SUNDAY REVIEW / GOOD READS AU CURRENT

Pillar to Post in the course of its daily research has come across several articles worthy of passing along to loyal readers:

TOO EARLY TO TELL

A interesting discussion on political party insiders and how they influence what candidate gets the Presidential nomination:

From Pacific Standard Magazine:

http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/will-the-party-decide-or-will-donald-trump-get-the-republican-nomination?utm_source=Pacific%20Standard%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=2a2c659b09-daily-rss-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4fd1bcb7e-2a2c659b09-80559561

GUNTAGIOUS

Grisly topic but important in our attempt as a nation to understand what forces are behind the pandemic mass killings:

From The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/science/mass-killers-often-rely-on-past-perpetrators-blueprints.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

LA TIMES FAILED COUP D’ETAT

Many of us on the West Coast were curious as why the new owners of the Los Angeles Times fired their own guy as publisher after only one year on the job.  He may have been guilty by association with a billionaire who wants to buy the Times.

From the Columbia Journalism Review:

http://www.cjr.org/the_feature/a_billionaire_a_fired_publisher_and_a_spectacle_at_the_la_times.php

MUST BE TRUE

Each year a bit more “previously withheld” news trickles out regarding the JFK assassination, especially around Nov. 22.  The latest interesting read is the outing of then CIA Director John McCone (1963) as an obstructionist into the murder investigation.  This from Politico Magazine.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/jfk-assassination-john-mccone-warren-commission-cia-213197