The hand-written copy of the proposed articles of amendment passed by Congress in 1789, cropped to show just the text in the third article that would later be ratified as the First Amendment.
Peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights
Stupid is as stupid does, and prison cannot cure stupid Swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool
Jayana Webb mugshot, via Fox29 News.
At 12:47 a.m., Webb wrote on Twitter that she had been stopped “doing 110 in a 50″ mile-per-hour zone. While state police have neither confirmed nor denied the stop, multiple news outlets reported that Mack and Sisca stopped the woman for speeding on the interstate that night.
Around the time of the tweet, state police said the troopers were abruptly redirected to assist a man apparently attempting to cross the highway near Lincoln Financial Field. The troopers bolted south, and found Oliveras.
In other words, Miss Webb was about to get away with going 60 MPH over the speed limit. That’s more than just speeding; that’s reckless driving. Unfortunately, reckless did not translate into wreckless. Continue reading
Gasoline prices will increase; the only question is how much they’ll rise before the election
I had to get gasoline in my 2010 Ford F-150 yesterday evening, which worked out to $106.03 for 32.141 gallons; that was $3.299 per gallon, and that included 10¢ off per gallon with my Kroger points. Naturally, I took a picture of the numbers on the pump, and tweeted it out, saying that it was yet another reason to retire Joe Biden.
When I opened my Facebook account this morning, I saw that I had posted, on May 1, 2020, that 87 Octane regular unleaded gasoline was $1.479 per gallon in Estill County, Kentucky that day.
Then there was this:
Biden is facing political pressure to make gas more expensive
Calls to ramp up sanctions enforcement against Russia, Iran, and Venezuela have the president in a bind
Is a Muslim high school teacher using his position to push #AntiSemitism?
Youssef Abdelwahab, from his LinkedIn profile.
Well, now his activities have caught the attention of the Feds.
A Central Bucks teacher and student club are the subject of a federal investigation for alleged antisemitism
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating allegations of antisemitic statements by Central Bucks West teacher Youssef Abdelwahab and a Muslim student club.
by Maddie Hanna | Monday, April 29, 2024 | 12:45 PM EDT Continue reading
You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!
Reagan Gray, photo via KTHV-TV
Why can’t supposedly educated people realize that this stuff can put them in jail?
It could be argued that, back in the time of Mary Kay Letourneau, there hadn’t been much in the way of education for teachers that sex with students was wrong, and could get you thrown in jail, but I find it difficult to believe that any teacher in 2024 would be unaware of it. If Reagan Gray was unaware of it a little bit ago, she’s very much knows about it now.
More, what church pastor has not heard of the case of Monsignor William Lynn, who was never accused of sexually abusing any minors, but who spent three years behind bars because as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s official in charge of priestly assignments, he moved priests who had been credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors to other parishes, in an attempt to sweep things under the rug.
Arkansas teacher arrested after alleged sexual assault of minor while working as church volunteer
A 26-year-old Arkansas teacher has been arrested after she had an alleged sexual relationship with a minor while working as a volunteer at a Little Rock church.
Why are there so few pro-#Hamas demonstrations in conservative areas?
I have been checking the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Kentucky Kernel, the UK student newspaper for which I used to write back during the days of quill pens and inkwells, every day, and I have yet to see any reports of pro-Hamas, or pro-Israel, protests of demonstrations on campus or in the city. Yes, that shows that Kentucky students are just plain smarter than those elite and effete Ivy Leaguers, but then it occurred to me: there are very few Jewish students at UK, with Jews being a very small minority in the Bluegrass State as a whole, while the reports of demonstrations at Penn and Hahvahd and Columbia are occurring at schools with significant Jewish populations, and it leads me to think that these demonstrations really are just as much anti-Semitic as they are pro-Palestinian.
Crazy people are dangerous
London’s Daily Mail is a sensationalist tabloid, to be sure, but as I pointed out here, the Daily Mail was the only credentialed media source that I found which exposed the fact that the Pennbrook Middle School assailant was transgender, a boy claiming to be a girl. I’ve still seen no major credentialed media sources stating that, but I’ve also seen no credentialed media sources publishing anything which have claimed that the reports that ‘Melanie,’ the (alleged) Pennbrook assailant, is ‘transgender’ are false.
And now there’s this:
Middle schoolers study in FEAR after being forced back to class with ‘troubled’ trans kid who named 45 on ‘hit list’: Boston parent says ‘they know the school is not protecting them’
The Philadelphia Inquirer and their writers really hate it when the rule of law goes against their police-hating views
It is, of course, no surprise that most of the writers at The Philadelphia Inquirer hate the police. Columnist Helen Ubiñas, whose Twitter biography states that she is “a Latina columnist”, as though her ethnicity should make any difference, tweeted her great disappointment that former Philadelphia Police Officer Ryan Pownell should be reinstated, with back pay and restored seniority.
Fired Philly cop Ryan Pownall, whose murder case in controversial shooting was dismissed by judge, can get job back, arbitrator rules
The arbitrator also ruled that Pownall is also entitled to full back pay and seniority, the president of the police union said.
by Robert Moran | Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 8:56 PM EDT | Updated: 9:50 PM EDT
An arbitrator has ruled that the city must reinstate Ryan Pownall to his former job as a Philadelphia police officer — 1½ years after a judge dismissed criminal charges, including third-degree murder, that were filed against Pownall for the on-duty 2017 shooting death of David Jones. Continue reading
Green virtue signaling Too bad that they don't know what they are talking about
Every so often I can see the virtue signaling of the environmentalists that just makes me laugh. Former Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) may have been totally inept at actually running the city, but he sure was great at getting a ‘sugary beverage tax’ passed, to fight obesity, don’t you know, that’s none of the city’s business. And even though he was fully in support of ‘my body, my choice’ when it came to women killing their yet-to-be-born children, he was adamant and aggressive in fighting the unions to get city employees who wanted to exercise bodily autonomy when it came to taking an experimental vaccine.
Then, about six years ago, in his effort to fight global warming climate change, he pushed a project to get solar power for electricity for city-owned buildings. Continue reading