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...
Today before the Senate Appropriations Committee Attorney General William Barr gave testimony that is guaranteed to pucker Deep State sphincters throughout the D.C. swamp. Regarding spying on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, he testified as follows: ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR: As I said in my confirmation hearing, I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016. And a lot of this has already been investigated, and a substantial portion of it has been investigated and is being investigated by the office of the Inspector General, but one of the...
Today is Medal of Honor Day. March 25 marks the date in 1863 when the first of these medals was awarded. It also falls, appropriately, during Lent, 40 days of reflection and sacrifice that begin with Ash Wednesday’s stark reminder of our mortality — “From dust you came and to dust you shall return” — and near their end on Good Friday, when Christ gave the ultimate example of fearlessly offering himself for others. So writes my friend Kevin Ferris, vice president of communications at Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, in today’s Washington Examiner. His article is titled Behind every Medal...
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...
The picture above is of the Great Famine Memorial in Dublin, Ireland. Year after year between 1845 and 1849, the Irish potato crop failed which caused mass starvation, disease and emigration. During the famine, over one million people died and two million more emigrated from Ireland to the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. It was the beginning of the Irish diaspora that has continued to the present day and made the Irish one of the great transnational influences around the globe. At the time of the Great Famine, Ireland was ruled by Great Britain. Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, the...
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...
In case you’re wondering about the picture above, the hand holding the gun belongs to your government. The hand holding the wallet is yours. Got it? On Wednesday, in a 9-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive fines applies to the states. As you will see, this landmark ruling was badly needed. Today, my friends at The American Spectator published my analysis of the case. Here it is. Confronting Government’s Revenue Addiction | The American Spectator The law of civil forfeiture allows police and prosecutors to seize and keep cash, cars, homes, businesses...
Tomorrow the print edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer will feature my op-ed regarding the latest gun control legislation being considered by the House of Representatives. If you want to see the reader comments (anguished or otherwise), it can accessed online today at Philly.com. Spoiler alert: the proposed requirement for universal background checks for the transfer of firearms won’t materially reduce gun deaths or keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Anyhow, here’s the piece: BACKGROUND CHECKS WILL NOT PREVENT GUN DEATHS Last week, the House Judiciary Committee began to consider legislation that would require a universal background check for all transfers...
Today my friends at The American Spectator are featuring KIG’s commentary on the dawn arrest by 29 (!) FBI agents of non-violent offender Roger Stone. You can link to it here on TAS’ website. You can also find the link on Powerline. Or you can just read it below. Stone has been a political gadfly and self-proclaimed Republican prankster ever since the days of the Nixon administration. He literally has Nixon’s face tattooed on his back. For many years, he urged Donald Trump to run for president. During the 2016 election and after, Stone made provocative claims about the hacking...
In tomorrow’s print edition, the Philadelphia Inquirer will feature my opinion piece about the media lynching of the kids from Covington Catholic High School. It is available online here. The reader comments are mixed with the usual name calling and ad hominem attacks that are pretty common from the progressives who read the Inky and who are offended whenever it publishes opinions that deviate from its standard liberal fare. Interestingly, within five minutes of the op ed appearing online, I received a voicemail from a reader who identified himself as a Catholic and said that the young man with the...
It’s been a busy time here. Today The American Spectator published my piece refuting the New York Times’ claim that the FBI started investigating President Trump after he fired FBI Director James Comey. Titled The FBI Prostituted Itself, you can link to it at the TAS website here or you can read it below. Also today, the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s website, Philly.com, published my commentary regarding the negative impact of Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax on supermarket sales in the city. You can link to it here or read it below after the TAS article. One Inky reader had a strong reaction...
In May 2018 I posted about the ongoing disgrace of the never-ending appeals by convicted cop killer Wesley Cook a/k/a Mumia Abu-Jamal. Below is my latest op-ed on this subject which will be published tomorrow in the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Sunday print edition. (It is already on line at this link.) Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest appeals victory sets a problematic precedent | Opinion The trial evidence was stark and brutal. In the early-morning hours of Dec. 9, 1981, Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner conducted a traffic stop in Center City Philadelphia. A scuffle ensued with the driver, one William Cook. After subduing...
Happy New Year! To kick off 2019, below is my latest article in today’s The American Spectator. It seems to have caught the attention of TAS readers. To read the article on TAS website and their comments, click here. Here’s the article. Hope you enjoy it. In the 1950s, Kellogg’s, the cereal company, made all of us red blooded American boys an offer we couldn’t refuse. As advertised on television and its cereal packages, for a mere 25 cents and one box top, Kellogg’s would “right away” send us a “real working model of the U.S.S. Nautilus (SSN 571), the...
With a great deal of public fanfare, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office recently concluded a statewide grand jury investigation of pedophile Catholic priests. The grand jury prepared a report which named the priests who had been accused of molesting children. But, before the report could be published, some of those named filed suit to block the release of their names. Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in their favor and ordered their names to be redacted from the published report. This prompted Shapiro to issue the following public statement: HARRISBURG — “I have consistently fought for the...