Well, it’s happened again. The American Spectator has published KIG’s recent post about What I Learned at Bill Clinton’s Impeachment Trial. The publication appears in today’s edition of TAS under the title Impeachment? Dale Bumpers Still Needs to Be Heeded Today. As usual, it’s an honor to appear in TAS, and the readers’ comments are interesting and entertaining. Plus, our good friends at Powerline have graciously featured the article in today’s “picks” section of their blog. Bruce Ohr testified today in closed session before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. As you may recall, Bruce held the number 4 position...
In January 1999, I had the privilege of spending an entire day at the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. In that brief time, I saw first hand the grubby political realities that belie the ringing prose and high-sounding legal theories that purport to set the parameters for presidential impeachment. Now, with the incessant and angry demands by the Democrats and their main stream media adjunct for the impeachment of President Trump, consideration of the simple political calculus that was on display at Clinton’s trial may serve to lower their fantastic expectations and cool their fevered brows. In December...
Yesterday I was invited to be a guest on Laura Ingraham’s nationally syndicated radio show to discuss Bruce and Nellie Ohr. As a former Boy Scout, I wanted to “Be Prepared”, so I spent last night updating my information on the fabulous Ohrs’ Deep State hijinks. But this morning, when Laura’s very nice and capable producer called about two minutes before air time, she advised that there had been a change of plan. Instead of the Ohrs, the topic would be the trial of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. Would I, she kindly asked, be comfortable discussing his...
Tomorrow I will be a guest on Laura Ingraham’s nationally syndicated radio show at 9:35 A.M. ET. The guest host will be John Hinerdaker of Powerline, and the topic will be Washington’s favorite power couple, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, and their role in the Deep State’s efforts to thwart the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump. As you may recall, actor James Woods tweeted a link to my article in The Federalist about Nellie Ohr’s unlikely venture into the world of amateur radio. I expect that her new hobby will be part of tomorrow’s discussion. Be sure to tune in....
It took long enough, but the FBI finally rid itself of Peter Strzok, one of the primary incubi of the Deep State’s campaign to replace old-fashioned, messy and inefficient presidential electoral politics with its more reliable and much tidier secret selection process. Under this new system, the 2016 presidential candidates were graciously allowed to freely campaign subject, of course, to the veto of the unelected bureaucrats running the administrative state such as Strzok, Comey, Brennan et al. Since Donald Trump didn’t measure up to their high standards, they placed him on double secret probation and marked him for defeat. When...
Defense Distributed (DD) is a small Texas company that has developed and published online digital files that may be used to make firearms either by 3D printing or computer controlled milling machines. It is the brainchild of self- described libertarian anarchist Cody Wilson. In 2013, DD uploaded software files for the 3D printing of the “Liberator”, a single shot pistol, and a lower receiver (the part regulated by federal law) of the much maligned AR-15 rifle. According to the Associated Press, the software was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first 24 hours. The downloads continued for days thereafter, and...
Pictured above is a representative page from the just released FBI application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for access to the intercepted communications of Carter Page, the hapless U.S. citizen who went from being a trusted FBI counterintelligence asset to evil Russian spy faster than you can say “Stop Trump!”. Having plowed through hundreds of similarly heavily redacted pages, I have been able to reach only one conclusion: the FBI and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are determined to keep the American public guessing about why the Deep State spied on Page and, by extension, the Trump presidential campaign....
Pictured above is an artist’s conception of Russian President Vladimir Putin plotting the election of Donald Trump. In light of this revealing artwork, sources expect Special Counsel Robert Mueller to indict Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle in order to force them to testify against President Trump. Hey, that wouldn’t be any sillier than his two make believe indictments of Russian operatives. And then, we have this excellent piece by former British newspaper publisher Conrad Black: “When the cant and emotionalism subside, the Helsinki summit will go down in history as a turning point in this American president’s struggle to...
Pearl Harbor. Kristallnacht. Treason. High crimes and misdemeanors. These are some of the hyperventilating left’s overheated and ludicrous characterizations of President Trump’s remarks at his Helsinki press conference with Vladmir Putin. Listening to the Democrats and their wholly owned media subsidiary, you would have thought that Trump had (a) smilingly handed Putin a large red “reset” button or (b) had been caught on a hot mic during a global nuclear security summit murmuring to Putin’s representative that, after the midterm elections, he would have more flexibility in his dealings with Russia or (c) had signed off on a deal to...
“The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.” So said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D.CA.) after she had finished her outrageous and shameful interrogation of Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett about whether Barrett’s Catholic faith rendered her unfit to be a federal judge. Despite Feinstein’s best efforts to expose Barrett’s putatively unacceptable and subversive Catholic beliefs, in September 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee nevertheless confirmed her appointment to a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. So far, the Republic has withstood the blow. But now, with President Trump’s nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh...
Tonight President Trump nominated D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court. A graduate of Yale college and law school, Kavanaugh clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and teaches law at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown. Since 2006 he has served with distinction on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest tribunal in the nation. So, of course, the Democrats and their media adjunct have already deemed him to be unqualified for a position on the Supreme Court and are screaming for his scalp. Here, courtesy of WikiLeaks, is the Democratic National Committee’s opposition...
Like sharks thrashing about in chum-filled bloody water, the unhinged hysterics of the progressive left have gone into a frenzy as they prepare to attack whoever President Trump nominates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Thanks to Kennedy’s retirement, Trump is now in a position to appoint a non-activist, strict constructionist to the Court. Senate confirmation of the nominee will result in a solid, reliably conservative Court majority. Needless to say, the Democrats in the Senate and their leftist supporters view this as the coming of the Apocalypse. But it was the triumphant Democrats who, during the heady...
Believe it or not, pictured above is an actual Special Agent of the FBI. Her name is Sally Moyer a/k/a “Agent 5” in the recently issued report by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General regarding the FBI’s fake investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private unsecured email server. While she was busily helping to exonerate Clinton, she found time to text message her political views about presidential candidate Donald Trump. Moyer’s political views were deep, sophisticated and nuanced. Here’s a taste: “f**k Trump”, Trump voters were “retarded”, and, if Trump won the election, she was “gonna be walking around with both...
Yesterday Congressman Trey Gowdy appeared on Fox News Sunday to explain the devastating significance of the Office of Inspector General’s recent report. Watch the whole fifteen minutes. It’s an inspired performance guaranteed to raise your spirits. Gowdy pronounces James Comey utterly worthless as a prosecution witness and lays out the obvious bias behind the FBI’s exoneration of Hillary Clinton before it had completed its investigation of her private email server. Gowdy also broke news by disclosing a Friday night showdown between the leadership of the House of Representatives (including Speaker Paul Ryan) and FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General...
It seems like a day doesn’t go by without some female high school teacher getting arrested for having sexual relations with an underage student. The story line is always the same. Ms. Hotpants either gets caught in the act or because her student paramour shares with the world the naked selfies that for some weird reason she just had to send to his cell phone. Invariably the teacher is quickly and unceremoniously condemned, fired from her job and arrested. This sequence of events always seemed appropriate. But, having had the benefit of reading the recent report by the Justice Department’s...