Dale: 'Flight' star, and crush you didn't know you had
James Badge Dale has that familiar, handsome face that many a solid actor or high school sweetheart might have when you pass him at the coffee shop or traffic light. What you don't know is that you already love Dale -- or "Badge," as he's affectionately...
Tags: Social Media, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Michael Fassbender, Stephen Amell
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Lee Harvey Oswald's old Dallas apartment complex to be razed
HOUSTON--This week, Dallas city officials plan to begin razing a local apartment complex once home to notorious John F. Kennedy assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The site does not appear to have any national or state historic designation. But the decision...
Tags: Public Officials, Environmental Issues, Dallas County Administration Building, Rentals, Politics
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Bob Lee Swagger and the truth about JFK
In his new thriller, "The Third Bullet," novelist Stephen Hunter sets his sights on an American tragedy that's also the most famous gun mystery of all time — the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The questions surrounding the shooting as...
Tags: Criminals, Middletown, The Washington Post, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Woman Tell Story Of New Orleans Romance With Lee Harvey Oswald
WGNO NewsMaybe you dated some real losers in your single days. Or maybe the people just had a bad rap. Imagine if you dated a man who would be accused of killing the president. “I'm tired of it, and I'm coming out with the truth. And I think it's...Tags: Skype, Assassinations, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), John F. Kennedy
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Presidential similarities
Both President Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with the issue of Civil Rights. Lincoln was elected in 1860; Kennedy in 1960. Both were slain on a Friday and in the presence of their wives. Both were shot from behind, and in the head. Their successors,...Tags: U.S. Senate, Arts and Culture, Lyndon B. Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
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Jaime Chambers - Reporter
Jaime Chambers joins Fox 5 San Diego as a reporter arriving from our sister station, KTLA.
Grandson of legendary KTLA reporter Stan Chambers, Jaime joined KTLA as a news intern after attending college in Santa Barbara where he studied biology and...Tags: Biology, Led Zeppelin (music group), Elvis Costello, Colleges and Universities, David Bowie
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