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The Darkly Brilliant and Ingenious Aspects of the Kennedy Assassination

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2023
The real meaning of Thanksgiving, in other words, is the triumph of Capitalism over the failure of Collectivism in all its forms.
– Richard M. Ebeling, “The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving” [November 2016]

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November 22, 2023
The Darkly Brilliant and Ingenious Aspects of the Kennedy Assassination
There were two darkly brilliant and ingenious aspects of the national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy sixty years ago today — November 22, 1963. The brilliant part was framing a “communist” or, to be more accurate, a government agent whose job it was to appear as a communist.  Why was that brilliant? Because this was at the height of the …
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