Although I never had the opportunity to meet Chief Justice William Richardson, he was one of the first people to have made the interview list for the film “State of Aloha.” As a background figure to Hawaii’s larger than life Governor John Burns, Bill Richardson played a supporting role in the early years of statehood [...]

Having just compiled an original study breaking down a precinct-by-precinct analysis of Hawaii’s statehood plebiscite, it is important that we come to understand the process through which the state continues to assert that 94.6% of Hawaii’s population voted for statehood in 1959. This posting follows an earlier series of posting critical of the plebiscite. While [...]

Are the U.S./S.Korea fabricating a story about North Korea attacking the Cheonan? On March 26, 2010, forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in an explosion that sank the Cheonan, a South Korean Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). The ship’s primary mission was coastal patrol, with an emphasis on anti-submarine operations. An international [...]