But It’s The Guns!

Gift From the Supreme Court

It’s not the object, the tool use to commit the crime. It’s the criminal who is not deterred who commits the crime. People generally don’t blame inanimate objects for the actions of the people who handle them. We don’t prosecute or sue General Motors for the criminal actions of the driver of one of their …

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Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Episode 1

Political Satire:  Having trouble surviving these times?  You’re not alone.  Join us in columnist John F. Di Leo’s exploration of an alternate universe, where we imagine the impossible:  An aging, corrupt old fool somehow becomes president in his basement, and every night, an aide has to bring him his soup and discuss the events of the …

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The Failure of Big City Public Schools

We have previously mentioned, many times, how Helen Gym Flaherty and Kendra Brooks sold their souls to the public school teachers’ unions, touting how the Edward Steel Elementary School was kept public and didn’t “go charter.” Steel Elementary is ranked 1,205th out of 1,607 Pennsylvania elementary schools, in which 8% of students tested grade-level proficient in reading, …

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