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By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Wyatt Earp

Ryan Shafik of Rockwood Strategies is one of the best political analysts in Pennsylvania.
 
He has analyzed Tom Corbett’s polling numbers and has determined that he is one of the “most unpopular Republican governors in America” and has much worse polling numbers than Rick Santorum did at this point in the year before his 2006 electoral defeat. Namely, Corbett is approved by 38 percent of Pennsylvanians and disapproved by 52 percent. As I have pointed, Republican Attorney General candidate, Dave Freed, underperformed every other Republican (and every other state wide candidate) in Pennsylvania.

The Republican base deserted Republican Freed/Corbett/Zimmerman and even voted Democrat to end 32 years of one party rule and Corbett’s perceived cover up of the Penn State cover up of the Sandusky serial child molestations. The Freed underperformance can be looked at as a proxy election for Tom Corbett 2014.

The polling numbers and the election results tell us that the Republicans need a new candidate.  

Election Numbers Republican Attorney General Candidate Dave Freed significantly Freed/Corbett underperformed every other Republican state wide candidate. Republican voters rejected Freed/Corbett and voted for the Democrat.

My view is that Republicans were aware that Dave Freed was a close associate of Tom Corbett and his Establishment donors and that Dave Freed as Attorney General would protect Corbett from claims of slow rolling the Sandusky investigation in exchange for 100s of 1000s of campaign contributions as well as sabotaging the LeRoy Zimmerman/Hershey Trust investigation. 

Republican Attorney General Candidate Dave Freed significantly Freed/Corbett underperformed every other Republican state wide candidate. Republican voters rejected Freed/Corbett and voted for the Democrat. Republican candidate for Treasurer did not run a highprofile campaign and, likely, represents the base line of the Republican statewide vote.

My view is that Republicans were aware that Dave Freed was a close associate of Tom Corbett and his establishment donors and that Dave Freed as Attorney General would protect Corbett from claims of slow rolling the Sandusky investigation in exchange for 100s of 1000s of campaign contributions as well as sabotaging the LeRoy Zimmerman/Hershey Trust investigation.  

Democrat   Kathleen Kane 3,125,557

Republican

Dave Freed’s 2,313,506.

Mitt Romney – 2,680,434;

Tom Smith – 2,509, 132;

John Maher Auditor – 2,548, 767:

Diana Irey Vaughan – 2,405, 654.

 

 

The Hipster Facade by Victor Davis Hanson

Courtesy of Kate Rainey

DID YOU KNOW As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the
world’s law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view … It is Moses
and he is holding the Ten Commandments!
 
DID YOU KNOW? As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

DID YOU KNOW? As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court Judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments

DID YOU KNOW? There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington ,

D.C. DID YOU KNOW? James Madison, the fourth president, known as ‘ The Father of Our Constitution ‘ made the Following statement: ‘We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God.’

DID YOU KNOW? Every session of Congress begins with a prayer
by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by thetaxpayer since 1777.

DID YOU KNOW? Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established Orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW? Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of Interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy: the rule of few over many. How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this Country is now suddenly wrong and Unconstitutional? Lets put it around the world and let the world see and remember what this great country was Built on The Holy Bible and belief in GOD!

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid

Courtesy of Judy McGrane

25 Great Truths —  and possibly the 5 Best Sentences you’ll ever read ! ! !
 

1.    In my many years I  have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.

— John  Adams

2. If you don’t read  the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

— Mark  Twain

3. Suppose you were an  idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat  myself.

— Mark  Twain

4. I contend that for  a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

— Winston  Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard  Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

— G. Gordon  Liddy

7. Democracy must be  something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for  dinner.

— James Bovard, Civil  Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might  be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

— Douglas Casey,  Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

— P.J. O’Rourke,  Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

— Frederic Bastiat,  French economist(1801-1850)

11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize  it.

— Ronald Reagan  (1986)

12. I don’t make  jokes. I just watch the government and report the  facts.

— Will  Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!

— P.J.  O’Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

— Voltaire  (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!

— Pericles (430  B.C.)

16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

— Mark Twain  (1866)

17. Talk is cheap…except when Congress does it.

—  Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

— Ronald  Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

— Winston  Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark  Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

— Herbert Spencer,  English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class…save Congress.

— Mark  Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

— Edward Langley,  Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

— Thomas  Jefferson

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

—  Aesop

FIVE  BEST SENTENCES

1.  You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2.  What one person receives without working for…another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick The Great

Members of the Pennsylvanian General Assembly took the oath of office for the 2013-14 legislative session on Jan. 1.

A total of 201 of the 203 members were sworn into office, 29 of whom are first-time members, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). Following the election of speaker, a joint session of the General Assembly was held to officially certify the election results of the state row offices: attorney general, auditor general and treasurer.

Prior to adjournment, the House voted to adopt the rules that govern how the body will operate.

House Republican leaders stated that continuing to promote job creation and growth and adopting an affordable, sustainable and responsible state budget for the third year in a row remain top legislative priorities for the new session.

The Pennsylvania Constitution requires the General Assembly to convene at noon on the first Tuesday of January each year. The last time the House convened to swear in members on January 1 was 1991.