Here’s the latest installment of my John Durham series published by The American Spectator. Like the previous articles, this one made Real Clear Politic‘s “Most Read” list and has gone viral. Later today I will be a guest on Chicago’s Morning Answer AM560 to discuss the Durham investigation. When I receive the audio download, I will post it on Knowledge is Good. In the meantime, get out your Ovaltine secret decoder, sit back and enjoy this latest cliff-hanger episode of “John Durham Blows Up Washington”. Note: For those of you who never had the privilege of growing up in the...
Yesterday The American Spectator published my article about the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, a group of ICU physicians who have developed a treatment protocol which they are using to successfully treat COVID-19 cases. The article is set forth below. Shortly after the article went live on TAS’ website, I received an email from one of the consortium members, Dr. Paul Marik (pictured above) who is Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. This led to telephone calls with Dr. Marik and Dr. Joseph Varon, Professor of Acute and Continuing Care at he University...
Every day I watch President Trump and the White House COVID-19 team do battle with the committed propagandists of the mainstream media. There is a certain amount of pleasure to be derived from watching the frustration of the reporters as they set one gotcha’ forensic trap after another for the president only to have him talk past, over and around them. Occasionally Trump will point out that a reporter has asked a “nasty” question or is a “loudmouth” or “wise guy”. While this has a certain limited entertainment value, overall Trump does better when he completely ignores the trick questions...
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...
Set forth below is my article that was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator about the antimalarial drug chloroquine being used alone or in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin to successfully treat and possibly prevent COVID-19 infections. When President Trump recently expressed his belief that chloroquine could be a “game changer” in the fight against the pandemic, the New York Times accused him of exaggerating its potential and claimed that it showed “limited evidence of healing the sick.” As you will see, the available evidence fully justifies Trump’s optimism. Since publication, even more information has come to light supporting Trump’s view....
I’m not a doctor, and I don’t play one on television. But I do have many friends, former clients and professional associates who are health care professionals. So, when The American Spectator asked me to write an analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, after I finished rolling around on the floor laughing at the absurdity of me – a pre-med drop out – taking on such a complex and specialized topic, I was able to seek guidance from some very smart, knowledgeable and experienced medical professionals. With their help and five straight days of pulling my hair out as I digested a...
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...
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...
Thursday my wife and I attended The American Spectator‘s annual banquet at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The guest of honor was Wall Street Journal opinion writer Kimberley Strassel. I was fortunate to be seated next to her during the festivities. In addition to being a brilliant and insightful columnist, she is very friendly, enthusiastic, sweet-natured and down-to-earth. She was born and raised in a small Oregon logging community, graduated from Princeton and has had a hugely successful career at the WSJ. When I introduced myself to Kimberley, I said that I write for The American Spectator. She...
“Tickling the wire.” That’s the slang expression used by law enforcement personnel to describe the process of trying to breathe life into a moribund or unproductive wiretap. When the subjects of such surveillance fail to discuss their criminal activities over the monitored telephones or at the bugged premises, surreptitious steps can be taken to induce them to do so. For example, in the case of a federal wiretap on a drug dealer’s telephone, if few incriminating communications have been intercepted, the local police can be enlisted to conduct an apparently unrelated car stop, interrogation and search of the subject. This...
My friends at The American Spectator published my article titled The Art and Science of Cross-Examining Mueller which is an expanded and much improved version of my previous post on the same subject. It generated a flood of emails and a great deal of interest after it was was picked up by Powerline, Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com. Happily many readers caught and approved of my juvenile and completely tasteless reference to Deliverance at the end of the piece. The American Spectator is converting to a pay site*. Nevertheless, you may still be able to access my article on TAS’ website for...
In 1949 my parents moved from the small town of East Point, Georgia to a quiet, tree-lined street in the northwest section of Atlanta. There we had wonderful neighbors who became our close friends and with whom we shared life’s joys and sorrows. I could – and probably should – write a book about growing up in that neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s. Until then, suffice it to say that, according to today’s child safety experts, I was killed or seriously maimed approximately 4,279 times before reaching adolescence. The boys on our block played with bows and arrows, knives,...
In his muddled, obfuscatory farewell remarks, Special Counsel Robert Mueller strongly suggested that, although he and his cohort of Hillary Clinton acolytes had reached no conclusion as to whether President Trump had obstructed justice, Congress should address that question by means of the impeachment “process”. Why? Because Team Mueller had not been able to “exonerate” the President. But exoneration is a non-legal standard which completely inverts and perverts our system of justice which places the burden of proof on the prosecution to prove its case. In every criminal trial across America, the judge instructs the jury that the burden of...