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.

I Feel So Sorry For the Poor Little Lambs Who Don’t Want to Return to the Office!

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During the COVID-19 panicdemic — no, that’s not a typographical error, but is spelled exactly the way I see it — employees who could work from home were told to do so. As it happened, my younger daughter, an IT/communications professional, worked from our farm. Fortunately, I had already installed an outdoor electric receptacle on …

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I’ll Bet That Will Bunch and Taylor Lorenz Are Glad Now That Joe Biden’s Attempt to Create a Ministry of Truth Failed

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Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far left columnist Will Bunch skeeted an editorial by the UK’s left-wing The Guardian about protecting journolists, oops, sorry, journalists. The Guardian view on Trump’s threat to the media: time to pass the Press Act Bipartisan legislation offers historic protections for journalists, banning secret surveillance and ensuring source confidentiality Tuesday, December 10, …

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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right

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It was 6½ months ago that we published “Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right,” noting Olivia Reingold‘s report that addiction activists say they’re ‘reducing harm’ in Philly, but Kensington locals say they’re causing it. It was an article noting that the oh-so-well-intended activists …

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My Local Bishop Really Hates Donald Trump

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While I cannot say that I am friends with His Excellency, the Most Reverend John Stowe, O.F.M. Conv., Bishop of Lexington, we are at least acquainted with each other. The Bishop at least recognizes me when he sees me, though I cannot be certain he remembers my name. We have had some pleasant conversations the …

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End of an Error

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My site has previously reported on the forfeits that several colleges have accepted when their women’s volleyball teams refused to play against San José State University, which has Brayden Fleming, a male player pretending to be a female going by the pseudonym of “Blaire”. The credentialed media have been trying to ignore the story to …

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The Legacy Media Rarely Lie Outright, But Their Biases Can Be Seen in Their Editorial Choices of What to Cover, and What to Ignore

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One thing I saw frequently on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — in the weeks before the election were claims, unsourced claims, that Kamala Harris Emhoff’s campaign had internal polling which was showing that she was losing to former President Donald Trump. Those were cheering, no doubt about that, but I am …

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World War III Watch: the British and French are discussing sending their own troops to fight in Ukraine

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Sometimes there are little things hidden inside of more sensationalized stories. Though we haven’t seen as much about this recently — our American credentialed media were fixated on the election, and Israel’s war against the Palestinians — meaning that the Russo-Ukrainian War has somewhat faded into the background. Stories about foreign soldiers who traveled to …

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No Matter How Much You Hate the Credentialed Media, You Do Not Hate Them Enough

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Upon seeing this tweet from Eyal Yakoby, I had to check the article to see if it was as bad as I suspected. In some ways, it really wasn’t, because most of it was based on the legal problems for José Ibarra’s defense, and the decision to seek a bench trial, a trial by a …

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Hamas Leadership Beats Feet to Turkey

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It has frequently been noted that the top Hamas leadership lived not in Gaza, but in wealth and safety in Doha, Qatar. The Qatari government told them to find someplace to stay, so most of them have headed for Turkey. A lot of their families live there, but I have to wonder how long the Turkish government will put up with these cretins.

The Election Is Over, But the Usual Suspects Continue With the Hate

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Wouldn’t the answer be, to children who might ask why former and future President Donald Trump beat current Vice President and future private citizen Kamala Harris Emhoff in the election, that the United States held a free and fair election, and as in every election, one serious candidate won, and one serious candidate lost? But no, the American left, having gone off the rails in their #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, think something else is required.

From The Philadelphia Inquirer:

How do we explain this election to our children?

Children need us to accept their gift of hope, even if we aren’t feeling it, and they need us to use it to fight for them.

by Gwen Snyder, For The Inquirer | Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 6:00 AM EST

The past two months have been a whirlwind of autumnal novelty and stimulation for my preschooler. There was Sesame Place, then her 3rd birthday, then her first day of school. Just as things began to settle, we launched into a cascade of Halloween activities. And then, fast on their heels came the election.

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World War III Watch: I’m Amazed at How Many People Actually Want War

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August of 1914 saw tens of thousands or men marching off to war, amid cheering throngs, knowing that their brave soldiers would be returning home soon, victorious in what would be called the Great World War. The French managed to stall the invading Germans short of Paris, and the armies dug in for what became …

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What Hath Donald Trump Wrought?

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Google & Meta "Deleted" Trump Assassination Attempt

I will admit it: I have spent too much time on Twitter since the election. Yes, I revel in the fact that former President Donald Trump is also our future President, and I am amused by stories that some on the left have suggested that President Joe Biden resign, so that Kamala Harris Emhoff can become our 47th President for the last 69 days of the term.

Schadenfreude!

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While it was not the reason that I voted for former, and now future President Donald Trump, I will admit to hoping for some major schadenfreude concerning the left if Mr Trump won. Well, he did win, winning the popular vote as well as the electoral college vote, and not that narrowly. As of 8:15 …

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Who Were the Winners on Election Day?

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It’s simple: the winners were normal Americans! I did something I rarely do: I watched CNN and MSNBC on Wednesday morning, to see the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the credentialed media and their Usual Suspect panelists. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blamed misogyny among black and Hispanic men, and the Reverend Al Sharpton …

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TGI Election Day!

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I will admit to some serious election fatigue. It is virtually incomprehensible to me that more than 10% of the electorate could vote for the Communist from California, but then I think back to an early Political Science class at the University of Kentucky, back in the days of quill pens and inkwells, in which …

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There’s No Threat Quite Like an Empty Threat!

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“Why do you keep bashing your head into that wall?” ask sensible people. “Because it feels so good when I stop,” answers Ali Khamenei. “We are capable of destroying all that the Zionists possess with one operation,” said General Ali Fadavi, the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps deputy commander. So, General Fadavi is telling us that …

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So, Who Would You Believe?

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My site reported, on October 28th, about the efforts of collegiate officials to stop female athletes from complaining about male members on their teams or having to compete against males who claim to be female on other teams. Well, no, complains the Athletic Director of the University of Nevada at Reno, that’s not what happened …

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