Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Dana Pico 
I really, really, really wanted to write about something else this morning; I’ve spent so much time on the homicide rate in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia that I felt in a rut. Then the Memorial Day weekend happened, and I had two stories entitled Killadelphia in a row, as the blood flowed freely …
The Democrats and the left — please, pardon the redundancy — are never willing to inflate a crime into a crisis, and are using the school shooting in Texas to try to infringe on the rights of Americans who have done nothing wrong. There was District Attorney Let ’em Loose Larry Krasner, who would rather …
While I have mentioned the censorship of The Philadelphia Inquirer previously, we don’t always get the evidence quite so directly. Police Officer Miguel Torres, Badge Number 7191, reported on a shooting in Mantua: 16th District — Shooting Incident 35XX Fairmont Avenue on highway at 7L06 PM. Victim #1 – Black female 19 years old was shot …
The headline was dramatic: More than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine. Read that, and you’d think that half the schools in America were being machine gunned down, which is, let’s be honest about it, exactly what the editors of The Washington Post want you to believe. But what, exactly, does …
In a sad, sad moment for the United States, for sanity, and for democratic government, the United States Supreme Court in Obergefell v Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015), decided that the precedents of all of known human history were meaningless, and homosexual couples had the same marriage rights as normal ones. Well, s(tuff) rolls downhill, …
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, after having said that Russia was (then) the biggest geopolitical threat facing the United States, then-President Barack Hussein Obama, in their third presidential debate, hit back: A few months ago, when you were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia. Not al Qaeda. You …
It’s perfectly understandable that when a city like Philadelphia elects a George Soros sponsored defense attorney to become District Attorney, that that District Attorney will be more interested in setting criminals free than prosecuting crimes. From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Two judges have sparred with the Philly DA’s office recently over questions about old murder convictions …
When I started my website, The First Street Journal, it was not my intention to create a site primarily devoted to bias in the credentialed media, but that bias has been so widespread and so pervasive that it’s difficult to ignore! If you hold your cursor over the page tab on an article, you can …
We were critical, from the very beginning, of the authoritarian dictates of so many of our nation’s governors when the COVID-19 scare first erupted. On March 19, 2020 Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) unconstitutionally ordered all churches closed in the Bluegrass State. That order covered the Easter holiday, the most important day in the Christian calendar. When …
On Monday, May 9th, I received the email pictured below from Annie McCain Madonia, Chief Advancement Officer for the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the non-profit owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, saying: As an Inquirer reader, you know the importance of quality, in-depth local news. Inquirer journalists are dedicated to keeping you informed and connected to …
One great thing about moving back to our home state of Kentucky from Pennsylvania: property taxes are much lower in the Bluegrass State! Property taxes on what was our home in Jim Thorpe are currently listed as $3,228 according to Zillow, while we paid slightly under $400 in property taxes on our current abode last …
Due to taking Staff Sergeant Pico to her reassigned Army Reserve unit in advance of her deployment to Kuwait, Mrs Pico and I spent a few days in William Teach’s home state of North Carolina. When we fueled up in Kentucky, last Tuesday, before leaving, gasoline was $3.779. Naturally, I noticed that gasoline prices were …
In the musical 1776, Roy Poole, the actor playing delegate Steven Hopkins of Rhode Island, shouts to John Callum, who played Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, on slavery, “It’s a stinking business, Mr Rutledge, a stinking business!” That’s how I see abortion, and I am appalled that anyone would willingly be a part of it. …
What happens when the District Attorney does not take crime seriously? It was a series of small decisions, taken the wrong way, and the result was that a woman was sexually assaulted. Suspect in SEPTA sex assault masturbated in a probation office two weeks before, officials say — but wasn’t charged Some in the court …
Donald Trump used to call the credentialed media #FakeNews, but even he never set up a ‘Disinformation Governance Board‘, nor picked someone like Nina Jankowicz, who for months told us that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, to head it. On April 25th, she told us how she feels about #FreedomOfSpeech: Last week …
In 1971, President Richard Nixon sought a restraining order to prevent The New York Times and The Washington Post from printing more of the so-called “Pentagon Papers,” technically the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, a classified history and assessment of American policy and operations in the Vietnam war. The Times and the Post fought the injunctions …
The freedom of speech comes with the freedom of other people to read or listen to, or not read or listen to, what you have said. The freedom of speech also comes with the assumed risk that those who do read or listen to your words can and just might criticize what you have written …
We have previously noted Ana Cabera Neilson’s tweet, in which she said: Just boarded a flight to Atlanta. I think I’ll stick with my mask a little longer. (I’d say it’s about 50-50 on this flight. Everyone treating each other respectfully) That’s the way things should be: take your own decisions on what you wish …
We already knew it was a bloody few days in the City of Brotherly Love, but the city didn’t update its figures on Friday, due, I suppose, to the Good Friday holiday. Now they have, and it’s ugly. The Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page states that there have been 140 homicides in the …
On Sunday, The Philadelphia Inquirer gave OpEd space to Aaron M. Kinzer, because the editors just love them some criminals: In prison, a phone was my lifeline. Until I got caught with it. Congress should overturn the Cell Phone Contraband Act to give incarcerated a a lifeline to the outside world. by Aaron M Kinzer …