Here’s my latest in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer regarding the Virginia Beach massacre. Since many Inky readers are far left of center, I anticipate that this piece will cause many heads to explode. If you are like me and derive perverse amusement from that sort of thing, click on this link to view the article on Inquirer.com where you will be able to read the posted comments. [Parental advisory: some reader comments may not be suitable for children.] I want to thank the editors at the Inky for running this and my other pieces. Each time they do so, they receive...
In 1949 my parents moved from the small town of East Point, Georgia to a quiet, tree-lined street in the northwest section of Atlanta. There we had wonderful neighbors who became our close friends and with whom we shared life’s joys and sorrows. I could – and probably should – write a book about growing up in that neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s. Until then, suffice it to say that, according to today’s child safety experts, I was killed or seriously maimed approximately 4,279 times before reaching adolescence. The boys on our block played with bows and arrows, knives,...
In his muddled, obfuscatory farewell remarks, Special Counsel Robert Mueller strongly suggested that, although he and his cohort of Hillary Clinton acolytes had reached no conclusion as to whether President Trump had obstructed justice, Congress should address that question by means of the impeachment “process”. Why? Because Team Mueller had not been able to “exonerate” the President. But exoneration is a non-legal standard which completely inverts and perverts our system of justice which places the burden of proof on the prosecution to prove its case. In every criminal trial across America, the judge instructs the jury that the burden of...
As he departed the Justice Department, Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a valedictory address in which he reiterated the main points of his office’s written investigative report. In doing so, he explicitly confirmed what many of us have recognized from the beginning, i.e., that the efforts of his handpicked team of Hillary Clinton acolytes comprised first, last and always a taxpayer funded exercise in political opposition research masquerading as a criminal investigation of Donald Trump. Regarding whether or not the president had obstructed the special counsel’s investigation of possible collusion with the Russians by the Trump campaign, Mueller cited the...
Pictured above is Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims (D. Phila.) extending a good, old fashioned Philadelphia welcome to Vice-President Mike Pence when he visited the City of Brotherly Love last year. According to the Philly Voice, Sims, who is Pennsylvania’s first openly gay legislator, joined hundreds of others who were protesting “on behalf of the more than 2000 children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico…Sims — who is frequently outspoken on social media — posted a picture on Facebook of him giving the vice president the middle finger....
The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony which is scheduled for next week. They apparently think that he will support their claim that the president obstructed Team Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation. Here is my article which was just published on line by The American Spectator in which I outline how the Committee Republicans should cross-examine Mueller. If you want to read the article with reader comments on The American Spectator website click on this link. John Dowd’s Indispensable Work for President Trump | The American...
Pictured above is the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia which was the subject of my most recent post (“A Philadelphia Hate Crime”). The center was the scene of last month’s Ummah Day celebration during which, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, children wearing Palestinian scarves sang a song calling on martyrs to “crush the treacherous” Jews and recited poetry promising to “chop off [Jewish] heads” and “subject [Jews] to eternal torture.” I submitted a slightly edited version of the post to the Philadelphia Inquirer which published it on line (link here) and will run it in tomorrow’s...
Over the years, my friends at the Philadelphia Inquirer have been kind enough to publish my op-eds regarding Mayor James Kenney. Some of you may have seen this video of him and one of his assistants doing the happy dance as they celebrate Philadelphia’s status as a sanctuary city. When Kenney was a city councilman, he pandered to Philadelphia’s gay community by attacking Dan Cathy, the president of the Chik-fil-A restaurant chain. Why? Because Cathy, a devout Baptist septuagenarian, had been quoted in an obscure church newsletter saying that he supported “the biblical definition of the family.” This caused Councilman...
Historians tell us that in the final days of the Third Reich, as the Red Army surrounded the Berlin Fuhrerbunker, a crazed Adolf Hitler ranted, raved and issued increasingly irrational orders for non-existent Wehrmacht divisions to counterattack and repel the invaders. Even as Germany was being laid waste by the British and American armies advancing from the west and the Russians from the east, Hitler still appeared to believe that victory was within reach. After all, when he had started World War II, world domination by the Nazis had been all but certain. It had to have been inconceivable to...
Now that the Russian collusion hoax has been debunked, and not even the Hillary Clinton acolytes who comprised Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office saw fit to charge the president with obstruction of justice, the party is about to get very rough for the FBI, Justice Department and CIA leaders who concocted the hoax and who illegally spied on American citizens. On April 10, 2019, Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had been spied upon by U.S. intelligence agencies. According to Barr, the “question was whether it [the spying] was adequately predicated.”...
The Mueller Report is a 448 page-long primal scream of rage by the frustrated Hillary Clinton acolytes who wrote it and who utterly failed in their anointed mission to (a) lure President Trump into a General Flynn-style perjury trap and/or (b) goad him into obstructing their faux investigation of non-existent Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Unable to find any evidence of actual criminality by the president, Team Mueller resorted to dirtying him up as much as possible for the benefit of their mainstream media and Democrat party fan clubs. This extra-prosecutorial exercise in character assassination was undoubtedly good group therapy...
Last week my friends at The American Spectator asked for my reaction to Attorney General Barr’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee in which he said that our federal government had spied on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. I sent them my last blog post (“Justice is Coming”) which I thought was pretty funny but not suitable for such a serious publication as TAS. The editors said that they would be interested in running an enlarged, more analytical version of “Justice is Coming”. So I wrote and submitted an expanded piece. TAS ran the result, set forth below, on...
I’m sure Wile E. Coyote represents the reaction of Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans everywhere when they received word of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. What great fun watching CNN and the rest of the hate-Trump media stammer and try to explain their two years of predicting the arrest of the president, his family, his campaign associates, and family pets for colluding with the Russians and obstructing justice. While the end of Mueller’s witch hunt is good news, I have a few questions about its failure to take to task the fabricators and exploiters of the Russian collusion hoax. Those questions...
From 1958 to 1962, I attended an all male Catholic military school in Atlanta. It was run by the Marist fathers, a missionary order that preached the Gospel primarily to the inhabitants of Micronesia, Melanesia, Fiji, Tonga and…Georgia. So the poor priests had a choice between ministering to primitive natives armed with spears and living in thatched huts or us. Looking back, if I had been one of my teachers, I would have opted for Pacific duty just to avoid having to have daily contact with the likes of me and my classmates. Don’t get me wrong. Compared to today’s...
I have been fully occupied reading and digesting the recently unsealed transcripts of congressional testimony by Bruce Ohr, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. Every time I think I’m ready to publish an analysis, another transcript gets released and its back to the drawing board. In the meantime, the college cheating scandal has made the news. It hits close to home since Georgetown University, where I graduated college and law school, has been named but not charged in the indictments. Georgetown wasn’t criminally charged, but, as you will see, it has hardly covered itself with glory. So take a look at...