Knowledge is Good

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 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 […]

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 […]