The Washington Trail: A Slade and Cork Mystery Written by Lou Aguilar (Aethon Books, 304 pages, $21.99) Regular readers of Lou Aguilar’s weekly column for The American Spectator are familiar with the author’s signature passions. Above all, he is a…
On Aug. 10, the Canadian branch of the registered charity, Jewish National Fund (JNF), received an email from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), notifying it that its charitable status had been revoked, effective immediately. The grounds stated for revoking the…
The disintegrating presidency of Joe Biden is a challenge for our country and so a challenge for us personally. Lies in the arrogant pursuit of power have so characterized the political culture of which Joe is the figurehead that our…
Building a reputation as a moral and trustworthy person is the work of a lifetime. It can be destroyed in a second. It isn’t a trivial thing to build or to maintain. So it’s only natural to seek shortcuts. To…
On June 20, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, carting away boxes of material. The purpose of the raid wasn’t clear, but it may have had something to do with Oakland’s recycler, California Waste Solutions, whose offices…
Joe Biden continues to be a terrible father. For all his senile doddering, the real problem with him isn’t his age, it’s that he lacks virtue. He has been willing to sacrifice anyone to obtain and keep power and the…
Big Government fuels Big Corruption. Exhibit 749b for the prosecution comes out of Camden, New Jersey, where George Norcross, III, went from serving as a local Democratic Party committeeman decades ago to one of the richest men in the Garden…
The decidedly fixed New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s corrupt prosecution against Donald Trump has been caught out by summoning Michael Cohen, a seriously admitted lying key “witness,” to the stand. Here’s but one of many headlines on this disaster,…
President Donald J. Trump’s trial lawyers should open his defense with a bang. Their lead witness in the unfolding ledger-entry case should be Robert J. Costello, Esq. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s former attorney would explode a MOAB of reasonable…
Donald J. Trump’s best defense in his ledger-entry case could come from the unlikeliest source: prosecutors. Local and federal prosecutors and law-enforcement officials fathom the stunning shallowness of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “case” against Trump. Why? They repeatedly decided not to prosecute Trump…
