Dana Pico

Editor of The First Street Journal, retired old geezer living on my small farm beside the Daniel Boone National Forest. A libertarian (but not Libertarian) conservative Republican, Catholic, and Pro-Life from conception until natural death.

What’s a little Kristallnacht among friends?

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It’s interesting to me that the journalists of our nation’s third oldest, continuously published daily newspaper, took until Friday to manage to write up a report on a Philadelphia story which has been in the news for a day now, but I can see the problem they had: how do you write a story about a deliberately anti-Semitic and inflammatory ‘action’ in moderate and non-judgemental terms.

Planned protest against Jewish-owned Philly restaurants draws ire, security, and feelings of unease

The “Boycott Ride,” scheduled for Sunday in Rittenhouse Square, has sparked ire on social media and drawn international scrutiny.

by Maggie Prosser | Friday, November 6, 2026 | 9:05 AM EST

Philadelphia business leaders and elected officials are condemning a planned bike-ride protest against half a dozen eateries owned by Jewish restaurateurs, days before the cyclists are set to gather in Center City.

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boys!

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Technically, Kaleem Roland, only 17 years old, was convicted of first degree murder, but in actuality, he was convicted and will be sentenced for absolute, utter, boneheaded stupidity. Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Vinny Vella told us for what he, along with Jabriil Morgan-Cook, 20, Naseem Worrell, 19, did: The killing of a Norristown man last year …

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough!

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Donald Trump certainly enraged the credentialed media during his first campaign for President by calling them #FakeNews. WLKY, the CBS television affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky, at least skewed the headline and story enough for them not to be lies: Person charged with murder after man fatally shot in Buechel by Alex Suckow | Thursday, October …

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Why do ‘progressives’ want to protect criminals?

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I can at least understand people who want to help illegal immigrants who have not broken any non-immigration-related laws, but who on God’s earth would want to protect the criminals? Well, apparently the Democrats do! From the New York Post, with a hat tip to William Teach: NYC’s sanctuary DAs ordered prosecutors to downgrade charges …

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This is how all murderers should be sentenced!

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Life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 25 to 36 more years for other crimes!

“It’s not fair,” the convicted murderer said, after he was sentenced! To me, the only unfair thing is that not all murderers are sentenced the way he was.

A jury found Miguel Salguero-Olivares guilty of first-degree murder, rape, sexual offense and burglary in the 2012 killing of Faith Hedgepeth, a UNC-Chapel Hill student and North Carolina native. He faces multiple sentences, including life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Friday, October 23, 2026 | 4:29 PM EDT | Updated 11:10 PM EDT

A jury found Miguel Salguero-Olivares guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense and first-degree burglary in the 2012 killing of UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth.

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Shane Seiber isn’t the only Philly cop killed by Larry Krasner’s stupid policies

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We have previously noted the shooting of two Philadelphia police officers, one of whom, officer Shane Seiber, died from his wounds. The apprehended suspect, Eric Lewis, had a previous criminal record, but all misdemeanors, which did not prohibit from owning a firearm. Then came the later news: Mr Lewis had previously been charged with murder, …

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Why do they always look like this?

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Katie McDivitt, mugshot by Walton County Sheriff’s Office, and is a public record. Image via the New York Post.

The victim’s mother found out about the suspect’s (alleged) attempts at grooming a minor girl for sex, tried to get it stopped, yet she (allegedly) continued anyway.

Creepy softball coach groomed teen player, even after mom tried to intervene: cops

By David DeTurris | Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | 3:49 AM EDT

A Georgia teacher allegedly groomed a 15-year-old girl whose softball team she coached, and continued preying on the minor even after the teen’s mother tried to intervene, according to a warrant.

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Non-Western immigrants are causing chaos in Europe

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After our European friends have tried their soft socialism for decades, and it has been slowly failing, The New York Times tells us that their greatest fear should not be radicalized students and Islamic immigrants, but that bugaboo of bugaboos, the “far right”. French President Emmanuel Macron, who didn’t like the idea of Israel fighting …

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Cornell University channels Faber College

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My good friend Robert Stacy McCain wrote: No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer has gotten a good head start on the so-called “Cornell 7” case. The sordid tale of an Ivy League orgy that devolved into accusations of sexual assault prompted …

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You know what I don’t understand?

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I don’t understand how criminals can be so boneheadedly Stupid. There is no publicly available information on what course of study Barak Steelmon was pursuing at the University of Kentucky, but I suspect that if he was attempting to become a rocket scientist or brain surgeon, if the allegations against him are true, he might …

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The Execution of Nidal Hasan?

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As I have said many times before, I am opposed to capital punishment. We should not kill anyone unless it is absolutely necessary, and if we have a prisoner securely and permanently confined, to the point he is unable to resist his execution, then he is sufficiently helpless enough that it is no longer necessary to kill him.

You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!

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David Harris noted concerning a former principal that he went “From celebrating someone’s murder to possessing some of the most vile material imaginable.” We have recently been noting that when someone is, in the immortal words of Colonel Batguano in Dr Strangelove,” a “deviated prevert” in one thing, there is a high probability that he …

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The Cornell case will never feel like justice, to anyone, but there are some things that the laws simply cannot address.

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It’s perhaps telling that Amanda Marcotte’s old Twitter biography photo was taken in a bar, and that it advertises Bud Light, though it does predate the Dylan Mulvaney s(tuff).
We suggested, on September 30th, that perhaps the very lovely Amanda Marcotte had learned something from her full-throated accusations against the Duke lacrosse team in 2006, that jumping the gun wasn’t necessarily the wisest thing to do. It took her until October 2nd to weigh in on the case:

In 2017, the #MeToo movement took the nation by storm. A veritable flood of women, and some men, spoke out about their own experiences with sexual abuse, leading to a slew of firings, lawsuits, arrests and social opprobrium of the accused, especially since so many accusers produced compelling evidence. Despite this, it was barely weeks before the backlash began, with countless articles about how #MeToo had gone “too far,” despite scant evidence that innocent men were getting entangled. That response swelled until it overcame #MeToo, which has largely faded into the background.

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The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain!

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As both of my website’s regular readers know, I am opposed to capital punishment. We should not kill anyone unless it is absolutely necessary, and if we have a prisoner securely and permanently confined, to the point he is unable to resist his execution, then he is sufficiently helpless enough that it is no longer …

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Democrisy! If the left can accept Tim McBride and Will Thomas as women, why can’t Hannah Gann be accepted as black and ‘Palestinian’?

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The credentialed media amuse me greatly , and none of them more than The Philadelphia Inquirer. After an article on Monday attempting to normalize transgenderism, which included a hyperlink to the newspaper spending “several months chronicling the lives of two transgender women making their way in rural Dauphin County,” Tuesday saw the editors tweeting about …

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Should the good work of every sinner be destroyed, because he was a sinner?

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Should we ban Volkswagens because Adolf Hitler helped create the company? Millions of people, including millions of Americans have bought the “people’s car,” because it has been practical for them. A lot of students had them when I was in college, though I was not one of them, back in the days of quill pens and inkwells, because they were inexpensive and cheap to operate.

Why would the honest people of Philly want to help keep criminals on the streets?

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Is it really any surprise that the City of Brotherly Love, the good people thereof who have thrice elected the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating defense attorney Larry Krasner to be the chief criminal prosecutor just don’t like the laws being enforced? Philly tells federal court the Trump administration can’t force it to collaborate with …

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I admit it: I never knew that Glenn Greenwald was a rabid anti-Semite!

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I confess: I had previously thought of Glenn Greenwald as a journalist and a strong advocate for Freedom of Speech and of the Press. I never knew that he was a raging anti-Semite. Mr Greenwald tweeted: What was this IDF soldier doing in the West Bank? The journalist knew, of course, exactly whet the “IDF …

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