A Philadelphia building mural by artist Michelle Angela-Ortiz, painted in a tribute to “LGBTQ activist and Latinx community icon Gloria Casarez,” Philadelphia’s first director of LGBT affairs, was painted over on the “former site of the 12th Street Gym in the Gayborhood.” Why? The building had been sold to Midwood Investment and Development, a developer […]
The Philadelphia Police Department only updates its Current Crime Stats page on normal business days, so the numbers are current as of 11:59 PM on Wednesday, December 23rd, where they show that 482 souls have gone to their eternal rewards due to homicide in the City of Brotherly Love in 2020. Uncharacteristically, The Philadelphia Inquirer […]
Arial Sharon evacuated Gaza, left it to the Palestinians to see if they could create a peaceful state. Instead, they destroyed the infrastructure and turned it into a launching pad for rockets and terrorist attacks, and the left cheer this. https://t.co/9NCv6DnFSe — Dana Pico (@Dana19707 on Parler.com) (@Dana_TFSJ) December 25, 2020 Given the chance to […]
William F Buckley, Jr, famously said, “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” The Pico Corollary to that would be that where liberals get concentrated into greater numbers, they channel their offense into actions against those with other […]
A few articles in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer caught my eye. In the first, it seems that college professors in the Keystone State are having a tough time during the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Educators hurt when their students are hurting’: College faculty experience rising rates of stress, burnout due to COVID-19 by Bethany Ao | December 16, […]
I have written frequently about District Attorney Larry Krasner, the anti-police crusader that George Soros helped get elected in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia. Mr Krasner ran promising to completely overhaul the prosecutor’s office, to: Stop prosecuting insufficient and insignificant cases Review past convictions, free the wrongfully convicted Stop cash bail imprisonment Treat addiction […]
I was doing some research, looking for a story I remembered, in which then Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey decried the “no snitchin’” culture in the heavily black neighborhoods of Philadelphia, when I came across a story about his announced retirement. Philly Police Commissioner Ramsey to retire by Aubrey Whelan and Claudia Vargas, Inquirer Staff Writers| […]
Remember when President Trump tested positive for COVID-19? He was criticized and outright mocked for his resistance to wearing a face mask. So, what will the left say if a state Governor, one who instituted mandatory face mask orders, who closed down some sections of the economy and severely restricted others, always wore a mask […]
Law enforcement in Philadelphia has gone to [insert slang term for feces here] since Larry Krasner has become District Attorney: When he was running for district attorney, Larry Krasner, supported by a PAC funded by George Soros, made his commitment to social reform and reducing the inmate population quite clear. He promised to fundamentally transform the city’s […]