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.

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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Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

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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Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

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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World War III Watch: Will American/NATO Weapons Be Used Against North Korean Troops Inside Russia?

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My site noted, four days ago, that there were roughly 3,000 North Korean troops ‘undergoing training at military bases in eastern Russia’, and that John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said those troops would become “legitimate military targets” if they should be used in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Now those troops aren’t quite …

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Journolism: They Want to “Speak Truth to Power,” But Only When It Doesn’t Interfere With Their Political Preferences

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When I was a teenager in Mt Sterling, Kentucky, I delivered the morning Lexington Herald and the afternoon Lexington Leader, back in those quill pen and inkwell days when the Lexington newspapers were actually delivered throughout central and eastern Kentucky. Now the print editions of the combined Lexington Herald-Leader, published only thrice a week on …

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The Butthurt Babies On the Left

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I’ve never read Stephen King’s books. While he’s obviously a talented writer, to judge from the enormous sales he’s earned, it’s not that I am somehow boycotting his books due to his well-known liberal opinions, but simply that his particular niche, horror novels, just doesn’t appeal to me. So, what has led to Mr King’s …

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World War III Watch: North Korean Troops Are ‘Training’ in Russia

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With the presidential election only twelve days away, this story is not getting nearly as much traction as it should have. From The Washington Post: North Korean troops are in Russia, would be ‘legitimate targets’ in Ukraine, U.S. says Citing newly declassified intelligence, the Biden administration said that at least 3,000 personnel are undergoing combat …

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Have Governments-in-Exile Ever Achieved Liberation For Their Countries?

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William Teach of The Pirate’s Cove reported that, now that Yahya Sinwar has been sent to his 72 bacha bazi boys in Jahannam, the so-called ‘Palestinian Authority’ in Judea and Samaria are calling for a ceasefire. No Westerner can truly comprehend what passes for ‘thinking’ among the Arabs, but at least to me, it sounds …

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Real Women Have to Sacrifice Their Games to Protest Males Trying to Horn In on Their Sports

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There are two competing and unreconcilable positions when it comes to ‘transgender women,’ the word salad used to denote males who believe that they are female, and ‘identify’ as women. The left take the position that ‘transwomen’ real women, while sensible people understand that there are only two sexes, and they cannot be changed. If …

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Waging War Against Israel, From the Safety of Morningside Heights

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That our oh-so-noble leftists will lie through their scummy teeth whenever they think it to their advantage is of no surprise to anyone who pays attention. That The New York Times would report on it actually is at least slightly surprising. Pro-Palestinian Group at Columbia Now Backs ‘Armed Resistance’ by Hamas Columbia University Apartheid Divest …

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Murderers Should Never Be Released!

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Every Sunday morning during Mass, Catholics make our Profession of Faith, which ends: I look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and the life of world to come. Amen. Other than Christ Jesus, we believe that no one has yet been resurrected from the dead. That is the case with the victims of murder …

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