Ken's Comments

President Trump on Friday announced religions are essential business and that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued guidelines on how to open religious buildings safely for worship.  The President then said he would overrule any State that does not treat religions as essential. Then the fireworks began. In the press conference, the members of the press present peppered the Press Secretary with questions about how religious institutions can open safely and why does the President think he has the authority to overrule State Governments.  At least one MSNBC commentator opined that naming religious institutions as essential is a violation of the separation of Church and State. That the media raised any objection is a measure of how the press reacts in a knee jerk fashion, without any thought, to simply disagree with everything President Trump says. Let's consider these points. The first point - how can churches, synagogues and mosques open safely - was ridiculous....

Put aside the argument of whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) should or should not drop charges against General Michael Flynn and let's look at how we got here and why his treatment is the norm not the exception. For those who point out General Flynn pleaded guilty (twice according to some reports) that was not his original position.  He was originally fighting these charges and relented to a plea bargain when a) he was bankrupted by the legal fees and, especially, b) when the FBI started investigating his son.  General Flynn agreed to a plea deal and to assist the prosecutors in return for them dropping the investigation of his son.  Sounds like pretty dirty pool doesn't it?  Well, it is and it's not unusual. When I was practicing law in the 1990's, seminars I attended that covered federal investigations laid out some key facts.  The Feds are like any other people or organization.  People want to advance and you advance with wins.  An investig...

I believe in fixing the problem, not fixing the blame.  I also believe that when something goes wrong you look at the process not the people because if the process is right the people usually can't go wrong.  A fair review of what happened during the Coronavirus spread will find process breakdowns and many lessons learned that can help prevent a future occurrence like this. But the Democrats and their media mouthpieces don't want a fair review.  They want to put all 80,000+ Coronavirus deaths at the doorstep of President Donald Trump.  They best watch out if they start that game because it may backfire. Now if there is one thing we know, it is that nursing homes are incubators for Coronavirus and a huge number of the Coronavirus deaths are occurring in nursing homes.  So let's look at what is happening in some states across the US. New York - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Administration early on adopted a rule mandating that NY nursing homes must accept patients wi...

Classic example of the Democrate partisan media at work.  The Trump Administration publishes good news that a drug called remdesivir shows promise in treating the Coronavirsu.  To pour cold water on this, the Washington Post published an article titled "Researchers changed metric to measure remdesivir during clinical trial."*1 I have to give the authors of the article a bit of credit for intellectual honesty and integrity.  The headline suggests something really bad happened.  The article tries to support the headline but the writers, and this is the credit I give them, posted views on both sides of the issue.  Unfortunately for them, any reasonable reader would conclude the Trump Administration was right to do what it did. The original goal of the trial was to see if remdesivir could reduce the rate of deaths.  The new goal was to measure whether remdesivir helps people recover faster.  Under the new criteria, it was shown that remdesivir reduces ...

Second guessing is the order of the day and it's time for me to join in.  This is a look back to what happened wrong and right, and what could have been done better.  To do this, let's use the standards set forth by NY Governor Mario Cuomo during some of his press conferences.  When asked why he was looking for 40,000 ventilators earlier this year when NY needed less than 10,000, Gov. Cuomo said, and I paraphrase you act based on what you know at the time, and a related point would be did you act based on what you knew at the time.  In another press conference Gov. Cuomo speculated on what he might have done differently if he knew then what he knew now.  A fair analysis of the actions of the Trump Administration can be made using those standards. 1. Acting based on what you know. The Administration has a standard cast of characters who are called on when there are epidemics.  This includes the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Contr...