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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! Wait, what? This uglo actually had a girlfriend?

Dominic McNeal, photo via Kentucky Girl “He’s only 22? Those must have been 22 HARD YEARS.”

It’s not that he murdered a woman, but he also shot a dog! Life without the possibility of parole!

Man arrested after shooting, killing woman in Iroquois Park; dog also shot

The shooting happened Thursday in the 1400 block of Walter Avenue.

by Gehrig Mickels | Thursday, November 12, 2026 |4:12 PM EST | Updated: 11:22 PM EST

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man is in custody after shooting and killing a woman Thursday afternoon in the Iroquois neighborhood.

Louisville Metro Police (LMPD) says that 22-year-old Dominic McNeal was arrested for killing a woman and shooting a dog. Continue reading →

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day Gavin Newsom is wrong on just about everything else, but he got this one right

As both of my regular readers know, I am opposed to capital punishment. It is my position that we should not kill anybody, unless it is absolutely necessary, and if we have a prisoner so securely held that he cannot prevet his own execution, he is, by any rational definition, helpless. If he is helpless, it is not necessary to kill him.

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is commuting the capital sentences of all 548 people on death row in the Pyrite State, although technical problems exist. This is no surprise, given that he imposed a moratorium on executione when he entered office in 2019, and California has not actually executed anyone since 2006. But some families are very upset:

Her son was raped, murdered. Newsom’s death row decision brings ‘soul-hurting pain’

By Michael McGough | November 6, 2026 | 6:42 PM PST

Among the 548 inmates sentenced to death in California is Robert Rhoades, who abducted 8-year-old Michael Lyons as he walked home from school in Yuba City on May 16, 1996, then tortured and raped him before stabbing him more than 70 times. Continue reading →

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It looks like the pro-Hamas activists’ Skokie 2.0 bike rally fell flat

This tweet by Ryan Fournier has the video of the hundreds who stood up to protest the Skokie 2.0 I hate Jooooos bike ride. It seems that decent Philadelphins, and others, were not going to meekly bend the knee to the repugnant anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas attempt to drive Jewish businesses out of the City of Brotherly Love.

The controversial ‘Boycott Ride’ drew a larger counter-rally in support of Philadelphia’s Jewish-owned eateries

Six Jewish-owned eateries in Center City were the target Sunday of a controversial bike-ride boycott — and a counterprotest that drew hundreds of people to patronize the businesses.

by Maggie Prosser, Brett Sholtis, and Dana Munro | Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 12:04 PM EST

Hundreds turned out Sunday in support of six Center City eateries owned by Jewish restaurateurs — a rebuke to a bike-ride protest that has roiled social media in recent days and unsettled Philadelphia’s Jewish community. Continue reading →

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What’s a little Kristallnacht among friends?

It’s interesting to me that the journalists of our nation’s third oldest, continuously published daily newspaper, took until Friday to manage to write up a report on a Philadelphia story which has been in the news for a day now, but I can see the problem they had: how do you write a story about a deliberately anti-Semitic and inflammatory ‘action’ in moderate and non-judgemental terms.

Planned protest against Jewish-owned Philly restaurants draws ire, security, and feelings of unease

The “Boycott Ride,” scheduled for Sunday in Rittenhouse Square, has sparked ire on social media and drawn international scrutiny.

by Maggie Prosser | Friday, November 6, 2026 | 9:05 AM EST

Philadelphia business leaders and elected officials are condemning a planned bike-ride protest against half a dozen eateries owned by Jewish restaurateurs, days before the cyclists are set to gather in Center City. Continue reading →

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Reality bites: where are they going to get the money? The people voted for it, and now they're going to get it, good and hard

The midterm elections are over, and the Democrats have won. Now their voters are going to demand that the elected officials keep their promises. We noted on Wednesday how one partisan wants money spent on trains, trains, trains, but he’s just a nobody like me. But Thursday morning found The Philadelphia Inquirer looking at reality, and the fact that the money isn’t there.

Pa.’s Democratic trifecta could mean more funding for schools and SEPTA — if Harrisburg can find the money

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We’re in for a miserable two years . . . if not longer

After many years, in fact my entire time since retiring to the Bluegrass State, I was represented in the House of Representatives by a steady, if unspectacular Republican. Now that Republican, Andy Barr has been elected to the United States Senate, replacing the retiring Mitch McConnell. But, alas!, I will now be represented in the House by a Democrat named Zack Dumbo, oops, sorry, Zach Dembo, which means, in effect, that I will not be represented at all. He supports prenatal infanticide, wants to double expenditures for Obysmalcare, wants a path toward citizenship for illegal immigrants, and involve the government in homebuilding projects, including “massive public-private partnerships to increase (housing) supply”. He wasn’t out there calling himself a “progressive,” but he’ll go along with any cockamamie scheme that the further left congresscritters propose. Continue reading →

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No matter how much you hate the credentialed media, you do not hate them enough! If we cannot trust the credentialed media to tell us the truth on one simple thing, how can we trust them to tell us the truth on anything else?

Donald Trump certainly enraged the credentialed media during his first campaign for President by calling them #FakeNews. WLKY, the CBS television affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky, at least skewed the headline and story enough for them not to be lies:

Person charged with murder after man fatally shot in Buechel

by Alex Suckow | Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 11:07 PM EDT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man is dead and a suspect is behind bars after a shooting outside of a home in Buechel.

The shooting happened in the 200 block of Derby Avenue, down the street from Buechel Park and just off Bardstown Road. We’re told the 911 call came in just before 2 p.m. Continue reading →

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To the surprise of absolutely no one . . . . . . Philadelphia is once again the nation's poorest major city

In a story which did not make The Philadelphia Inquirer, at least not as far as I could see, Philadelphia was rated as the 178th least safe big city in the United States, out of a total of 182, with only Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge being worse. Even St Louis was ranked safer, at 173rd. And now there’s this, which the Inky did publish:

Philadelphia is once again the poorest big city in the United States

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The swamp doesn’t get drained much in Philly

Donald Trump made the phrase “draining the swamp” famous, as he characterized getting rid of years-long, even decades-long personnel infesting the federal government. He has succeeded to an extent, with the federal government’s non-military work force at the lowest level in sixty years. But in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, the same merry-go-round of public employees continues:

In 2020, he killed a man in self-defense after soliciting prostitution. On Monday, he started a job in City Council.

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