Pennsylvania Hunting Licenses Now On Sale

Pennsylvania hunting licenses are on sale now, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

The 2014-15 hunting and furtaker licenses are effective July 1, when the licenses that now are valid expire. The new licenses are valid through June 30, 2015.

A Resident Adult Hunting License (age 17-64) costs $20.70. For a schedule of fees, click here.

Licenses can be purchased online or in person.

A list of available issuing agents — in and out of state — is available at this link.

To buy a hunting and furtaker license online, click here.
Pennsylvania Hunting Licenses Now On Sale

Pennsylvania Hunting Licenses Now On Sale

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-26-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 6-26-14

Prisoners have a lot of time on their hands. That is one explanation of why so many novels are written in jail cells. Name one? Okay, Cervantes was doing time when he started writing “Don Quixote.”

 

Paycheck Protection Passes Senate Committee

The Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee, this morning, June 26, passed its version of paycheck protection 7-4 reports Matt Brouillette of Commonwealth Foundation.

The Senate bill is SB 1034.

The House State Government Committee passed its version, HB 1507, on Monday.

The bills would end the taxpayer-funded collection of government union political money.

Paycheck Protection Passes Senate

Paycheck Protection Passes Senate Committee

IRS: A Series of Unfortunate Events?

By Kevin D. Williamson

You may recall that when the IRS political-persecution scandal first started to become public, the agency’s story was that the trouble was the result of the misguided, overly enthusiastic actions of a few obscure yokels in Cincinnati. That turned out to be a lie, as we all know. But the IRS made a similar case successfully in the matter of its criminal disclosure of the confidential tax records of the National Organization for Marriage, whose donor lists were leaked to left-wing activists in order to use them against the Romney campaign. The IRS admitted that an employee leaked the information, but said it was an accident, that it involved only a single employee making a single error, etc., and the court agreed that NOM could not show that the leak was the result of malice or gross negligence.

Truly, the IRS must be the unluckiest agency in the history of the federal government. Oops! It’s leaking confidential taxpayer information to political activists. D’oh! It’s improperly and illegally targeting conservative organizations for harassment and investigation and misleading Congress, investigators, and the public about the scope and scale of that wrongdoing. Dang! It cannot produce the emails that investigators have demanded as part of the inquiry into its actions. Rats! Its employees are openly campaigning for Barack Obama’s reelection while on the IRS’s clock, using IRS resources, and holding taxpayers hostage. And, who could have seen it coming? The IRS violated the Federal Records Act by refusing to archive relevant documents. With a string of bad luck like that, sure, accidentally releasing NOM’s confidential taxpayer information to left-wing activists seems right at home.

That these events represent an unconnected string of unfortunate events — all of which just so happen to benefit the Left and its IRS allies while hurting conservatives and IRS critics — beggars belief. Add to that mix the willful dishonesty, the staged press rollout, complete with planted questions, intended to preempt questions about the internal investigation and its results, the naked lie that the wrongdoing was limited to a few nobodies in Cincinnati — the only way to believe that story is to desire very deeply to believe it.

The alternative and much more likely — undeniable, to my mind — explanation is that the Internal Revenue Service is engaged in an active and ongoing criminal conspiracy to misappropriate federal resources for political purposes, to use its investigatory powers, including the threat of criminal prosecution, for purposes of political repression, and to actively mislead Congress and the public about the issue; that the Justice Department is turning a blind eye to these very serious crimes for political purposes and is therefore complicit in the cover-up; that these crimes were encouraged if not outright suborned by Senate Democrats; and that the White House is at the very least passively complicit, refusing to lift so much as a presidential pinkie as the IRS runs amok.

And, apparently, there’s nobody in Washington with the power and the inclination to do anything about it.

Mr. Williamson, who now writes for National Review, was once the editor of the Ardmore Pa. -based Main Line Times

IRS: A Series of Unfortunate Events?

World Without America

World Without America

Regina Scheerer of Springfield reports that she and her husband went to the local premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s America: Imagine a World Without Her and recommends all to see it.

It opens July 2 at the Regal Plymouth Meeting 10 in Conshohocken and at the United Artists Stadium 16  in King of Prussia.

World Without America

CHIP Renewal Eased Via HB 2299

A bill to make it easier to renew coverage in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was unanimously passed by the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee June 9 and is now before the Rules Committee, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
House Bill 2299 would create a simple form sent directly to the parent or guardian to confirm the information remains accurate or to allow for changes, if necessary. This would allow for easier renewal of the child’s annual enrollment in the program.

The bill would also allow for “express lane eligibility” which would provide parents with information on CHIP, using information obtained through other state agencies including the departments of Public Welfare and Health.

“Many of the provisions in the legislation are already being done but need to be written into law to ensure they continue in the future,” Cox said.

CHIP Renewal Eased Via HB 2299

CHIP Renewal Eased Via HB 2299

Rats Boom During Dem Reign

Rats Boom During Dem Reign

With the Democrats running things for the first time in a generation, the pre-Giuliani  problems of New York City have returned.

The New York Post is reporting that the Big Apple’s rat population is now twice that of the 8.4 million humans.

Mostly on the West Side it seems.

So are there bedbugs Uptown? Um, yes.

For those feeling nostalgic and for the young unaware of what life was like when progressives ran everything, we bring you this snippet of New York City life circa 1978 courtesy of The Rolling Stones

 

If the Rolling Stones are not your taste, here is Michael Jackson’s first solo hit which was a #1 in 1972.

Welcome again to the 1970s.

Rats Boom During Dem Reign

 

Psychologists Can Treat Vets Outside Clinics

 HB 43, an amendment to the Pennsylvania Volunteer Health Services Act, was “signed in House” June 18 after unanimously passing the state House and Senate.

The amendment allows Pennsylvania psychologists, psychiatrists and counselors to volunteer to provide free mental health services to military personnel and their families outside a clinic through approved programs such as “Give an Hour”,  says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

Programs like Give an Hour provide free services, such as family counseling and substance abuse counseling, at a site that is likely outside a clinical setting such as a library, community center or church.

Psychologists Can Treat Vets Outside Clinics

Psychologists Can Treat Vets Outside Clinics

Disenfranchisement Push Continues

The push by the wannabee lords and ladies to disenfranchise the citizens of Pennsylvania continues.

Jack Nagel, a professor emeritus of political science at Penn, has a guest view in today’s (June 25) Philadelphia Inquirer about how the unicorns will play and the rainbows will shine if the size of our legislature is shrunk as per the proposed constitutional amendment passed by the State House that is pending before the State Senate, or –better yet in his view — have the entire legislature turned into a unicameral body with proportional representation like a European parliament

The Amendment on the table while not turning our legislature into a total highway to central government control as per Nagel’s wish will cut the size of Pennsylvania’s House from 203 to 153 and the size of the Senate from 50 to 45 (the Senate’s preference) or 38 (the House’s preference).

The argument being made is that it will save money as our legislators draw a base salary of $84,012, which is second highest in the nation behind corrupt California.

OK, help me out here. If we were trying to save money wouldn’t it be better to cut the salary by 25 percent rather than the number of representatives by 25 percent?

Even better yet, how about we cut the salaries to $7,500 — which is what Texas legislators get — and leave the size as is? That would be a 91 percent savings.  Texas by all accounts is doing pretty well.

Or how about this: we cut the salaries of the legislators to $7,500 — and end all benefits — and expand the number of senators to 67 with each county getting its own senator.

That way Anthony Williams won’t have to represent Philadelphia and Delaware counties.

 

Disenfranchisement Push Continues

Disenfranchisement Push Continues

 

 

 

Supreme Court Ends Aereo Broadcasts

The Supreme Court ruled, today, June 25, that Aereo Inc. was violating the copyrights of broadcasters in providing its service.

Aereo had developed a technology to allow persons to watch over-the-air television broadcasts on their computers.

The broadcasters led by ABC said no fair.

The ruling, written by Stephen Breyer, was 6-3 with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joining him.

The dissent, written by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined by Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, was not so much in sympathy with Aereo but noted that the technical claim made by the networks in the lower courts —  namely that Aereo was the primary abuser of copyright which means actually using copyrighted work — was incorrect.

They recommended that the case be returned to the lower courts and appeared to have an expectation that Aereo would be found in violation of  “secondary liability” which means that they would be responsible for infringement by third parties.

The danger of ignoring the reasoning in the dissent means that it creates the possibility of new claims against internet service providers and such that previously had an expectation of immunity.

 

Supreme Court Ends Aereo Broadcasts

Supreme Court Ends Aereo Broadcasts