Archive for November 2012

I just finished Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.  The authors manage to make interesting a plethora of data about the Civil War, the assassins, and the seeds of the punitive measures of the reconstruction.  The book reads like a novel as it educates the reader.  It even answers the age-old question of, Who’s buried…

Smoke and Mirrors: the War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure is a nonfiction book that has altered my thinking on the government’s response to drug use in this country.  I have always supported the “war on drugs.”  After all, illegal drugs have destroyed countless lives and have few redeeming factors.  The problem brought out…