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Tea Party Seeks Poll Watchers

The Independence Hall Tea Party Association is seeking poll watchers to monitor precincts that have traditionally gone unmonitored in Philadelphia and the suburbs from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Election Day, Nov. 6.

Training and certificates will be provided.
For information call 215-620-3055.

Tidbit Of The Day

Honey is 38 percent fructose.

Political Intimidation Of Teen Has Troubling Implications

The local Philadelphia high school incident, wherein a black teacher intimidated a white, 16-year-old student because she had the audacity to express her First Amendment right and wear a Mitt Romney T-shirt on dress-down day, has garnered some national interest, but not the kind it would have produced had the roles been reversed.

It’s my opinion, of course, but I truly believe that if a white teacher had harassed a black teenage girl for wearing an Obama shirt, that teacher would have been summarily dismissed, and likely even charged with a “hate crime.”

The incident took place at Charles Carroll High in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. I lived in Port Richmond, and I can tell you that there are few neighborhoods more patriotic, more hard-working, and more passionate about individual rights than this bastion of blue-collar pride.

So where is the outrage? Where is the good, old, Philadelphia neighborhood support for this child who was in effect bullied by one of the adults that’s supposed to be a safeguard during school hours for students’ rights?

I, my wife, and children have always been proud of our attachment to Port Richmond. One of our daughters and many of our friends still reside in this row-house region of typical, middle-class Philadelphia.

I can’t imagine that the folks I know who call Port Richmond home are not embarrassed, humiliated, and angered by the thought of a student who cannot express her Constitutional right without being accosted angrily by a member of the faculty.

Many Port Richmond veterans served abroad in the military to defend against precisely this kind of tyranny. And here it is raising its ugly head right in their own back yard. Or rather right in their local schoolyard.

I majored in history in undergrad school, so I’m particularly upset whenever I hear anybody deny that the Holocaust of World War Two ever took place. 

(Excerpted from Good Writers Block)

Pollster Concedes Fla, N.C., And Va. To Mitt

Suffolk Polling has stopped polling for Florida, North Carolina and Virginia because they have found Romney with solid leads and strong trend lines.


Obama won all three states in 2008.

Hat tip to Larry Schweikart, who also notes that an analysis of Ohio early voting shows Democrats way down in all counties.


Link Of The Day — Voices Without A Vote

Teens chime in on the upcoming election.

Hat tip Cathy Craddock

Tidbit Of The Day

I. F. Stone’s KGB codename was “Blin”. It means pancake in Russian.

Springfield Real Estate Transfers

For the latest real estate transfers from Springfield, Pa. courtesy Pattie Price, click here.

A Day To Celebrate The Death Of Che

Yesterday, Oct. 8, President Obama while campaigning in California — California? — formally dedicated a national monument to labor leader Caesar Chavez. The monument came about not via legislation but through an executive order  under the Antiquities Act — Antiquities Act?


If the president truly wanted to honor “latinos”, though, today would be the day that he would celebrate as today is the day the murderous sadist Che Guevara  met justice in Bolivia in 1967. 

Guevara is responsible for setting up Cuba’s oppressive labor camps and killing dissidents without a trial, something he has confessed in his diary — not the motorcycle one — that he likes to do. He also said trials were unnecessary.

He is described as ordering the death of one teenaged dissident in front of the boy’s mother who was begging for his life.

Which is kind of ironic as he begged from his own life when the Bolivian counter-terrorists finally caught up with him.

So today let us celebrate the death of Che.

Hat tip Tom C.



Houses Passes, Considers Veterans Bills

The House passed several measures last week to benefit Pennsylvania servicemen and servicewomen who honorably served our country, said State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129) 
House Bill 2428 would offer a special designation on Pennsylvania driver’s licenses for veterans who served in any branch of the United States Armed Forces, including reserve units or the National Guard, and who were discharged or released from such service under conditions other than dishonorable.
House Bill 2591 would bring the State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) into compliance with the Federal Heroes Earning Assistance and Relief Act of 2008 (HEART) and would conform Pennsylvania law regarding pension credit for military leave for state employees and SERS members with federal law.
Senate Bill 623 would encourage stage agencies to contract with veteran-owned small businesses.
Cox also said additional veterans benefits bills were approved in House committees. 
The House Transportation Committee voted in support of Senate Bill 1531, which would create the Veterans’ Trust Fund to authorize grants to the PA Veterans Foundation and other veterans’ and charitable organizations for the purposes of providing benefits to veterans and their families. Revenue for the fund will come from proceeds paid by PennDOT from sales of a special “Honor Our Veterans” license plate and from contributions from a voluntary $3 check-off from driver license and vehicle registration renewals.
The House State Government Committee passed Senate Bill 1255, which would enact the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act to simplify the process of absentee voting for United States military and overseas civilians in state elections conducted in Pennsylvania.
The House Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 1442, which would update the Pennsylvania Code of Military Justice, which enforces order and discipline upon the Pennsylvania National Guardsmen who are not in active federal service under Title 10 of the United States Code. The code has not been extensively updated since 1975, and many of the current provisions date back to the Military Code of 1949.

Obama Lying About His Study Says Economist

Harvey Rosen, the Princeton economist who Obama is citing as the authority that Romney’s tax plan won’t work, says the President is not telling the truth.

“I can’t tell exactly how the Obama campaign reached that characterization of my work”, he told the Weekly Standard.  ” . . The main conclusion of my study is that under plausible assumptions a proposal along the lines suggested by Gov. Romney ca both be revenue neutral and keep the net tax burden on taxpayers with incomes above $200,000 about the same.”
Maybe the President wasn’t lying. Maybe he and all his experts just couldn’t understand it. Maybe he just needs new experts. Maybe we just need a new president.