2008 Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins today cracked open an old courthouse safe stuffed with a bunch of stuff belonging to 1963 Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and all the best goodies had Jack Ruby’s name all over them—most notably, a goofy transcript where Ruby and Lee Oswald yeg it up about rubbing out the [...]

He’s no Jack Kennedy
This very good New York Times piece says presidential candidate Mitt Romney (a Mormon) faces none of the bigotry John F. Kennedy (a Catholic) faced back in 1960. Writer Kenneth L. Woodward says most Americans “are willing to accept Mr. Romney’s assertion that Mormons are Christians, albeit of a highly unorthodox kind. [...]