Ever since the start of the Ukraine war, I have been a fan of the analytical commentary of retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor. During the Gulf War, he led our forces to victory over the Iraqi Republican Guard in the largest tank engagement since World War II at the Battle of 73 Easting. But, in addition to being a decorated combat veteran, he taught history at his alma mater, West Point, and served as an advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration. He is the founder and head of “Our Country Our Choice” whose website is linked...
Followers of this blog may recall that over the years I have written extensively about the death of George Floyd and the shameful legal lynching of the police officers who were convicted of killing him. Recently Tucker Carlson joined those of us who have challenged the official narrative regarding the death of George Floyd. He correctly noted that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s report indicated a massive overdose of fentanyl in Floyd’s system as well as no sign of injury to his neck or signs that his airways had been compressed or obstructed. While Carlson’s observations are correct and consistent...
Last week my wife and I took a road trip to Washington to attend The American Spectator‘s annual gala. The AmSpec very generously paid for our stay at Washington’s Waldorf Astoria (formerly the Trump International Hotel). Our first night in town, we had dinner at the 1789 Restaurant with old friends from our undergraduate days at Georgetown. My friend Larry and I started working at the 1789 when it first opened in 1962, and we always make it a point to gather there whenever possible. In the 1960s, the drinking age for beer and wine in Washington was 18. As...
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Tigre Hill’s excellent docuseries 72 Seconds in Rittenhouse Square. At the time Sean Schellenger was killed, I was a regular contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer. This was before the Inky went woke. Back then I wrote repeated Inky op-eds criticizing District Attorney Larry Krasner’s atrocious mistreatment of crime victims and their families. One of my Inky pieces discussed Krasner’s mishandling of the Schellenger homicide and his abuse of the victim’s mother, Linda Schellenger. I republished that piece on this blog back in 2019 and linked it to Linda’s article in the Inky...
On July 12, 2018, Philadelphia real estate developer Sean Schellenger was stabbed to death by Michael White in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. The dead man was white, and his assailant was black. Immediately following the killing, White was charged with first degree murder. But over time, Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney, incrementally reduced the charge to voluntary manslaughter. And, following a listless courtroom presentation by Krasner’s office, a jury acquitted the defendant on the manslaughter charge, but found him guilty of tampering with evidence (based on his attempt to dispose of the bloody knife). Needless to say, the case and...
Yesterday The American Spectator published my article about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s motion for a gag order against former President Donald Trump. That article is set forth below. Gagging Trump – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics Last Friday Special Counsel Jack “Crazy Eyes” Smith filed a motion seeking a gag order against former President Donald Trump. Smith wants to limit Trump’s ability to criticize the federal criminal charges pending against him in the District of Columbia based on the former president’s efforts to challenge the outcome of the 2020 election. Smith claims that he is seeking only a “modest”...
This morning I had the privilege of appearing on Chicago’s Morning Answer AM560 with hosts Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft. The topic was Attorney General Merrick Garland’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in which he ducked, weaved, evaded, deflected and claimed loss of memory as he responded to the committee’s typically inartful, poorly-worded and open-ended questions. The hearing produced no new information. Instead, it boiled down to the Republican Representatives castigating Garland as he did a forensic rope-a-dope. You can access video and audio of the interview by clicking on this link. As I said on air, the star...
Yesterday The American Spectator published my latest take on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ RICO indictment of President Trump and 18 others. Here it is. Fani’s Scam: Electors Were Not ‘Fake’ – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics George Parry Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ RICO indictment charges Donald Trump and 18 others with criminally conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election. One of its major allegations is that the conspirators illegally fielded a slate of alternate electors. The legacy media have characterized these individuals as “fake electors” who were part of a nefarious scheme to undermine...
Yesterday I banged out a quick piece about the United States’ proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and fired it off to my friends at The American Spectator. I soon received a call from one of the editors explaining that the AmSpec couldn’t use the piece because it ran counter to their pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin position on the war. He also noted that the article was based on anonymous sources cited by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh who formerly worked for the New York Times. In 1970, Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War....
Recently I was asked by CenterClip, a Washington-based podcast producer, to join the ranks of its “creators”. CenterClip features some real heavy hitters like Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, editorial cartoonist/commentator Ted Rall, and Melissa Mackenzie, publisher of The American Spectator. So, when I got the call, I reacted like Wayne and Garth meeting Alice Cooper in Wayne’s World. But then I decided to give it a try. I’m still learning the ropes, but it’s kind of fun. So far, I have recycled in abbreviated form material that has been published on Knowledge is...
I hope all of you are having a happy and relaxing Labor Day week-end. Linked below is an inspired YouTube video that reminded me of my time working for the federal government in Washington, D.C. But before we get to the video, here’s the backstory. In the summer of 1969, my wife and I were living in an apartment in Alexandria, Virginia. I had just graduated from law school and needed a summer job while I prepared for the bar exam. My college friend Matt, who had just finished his third year at Georgetown Medical School, called and asked if...
Followers of this blog may be aware that I was born and raised in Georgia. In 1949 my parents, my older brother and I moved from the small town of East Point, a blue collar community populated by salt of the earth people, to the more prosperous north side of Atlanta. The reason for the move had nothing to do with a desire for upward social mobility. My mother was Catholic and my father a Protestant. In 1939, when they were married in a Catholic ceremony, my father was actually required to sign a pledge that any offspring of the...
“He’s got a number.” That’s Philadelphia police speak for saying that someone has a criminal record. The “number” in question is the identifier shown in an arrestee’s mugshot. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. This is a mugshot of a relatively young Angelo Bruno who went on to become the so-called “Gentle Don” of the Philadelphia Mafia. His “number” is 85869. (19 years after this picture was taken, his purported gentleness notwithstanding, Bruno was killed by a shotgun blast to the head as he sat in his car in front of his Snyder Avenue home.) Anyhow, the featured...
The incomparable Ben Stein is one of my colleagues at The American Spectator. Although I have seen him at AmSpec events, I don’t know him personally. But I wish I did. He seems to be a very nice and amiable man, and his articles are always insightful and entertaining. Here is an excerpt from his latest AmSpec article titled “Prosecutorial Bolshevism” (linked to here) in which he discusses the virtually unchecked power of federal and elected county prosecutors to ruin lives and careers: At any point the prosecutors can issue indictments for crimes, real or imagined, felonies or misdemeanors based...
Monday evening I learned of President Trump’s RICO indictment in Georgia. The indictment is massive and charges Trump and 18 co-defendants with 13 felonies and alleges 161 acts in furtherance of a “conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. My initial reaction was one of exhaustion. I knew that, sooner or later, I was going to have to read and analyze the indictment. But it was late, and I was tired. So I decided to wait until morning to look it over. I climbed into bed and promptly fell asleep. Then sometime in the night...