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The first trip of 2014 for Honor Flight Philadelphia is June 21. Participating will be 176 World War II veterans.
The return will be 6:15 p.m., at St. Kevin’s Church, 200 W. Sproul Road, Springfield Pa. 19064.
Volunteers are sought to welcome them back with cheers and flag waving.
Honor Flight provides an all-expense paid trip for veterans to Washington D.C. to visit their memorials. The veterans are treated to a banquet upon their return.
Common Core is spreading through the nation like, well, a computer virus and The Washington Post explains how it happened.
The article is a paean for the sickness. One would expect that, however, in an organ of the feudal establishment.
Common Core is the educational standard that is being imposed quickly and without much discussion. It contains a strong whiff of Orwellian indoctrination.
The reason why it spread so quickly and quietly as per the Post is money. Lots and lots of money, namely that of Bill Gates, whose significant technological accomplishments might be the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) and, ironically, our malware epidemic.
If you should be wondering why the governor or state representative or state senator who sings hymns to conservatism and local governance is not fighting this garbage, now you know the trail to follow.
Barack Obama is having a tough time of it.
His staggering incompetence is becoming apparent to even the hippest hipsters.
The most love-struck soccer mom is now beginning to understand that he is basically just an arrogant a-hole.
Even newspaper editors and television commentators are turning on him.
Yes, as in Chris Matthews.
Well, Barry. Today’s song is just for you.
Congratulations to Philadelphia Press Association winners Margie Royal, Peg DeGrassa, Anne Neborak and David Bjorkgren from the Delco News Network. With them (center) is Association President Pat Delsi.
Yesterday, June 8, was the Association’s 69th Annual Award banquet which was held at Anthony’s Creative Italian Cuisine in Haddon Heights, N.J.
The food was delicious and far surpassed typical banquet fair. Kudos to Press Association treasurer Renee Winkler for her choice of beer and wine.
Margie won honorable mention for Newspaper Writing Weekly Division; Peg won third place Newspaper Writing Weekly Division, and second and third place for Business Coverage Combined; Anne won first and second place for Sports Photography, first place for Feature Photography, third place for Breaking News Photography, and second place for Newspaper Writing Weekly; and David won first and second place for Column Writing Weekly, and first place for Editorial Writing.
The complete list of winners can be found at the Philadelphia Press Association website.
The Pennsylvania House, June 3, passed legislation to help protect senior citizens from being taken advantage of by a power of attorney, said State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
The vote was 197-1 with State Rep. Carl Metzgar (R-69) being the dissenter.
House Bill 2007 aims to address situations where a power of attorney fails to comply with the agent’s directives listed throughout the document, said Cox. The legislation would require the official notice that failure to comply could result in criminal charges, eliminating a legal loophole of ignorance.
The legislation also would allow Area Agencies on Aging the ability to seek access to confidential records of a senior through a court order, if they believe that a crime is being committed and the senior lacks the capacity to give consent.
The legislation is now before the Senate.
By Janet Morana
Lakisha Wilson would be alive if we cared about women’s health. Because if we did, if we really cared about women’s health, we would have banned abortion long ago, as soon as it became obvious that abortion was equally deadly in the front office and the back alley.
Earlier this spring we watched the CEO of General Motors get a public dressing-down because her company failed to recall cars to perform a very inexpensive fix until thirteen people had died. The broken-hearted families of some of these GM victims have been interviewed on television and we feel for them. We understand their grief. We know that losing a loved one from a completely preventable cause feels woefully unfair.
We may never see the family of Lakisha Wilson on TV. We will not be shown what her family is going through, knowing that they lost this beautiful 22-year-old woman because of a harmful and deadly procedure that should have been recalled decades ago. Certainly no CEO will face a congressional grilling. Did you see Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards facing angry politicians after one of her clinics let Tonya Reaves bleed to death in Chicago? No.
When abortion is the cause of death, there is a whole new set of rules. It’s not mentioned in the media. Death certificates are tailored to make it seem that it wasn’t the abortion that killed these women. The pro-aborts on Twitter barely make a sound. But the fact remains that Lakisha Wilson would be alive today if she hadn’t gone to Preterm clinic in Cleveland to end the life of her baby. And her child would still be kicking in her womb.
The cloak of silence around abortion is so heavy that we would not even know of Lakisha’s death had it not been for the pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors who watched her taken away by ambulance, and we would not have heard the total nonchalance with which a clinic worker summoned an ambulance to attend a to a young woman who was not breathing if not for the tireless efforts of our friends at Operation Rescue. They are leading a press conference today to make sure people do learn of Lakisha and what killed her.
There is never a reason compelling enough to kill an unborn child, but somehow we as a society have learned to avert our eyes. We cannot let this willful blindness obscure the truth about abortion. It is a harmful product that kills women and their children, and it needs to be recalled before one more mother exercises her freedom of choice and dies in the process.
Please go to RecallAbortion.com and sign the petition to demand that abortion is taken off the market.
And if you are not convinced then read my book, Recall Abortion where there is compelling evidence as to why this product called abortion should be recalled!
Janet Morana is executive director of Priests for Life and co-founder of Silent No More Awareness Campaign. This column and more like it can be read on Janet’s Blog.
It appears the Obama era is over but for the crying. Here ABC late-night talker Jimmy Kimmel mocks Obama’s Warsaw workout and rather brutally.
A pity. Today 21 million Americans can’t read at all, 45 million are marginally illiterate and one-fifth of high school graduates can’t read their diplomas.
The Pennsyvlania House, June 2, passed, 196-0, House Bill 2049, that would apply Good Samaritan civil immunity to school bus drivers who administer epinephrine autoinjectors, also known as epi-pens, to students.
Although law now allows school bus drivers to administer epi-pens , there is a general reluctance to do so as school bus drivers assume the legal ramifications if things go awry, said State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
This legislation would grant civil immunity for those operating in good faith, adhering to district policy and who are appropriately trained, said Cox..
The bill is now before the Senate.
A contingent of Pennsylvania House Republicans is pushing a Pa pension fix.
The group unveiled a plan, June 4, to address the unfunded liability within the Public School Employees Retirement System and the State Employees Retirement System, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
The combined unfunded liability is about $50 billion.
This plan establishes that all new employees who enter the state systems would be enrolled in a combination of 401(k)-type and traditional pension plan. By combining the benefits of both systems, this plan is estimated to save between $11 billion and $15 billion over a 30-year projection period.
Cox emphasized that the proposal plan would be for new employees only and would not change benefits for existing participants or retirees.
At least somebody is trying to do something. What is most terrifying about this no-brainer minimalist proposal is that there is a good chance it won’t get passed.
