Thanks to former city councilwoman Helen Gym Flaherty’s failed campaign for the 2023 Democratic nomination for Mayor of the City of Brotherly Love, this site has reported several times on the Edward T Steel Elementary and Middle Schools, noting something that The Philadelphia Inquirer never bothered to tell readers as Mrs Flaherty, who campaigned on her educational record, used that school as a backdrop for her campaign, proudly telling the voters that she helped keep the school from “going charter.” What didn’t the newspaper tell its readership? That the school had an absolutely abysmal academic performance. That school is ranked 1193th out of 1591 in Pennsylvania Elementary Schools and ranked 656th out of 875 in Pennsylvania Middle Schools. Schools are ranked on their performance on state-required tests, graduation, and how well they prepare their students for high school. In the current rankings, 8% of students tested grade-level proficient in reading, and 2% of students who scored at or above the proficient level for math. Continue reading
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That thing that never happens has happened again Another male wins a girls track and field event.
We reported, on April Fool’s Day, on Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Susan Snyder‘s fawning story on Will Thomas, the male University of Pennsylvania swimmer who claimed to be a woman named “Lia,” giving Mr Thomas’ explanation that he performed so much better competing against women than men because he was so much happier and “that happiness translated into feeling better in the water and being able to give my all in a way that I wasn’t able to before and that showed in my results,” not because he is a 6’2″ or 6’3″ tall male, who had gone through male puberty and had male musculature, shoulders, and hips.
I guess that Zachary Rose must be much happier, too!
Trans track athlete wins varsity girls competition after previously placing last against JV boys: report
You in a heap o’ trouble, girl! Yet another teacher charged with molesting a minor
Elena Bardin and her husband, via the New York Post.
This story was in the Lexington Herald-Leader, but, adhering to the McClatchy mugshot policy, the Kentucky newspaper didn’t print the mugshot of the accused. Fortunately, the New York Post did.
Police: Kentucky teacher had sexual contact with minor, asked him to kill her husband
By Bill Estep | Updated April 4, 2025 | 11:31 AM EDT Continue reading
The death of the Lexington Herald-Leader
OK, OK, it hasn’t actually died yet, but it’s clearly terminal. But when the newspaper sends an opinion columnist rather than an actual reporter to cover a news story, what other conclusion is possible? Continue reading
Another Philly illegal immigration sob story
There were so many interesting headlines in today’s news that it has been difficult for me to choose just one on which to write.
But, as always, there is the newspaper that I frequently refer to as The Philadelphia Enquirer, which is not actually spelled that way. RedState writer Mike Miller called it the Enquirer, probably by mistake, so I didn’t originate it, but, reminiscent of the National Enquirer as it is, I think it very apt. And this morning, it was opinion columnist Jenice Armstrong, one of the Usual Suspects:
Her husband was outside, yelling for her when ICE grabbed him. She hasn’t seen him in person since.
#Hamas and the #Palestinians have told us who they are; why are so few people willing to believe them?
Imagine, if you will, that there were ubiquitous iPhones and the internet, and social media in 1944. The scenes, which Joseph Goebbels would be doubtlessly pushing across the West, of German families shattered by the deaths in collapsed houses due to Allied bombing, of orphaned children rescued from the rubble, where they had been buried next to their dead parents.
Were today’s American and European left alive in 1944, but with today’s mentality, we would be seeing all sorts of plaintiff cries on Quitter — the 1944 version of Twitter — saying that Germany was clearly defeated, that the Allied armies were at the Rhine and the Oder-Neisse and the Third Reich had been expelled from all of the territory it had captured in the war, and we should declare a ceasefire, leaving everything in place, to stop the killing, to stop the unnecessary deaths.
That, of course, would have left Adolf Hitler and his henchmen alive, and the concentration camps that were in Germany proper operating. All of the actual extermination camps were located in occupied Poland, to keep them secret from German civilians, but the fanatical Führer and his equally insane Schutzstaffel would have adapted camps like Bergen-Belsen in Germany for more mass killings. Continue reading
The left want to control language; don’t let them!
We have previously noted how the left attempt to use control of language to control the argument. The Associated Press Stylebook, which is used by many, though certainly not all, credentialed media sources, specifies language which reinforces the notion that a person can define his ‘gender’ as something different from his biological sex, and that such choices can, should, and must be accepted by society as real. The First Street Journal maintains its own Stylebook, and we do not go along with the silliness of the AP.
The Philadelphia Inquirer either uses the AP Stylebook, or maintains its own policies to identify the ‘transgendered’ by the gender they claim to be rather than their actual sex, but reporter Susan Snyder decided to go one step further, and hammer down on the feminine pronouns, just to make sure the reader got it. Continue reading
This is what winning looks like President Trump was right all along: we didn't have to accept some illegal immigration to reduce illegal immigration in total; we could fight illegal immigration without compromise.
American military on border gate between California and Mexico at San Ysidro. Photo by Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times. Click to enlarge.
One of President Trump’s main campaign promises was to close the border to illegal immigration. It’s easier to intercept and interrupt illegal border crossing than it is to round up illegal immigrants already in the United States, and that policy is absolutely working. Not only are the Border Patrol undertaking stronger efforts to stop the illegals from crossing, but the President’s policies have discouraged many more from even trying.
The Los Angeles Times is one of America’s (formerly) great newspapers, and of an extremely liberal editorial slant. But even that newspaper has to tell the truth sometimes:
California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty
You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! Another teacher caught raping a student.
Christyan Cabrera, mugshot via WCNC.
As soon as I heard about this, checked all of the available articles, and, as usual, they all left out one pertinent bit of information.
Former Rowan County teacher appears in court after being arrested for alleged sexual relationship with a student
Christyan Cabera, 25, was a world history teacher at West Rowan High School. The district said he is no longer employed at the school.
by Nathaniel Puente and Jesse Pierre | Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 6:31 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, March 28, 2025 | 7:20 PM EDT
ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. — A former West Rowan High School teacher was arrested for multiple sexual assault charges involving a 15-year-old student, authorities reported. Continue reading