It’s been a busy week here at Knowledge is Good. First, as promised, the Philadelphia Inquirer featured my article online and in yesterday’s print edition about Philadelphia’s progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner. Interestingly, while the e-version (link here) elicited a smattering of online reader opinion comments, after the article appeared in the Inky’s Sunday print edition, I received a number of emails from crime victims, their families and former and present members of the DA’s office providing tips and leads that I intend to follow up. According to that correspondence, poor treatment of crime victims and their families is office...
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s opinion editor and deputy editor. Followers of this blog may recall that once upon a time I wrote op-eds for the Inky but that, following a change of leadership a few years ago, that relationship came to an end. The change occurred when Kevin Ferris, the only right-of-center member of the editorial staff, departed to join Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge. He had been my advocate and largely responsible for my work being published. With his departure, I hit an editorial stone wall. In any event,...
Here’s my piece about Paul Manafort that was just posted in The American Spectator. I included the link so that you can go to the TAS website and view the readers’ comments. As for the above picture, it is of Brer Rabbit, a fictitious character almost as slippery as Manafort getting ready to outsmart Brer Fox, a reasonable stand-in for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. And yeah, yeah, I know. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, politically incorrect stereotyping, blah, blah. Hey, Walt Disney produced the movie so how wrong can it be? Anyhow, read the piece below and decide for yourself if...
Recently The Hill published an opinion piece by my good friend Kevin Ferris titled Lessons from Northern Ireland for Americans who see political opponents as the enemy. It is a very thoughtful and thought-provoking reflection on the partisan violence in Northern Ireland that prevailed for many years until courageous leaders on both sides of the divide came forward to make peace. Kevin’s article starts with a description of the “peace walls” (pictured above) that still separate the factions. But it goes on to warn against those in America who have escalated their vicious political rhetoric in pursuit of their agendas....
Thanksgiving 2018 is over. Now the commercial frenzy of the extended Black Friday sales rampage is underway. As usual, the well-off, self-anointed tasteful elitists are mocking the the sight of their supposed inferiors climbing over one another to rush the counters at Walmart, Target and similar stores across the land to buy whatever they can at discount prices. But, however disturbing some of the antics may be, it occurs to me that this annual demonstration of the immutatble power of market forces (“Buy low and take away!”) is an altogether fitting coda to our national Day of Thanks. How so? The...
Tomorrow, as it has done every Thanksgiving since 1961, the Wall Street Journal will publish The Desolate Wilderness, an account of the Pilgrims’ journey to America, followed by a commentary, And the Fair Land, written by Vermont Royster, a native of North Carolina who held many positions at the the WSJ including being its editor from 1959 to 1971. Royster started the WSJ’s annual tradition of publishing both pieces on Thanksgiving. Unlike the J-school know-nothings who infest today’s media, Royster had a life outside the confines of journalism that gave him an appreciation of this nation, its forbears and its accomplishments. In 1940, he left the...
When Matthew Whitaker was sworn in as the Acting Attorney General, the Democrats promptly revved up their smear machine to destroy him. Apparently part of that effort involved combing his Twitter account for expressions of unacceptable, unworthy and subversive opinions and beliefs. And that’s where, by curious circumstance, I come in. Back in August 2017, the Philadelphia Inquirer published my commentary titled Note to Trump’s lawyer: Do not cooperate with Mueller Lynch mob in which I advised the president’s lead counsel, Ty Cobb, to keep the president away from the special counsel and his team of Hillary Clinton sycophants. Here’s a...
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after the midterm election, President Trump has requested and accepted Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ resignation. By his unnecessary and silly recusal from all things Russian, Sessions had gelded himself and left supervision of the Justice Department’s most important investigative matters to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who, in turn, appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to conduct a thoroughly illegal counterintelligence investigation of the president. Up to today, Rosenstein has had oversight over the Mueller investigation. That is about to end. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has threatened that “It would create a...
We owe a debt of gratitude to whoever organized and funded the approaching caravan of Central Americans who are racing north through Mexico to our southern border. The 7,000 migrants on the march are providing a powerful, profound and sobering visual statement as to what is and has been at stake for us if we do not secure our borders. In 2015, the Department of Homeland Security apprehended 267,885 foreign nationals trying to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States. This, of course, does not include the many illegals who entered without being detected or caught. Nevertheless, compare, contrast...
By the thinnest of margins, Brett Kavanaugh survived the Democrats’ smear machine to become the newest Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. For the first time since the 1930s, there is now in place a solid majority on the Court that will interpret the Constitution as written and refrain from legislating from the bench. Despite the efforts of the Senate Democrats, their media steno pool and enraged feminist activists to bury Kavanaugh in a tidal wave of demonstrably meretricious slime, Senate Republicans, in a rare show of fortitude, came together to confirm Kavanaugh to the court. But, no...
Tomorrow morning I will be a guest on the Dom Giordano Morning Show on WPHT 1210-AM in Philadelphia. The broadcast will be streamed and archived online. The topics will be the Democrats’ ongoing smear of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the sentencing of convicted sex offender Bill Cosby to 3 to 10 years in prison. Hope you will listen. As for the character assassination of Judge Kavanaugh, one Julie Swetnick, with the assistance of lawyer Michael Avenatti, has come forward to claim that she was at numerous high school parties at which Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were instrumental in...
Wednesday at 8:06 A.M., yours truly will be a guest on Baltimore’s WBAL News Now, 1090-AM. The subject will be the ongoing sliming of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Thursday, at a time to be determined, I will be a guest on the Dom Giordano Morning Show on Philadelphia’s WPHT Talk Radio, 1210-AM. Topics will include the sliming of Judge Kavanaugh and this week’s sentencing of comedian Bill Cosby for sexual assault. I am told that both broadcasts will be streamed online and that the audio can be retrieved at your listening convenience. Don’t ask me how you do that. I barely...
When it was published in 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize for literature and became an instant classic. In 1962, it was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck, a role for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. The story is based on Lee’s childhood in rural Alabama during the 1930s. The narrator is six year old Jean Louise Finch. The protagonist is her father, Atticus, who is a small town lawyer appointed by the court to represent Tom Robinson, a black man who has been charged with raping Mayella Ewell, a young...
Apparently I unwittingly lost my chance for a position on the U.S. Supreme Court one summer night in 1961 at the Piedmont Drive-In Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. On that fateful evening, my date and I parked in the very last row of cars where young couples had been known to kiss and engage in what was then termed “heavy petting”. And so they were that night. Except for us. Since Mary Margaret (not her real name) and I were good Catholics, I kept my hands to myself while fervently hoping that she might wish to join in the shameful display...
In his opening remarks at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, Texas Senator Ted Cruz observed that, to a previously unequalled degree, the 2016 presidential election had been a referendum on the future composition of the Supreme Court. He noted that, at all three presidential debates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had sharply differed on the constitutionally proper role of the court. Clinton made clear that, if elected, she would nominate progressive jurists who would in effect serve as super legislators answerable to no one but themselves. In contrast, Trump promised to appoint justices who would limit themselves to interpreting...