New York Times partial front page, June 29, 2024.
To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984
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With Joe Biden sinking into senility, who’s running the country?
Well, of course they had to say it, even though it’s a lie, and everyone knows it’s a lie.
The Democrats used a picture of a smiling, robust-looking Joe Biden in their tweet proclaiming President Biden the winner of the debate, but their problem is that he was exposed as not robust, but a faltering and confused elderly man who is visibly sinking into dementia. Even The New York Times couldn’t hide the truth:
A Fumbling Performance, and a Panicking Party
President Biden’s shaky, halting debate performance has Democrats talking about replacing him on the ticket.
by Peter Baker | Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Updated: Friday, June 28, 2024 | 2:35 AM EDT
President Biden hoped to build fresh momentum for his re-election bid by agreeing to debate nearly two months before he is to be formally nominated. Instead, his halting and disjointed performance on Thursday night prompted a wave of panic among Democrats and reopened discussion of whether he should be the nominee at all. Continue reading
The problem isn’t mass incarceration; the problem is that not enough criminals are incarcerated, for not a long enough time.
All of my good friends in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, wracked by crime — despite the fact that reported crime is down — would love to hear news like I’m going to report below. Crime in Philly isn’t so down that it prevented Ramon Rodriguez Vazquez, 36, from — allegedly, of course! — shooting a 31-year-old Philadelphia Police officer following a traffic stop. While Mr Rodriguez-Vazquez has no rap sheet in the Keystone State, he was arrested in his native Puerto Rico in 2011 after he and another man, José M. Serrano Ares, 24, stole an SUV at gunpoint, and then shot at responding officers.
If he had been in jail in Puerto Rico last weekend, he could not have shot a Philly police officer. Continue reading
The credentialed media want to control what you know, as a means of influencing what you think.
We are always amused when liberal groups tell us how the news should be reported, and have frequently noted how our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, told us that they would censor the news when the news didn’t fit what they wanted to tell us.
Now comes The Journalist’s Resource, criticizing the credentialed media which do report the truth!
Research highlights need for public health approach in news reporting of gun violence
The study, published in BMC Public Health, reveals an overwhelming reliance on law enforcement narratives, missing deeper insights into the root causes and potential solutions to gun violence.
by Naseem S Miller | Tuesday, June 25, 2024
For decades, researchers have urged journalists to avoid framing gun violence solely as a crime issue and provide a broader public health context. Yet, as evidenced by the findings of a recent study of local TV news in Philadelphia, the focus on the crime angle remains very much at the forefront of gun violence coverage.
The article’s title itself is enough to tell the reader: The Journalist’s Resource is advocating that reporters present something other than the straight news, but to shade their reporting from a particular angle. Continue reading
The United Nations caves to the Taliban When will the West ever learn that you cannot negotiate with liars?
From the “Everything I needed to know I learned from Star Trek” department:
“The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank.” — LCDR Montgomery Scott, “A Taste of Armageddon.”
Bad causes attract bad people * Updated! *
As we predicted on June 22nd, Joel Searby has scrubbed his internet profile. His Twitter account has been deleted, and his personal website has been reset to “Private”. This “Husband, Father, Friend. Renewer, Reformer, Dreamer,” is in some seriously deep doo-doo.
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As we noted three years ago, The Lincoln Project, an organization of anti-Trump “Republicans” which had been doing everything they could to hamper our 45th President, was then distancing itself from and denying any real knowledge about co-founder John Weaver. Many publicly mused about how co-founders George Conway, Steve Schmidt, Reed Galen, Jennifer Horn and Rick Wilson could not have known about Mr Weaver’s activities. Twenty-one young men, including one who claims that things began when he was just 14, have accused Mr Weaver of sending unwanted sexually provocative messages, sometimes including solicitations for sex, often in exchange for the promise of career help, to which Mr Weaver admitted once caught.
And yes, of course Mr Weaver was married to a woman at the time. Bad causes attract bad people. Continue reading
Karma comes for Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka Another 72 virgins assigned to duty
Far too many of the leaders of Hamas have been hiding outside of Gaza, safely ensconced in Lebanon, Egypt, and Qatar. Ismail Haniyeh, net worth $4 billion, is the ‘Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau,’ and has been living a life of luxury in Qatar. Apparently alone among the top leadership, Yahya Sinwar is believed to still be in Gaza, hiding in the tunnel complex under Khan Younis, with some living Israeli hostages serving as human shields.
But there are lower-level military ‘officers,’ including one Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka, who led part of the October 7th attack, who have had to stay behind in Gaza, for Hamas to mount any sort of defense, and he has now been sent to his 72 virgins.
Airstrike eliminates October 7 terror commander Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka
IDF and Shin Bet intelligence led to the elimination of Hamas terrorist Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka in a targeted airstrike, with no civilian casualties.
by Jerusalem Post Staff | Thursday, June 20, 2024 | 11:16 AM Israel Daylight Time | Updated: 1:34 PM IDT
Operating on intelligence provided by the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency,) an Israel Air Force aircraft eliminated Hamas terrorist Ahmed Hassan Salame Alsauarka in a targeted airstrike, the military announced on Thursday morning. Continue reading
Philly advocates for prostitutes want the johns arrested, but not the hookers
It has always struck me as odd that something which is completely legal to do for free can be illegal to do for money, but such is prostitution and the buying of sex. But an OpEd in Tuesday’s Philadelphia Inquirer raised a point that I suspect the authors didn’t realize:
Want to eradicate the sex trade in Kensington, Mayor Parker? Arrest the people buying sex.
Traffickers and sex buyers perpetuate sexual exploitation and keep the commercial sex trade alive. Philadelphia police should arrest them instead of those who are already exploited.
by Shea Rhodes, Mary DeFusco, and Ann Marie Jones | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 5:00 AM EDT
As experts in sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and systems of prostitution, we disagree with Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s recent decision to empower the Philadelphia police to make arrests for prostitution in Kensington.
People in prostitution should not be arrested or charged with prostitution offenses. The practice of prosecuting people in prostitution perpetuates a harmful ideology that they are criminals, rather than people who are being exploited.
Traffickers and sex buyers perpetuate sexual exploitation and keep the commercial sex trade alive. Police should arrest them instead.
Parker’s decision will also create additional barriers for victims attempting to exit “the life” of sexual exploitation. Criminal convictions serve as an additional hurdle for survivors to seek meaningful employment, housing opportunities, immigration opportunities, federal student loans, and more.
If the public schools were performing well, there’d be no push for helping people to use private schools.
If Helen Gym Flaherty, the former Philadelphia City Councilwoman and now failed mayoral candidate reads The Philadelphia Inquirer, she must be foaming-at-the-mouth angry at a story in Monday’s newspaper. Mrs Flaherty based her campaign on her support for public schools, and had a campaign appearance in front of the Edward T Steel Elementary School, which she claimed to have saved from “going charter.”
We noted, at the time, that Steel Elementary, was ranked 1,205th out of 1,607 Pennsylvania elementary schools, 1% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 8% scored at or above that level for reading. Another respondent had the charts.
The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Mrs Flaherty, and the city’s political left are aghast that state money could be used to private schools, but there’s an obvious point to be made: if the public schools were doing a good job, there’d be no real pressure for private schools! Continue reading