I continue to be surprised how many people who have read my book In the National Interest ask me, “Do you believe it was possible that Kennedy ordered his own assassination?” I even had one reader ask me, “How did you, of all people, get possession of that journal?” On Facebook and Reddit sites dedicated to … Read more
Based on the success of my first novel In the National Interest, I wondered if there was room for a new fictional genre, implausible conspiracy theories in which the motive and participants were unimaginable. However, as with my account of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, making the implausible possible depended on the use of the public record to … Read more
Happy April 15, a day most salaried workers in America believe should be recognized as April Fools Day when they compare their effective tax rate to those of real estate developers, day traders and hedge fund managers whose net worth dwarfs their own. But that’s not what I came here to talk about. Over the … Read more
But for the times in which we live, the following lede would have appeared in The Onion rather than the Arizona Republic. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a 160-year-old law that bans abortions and punishes doctors who provide them, saying the ban that existed before Arizona became a state can be enforced going forward. … Read more
One of the sponsors of NBC’s presentation of the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament was Chubb Insurance. During the broadcast they ran a spot which included the following: In this high stakes, high pressure world, we help protect our clients from risk. And always keep our eye on the ball. Chubb, insurance that protects when … Read more