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.

The President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund argued that Louisiana voters, exercising their free choices, were not voting correctly

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In 1986, Robert Cortez “Bobby” Scott, then a state Senator in Virginia, ran for election to the Commonwealth’s First Congressional District seat against incumbent Representative Herb Bateman (R-VA), losing in a landslide, 56% to 44%. In the redistricting which followed the 1990 Census, the state legislature, at the direction of the federal Department of Justice, …

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The pro-Palestinian demonstrators would never see the evil of Hamas, no matter how much evidence was presented to them

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So very, very many of the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian demonstrators were decrying ‘genocide’ of the ‘Palestinians’ by Israel in the two-year-long war. They published all sorts of photos of places before-and-after the war. The same could have been done concerning Berlin and Dresden and Tokyo and Yokohama, because that’s what it takes to win wars. The …

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Are You Tired of Winning Yet?

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  The White House had threatened mass layoffs of federal government employees if Senate Democrats didn’t end their filibuster of the continuing resolution to fund the government, and many of us were wondering when, or if, it was going to happen. From The Wall Street Journal: White House Starts Mass Layoffs of Government Workers Many …

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Hostages Have Value!

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After over five years held as prisoner by Hamas, Israel Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit reunites with his father. (Photo by Ori Shifrin / IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)One thing is clear: Israel has defeated, destroyed, demolished Hamas in every way but one: Hamas still has the hostages. Hamas says it has agreed to parts of the …

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Another Brave Cosplayer for Hamas!

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I have frequently mocked the pro-‘Palestinian’, pro-Hamas demonstrators in their keffiyehs, asking why they should be taken seriously when virtually none of them picked up a rifle and headed to Gaza to fight the evil Jooooos. But it seems like this anti-Semitic, anti-American — he was born in New Jersey, which makes him an American …

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Our Defenders of Democracy Really Don’t Like It When the People Take Democratic Choices of Which They Disapprove

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(Photo by Rolf Dietrich Brecher from Germany)Sometimes an author spends a lot of time, finely crafting his OpEd for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and winds up telling us exactly what he didn’t really mean to convey. On immigration, Trump doesn’t have a copyright on cruelty On both sides of the Atlantic, migrants are regarded as a …

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Whenever There Is a Truth You Cannot Tell, That Is a Truth You Must Tell!

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Rational people want rational explanations for everything. The worst mass murder event in the United States was on October 1, 2017, as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on a music festival crowd from the Mandalay Hotel, killing 60 people and wounding 413 others. Coupled with the ensuing panic, a total of 867 people were injured. …

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From Where Will All This Money Come?

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The biggest issue in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia at the moment is more state funding for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, the mass transit agency which run buses, trains, trollies, and subways in the metropolitan area. SEPTA has a projected $213 million deficit, and has instituted significant service cuts to try …

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Every Time You Think the Left Can’t Possibly Get More Stupid, They Say, “Hold My Beer!”

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I will admit it: when I first saw this tweet from Greg Price, I had trouble believing it. No one, and I mean no one, could possibly be this stupid. Total Chaos at Arlington School Board Meeting, and You Won’t Believe What Left-Wingers Were Defending By Bonchie | Friday, August 22, 2025 9:45 AM EDT …

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Do the Left Really Hate Donald Trump So Much That They’d Rather See More and More Blood Flowing Than the President Get Some Credit for Stopping a War?

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Our good friends on the left — and I include the recent neoconservatives, who are not really conservative in very much among the left — are up in arms that the wicked, evil, hated President Donald Trump is trying to get at least a ceasefire, and possibly a lasting peace agreement, between Russia and Ukraine, …

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