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
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
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
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.
I can at least understand people who want to help illegal immigrants who have not broken any non-immigration-related laws, but who on God’s earth would want to protect the criminals? Well, apparently the Democrats do! From the New York Post, with a hat tip to William Teach:
NYC’s sanctuary DAs ordered prosecutors to downgrade charges to keep illegal immigrants in US, House GOP report finds
By Josh Christenson and Thomas English | Monday, October 26, 2026 | 6:55 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — New York City’s elected Democratic district attorneys are bending over backwards to keep illegal immigrants in the US, instructing prosecutors to downgrade charges to those considered “a non-deportable offense,” according to a stunning House Judiciary Committee report shared with The Post. Continue reading
We have previously noted the shooting of two Philadelphia police officers, one of whom, officer Shane Seiber, died from his wounds.
The apprehended suspect, Eric Lewis, had a previous criminal record, but all misdemeanors, which did not prohibit from owning a firearm. Then came the later news: Mr Lewis had previously been charged with murder, but was acquitted, and the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, was quick to blame the Philadelphia Police Department for the failed prosecution.
Philly police commissioner blasts DA Krasner, calls comments over alleged cop killer’s past acquittal ‘unacceptable’
Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said the public finger-pointing in the aftermath of Officer Shane Seiber’s death was “absolutely unacceptable.”
It seems that, all of a sudden, I’m seeing more from the old neoconservatives, pushing for the United States to dramatically increase military aid to Ukraine. The George W Buch Presidential Center tweeted:
“Surveys show that most Americans stand with Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia, view Putin as a dangerous threat who shouldn’t be trusted, and want to see the United States offer more assistance to Ukraine,” writes David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute along with John Herbst and William Taylor, both former U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine.
Read more in their recent article for @TheAtlantic:
And here it is!
Siding With Putin Is a Huge Mistake
The credentialed media amuse me greatly , and none of them more than The Philadelphia Inquirer. After an article on Monday attempting to normalize transgenderism, which included a hyperlink to the newspaper spending “several months chronicling the lives of two transgender women making their way in rural Dauphin County,” Tuesday saw the editors tweeting about having given OpEd space to Rann Miller, an educator and freelance writer based in South Jersey, telling us, in the words of John Prine singing about Dear Abby, “You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t.”
Sorry about that convoluted sentence, but I missed the article last Friday!
Hannah Gann’s deceit makes the work of Black and brown justice activists harder
If Gann had truly been committed to the justice movement, she would have known the troubling history of white infiltrators in Black organizations who attempted to sabotage the struggle for freedom.
Is it really any surprise that the City of Brotherly Love, the good people thereof who have thrice elected the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating defense attorney Larry Krasner to be the chief criminal prosecutor just don’t like the laws being enforced?
Philly tells federal court the Trump administration can’t force it to collaborate with ICE
Attorneys for city officials asked a federal judge to toss out the Department of Justice’s challenge to a city ordinance that prohibits city agencies and employees from honoring immigration detainers.