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The Philadelphia Inquirer harbors illegal immigrants There is plenty of dignity in obeying the law; there is none in breaking it.

As we have previously noted, The Philadelphia Inquirer is very much on the side of the illegal immigrants. The good journolists[1]The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their … Continue reading there, from the far-loeft Will Bunch to even the more moderate Daniel Pearson, the newspaper’s chief editorial writer, all want the illegals — at The First Street Journal we do not use the euphemism ‘undocumented’ — to be allowed to stay here.

But now they might have just fouled up:

‘The last thing that is protecting my dignity.’ A South Philly mother talks about life under sanctuary.

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↑1 The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.
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Y’all in a heap o’ trouble, boys!

As I have previously mentioned, I check Bluesky so that you don’t have to, and it was on Bluesky that I found this skeet from Ian Hansen.

Mr Hansen, who posts links to a lot of conservative sites, but has only 391 followers, tries valiantly to educate in ineducable over there, but if it weren’t for his skeet, I would never have heard of this story:

7-Year-Old Girl Repeatedly Raped, Molested by Guatemalan Father, Friend – Police

Two men from Guatemala are facing charges for prolonged sexual abuse of a 7-year-old girl in Florida, authorities say.

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Even a Participation Trophy is Too Big a Burden for the Special Snowflakes™

I played football when I was in high school, but I was nowhere near the best player on the team; I’m neither the strongest, nor the fastest, nor the most athletic person around. Nevertheless, I tried and did my best. Now, in the age of ‘Participation Trophies,’ President Donald Trump has revived the Presidential Physical Fitness Test for public schools: Continue reading →

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Democrisy! Democratic congresscritter, a brave fighter for the Little People, shows off her privilege

Representative Brittany Pettersen Silverii (D-CO 7th District) wants us to know that she is a fighter, fighter! for the Little People, us commoners, and thus she tweeted this message:

As a mom, sometimes you just make it work. I’ve been on a waitlist for childcare, so Sam has been flying back and forth with me to DC. He’s taken 24 flights in 6 months!

Finding safe, accessible childcare shouldn’t be this hard. In Congress, I’m fighting for families like ours!

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The “Affordable Housing” Problem To no one's surprise, housing costs skyrocketed under President Biden

Heather Long, formerly of CNN and late of The Washington Post, now the Chief Economist for Navy Federal Credit Union, tweeted out an interesting economic graph, showing the rate of increase in home prices during the last five years. She wrote:

The Case-Shiller US Home Price Index is up 52% since January 2020.

That’s great news for anyone who owns a home. But it’s onerous for anyone who wants to buy.

The typical mortgage cost is basically double now versus 2020. And that $330,000 home price in 2020 is now ~$500k.

Home prices have cooled a bit this spring. Many sellers are reducing prices a bit and offering incentives. But it’s barely moving the needle on the big picture of the past 5 years.

The problem with inflation is that it can be reduced or even halted — though the Federal Reserve Board’s target is for 2% inflation, not no inflation at all — but inflation normally creates its own baseline: while the rate of increase may slow, absent a serious recession, prices almost never drop to where they were prior to inflation, though they did due to the housing market crash, between 2007 to 2012. Continue reading →

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If you are not calling on Hamas to surrender and release the hostages, your cries about people suffering in Gaza are worthless.

Armand Domalewski describes himself, in his Twitter biography, as a “Data scientist” living in San Francisco, and “Co-Founder, YIMBYs for Harris”. He’s actually followed by several real people I know, so perhaps he’s not an actual Palestinian bot, like so many of the other pro-Hamas posters on social media, but in this, he might as well be.

Mr Domalewski tweeted that the headline on the Babylon Bee satire site, “Gaza Said To Be Starving But Not ‘Release The Hostages’ Starving,” “is an evil, evil, evil headline”, But, even from a sarcasm site, it’s an accurate headline. The only thing that needs to happen for tons and tons of food and other aid to flow into Gaza is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages. But the Palestinians and their useful idiots on social media would rather keep on fighting an unwinnable war. Continue reading →

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! You'll never see Walter Kegler again . . . unless you choose to visit him in prison

38th and Wallace Streets, via Google Maps.

Looking down 38th and Wallace Streets, using images from Google Maps taken in July of last year, the neighborhood doesn’t look like one of the worst in the City of Brotherly Love. Oh, it’s certainly not Rittenhouse Square or Chestnut Hill, but the rowhouses aren’t falling-down dilapidated, and the streets at least look on the clean side.

Within (long) walking distance of the University of Pennsylvania, it is not in the Philadelphia Badlands, at least as such things are defined, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t become infected and infested with some of the same terrible culture that can be seen too often in Philly.

Teens in West Philly went from brothers to enemies. A trial offered a window inside the lesser-known feud.

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Every once in a while, the left will say the quiet part out loud

In his Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — biography, Nichloas Decker describes himself as “GMU econ PhD student, liberal, aspie, bi. I post interesting papers. Michael Kremer stan. I ❤️ optimal auction design. Spend more on drugs. Open borders now!” He includes an ‘LGBTQ+’ rainbow flag, a globalist icon, and a Ukrainian flag.

So, what does a liberal, Asperger’s syndrome afflicted, bisexual think about freedom and democracy? Well, he doesn’t like it very much, tweeting: Continue reading →

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The Hassan Elliot case finally comes to a close The scumbag cop-killer is sentenced to 75 years in federal prison

Philadelphia Police Officers and FOP members block District Attorney Larry Krasner from entering the hospital to meet with slain Police Corporal James O’Connor’s family.

We have previously reported on the murder of Philadelphia Police Corporal James O’Connor IV by Hassan Elliot, a career criminal even by the age of 21, who could have been behind bars at the time but the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, who was just renominated by the Democrats for a third term letting criminals loose, let him slide on probation violations which could have kept him behind bars when he was already in custody.

On Friday, March 13, 2020, Corporal O’Connor and other members of the SWAT team were trying to arrest Mr Elliot, then 21, and Khalif Sears, 18, for a murder and robbery the previous March, when Mr Elliot started firing through the door.

Of course, the city’s police officers knew all about Let ’em Loose Larry, and blocked his attempt to visit Cpl O’Connor’s family at the hospital. They were not going to allow him to make a show of sympathy for an officer that his policies had gotten killed.

Well, now the case has come to closure: Continue reading →