Link Of The Day: Iowahawk

One of the most brilliant but underrated satirists on web is David Burge who goes by the name IowaHawk.

And here is a brilliant piece that those of us who were in middle school circa 1972 might appreciate. It concerns a heap big pseudo-Injun liberal professor
That would be Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado, in this case, not Elizabeth Warren of Harvard who wants to be a U.S. Senator.

Even Old Media Stammers In Defending O

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell — who once worked at KYW many moons ago — interviewed former New Hampshire governor and Romney supporter John Sununu which wound up with with Sununu laughing at her brave but futile attempts to defend President Obama.


Here’s a partial transcript:

ANDREA MITCHELL, HOST: Isn’t it a winning issue for the White House fundamentally, granted that the Politifact folks and the Washington Post pointed out that the President’s campaign ad on that issue had a lot, a lot of questions and a lot of questionable attack lines… 
JOHN SUNUNU: No, they said it was wrong. A lot of questions is not right. It was wrong. 
MITCHELL: Okay, if, but the point is that doesn’t, isn’t Mitt Romney more vulnerable than the President on this issue because there still is, the whole question of private equity of outsourcing? You could argue about when he left Bain Capital, and, you know, whether he was still getting money from Bain Capital and what some of the companies in Bain were doing, companies that did end up working overseas and sending jobs overseas. 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: But isn’t it a bigger problem for Republicans than for the White House? 
SUNUNU: No. When you’ve sent $500 million to Fisker and it goes to Finland immediately. When you send the solar money and it goes to Mexico. When you send the turbine money and it goes to Denmark. And we can go on all day. There is $29 billion worth of purchases that came out of this administration, outsourced jobs to foreign countries. Mitt Romney outsourced zero. Obama outsourced 29… 
MITCHELL: Zero? 
SUNUNU: Zero. He wasn’t there when those issues came up. 
MITCHELL: Well, first of all… 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: …the $29 billion are not all outsourced from the administration because… 
SUNUNU: Sure they are. 
MITCHELL: A lot of those jobs still remained here. There are jobs, when you do a grant, Governor, there are jobs here as well as overseas. 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] You’re struggling, Andrea. You’re struggling. [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: Well, first of all… 
SUNUNU: [Still laughing] 
MITCHELL: …these are competing claims and we will get back to you with all of the numbers. 
SUNUNU: Sure.


Embattled Newtown Chief Gets Public Hearing

A hearing has been scheduled by the Newtown (Delaware County) Supervisors regarding embattled Police Chief Dennis Anderson whose status is the subject of much speculation in the township. 

It is 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, at the township building, 209 Bishop Hollow Road. 

Anderson has requested that the hearing be public. The township has not mentioned the hearing on its website.

The hearing has reportedly been rescheduled until July 24.

Texas Says No To 0-Care

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made it clear that his state won’t be signing up with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

In an letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he says:
In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by — in the words of the Supreme Court — putting a gun to their heads. Now that the “gun to the head” has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose bot the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called “state” insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.

I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the PPACA power grab. Thank God and our nation’s founders that we have the right to do so.

Neither a “state” exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result in better “patient protection” or in more “affordable care” What they would do is make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.

The complete letter can be found here.
Are you listening Gov. Corbett?

GOP Seeks Vols

The Delaware County Republican Party is seeking volunteers for this year’s fall campaign. Those interested should contact Aaron Summers at 484-222-1388 or asummers@pagop.org

The office is on the second floor of the Springfield Shopping Center, 1001 Baltimore Pike, Springfield, next to the old Borders bookstore.

Voter ID Or Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

The old media tools of the Democrat Party are screaming now that Pennsylvania’s new law requiring voters to present photo identification at polling places is going to disenfranchise 750,000 voters.

They claim that  750,000 registered voters have no photo identification. 
In other words, they are saying that in a state with 12.7 million persons,  750,000 adult Pennsylvanians’ can’t either:
1. Drive or
2. Cash a check or
3. Get treatment from the Veterans Administration or
4. Open a bank account or
5. Go to their classes or events at an accredited college or
6. Enter their job site as an employee with the county/state/federal government or
7. Buy booze or cigarettes if they look under 30 or
8.  Get a library card or
9. Get a supermarket rewards card or
10. Use the nursing care facility to which they belong.
In other words, the Democrat propagandists are claiming that there are 750,000 Pennsylvanians ineligible to do at least one of these things — these are “or” statements we are talking people not “and” statements.
So is this true or were there 750,000 thousand people registered to vote in this state that did not exist?
Just one of those things that make you go hmmmm

She’s A Rich Girl And She’s Left America

Denise Rich, the wealthy liberal socialite who convinced Bill Clinton to give a pardon to her ex-hubby Marc, has renounced her American citizenship to save tens of millions in taxes.

Marc, by the way, was not suffering in some dingy prison when he got the papers telling him he was a free man. He was in Switzerland where he had been staying when the indictment came down that he was being charged with tax evasion and illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He naturally never returned to the U.S.

How Denise got him the pardon is a matter of some speculation.

As Sir John Harrington once said,  “Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

Corbett Returns To Family Farms Protection Taken By Rendell

The governor has signed into HB 761 into Act 85 and transfers of family farms for corporate liability reasons are now exempted from the realty transfer tax reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

Excluded from the tax is the “transmission of real estate devoted to agriculture if the transfer is to a family farm, general, limited or limited-liability partnership by a member of the same family and the family directly owns at least 75 percent of the interests in the partnership,” says Cox. It would also exempt a transfer between members of the same family of an ownership interest in a real estate company, family farm corporation, general, limited or limited-liability partnership which owns real estate. 

It further exempts the transfer of certain agricultural real estate and property to a surviving child or sibling from the state’s inheritance tax by exempting from the realty transfer tax a transfer of real estate used for agriculture by a family member to family farm business controlled by the same members of the same family. In other cases, the realty transfer tax is imposed at 2 percent of the value of the property being transferred. 

The law reverses a policy change enacted during the Rendell administration which allows the state to collect taxes from a farm owner who reorganizes his or her agricultural business for corporate liability reasons. A 2000 court decision established the principle that a conveyance of realty owned by a general partnership to a “succeeding” limited partnership would not be considered a “transfer of realty” if the partners and proportionate share of ownership interests among the partners remains the same.

Honor Flight Gets Distinguished Service Award

The Military Officers Association of America has bestowed upon Honor Flight the Distinguished Service Award for 2012.

Honor Flight is a national non-profit organization founded in 2005 to give aging or terminally ill veterans a day of honor in Washington D.C. 

There is no cost to the veterans. Thousands of them have participated in the last six years. 

The Philadelphia hub was started last summer by Springfield (Delco) resident Andrew Schiavello.