This Year’s “October Surprise”

In his efforts to dial down the inflation rate, one would think that President Joe Biden wouldn’t want to see OPEC cut oil production, decreasing petroleum supplies and thereby increasing prices. But perhaps Mr Biden’s actions have had precisely the opposite effect. From The New York Times: In Rebuke to West, OPEC and Russia Aim …

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Mayor Jim Kenney Just Can’t Think Things Through

On Tuesday, September 27, 2022, Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) signed an executive order banning the possession of firearms and other deadly weapons at city parks and recreation centers, something that even The Philadelphia Inquirer recognized as likely to draw a legal challenge. It didn’t take long: on Monday, October 3rd, the executive order was tossed …

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The Left Just Can’t Bring Themselves to Look at The Truth!

Since the shootings at Roxborough High School, in which six gang-bangers “clique beefers”¹ in a stolen SUV ambushed at least one targeted individual, wounding three others and killing an apparently innocent 14-year-old as they were leaving a football scrimmage, the cries of the people and the politicians to “do something” has been deafening. City Councilwoman …

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I’m Finally Beginning to Understand How the Left Thinks

It was buried dozens of paragraphs down in a long story in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the indicator of the mindset that afflicts the oh-so-compassionate left in the United States: In Philadelphia, there are no gangs in the traditional, nationally known sense. Instead, they are cliques of young men affiliated with certain neighborhoods and families. It …

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Just Because a Public School Library Does Not Carry Sexually-Charged Books Does Not Mean That Such Books Are Banned

The image to the right is a screen capture if the results I got when I Google searched for libraries in Bucks County. This section of the map shows other libraries. The Philadelphia Inquirer is, of course, aghast that concerned parents might not want their impressionable children exposed to certain materials, primarily sexually explicit materials, …

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This Morning’s Rant

At length I remembered the last resort of a great princess who, when told that the peasants had no bread, replied: “Then let them eat brioches.“ — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions My good friend and sometimes blog pinch-hitter William Teach pointed me to this article from Nicholas Goldberg in The Los Angeles Times, which can also be …

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Do ‘Progressive’ Prosecutors Equal Bloody Streets?

While we have previously noted that while Philadelphia’s homicide rate increased after Jim Kenney replaced Michael Nutter as Mayor, things really began to take off after Larry Krasner became District Attorney. Now my good friend Robert Stacy McCain has noted how homicides took off in Baltimore after another George Soros-sponsored wokester, Marilyn Mosby, became Charm …

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Cluelessness About Costs at the Top

American television networks spent all Monday morning covering the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, and if Her Majesty was just a figurehead, who reigned but not ruled, she still seems to have been more self-aware than President Biden: REPORTER: “People are shocked by their grocery bills. What can you do better and faster?” BIDEN: “Inflation …

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Jamie Gauthier stands with Larry Krasner!

Trouble is, that also means she stands with the thugs, the gang-bangers, and the killers in her city. Republican members of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives are considering the impeachment of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, and City Councilwoman Jamie Gauthier (D-3rd District) — and please pardon me for assuming her gender — is …

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Bidenflation: The American Working Class Are Primarily Republican Voters, So You Can’t Expect the Biden Administration to Consider Them, Can You?

I was wryly amused to see these two editorial links together on the front page of The Wall Street Journal’s website front page Wednesday morning. As President Joe Biden wants desperately to reduce inflation, with the midterm elections just 55 days away, it demonstrates the lack of thought the Administration has put into its policies. …

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Oh, the Poor Dears! Homosexual Males Are Whining That They Can’t Go to Their Orgies Because of Monkeypox!

I seem to remember a time, not so long ago, when the left were telling us that it was not just right, but mandatory, that people alter their desired behavior because a horrible virus was loose. Now some are demanding, demanding! that the government enable their ability to do exactly as they please, without any …

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Killington

Killington

The truth will set you free . . . if you are free to tell the truth. That truth is: Killington. After being graduated from high school in Mt Sterling, Kentucky, I was more than ready to leave the small town and head for Lexington, and the University of Kentucky. It wasn’t like I could …

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