Pictured above is world-renowned infectious disease expert Professor Didier Raoult, the head of the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, France. Researchers under his leadership have recently conducted two clinical trials that have demonstrated the efficacy of treating COVID-19 with a combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin. In the second clinical trial that drug combination reportedly cured 79 out of 80 patients. There was 1 fatality who was in his 80’s. Noting that “adverse events were rare and minor,” the researchers summarized their findings as follows: In conclusion, we confirm the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine associated with azithromycin in the treatment of...
Here’s a slightly edited and improved iteration of my article which was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator regarding the rapidly proliferating clinical and laboratory data that support the use of the inexpensive, safe and widely available antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat and prevent COVID-19 infections. I hope you find it to be interesting and useful. The $20 Solution to Coronavirus: ‘Anecdotal Evidence’ Is a Life-Saver | The American Spectator Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Simultaneously, the Department of...
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,...
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. Share this:LinkedInTumblrRedditEmailTelegramPrintPinterestTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading...
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...
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...
Just when you thought the House Democrats’ slap stick impeachment show couldn’t sink any further into low comedy, along comes Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s threat to embargo the articles of impeachment unless the Republican-controlled Senate establishes removal trial procedures to her liking. As a negotiating technique, this would appear to be sub-optimal. As in who cares if she never forwards the charges to the Senate? The only historical precedent that I can find for Pelosi’s stratagem is to be found in Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles. When Cleavon Little (pictured above) is appointed the first black sheriff in a town full of...
Today, as a prelude to tomorrow’s farcical impeachment vote, President Trump launched a pre-emptive strike against the Democrats by means of a scorching letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It is a comprehensive summary and powerful refutation of the Democrats’ deranged three year effort to disenfranchise the sixty-three million Americans who voted for Trump by undoing the 2016 presidential election. I found reading it to be enjoyable and cathartic. It is a six page fist-pumping, stand-up-and-cheer tour de force. This letter makes clear that the president and his team have marshaled the entire spectrum of the damning facts – including...
Today my friends at The American Spectator published my advice to President Trump and his allies on the best way to defend against his upcoming impeachment. The article with readers’ comments can be accessed by clicking on this link to the TAS website or you can read it below. The imagery – especially in the last line – is a bit sanguinary, but, if he were here, I think General George “Old Blood and Guts” Patton would approve. Patton on Impeachment: The Democrats Have Stuck Their Heads in a Meat Grinder | The American Spectator Seventy-five years ago today, 200,000...
I had a very pleasant chance encounter today with retired Philadelphia Police Officer Bob Hurst who long ago served as head of the department’s “Granny Squad”. At great risk to their lives and safety, Bob and his colleagues on the squad spent years disguised as old women, derelicts, drunks and otherwise vulnerable victims trolling the streets of Philadelphia for armed robbers and violent felons. (The picture above is purportedly of Bob in disguise.) When attacked, the decoy officer and his back up team would arrest the assailant. Sometimes they were required to use deadly force. In the late 1970s and early 1980s,...
Pictured above is a reasonable dramatization of the upcoming House Judiciary Committee impeachment proceedings as envisioned by Chairman Jerry Nadler. Donald Trump would be the guy in overalls. Quite understandably, Pat Cipollone, Counsel to the President, has rejected by return letter Nadler’s ridiculous bums-rush invitation for the president to participate in the Democrats’ rigged, partisan, Punch-and-Judy slapfest impeachment farce. Counsel’s letter is a masterpiece of legal concision which specifies in detail all of the many ways that Nadler’s proposal fails to satisfy the basic elements of fairness, due process and constitutional law. For a good summary by Fox News of...
My post Tap Dancing Through the Ukrainian Minefield has been retitled and published by my friends at The American Spectator. Since the editors at TAS were able to clean up the piece – including removing the goofy formatting of the astonishing ZeroHedge article – I have substituted the far cleaner TAS article for yesterday’s post. As always, I want to thank the TAS’ editors for their help and consideration. Here’s the article An Impeachment Defense: It Most Justifiably Means Going on Offense | The American Spectator Legats. That’s FBI shorthand for its agents who serve as legal attachés in U.S. embassies...
A better-edited version of yesterday’s post The CrowdStrike Panic was published today by my friends at The American Spectator and linked to on Real Clear Politics. Judging by the amount of reader mail and comment, it seems to have stirred up quite a bit of controversy. A few minutes ago I was asked by a producer for the Fox Business Network to appear on The Evening Edit at 6:00 P.M. with host Elizabeth MacDonald. Of course I accepted the invitation and will be appearing via Skype from KIG’s home office. Hope you can tune in and join in the fun. Share...
In his telephone conversation with Ukrainian leader Volodmyr Zelensky, President Trump requested Ukraine’s help in getting “to the bottom of” the Russian collusion narrative and the role of CrowdStrike, a private computer security company, in propagating that story. Lost in the volcanic eruption of faux outrage and condemnation aimed at the President by the Democrats and their wholly-owned media subsidiary, this reference to CrowdStrike indicates that the Justice Department’s investigation of the counterintelligence operation against candidate and President-elect Trump may be hot on the trail of exposing what could well be a seminal lie that the Democratic National Committee’s computer...
Not too long ago, I was privileged to represent a former big city police officer who had been charged with raping two young women of questionable virtue. He had met one of them through an online site where, among other things, prostitutes advertised their services. That purported victim had introduced him to her friend who became the second complainant. It was no secret – and the prosecution was well aware – that the two young women were hookers. Nevertheless, despite the fact that my client had retired after being grievously wounded in the line of duty, he was arrested in...