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.

Family demand answers!

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My good friend Robert Stacy McCain has a short series entitled “Family Demands Answers”, which reached the fourth such article at the beginning of this month, and as you might guess the series refers to families loudly complaining about their poor future doctors and astrophysicists being killed while doing something boneheadedly stupid. It’s like a “Hold my beer” moment, but with the police involved.

A father is searching for answers after lawyers say a police pursuit of an ATV ended in his son’s death

Sterling Jones, 22, died after his ATV struck an Uber driver in May. Lawyers for Jones’ father say police should not have been pursuing him in the first place.

by Jesse Bunch | Monday, August 10, 2026 | 5:01 AM EDT

The father of a Philadelphia man who was killed in an ATV crash this spring said police officers pursued his son moments before he drove the wrong way down a one-way street, ran a red light, and collided with a sedan.

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Shocking! A Philly Inquirer columnist takes a conservative position!

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I have thrice speculated that Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and sometime editorial writer Daniel Pearson might be a conservative. He really isn’t, but for a liberal, and especially someone on the staff of the Inky, he is not only willing to interact with people with whom he disagrees, unlike Will Bunch, but actually supports conservative ideas …

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Democrisy! If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all

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Minnesota Lynx head Coach Cheryl Reeve sought to make a political statement during her teams home game against the Indiana Fever by wearing a t-shirt under her open jacket which proclaimed “Trans Kids Belong”. This was seen as a shot at Indiana’s wing guard Sophie Cunningham, who famously stated that males need to be kept out of women’s and girls’ locker rooms and off their sports teams.

Well, to the surprise of absolutely no one, Coach Reeve had a different attitude when it came to coaching.

WNBA coach who supports trans athletes hates that the “W” is hiring male head coaches: “We can’t let this happen”

by Shane Garry Acedera | Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | 7:37 PM EDT

Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve caused a stir when she wore a shirt that expressed support for transgender athletes during her team’s game against the Indiana Fever last Sunday.

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‘Sportswriter’ injects race into his argument, because Sophie Cunningham is white and makes sense

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If there’s one thing our good friends on the left cannot stand, it’s an uppity, mouthy, attractive woman who doesn’t toe the liberal line. That’s a demographic problem for them, as even The Washington Post reported that “Conservatives really are better looking.” Sophie Cunningham isn’t rejecting politics. She’s cashing in on them by Howard Bryant …

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For our good friends on the left, “No one is above the law” apparently doesn’t apply to illegal immigrants.

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This site’s favorite whipping boy, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far, far, far left columnist Will Bunch, who’s even crazier than Amanda Marcotte if such a thing is possible, has told us how important it is to enforce the law. We have previously noted how The Philadelphia Inquirer’s radical left columnist Will Bunch was adamant in his …

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We should never release murderers until their victims come back to life!

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Tuesday morning’s lead editorial in The Philadelphia Inquirer is a complaint that President Trump is fighting a war on the truth by claiming that the credentialed media often publish #FakeNews, while at the same time publishing, as an ostensibly ‘straight news’ story that is actually a sob story about a convicted murderer who wants to get out of prison.

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At what point do the media give up on a criminal-loving and police-hating prosecutor?

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We have frequently noted The Philadelphia Inquirer’s seemingly unqualified support for the city’s George Soros-sponsored — $1.7 million in 2017 and $1.2 million in 2021 — criminal-loving, police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, but even the Inky has been unable to avoid covering the news about Mr Krasner’s problems. The newspaper said of Mr Krasner, in …

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Democrats playing stupid games

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Adam Kinzinger’s Twitter biography says he is “Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. @AirNatlGuard (ret). Founder @thecountryfirst.” Mr Kinzinger is very adamant about enforcing our laws: Kinzinger was one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection in his second …

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Yes, we disagree with Democrats, but I never thought that they could be this stupid

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It has been said that presidential candidates like to pick vice presidential running mates who will not overshadow them, and such is frequently done by picking running mates who are dumber than them. Yes, I know: I have used that opening line before, and yes, I used it in reference to Governor Tim Walz of …

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You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!

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There’s a popular internet meme that we used to think a lack of information made people stupid, but nope, it wasn’t that! We have a wealth of information at our fingertips, but stupid people are still stupid. Public school teachers are supposed to be educated, with at least a baccalaureate degree, and frequently an expectation …

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Canucks can get Trump Derangement Syndrome, too!

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Our great neighbor to the north is a virtual paradise, or so they would have us believe. Free health care, though you have to wait in months-long lines, strict gun control, way better airports than some of the ones Americans have, Air Canada rather than Delta or United, beautiful, wide-open vistas, across their frozen fruited …

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught!

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The credentialed media rarely tell us outright lies, but sometimes you have to look pretty closely to find the parts they don’t want for you to know. From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Getting ‘legal status’ in America is harder than most people think. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE before he could.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist | Monday, July 13, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday in Houston. He arrived in the U.S. from Mexico 35 years ago, built a construction business, and became one of five people killed by federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s plan of mass deportation.

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Way too many conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell

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Cenk Uygur is a Turkish-American who is far more Turkish than American. A rabid anti-Semite, to him everything is controlled by the evil Jooooos. A co-creator of The Young Turks, which he co-hosts with fellow anti-Semite Ana Kasparian. But the tweet pictured to the right was inspired by Kentucky’s Democratic Governor, Andy Beshear: Kentucky Gov. …

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In the wake of the Graham Platner scandals, we mustn’t forget the danger posed by James Talarico

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At the moment, 2026 Democratic senatorial nominee Graham Platner of Maine — my mother’s home state — has been sucking up all of the news coverage, following the accusations by a fellow Democratic woman that he broke into her house and raped her. The Democrats were OK with his Totenkopf death head tattoo, with his …

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Why do I pay $6.99 a week for a newspaper that hates our country?

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My digital subscription to The Philadelphia Inquirer hits my bank account for $27.96 every four weeks, or $363.48 every year. The City of Brotherly Love is where the members of the Continental Congress met and finally declared our independence from King George and Great Britain 250 years and one day ago. Yet our nation’s third …

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Democrisy! Democrats claim, without any proof, that President Trump is a sexual predator, but then pardon a convicted child rapist to try to keep him from being deported.

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Somalis Own Minnesota

I can understand how the left might have sympathy for illegal immigrants who have tried all along to be good people, but to attempt deliberately to keep a convicted sex offender in the country? Just how stupid can they be?

Why do newspapers censor the news?

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Our great nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, hasn’t exactly been silent on the murder of William “Billy” Schmidt, but hasn’t spent a lot of time on the case, either. 2 teens sought in shooting death of Penn State student in South Philly Police obtained arrest warrants for Kaiseem Smith and …

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Another of Larry Krasner’s minions has been sanctioned for lying through her scummy teeth

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At what point should the District Attorney himself be disbarred? It seems as though I wrote too soon. Yes, the previous article, Larry Krasner gets bitch-slapped by the state Supreme Court, remains accurate and valid, but just this morning, only a few hours after the previous post was published on the American Free News Network, …

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