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The Moral Midgets of American Academia

David Martin

HEADLINE: 400 Historians Denounce Impeachment, Case Against Clinton Departs From Framers’ Intent for Presidency, Letter Argues The Washington Post, October 29, 1998 So, 400 of the nation’s “leading historians” have put what is left of their prestige and credibility on the line by coming out against the impeachment of President Clinton. They could hardly better demonstrate why they deserve the scorn that I heap upon them and their fellow academicians in my America’s Dreyfus Affair – Part 4. Like our journalists, they would have been right at home among the Union of Soviet Writers, without an Alexander Solzhenitsyn or even a Roy Medvedev in the lot. As a fellow Southerner much influenced by his great scholarship, I was particularly saddened…

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Cohen on Ruddy

David Martin

With his review of Christopher Ruddy’s book, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster, an Investigation, in the November 24, 1997, issue of National Review entitled, “Conspiracy Central,” Professor Jacob Cohen of Brandeis University has illustrated all too well why mainstreamers generally stay mum about the Foster case. Assuming that the typical reader of the National Review is not entirely bereft of critical faculties, he could not help being tipped off from reading the review, even without the response from Ruddy and from Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media that it provoked in the December 22 issue, that there is something terribly wrong with the official suicide story. Any reader who gets his news from the usual “mainstream” sources would have…

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Sheila Anthony Defends Her Changed Foster Story

David Martin

Vince Foster’s older sister, Sheila Foster Anthony, has reacted with great indignation to Donald Trump’s suggestion that there was something “very fishy” about the circumstances surrounding the death and the “investigation” of the death of her brother, Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W. Foster, Jr.  She has done so (May 27, 2016) in a prominently displayed article in The Washington Post (Wouldn’t you know?)  Here is the nub of her testimony on the subject: Vince called me at my office in the Justice Department a few days before he died. H.e told me he was battling depression and knew he needed help. But he was worried that such an admission would adversely affect his top-level security clearance and prevent him…

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Letter to a Historian over Foster and the Clintons

David Martin

In my most recent article I take America’s professional historians to task one more time for the mainly propagandistic role they seem to be playing in interpreting what has gone on in the country.  In that small verbal match I believe I supported my charge of intellectual laziness quite thoroughly against one very minor member of the profession.  Noticing how he shrank away from the major issues that provide the underpinning for the case for skepticism about the current campaign against the Confederate battle flag, a stronger charge of intellectual cowardice might well be in order.  And in that quality, I fear that he is representative of his entire profession. William Leuchtenburg, with more than a dozen books to his…

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Letter to a Court Historian about James Forrestal’s Death

David Martin

H.L. Mencken aptly called them “the timorous eunuchs who posture as American historians.”  That was in 1920, but little has changed.  It might be a freshly minted Ph.D. from TCU, teaching at a backwater university in Texas like Matthew A. McNiece, or the man often described as the foremost historian of the Cold War, Yale history professor John Lewis Gaddis, but the fake authoritativeness and the real pusillanimity are at least as evident today as they were in Mencken’s day.  That is certainly the case when it comes to their writing about the very important subject of the violent death of the U.S. government’s leading opponent of the creation of the state of Israel, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Now…

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American Betrayal

David Martin

A Review “How cynical!” was my thought when I saw that Diana West, on the page preceding the introduction of her second book, had quoted the words of Jesus Christ.  It’s from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, verses 20 and 21 on the Godliness of openness and truth as opposed to the darkness and deception necessary for evil to thrive.  West is Yale educated, grew up in Hollywood, and is a major promoter of the interests of Israel.  With American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character I was expecting a replay of her very shallow, propagandistic The Death of the Grown-Up. My opinion began to change quite rapidly when, in her introduction, I heard for…

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Remember the Liberty!

David Martin

Most Americans have never heard of the Israeli, Ephraim “Eppie” Evron.  A half century ago, in May of 1967, he was deputy chief of mission in the Israeli embassy in Washington and in that ostensible capacity had a meeting with President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office on May 26.  From all indications, as we learn from Phillip Nelson in Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas, Evron was likely the real power in the embassy as the top Mossad official there.  An even more interesting thing about Evron was that he was “one of the main conspirators” in the infamous Lavon Affair, a failed plot in 1954 by Israel to bomb U.S. and British facilities…

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The American (Establishment) Catholic on Forrestal’s Death

David Martin

On his Wikipedia page under “Religion” in the box on the upper right, we find “Catholic” for America’s first secretary of defense, James Forrestal.  Indeed, culturally at least, Forrestal would seem to be the epitome of an Irish-American Roman Catholic.  His father was an immigrant from Ireland and his mother had aspirations for young James to become a priest.  But, according to biographers Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley, Forrestal had broken with his Catholic faith at the time that he left Princeton University, although they interpret his thwarted request to have Monsignor Maurice Sheehey of Catholic University come visit him when he was confined to Bethesda Naval Hospital before going out a 16th floor window of the main tower there…

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U.S. Ratchets Up Censorship

David Martin

Welcome to the Amazon aquarium, Where you can swim without care. If you only go where you’re supposed to, You won’t even know that you’re there. But thanks to my contrariness, An upsetting thing came to pass, Determined to showcase the truth, I discovered the glass. Here are a couple of customer book reviews of interest that are currently on the Amazon.com web site:  He really cares a great deal about giving all of the various points of view… Having arrived at this subject matter by way of a recommendation of DC Dave (David Martin), I was a newcomer to the writing of the author Mike Campbell. I believe that Mr. Campbell is one of the most talented and passionate…

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Mr. Robinson

David Martin

See Buelahman’s video. What’s up with you, Mr. Robinson? You picked a strange time to compose a billet doux. Oo, oo, oo. It’s very odd, Mr. Robinson, Just when anyone with sense would be lying low. They say your own words convict you of the crime. What luck for them when it seems they have so little else! They’re out to nail a patsy every time. This time they say the patsy nailed himself. What’s up with you, Mr. Robinson? You picked a strange time to compose a billet doux. Oo, oo, oo. It’s very odd, Mr. Robinson, Just when anyone with sense would be lying low. You pulled off a long-range shot without a gun, And where is the…

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Arguably the Most Important Historical Book of the Century

David Martin

Amazon customer review of The Assassination of James Forrestal on September 8, 2025 This book is the seminal work on James Forrestal’s death, and in many ways his life and plans after his government service. Martin obtained the crucial “Willcutts Report” from the Navy, which confirmed long-hidden facts about Forrestal’s death, most importantly that the verdict of suicide was never actually medically or legally established, that there was broken glass in Forrestal’s room suggesting a physical struggle, and that the Greek prose transcription supposedly triggering Forrestal’s suicide was not written in his own handwriting. Martin also presents the remarkable finding that Forrestal’s driver and Bethesda hospital employees were forced to transfer out of Washington by the Navy immediately following Forrestal’s death,…

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The Vince Foster-Russia Collusion Hoax Connection

David Martin

In a word, the connection, which would seem to be an odd one, can be found in the major publicity role played by Deep State operative Michael Isikoff in the cover-up of the murder of Bill Clinton’s deputy White House counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. and in the outrageous hoax that Donald Trump was elected President in 2016 with the knowing assistance of the Russian government.  Let us start with the scandal that is currently in the news.  Mark Vargas of the Illinois Review sums up Isikoff’s initial and his continuing propagation of the collusion hoax with his opening two paragraphs in which he characterizes the man as nothing but an “FBI mouthpiece.” The narrative that the Donald Trump campaign…

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RFO Newsmax Has Huge Stock Price Increase after IPO

David Martin

The “IPO” abbreviation here is the familiar one, “initial public offering,” referring to the first sale of stock to the public by a company.  “RFO” is one of our own coinage, meaning “rival fake opposition.”  Newsmax made its stock available to the public for the first time just last Friday, and it has taken off like a rocket. When it comes to fake opposition to the long-dominant liberal mainstream media, it might be something of an exaggeration at this point to call Newsmax a rival to the big one, which is Fox News.  I know that I find Newsmax quite boring and hard to watch compared to Fox, and the numbers at Adweek, though a bit difficult to decipher, tell…

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Checking Microsoft Copilot on Thomas Merton’s Death

David Martin

Here is how Wikipedia describes Microsoft Copilot in its opening paragraph: Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft. Based on the GPT-4 series of large language models, it was launched in 2023 as Microsoft’s primary replacement for the discontinued Cortana. I had never even heard of Cortana, so after an email correspondent had sent me a snippet of his experience using Copilot to inquire about the May 22, 1949, death of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, I decided to give it a spin on another death mystery that I happen to know a thing or two about, that of the famous Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, who, according to popular lore, died of accidental electrocution by a…

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The Ballad of Patrick Knowlton

David Martin

Headline: Witness in [Vince] Foster death loses conspiracy appeal Washington Times, January 9, 2001, p. A7 Before he’d arrived at the end of the line A little publicity would have been fine, Shedding some light and putting some heat Upon all those justices’ honorable feet. Patrick Knowlton, The key to the Foster case. Patrick Knowlton, The man the press erased. But they wait till the court in their wisdom refuse To give him a hearing to bring us the news. It’s a story, alas, that is getting quite old; A citizen’s wronged; then he’s out in the cold, And once it’s too late, the public is told. Patrick Knowlton, The key to the Foster case. Patrick Knowlton, The man the…

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Leonard Rawls, Wilber Hardee, and Hardee’s Restaurants

David Martin

Creating a Chain-Restaurant Foundation Myth Who founded the Hardee’s restaurant food chain?  It should be a simple question to answer.  What does Wikipedia have to say about that on its “Hardee’s” page? The first thing one might notice on the right-hand summary panel, even if he didn’t know it already, is that Hardee’s is a gigantic restaurant chain and that it was one of the earliest fast-food hamburger chains.  The date of founding is given as June 23, 1960, while Ray Kroc hadn’t begun to turn McDonald’s into a nationally franchised chain until just five years before that, in 1955.  As of February 2016, Wikipedia tells us, Hardee’s had 5,812 locations.  In addition to the United States, it had restaurants…

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CIA Finally Pulling the Plug on Biden

David Martin

According to Fox News’s Jesse Watters, the signal to Traitor Joe Biden could hardly have been clearer: Make no mistake: Ignatius’ column is more than a suggestion- it’s a marching order. When American intelligence wants to put out a hit, they feed it to David Ignatius and today, Ignatius pulled the pin on Joe Biden’s 2024 run. He’s turning Washington’s whispers into a rallying cry. The American intelligence community has to tie up their loose ends. Even the media is falling in line: admitting the Democratic party is a dishonest monolith. A mob that can’t function when it’s fractured. The Biden-Kamala ticket is being cancelled in its entirety and the intelligence community is making a calculation. He’s talking about Ignatius’…

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Propaganda Press

David Martin

To the tune of “Rock N Roll Train” Keyboard warriors Big time liars Selling us a fantasy Loaded up with treachery Throw it out, pitch it Believable they’re not Yes, they’re adding to our rot Shout it out, “Screw it” Strike while irons are hot We’re tired of fantasy Seeing through treachery Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) Propaganda press (Serving us a poison brew) One hard pounded drum La créme de la scum No shame in their perfidy Stooges for the Agency Shake ‘em, drop ‘em Believable they’re not We ought to make it for them hot See the light, tune ‘em out Come…

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About those White House Surveillance Cameras

David Martin

We’re hearing a lot these days about all those surveillance cameras at the White House after the discovery of that small bag of cocaine and the 11-day “investigation” to determine who left it there that came up empty.  Here is Miranda Devine in her skeptical July 16 article in the New York Post: Even more astonishing [than the supposed absence of fingerprints on the plastic bag] is that, in a complex bristling with security cameras, the Secret Service said no surveillance video footage exists because the baggie was located in a “blind spot.” But where, on the day of his death, July 20, 1993, were all those security cameras in the early afternoon when Deputy White House Counsel Vincent W.…

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The Most Under-Reported Big News Story

David Martin

It’s definitely Tara Reade’s defection.  One has to be a real news hound even to know that Joe Biden’s accuser has taken refuge in Russia. This looks like a very rational decision on Reade’s part to me.  The very light reporting given to her allegations all along was a very bad sign for her, suggesting that she would never get any protection from our nation’s molders of public opinion.  One could imagine reading about her unfortunate “suicide” almost any day.  Had Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the “DC Madam,” demonstrated Reade’s prudence, she would, in all likelihood, be alive and well today. While on the subject of underreported defections to Russia, we should not forget about John Mark Dougan, who used to have a Wikipedia page.…

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