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Now, I don't know anything about ballistics or magic bullets or grassy knolls. I have no idea whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Maybe the Warren Commission botched its report, and maybe it didn't (I'm certainly not going to read the thing). I am an assassination agnostic...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Stoned: JFK's Revision of the '60s | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. Best not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply: 'It is Time to Disillusion' | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

Recently, after seeing JFK, I found myself curious about what had become of the man Jim Garrison once named as the hit man. I consulted some of the assassination buffs still speaking to me (though an agnostic on whether there was a conspiracy, I had written skeptically about the methodology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking A Darker View | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

To accommodationists, previous Supreme Court decisions appear to be sending the message that religion is acceptable so long as it is not too public. It is a strange definition of free speech and religious liberty, they note, that prohibits mention of God. "Angela Davis, a communist, was the speaker at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Holy War | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

"We're probably the most suppressed newspaper in America," says Dan Rodden, whose Caleb Campaign publishes Issues and Answers. "In the schools today there is definitely a religious and philosophical bent that is anti- Christian. Little children, by the time they're in second grade, know that God is illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Holy War | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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