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Penncora Decorated Parkway For Pope –Penncora, the excellent Phoenixville design firm run by Barbara Bater, provided the flowers for the Papal stages on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Pope Francis’ visit last September.
A behind the scenes look can be found here.
Dems Save Kathleen Kane — The Pennsylvania Senate, yesterday, Feb. 10, fell four votes short of the two-thirds needed to removed a disgraced person who shamelessly ignores the law as the state’s top law enforcement officer.
In fairness the vast majority of senators — the vast majority being Republican — did realize that Kathleen Kane should be removed as attorney general. The 29-19 vote though was just not quite enough.
Choosing party over principle, all Democrats except Bob Teplitz of the 15th District voted to protect her. They were joined by Republican Stewart Greenleaf of the 2nd District, who may as well be a Democrat considering his voting history.
Ms. Kane is facing charges of perjury, false swearing, three counts of obstructing administration of law, and four counts of official oppression relating to allegations that she leaked grand jury information to the press.
The state Supreme Court suspended her law license on Sept. 21. The state Constitution requires the attorney general to be a member in good standing with the bar, which suspended lawyers are not.
The senators protecting Ms. Kane say she shouldn’t be removed because she had been elected and that her duties were managerial so forget the law and let this person remain as head of law enforcement.
And that political leaders could make this claim with a straight face is why people across the political spectrum have acquired the feelings they do regarding the political class.
Further, if the shoe were on the other foot and it was the removal of a Republican being sought for the same reasons, every one of the D’s who had voted to save Ms. Kane would have voted otherwise. We think most of the R’s would have actually voted consistently even if it was just to save themselves from the inevitable media outrage which is not going to happen in this case.
John Dunlop did not invent the pneumatic tire for a car, but for his son’s tricycle.
New Wolf Budget Also Burdens Little Guy By Matthew J. Brouillette
Yesterday, Feb. 9, Gov. Wolf doubled down on his tax-and-spend agenda. Here are five facts you need to know about how Gov. Wolf’s budget would affect your family and our state:
1. It’s more of the same. Wolf’s proposed budget mirrors what he repeatedly offered—and lawmakers repeatedly rejected—last year: Massive tax hikes and record spending increases. 
2. It’s the biggest spending increase in 25 years. Wolf’s $33.3 billion General Fund budget (including pension payments) represents a 10% increase over the budget passed by the legislature in December and is the bgigest spending increase since 1991-92.
3. Wolf’s tax hike = $850 more per family four annually.
4. Wolf’s budget includes $1.1 billion more for public schools, on top of the record-high level of funding passed by the legislature in December. This comes with no accountability measures and with punitive cuts to public charter schools.
5. At least eight different tax hikes are in the budget. This includes an 11% personal income tax hike—retroactive to January 2016 (in other words, you already owe the state more taxes).
Wolf talked about ‘saving’ the taxpayers of Pennsylvania. Instead, he’s taxing us backwards and forwards.
Join us in telling Gov. Wolf, “Please, no more taxes!” Get all the budget facts—and a catchy decal—over on our site at Commonwealth Foundation.
Matthew J. Brouillette is president and CEO of Commonwealth Foundation.
Wolf New Budget Also Burdens Little Guy
Business As Usual Gets Spanked In New Hampshire — Those OK with business as usual in Washington got a severe spanking in New Hampshire last night, Feb. 9.
In the Democrat presidential primary, socialist outsider Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont crushed Hillary Clinton 60 percent to 38 percent.
Yes Mrs. Clinton, Bernie said “live free” and you died. The whole house came down on your head. You could almost hear the little people singing “ding dong” as they danced and pointed the way to the Yellow Brick Road.
Sanders got 14 delegates to Mrs. Clinton’s nine.
Sure is a bummer to be out pandered.
On the Republican side, Donald Trump, who has never held a political office and has not even been a regular voter, easily won with 35 percent of the vote and 11 delegates. People really are that mad at the political class and they should be.
In second place, was John Kasich whose 16 percent of the vote got him three delegates. Kasich was a congressman for 22 years including six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee before declining to run for re-election in 2000. After stints as a Fox News commentator and as an investment banker, he re-entered politics in 2010 winning the Ohio gubernatorial election. He easily won re-election in 2014. His strong finish last night is being attributed to a strong debate performance.
Kasich is a native of Pennsylvania. If he should win the White House, it would the first time a native of the state held the presidency since the disgraceful James Buchanan in 1861.
Ted Cruz, who as gotten under the skin of just about every Washington insider in his first term as Texas senator, came in third with 12 percent of the vote giving him two delegates.
Getting under the skin of Washington insiders is a good thing.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got 11 percent of the vote which also netted him two delegates in his hopefully Quixotic quest to continue the family dynasty.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished fourth with also about 11 percent of the vote but got zero delegates. He was followed by New York Gov.Chris Christie at 8 percent; businesswoman Carly Fiorina, exposure to whom the establishment media wants to minimize as she is a woman who could actually handle the job, at 4 percent; surgeon Ben Carson, at 2 percent; and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 1 percent despite dropping out of the race. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum got token votes despite also have dropped out.
Turnout was record-setting in the Republican race whereas it was down on the D side.
There is still a long way to go as 1,144 delegates are needed to win the GOP nomination and 2,382 are needed to lead the Democratic ticket.
45 percent of all the golf courses in the world are in the United States.
Chesco Inquisition Postponed Again — The inquisition being sought by the leaders of the Chester County Republican that appears to be part of a purge of anti-corruption activists has again been postponed this time at the request of party bosses
The most recent scheduling had been for Thursday, Feb. 11.
Four committeepeople — Jane Ladley, Tom Ferro, Steve Mobley and Donna Ellingsen — are accused of violating party bylaws for supporting candidates other than the nominated ones.
Mrs. Ladley is the Area 19 chairwoman.
A new date is being sought.
Hillary Women Voters Failure — While the embittered stupid people who base their politics on fashion and selfish appeals to ego rather than the health of the nation (and world) remain in Hillary Clinton’s camp, there is concern by her campaign that young women are abandoning her for Bernie Sanders.
Which prompted appeals by Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright for them to get their minds’ right.
Gloria said the girls were backing Bernie to chase boys. Madeleine was far more extreme invoking religion.
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” said Madeleine.
Frankly, considering Madeleine’s failure to back Sarah Palin in 2008 when she was the only gal on the ticket and considering her non-support of Carly Fiorina she has some serious repenting to do, but never mind that.
We’d just like to tell the women who continue to support Hillary solely because she is a woman that you are not alone. Bill and Bill continue to back her as do other prominent people.
Here is a little story about one of the guys that you are in bed with ladies.
We doubt though it will change your mind co-dependency being what it is.
For what it’s worth, if Huma Abedin’s father was still alive we are confident he’d back her as well. That’s something you should be very much afraid of, frankly.
Lonesome Dove was first written by Larry McMurtry in 1972 as a screeplay. It called for W.F. Call to be played by John Wayne, Agustus McCrae to be played by Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda to play Jake Spoon. It didn’t work out. Maybe it was for the best.
Doritos Ad Angers Abortion Lovers — Doritos ran a funny Super Bowl ad which featured a father teasing his unborn child seen on an ultrasound with a Doritos chip. 
It has outraged the nation’s abortion lovers.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, the political advocacy group for the abortion industry, immediately took to Twitter after it ran saying:
#NotBuyingIt – that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50
These people are beyond vile. It is a disgrace they have the influence they do in our society.
Here is the ad:
Next time, I’m in grocery store I’ll get a bag of Doritos.
