Knowledge is Good

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]