Day: June 10, 2015

Lisa Esler Challenging Mullen In 161st Race

Lisa Esler Challenging Mullen In 161st Race
Lisa Esler, Republican

There will be opposition to the Joe Sestak-supporting union president picked by the Delaware County Republican Party to fill the 161st District State House seat being vacated by Joe Hackett.

Lisa Esler, a Penn Delco school board member  and Republican, will hold a press conference 10 a.m., Monday, June 15,  at the Delaware County Court House,  201 W. Front St. , Media, Pa., 19063, to announce a write-in campaign.

Mullen Sestak
Party pick Paul Mullen (right) campaigning with Democrat Joe Sestak against Pat Toomey.

“I am challenging the Delco GOP’s candidate because in my role as school board director, I have seen how Harrisburg is tainted by special interest lobbyists,” Mrs. Esler said. “As the head of the AFL-CIO in Delaware County and the business manager for the IBEW,  (Paul) Mullen is the poster child for special interests.  Further, Mr. Mullen has supported liberal Democrats in the last two major election cycles—his union supported Barack Obama and Bob Casey and Mr. Mullen personally supported Joe Sestak and John Kane.  That the Delco GOP machine would favor a man who is, for all intents and purposes a Democrat, is a slap in the face to every Republican in Delaware County.”

Hackett quit his legislative post, April 30, after easily winning re-election last fall saying he wanted to return to law enforcement. Mullen, ironically, was a Penn Delco School Director in 2007 before also quitting, suddenly and mysteriously, well before the end of his term.

“Harrisburg needs legislators who will fight for the taxpayers—not the special interests,” Mrs. Esler said. ” There are many cost saving measures that could be implemented. We need people who are willing to stand up to the lobbyists and the party machines and work for the taxpayer.  That is my pledge to the residents of the 161st district—I will work for you.  I am in this race to win and hope the people of the 161st will give me the opportunity to go to Harrisburg and work for them.”

A non-GOP-endorsed Democrat candidate is expected to be announced by the end of the week.

The election is Aug. 4.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-10-15

One hundred and one years and one day ago -- that would be June 9, 1914 -- famed Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner got his landmark 3,000th hit in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. He also used the old hidden ball trick to tag Beals Becker out at second. He also tricked Hans Lobert into starting for third after stealing second then tagging him out. But that's not the amazing thing about the day. The amazing thing is the Phillies actually won, 3-1.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-10-15

One hundred and one years and one day ago — that would be June 9, 1914 — famed Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner got his landmark 3,000th hit in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

He also used the old hidden ball trick to tag Beals Becker out at second.

He also tricked Hans Lobert into starting for third after stealing second then tagging him out.

But that’s not the amazing thing about the day. The amazing thing is the Phillies actually won, 3-1.

He also used the old hidden ball trick to tag Beals Becker out at second.

Pro Lifers Winning Cultural War

By Tony Perkins Pro Lifers Winning Cultural War

Liberals have done everything they can to make abortion more appealing. They’ve added spa robes and hot tea. They made it available on Skype, by carry-out, through pills. They’ve recruited celebrities to gush that its providers are “really, truly, no-kidding awesome.” As the Washington Post said, “…Activists are seeking to normalize abortion, to put a human face — and even a positive spin — on the procedure.”

Unfortunately for them, there already is a human face on the procedure: the baby’s. And no amount of Planned Parenthood gift certificates or Black Friday abortion deals can lessen the real cost in people’s minds. After years of changing opinion, monsters like Kermit Gosnell only cemented what most Americans already knew — there’s nothing compassionate about “choice.”

Now, decades after Roe v. Wade, fewer women are exercising the “right” the Supreme Court found in the shadows of the Constitution. In fact, abortion isn’t just in decline — but in a freefall, dropping 12 percent nationwide since 2010. A new AP report makes matters even more interesting, explaining that the dip isn’t just in states with new pro-life laws — but almost all states. (Of the states that reported, only Michigan and Louisiana’s abortions ticked up.) In places like Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and Oklahoma, where legislators raced to protect women and make clinics more accountable, abortion plunged by at least 15 percent — a remarkable shift in just five years. Even liberal bastions like New York, Washington, and Oregon experienced similar slides, leading the Left to credit things like contraception and radical sex ed.

But researcher Michael New doesn’t buy it. An expert on the causal relationship between pro-life laws and abortion, New says the media is missing the big story here. “A better explanation is the fact that a considerably smaller percentage of women with unintended pregnancies are having abortions [down from 54% in 1995 to 40% in 2008]… The Associated Press article does not even consider this as a possibility.”

In fact, he says, “long-term abortion trends receive relatively little coverage from the mainstream media.” Why? Because they’re a dramatic picture of the pro-life swing taking place in America. “Few Americans know that the number of abortions performed in the United States peaked in 1990 and has declined by approximately 34% since that time. Through offering alternatives to women facing unplanned pregnancies, enacting legislation, and shifting public opinion, pro-life efforts have succeeded.”

Even the most aggressive pro-abortion administration in history can’t compete with the technology, truth, and tenacity of the pro-life movement. For thousands of women, the window into the womb from sonograms and ultrasounds is the only persuasion they need to keep their babies. Combine that with the thriving network of pregnancy care centers and motivated lawmakers, and abortion activists are at a severe disadvantage.

In three years — 2011, 2012, and 2013 — states enacted more pro-life laws (205) than in the entire previous decade combined (which, even the Left admits, has “a real impact on women seeking abortion care”). And you don’t need a Gallup poll to show you what the March for Life recently did — Americans, especially young ones, are increasingly pro-life. So while the Left may argue the means, there’s no disputing the ends: abortion is losing its grip on America.

Mr. Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council.

Pro Lifers Winning Cultural War