Last evening I was a guest on the Dan Proft Show at AM 560 WIND in Chicago. Dan and I covered a lot of ground including the rioting in Portland, John Durham’s investigation and the House Judiciary Committee’s “hearing” at which Attorney General Barr wasn’t allowed to answer questions. As usual, Dan was smart, witty and well-prepared. He included a short clip of Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, the absolute best interviewer on television anywhere, eviscerating Valerie Jarrett, underboss of the Obama crime family. You can listen to the full interview by clicking on this link. Hope you enjoy it. Post...
My friends at The American Spectator and I have agreed that my analysis of the George Floyd case would benefit from a bit of editing. Just so you know, the thrust of my article is that the toxicological screen of Floyd’s blood demonstrated that he had ingested over three times the potentially lethal limit of fentanyl which was mixed with healthy doses of methamphetamine and marijuana. The fentanyl, a synthetic pain killer which is 80 to 200 times as powerful as morphine and is known to shut down respiration, induce coma and cause death, was by itself enough to kill...
Many of you have asked when my analysis of the George Floyd case will be posted. I submitted it today to The American Spectator for their consideration and am waiting for a decision. It’s a strongly worded defense of the accused police officers, and my friends at the AmSpec are being extra cautious in their vetting of the article. They are rightly concerned about the likely backlash and negative consequences of publishing it and will let me know their decision tomorrow. I made clear to them that I fully respect their entirely reasonable position and understandable concerns. After all, we...
Here’s an outstanding Capitol Hill press conference by a group of practicing physicians who call themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors” and who are successfully treating COVID-19 patients. Every minute of the video is chock full of valuable information and well worth your time. They address why the schools must reopen, the overwhelming effectiveness and safety of hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin + zinc in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19, and the damage being caused by the lockdown of society. Here’s a taste. When addressing the scandalous opposition by certain segments of the medical establishment to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), one of the doctors said...
A number of you have asked when my analysis of the George Floyd case will be forthcoming. I hope to send the final draft to my friends at The American Spectator for publication early next week. So stay tuned. Until then, here’s my latest American Spectator article. Come Retribution: The Federal System Restores Rule of Law | The American Spectator Terrorism is a form of propaganda, a political weapon that can be used to instill fear, horror and indignation, to destroy and sap out the will of the people. Through fear and terror one can demand obedience and blind submission…. Terror is a...
UPDATE: I have been advised by a highly-reliable source (my ex-journalist daughter) that the young man below is not the recently deceased George Floyd. Another source, a retired high-ranking member of the FBI, previously advised that the videos show the George Floyd who has become the Martyr of the Left. While I like my old friend’s version better, I’m inclined to rely on my daughter’s information. She’s never misled me about anything save for her social activities in high school and university, for which deceptions, I shall forever be grateful. Either way, stay tuned: the police still didn’t kill George...
Lost in the clamor of the main stream media’s efforts to spread panic about the increase in COVID-19 cases was the good news about the lack of a proportional corresponding increase in so-called “COVID-19-related” deaths. There are many reasons for this including the fact that, as reported on this blog, physicians have developed highly-effective treatment protocols. Nevertheless, federal and state officials have acted to discourage and impede the outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), one of the most effective and least expensive drugs, to treat and prevent COVID-19. That governmental obstruction is the subject of my latest article which was published...
Happy 4th of July! Last evening President Trump addressed an enthusiastic crowd at Mount Rushmore. The Associated Press headlined its coverage of the speech as “Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at Rushmore.” In contrast, Roger Kimball of SpectatorUSA declared that “Looking back on the 2020 election, historians will say that tonight was the night that Donald Trump won reelection. A magnificent speech.” I don’t know if Trump won reelction, but he certainly said what needed to be said in light of the left’s ongoing campaign to erase American history and cow into submission all who love this country....
Pictured above is Dan Proft, the top-rated conservative commentator and host of the Dan Proft Show on Chicago’s AM 560. A few days ago, I was privileged to be a guest on Dan’s show. He’s smart, well-informed and a good interviewer. We discussed U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan’s bizarre handling of the government’s motion to dismiss the charges against General Michael Flynn. To hear the audio of that eight minute interview click on this link. Hope you enjoy it. Share this: Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)...
Let me begin by saying, in all sincerity, that some of my best friends are or have been federal judges. Despite what I have to say generally about the federal judiciary in the article below, it does not apply to these good, decent and steadfast friends and others who have continued throughout their distinguished careers to be humble, faithful, brilliant and diligent servants of the law. As for the far too large self-regarding and arrogant segment of the federal bench who suffer from the occupational affliction of “black robe-itis”, I offer the following sentiments in my latest article published yesterday...
Yesterday, The American Spectator published my article drawing comparisons between the 1968 riots in Washington, D.C. following the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and today’s rioting spawned by the death of George Floyd. In 1968, my wife and I lived in Arlington, Virginia while I attended the Georgetown Law Center and she worked as a nurse at the Washington Hospital Center. The first half of the article relates our experiences in Washington during the riots. I describe how President Lyndon Johnson ordered the deployment of active duty units of the regular Army and Marine Corps to quell...
The husband and wife team of Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson co-host Chicago’s Morning Answer, one of the top rated talk radio shows in that market. I have been privileged to be a guest on their show a number of times. They are very smart and well-informed. Dan also hosts The Dan Proft Show. Yesterday I was Dan’s guest, and the topic was the recent orgy of social justice rioting and looting in Democrat-led cities across America. As a bit of inside baseball, when Dan’s producer contacted me about appearing on the show, he said that the topic was going...
In 1998, The Lancet, Britain’s oldest and best-known medical journal, published what was then considered to be a landmark study that purported to prove a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism. That article helped establish and legitimize the anti-vaxxing movement which continues to this day. But, twelve years after publication, The Lancet “retracted” the article after conceding that “several elements” of the study were “incorrect” and “contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.” Or, as Forrest Gump would say, “And just like that, The Lancet’s anti-vaxxing article disappeared.” But what about all those parents who were terrified...
In 1949, my parents moved from a small Georgia town to a tree lined street in what later became part of Atlanta. For a five year old boy, the new neighborhood was ideal. One side of the street consisted of forrest. Behind us was a lake and a creek where us boys fished, chased ducks, and caught snakes and frogs. We played with knives, bows and arrows, guns, homemade explosives, rode bikes without helmets and did pretty much whatever crazy stunt that a “double-dog-dare-you” could elicit. Beside the lake was a mud flat where we played semi-touch football. I say...
Pictured above is Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, recognized by his contemporaries and historians as one of the most aggressive and brilliant military strategists on either side of the War Between the States. When hostilities started, he enlisted as a private and finished the war as a Lieutenant General after repeatedly leading his outnumbered and outgunned troops to one improbable victory after another. In reporting to Congress, Union General William T. Sherman offered this appraisal: “After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side…He had never read a military book in his...