A number of you have asked when the next installment of the Roger Stone saga will be published. Under my new agreement with The American Spectator, I have to embargo posting of articles on this site for 24 hours after they are published by TAS. I just submitted a lengthy analysis of Stone’s legal prospects which will be posted sometime tonight by TAS. You will be able to access it there shortly or you can read it here tomorrow evening. Thanks for your interest and continued support.
Yesterday, Scott Johnson at Powerline posted a nice summary of my recent article titled Flight of the Drama Queens. Here’s what he wrote: The Roger Stone sentencing kerfuffle is now playing among the Democrats and their mainstream media adjunct. Based on what we have learned so far, former prosecutor George Parry’s account of the matter is the one that is most to my taste. Parry addresses it in the American Spectator column “Flight of the drama queens” (the link goes to the column as posted at Parry’s site). Parry puts the affair in the context of Team Mueller: [T]he fact […]
In January 2019, a small army of heavily armed FBI agents conducted a predawn arrest of then 66-year-old Roger Stone on charges of witness tampering, obstruction of justice, and making false statements regarding the publication of hacked DNC emails. These charges pertained to nonviolent crimes, and Stone had no prior criminal record or reputation for either lawlessness or violence. But instead of allowing Stone to self-surrender for booking and processing during normal business hours, the FBI came to his home in the dead of night with guns drawn to take him into custody and parade him before the CNN news […]
It’s been a bit hectic lately, but in a good way. Recent posts Saving Private Ciaramella and Settling All Family Business? have been published by The American Spectator and can be accessed on TAS’ website by clicking here (Ciaramella) and here (Family Business). The readers’ comments are interesting and fun. Both pieces were featured on Powerline and Lucianne.com. The Ciaramella piece was featured by Real Clear Politics and, judging by the number of online hits (70,000 +) and new subscribers, made quite a splash. Last night I came across this video of Senator Rand Paul (R.- Ky.) explaining why, during […]
Friday Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was escorted from the White House where he had served on the National Security Council. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also dismissed from the NSC. Alexander had testified against President Trump in the House impeachment proceedings. He had listened in on the President’s telephone call with Ukranian President Zelensky and testified that Trump had abused his office by withholding aid to the Ukraine until it announced investigations of his political opponents. Reportedly Alexander is believed to be the primary source of information for alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella. Although Yevgeny did not testify, […]
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier” So it’s over. The impeachment of President Trump, the latest and by no means last installment in the Democrats’ deranged and all-consuming effort to disenfranchise the 63 million unenlightened, Untermenschen Americans who had the bad taste not to vote for Hillary Clinton, has come to its completely predictable end. The House managers figuratively had their heads caved in […]
Here’s my take on the Trump impeachment trial which appears in today’s The American Spectator. You can read it below or, if you want to see the readers’ comments, you can access it here. Hope you like it! How Not to Impeach a President | The American Spectator With the 51 to 49 vote not to call witnesses, the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is on track to an acquittal. And so the Trump impeachment saga is coming to an end not with a bang but a whine. “We wuz robbed!” shriek the foot-stomping Democrats as they repeat their […]
This morning I was again privileged to be a guest on Chicago’s Morning Answer 560 AM WIND with hosts Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft. The topic was the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. One of the issues discussed was the Democrats’ demand that former National Security Adviser John Bolton testify regarding statements made in private by the president. My interview was prefaced by audio of Pat Cipollone’s terrific summation on behalf of the president in which he played telling twenty year old video of Chuck Schumer, House Managers Jerry Nadler and Zoe Lofgren and other prominent Democrats arguing against […]
While working on my next submission to The American Spectator regarding the Senate trial of President Trump, I came across this video which appealed to my hopelessly juvenile sense of humor. A group of subversives calling themselves Mad Liberals have adapted the student court trial scene from Animal House to sum up the Democrats’ concept of procedural due process. Take a look.
Yesterday I was privileged to be a guest on Chicago’s Morning Answer WIND 560 AM with hosts Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft. The topic was impeachment. The segment began with a good representative selection of soundbites of the previous day’s point-counterpoint argument between the Democrat House Managers and the president’s lawyers over proposed amendments to the procedural rules for the Senate trial. Then Dan and Amy cut to me for my analysis. Other than spending one day at Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, I have had no first hand experience of such proceedings. But, after trying cases as a prosecutor and private counsel […]
Monday I took a trip to Richmond to attend a pro Second Amendment rally organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Below is my article about that journey in today’s The American Spectator . For those of you who wish to read the Spectator readers’ comments, here’s a link to the article. In the version of the article below, I have inserted photos of the event that are not in the original Spectator piece. Also, Fox News asked me to submit a report. I sent them an abbreviated version of the Spectator article. If Fox publishes it, I will let you know. Virginia […]
In Virginia’s last election, the Democrat Party won narrow majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. Democrat legislators then promptly proposed a series of gun control measures. Among these was a ban on the purchase of so-called “assault weapons” patterned after a similar federal ban enacted by Congress in 1994 and signed by President Bill Clinton. (Although the federal statute sunsetted in 2004, it was in force long enough to establish conclusively that – quite unsurprisingly – it had had no measurable or detectable effect on the use by criminals of firearms.) Simultaneously, the Democrats have proposed additional equally fatuous […]
Webster’s dictionary defines “Potemkin village” as “an impressive façade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition.” So it is that the adjective “Potemkin” is used to characterize any artifice contrived to deceive others into thinking that things are better than they really are. As set forth below, I pose the question as to whether or not, based on its operations and recent events, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”) can fairly be described as a Potemkin institution which in reality serves only to give the false impression that it is protecting U.S. citizens by imposing constitutional limits on […]
Yesterday I was privileged to appear on Chicago’s Morning Answer – WIND AM 560 with Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft to discuss the impeachment of President Trump. Here’s the YouTube video of Amy and Dan as they interviewed me. As a side note, being a careful lawyer who always plans ahead, for some inexplicable reason probably having to do with the early stages of senile dementia, I had assumed that the interview was going to focus on my recent article in The American Spectator about the drone strike on Iran’s General Soleimani. Consequently, when Amy and Dan started asking me […]
On April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific, the U.S. Army Air Force shot down the bomber known to be transporting Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The aircraft went down in flames, and all on board died. Planned and executed under the strictest secrecy, Operation Vengeance was launched with the specific purpose of killing Yamamoto. Although the planners were concerned that this targeted assassination might invite retaliation in kind by the Japanese, the American press, public, and political establishment overwhelmingly approved the intentional killing of Yamamoto. He had been […]
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