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 Guess That Marc Rowan Will Keep His Checkbook Closed

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Our constitutional rights under the First Amendment include the right of peaceable assembly, and this demonstration on the University of Pennsylvania campus in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia has been reported to be completely peaceful. But, in speaking their piece, the demonstrators, which included some Penn faculty, have exposed themselves to criticism of their …

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Municipal Plans to “Go Green” Can Be Described With Two Words, the First Word of Which Is “Cluster.”

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The Biden Administration and the global warming climate change activists want to force all new vehicles sold in the United States to be zero-emission come 2035, because they believe that our personal choices don’t matter, but even now they are pushing plug-in electrics, seemingly unconcerned with the possible drawbacks. From Fox Business: Electric buses are …

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No One Wants to Live Next to a Landfill

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I have long said that the conquering Israelis should have expelled every last Arab from the territories they conquered in the Six-Day War of 1967. It would have been a horrible humanitarian disaster, but such would have left the Jewish State with shortened, more defensible borders, and the displaced Arabs would not have been living …

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I Told You So!

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I really do love being proved right!

I had previously said that school districts which kept students “gender transitions” secret from their parents will have opened the districts to humongous lawsuits.

More parents claim Colorado school district forced children into overnight rooms with students of opposite sex

Multiple parents claim their child was forced to stay in overnight accommodations with transgender students.

By Kendall Tietz, Fox News | Monday, January 15, 2024 | 9:00 AM EST

More parents have come forward with claims that children in a Colorado school district were forced into sharing overnight rooms, even showers, with students of the opposite sex.

For whatever reasons they have, Fox News is now requiring readers to provide their email addresses to see the articles. If you want to check the original I used, you can access it here without going through more idiocy.

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Why Do Western Liberals Refuse to See Hamas for What They Are, When the Terrorists Tell Us All About Themselves, Every Day

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While the Islamists may lie to people for tactical reasons when it comes to their situation on the ground, they have been very honest about their policies and goals. What I cannot understand is how or why Western liberals just can’t believe them. Hamas has told the world that their goal is to expel all …

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You in a Heap o’ Trouble, Boy!

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We noted, on Thursday evening, that the George Soros-sponsored, police-hating, softer-on-crime-than-Charmin District Attorney, Larry Krasner, wants to get Act 40, establishing a special prosecutor for crimes committed on or near SEPTA property, declared unconstitutional, because, in my opinion, he wants to cripple the law enforcement arm of Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins’ plan to shut …

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“No Man’s Life, Liberty, or Property Are Safe While the Democrats Are in Control.”

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“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session,” is a quote attributed to both Mark Twain and Gideon Tucker, but, rather than the Legislature, I would amend it to say, “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Democrats are in control.” We have recently reported on …

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Journolism: The Credentialed Media Don’t Exactly Lie to Us, But They Conceal Politically Incorrect Facts in a Biased Manner

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We have previously reported that today’s professional journalists rarely deliberately lie to us, but that they often omit rather important parts of the story. This was an Associated Press story, an ostensibly straight news piece, in which the writer managed to omit the most important part of the story. Read on and you’ll see why …

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In Which Assemblyman Corey Jackson Tells Us That Non-White Ethnic Groups Just Aren’t Equal to White Americans

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California state Assemblyman Corey A Jackson is not someone you would ordinarily think believed that non-white persons simply aren’t equal with whites, but darned if that isn’t exactly what he believed. Elected in 2022 to represent the 60th Assembly District, his main concern seems to be race. He was aghast, appalled, and definitely clutching his …

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The Left May Care About Their Property Rights, But They Do Not Care About Yours

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It was in March of 2023 that a hue-and-cry was raised among the left in the City of Brotherly Love when a deputy landlord-tenant officer shot a woman when she was resisting a court-ordered eviction. Landlord-tenant officer shoots woman in head during eviction, police say Landlord-tenant officers are not sworn law enforcement personnel. by Jesse Bunch, Max …

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How Sayest Thou to Thy Brother: Let Me Cast the Mote Out of Thy Eye; and Behold a Beam Is In Thy Own Eye?

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Philadelphia Inquirer, Building

I have previously written about the fact that the credentialed media rarely actually lie to us, but tend to conceal facts that might not fit in well with Teh Narrative. Did Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jonathan Zimmerman not know about Stan Wischnowski, or simply forget, or was he told not to mention him? What universities can …

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In New York City, the Savages Protest in Support of Savagery

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When my good friend William Teach wrote, at 8:25 PM EST on Christmas Day, “What’s the over/under that the @nytimes doesn’t bother to cover this, despite being a NY paper? Maybe a tiny blurb on A25. If these were rioting Jews it would already be on the web front page,” I thought that surely, surely!, …

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St Greta of Thunberg Must Be Appalled!

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Former Democratic presidential nominees Al Gore and John Kerry are surely weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth at the news, but the sensible among us see this as great! From CNN: The United States is producing more oil than any country in history By Matt Egan | Updated 5:00 PM EST | Tuesday, December …

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How Can You Have a Long Report on the Philadelphia Public Schools Without Telling Us How They Are Doing As Far As Actually Educating Students?

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We have frequently mentioned the Edward T Steel Elementary School in Philadelphia, since then-mayoral candidate Helen Gym Flaherty used the school as a backdrop for telling voters how she ‘saved’ the school from ‘going charter,’ and kept it a public school.  In the still public Steel Elementary, which is ranked 1,205th out of 1,607 Pennsylvania elementary schools, …

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