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As always, the credentialed media report on an individual point, and miss the real story

Every once in a while, I’ll come across a news story in the credentialed media that tells an entire story in just one sentence, but then moves on to a side issue.

This Philly 10th grader has had no English teacher all year. Now, the district wants her to take a high-stakes test.

Almost 300 teaching positions are vacant across the School District of Philadelphia. One student went to the school board to share how a vacancy is hurting her and her classmates.

by Kristen A Graham | Friday, May 9, 2025 | 5:00 AM EDT

Kalorena Gonzalez’s English teacher left Martin Luther King High School in October.

“A kid slapped him and he never came back,” said Gonzalez, a motivated student who likes volunteering and is a member of King’s JROTC program.

Since then, Gonzalez, a 10th grader, has had no English teacher. There have been a series of subs — most recently, a man whose name she doesn’t know.

“He doesn’t teach anything, he just takes attendance,” Gonzalez said. “He says nothing.”

Reporter Kristen Graham’s story is about the failure of the school district to put a permanent teacher in young Miss Gonzalez’s class, and how the school system is short several hundred teachers, but the story is in that second paragraph: a (supposed) student assaulted — minimized by saying “slapped”, but that’s a direct quote from Miss Gonzalez, not Miss Graham’s word — a teacher, and the teacher bailed. We are not told whether the teacher was seriously injured, whether it went beyond a ‘slap,’ whether the now-absent teacher had been the victim of previous assaults and simply had enough, or what happened to the young assailant.

Is the assailant still in school? How was he punished, or was he punished at all?

Did the teacher quit? Is he still an employee, but on leave? Is he still being paid?

Martin Luther King High School is not one of the better schools. The school is ranked 499th out of 656 Pennsylvania high schools, and 21st out of 51 city high schools. The very awful math tells us that there are 30 Philadelphia high schools that are even worse than MLK High! On the state grade-level proficiency tests, MLK’s students performed particularly poorly, as is seen in the chart on the left.[1]One curious demographic appeared in the report. Rather than an expected ratio of roughly 50:50, MLKHS is 59% male and 41% female, along with 100% of students being “economically … Continue reading

Miss Graham, whose Inquirer bio states that, “I cover Philly schools, taking readers inside one of the largest districts in the country,” doesn’t tell us about how rotten MLK High is, or how terrible the School District as a whole performs. How, I have to ask, with those grade level proficiency scores, are 41% of the students there being graduated? Is the school simply handing out diplomas to students who can’t read, write, and do simple math?[2]This happened several years ago. I was getting a fried chicken lunch box from a local grocery store, but my order was slightly complicated. The girl behind the counter couldn’t figure out how … Continue reading

Miss Graham walked us through Miss Gonzalez’s complaints and her appearance before the School Board. We are told that, in effect, money is at the root of all problems:

Folks wonder why high numbers of Philadelphians are in jail, experiencing housing insecurity, or using drugs, Gonzalez said. One reason?

“When we don’t have the proper and ideal education,” said Gonzalez. With a looming district budget deficit, the city could “see these problems increase, while the empowered are given more money each day, and people like me struggle to make that money each year.”

Everybody has money woes, and the School District of Philadelphia has not been at the forefront of the city’s economic problems; far more attention has been paid to the deficit suffered by SEPTA, the regions public transportation system, and the fact that the evil, reich-wing Republicans who control the state Senate won’t vote more money for them. Apparently, the School District can’t find anyone willing to teach English on a permanent basis at MLK High. Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins has already said that she wants to increase the percentage of city tax revenue going to the public schools, but not in her current budget proposal.

Philly is our nation’s poorest major city. The city’s median household income is $60,698, and the lowest step salary for teachers is $54,146, for the ten-month school year. The lowest step salary for teachers who work 12 months is $64,975. It’s not as though the city’s teachers are mired in poverty. Teachers, individually, are paid more than half of the households in the city earn, but no one wants to teach 10th grade English at MLKHS?[3]Miss Graham noted, on April 29th, in a subscribers’ only article, that the Philadelphia-based Center for Black Educator Development was among those suing the Trump Administration over the … Continue reading

The School District is, on the whole, a waste case. Perhaps it’s not a problem that our education professionals can solve, but a cultural one, a problem not of what the schools are trying to teach and who is doing the teaching, but of far, far, far too many uncivilized savages in the classroom, disrupting any real attempts at teaching anything, and of better-behaved students to learn something.

That’s the story on which Miss Graham needed to report.

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↑1 One curious demographic appeared in the report. Rather than an expected ratio of roughly 50:50, MLKHS is 59% male and 41% female, along with 100% of students being “economically disadvantaged.” Even in East Germantown, not 100% of families are in poverty, which makes me wonder if the families who are decently off are sending their children to private schools, perhaps skewing the sex balance at the school. East Germantown is very heavily black, but the white percentage of the population, 3%, is still significantly higher than the white percentage of the MLKHS student body, 0.6%.
↑2 This happened several years ago. I was getting a fried chicken lunch box from a local grocery store, but my order was slightly complicated. The girl behind the counter couldn’t figure out how much to charge me, so I told her how much it was, because the math was ridiculously simple, and I calculated it in my head. When I told her what it was, and then pointed out the addition to her verbally, she responded back to me that her teachers had told her that there’d always be a calculator handy. This wasn’t Philadelphia, but it demonstrated to me how rotten some teachers really can be, just passing on a student who hadn’t learned much, to push him, or in this case her, through the system.
↑3 Miss Graham noted, on April 29th, in a subscribers’ only article, that the Philadelphia-based Center for Black Educator Development was among those suing the Trump Administration over the President’s decision that institutions which continued their unconstitutional “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” policies could not receive federal funds, when the CBED wanted to increase the number of black teachers in schools. But Miss Graham also noted, in the main article cited, that the School District was almost 300 teachers short of full staffing, which ought to mean that any qualified teacher who can pass a background check and drug test and who wants to work there ought to be hired, regardless of race or ethnicity. The problem isn’t too few black teachers, but too few teachers, period.
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When Will Bunch refers to a prelate as Archbishop Rush Limbaugh, you know that prelate must be a good one!

The Most Reverend Charles Chaput, OFMCap, was appointed to become the Archbishop of Philadelphia on July 19, 2011, in part due to his aggressive and responsible handing of priestly sex abuse cases. The Archdiocese had serious problems in that regard, under former Archbishops Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua and, to a lesser extent, Justin Cardinal Rigali. One would have thought that such would have made The Philadelphia Inquirer’s far-left columnist Will Bunch happy, but no, Mr Bunch preferred to refer to him as Archbishop Rush Limbaugh.

Actually, being Archbishop Rush Limbaugh, someone dedicated to the letter of the law, would be a good thing!

And today? The distinguished columnist decides to tout an OpEd by Alfred G. Mueller II, an assistant dean of the William T. Daly School of General Studies and Graduate Education at Stockton University, and it seems that Dr Mueller doesn’t like Archbishop Emeritus Chaput very much.

Philly Archbishop Emeritus Charles J. Chaput recently wrote about Pope Francis. His take is narrow and troubling.

Chaput may assert the pope was “inadequate to the real issues,” but the truth is that Francis was challenging to those more often concerned with ideological policing than with pastoral care.

by Alfred G Mueller II | Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | 5:00 AM EDT

Archbishop Emeritus Charles J. Chaput’s recent critique of the late Pope Francis in the publication First Things, published with the authority of someone who once led Philadelphia‘s archdiocese, presents a narrow and troubling view of a pontificate that resonated deeply with millions of Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

His assertion that Pope Francis was “inadequate to the real issues facing the Church” rests on a flawed premise that fidelity to the Gospel must resemble rigid continuity with the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI in form, rather than in spirit.

Francis was not hostile to the Second Vatican Council, nor to his predecessors.

What he challenged, rightly, was the uniquely militant strain of conservatism that has taken root in segments of the Catholic Church in America. This is a conservatism more often concerned with ideological policing than with pastoral care, more invested in patrolling doctrinal borders than in proclaiming the liberating joy of the Gospel.

That’s a pretty much standard criticism of the late Pope Francis. But it misses, I think, one of the most important parts of the Gospel of John, chapter 8:

7: When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8: And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.
9: But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.
10: Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?
11: Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no more.

Jesus shows the woman caught in adultery the forgiveness of sin, but he also commands her not sin again. Too frequently we have those two separated, with those championing the forgiveness of sin, without the command not to sin again, and vice versa. Both are part of the message Jesus teaches us.

But here is where I have the biggest problem with Dr Mueller’s OpEd, significantly further down:

Nowhere is this starker than in the calls among some of the militant conservatives for a return to the Latin Mass, a rite conducted in a dead language, unintelligible to most Catholics, with the priest literally turning his back on the people. That gesture speaks volumes: a church turned inward, away from its faithful, away from the world it is called to serve.

I did something really radical and followed Dr Mueller’s hyperlink, and what did I find? An article in The Pillar, an independent Catholic journalism site which is definitely on the conservative side.

Capitol Latin Mass: ‘Traditional Catholics are not terrorists’

About 50 Catholics attended a Traditional Latin Mass in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday

The Pillar | January 23, 2024

Catholics gathered in room H-137 of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, for a celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, believed to be the first time the extraordinary form of the liturgy has been celebrated at the seat of the federal legislature.

The noon Mass, organized by the Arlington Latin Mass Society, was originally scheduled to take place in a different room, H-122, the private dining room of the Speaker of the House, but was moved shortly before the event began to accommodate the congregation.

According to organizers, the Mass was not approved by the Archdiocese of Washington, despite restrictions on liturgies celebrated with the preconciliar liturgical texts.

The congregation for the Mass numbered nearly 50 people, and ranged in age from a 1-year-old baby to Massgoers in their middle 60s. The attendees, which included both visitors to the Capitol as well as Congressional staffers, gathered to mark the one year anniversary of the FBI’s “Richmond memo.”

That memo, written Jan. 23, 2023, identified the supposed domestic security threat posed by “radical-traditionalist Catholics” and outlined a rationale for Federal law enforcement to develop sources and informants within Latin Mass communities.

We have previously reported on the FBI surveillance of “radical traditionalist Catholics”, noting that this occurred under President Joe Biden, who is (supposedly) Catholic himself.

After it leaked, the memo triggered considerable backlash among Catholics, with Virginia’s two bishops denouncing the text as “alarming,” “outrageous,” and “troubling and offensive to all communities of faith as well as to all Americans.”

The memo also kicked off a political storm, with the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government holding hearings, and issuing a report which found that while the FBI’s director testified that the agency did “not categorize investigations as domestic terrorism based on the religious beliefs” of Catholics, “an FBI-wide memorandum originating from the FBI’s Richmond Field Office did just that.”

The Wall Street Journal characterized then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony as concealing that the investigation was “more widespread” than he admitted.

There’s a lot more in The Pillar article, but what you will not find is a call for “a return to the Latin Mass,” which in any proper understanding of English grammar is a statement that those evil, radical, traditionalist Catholics are calling for the Tridentine (Traditional Latin) Mass to replace the Novus ordo Mass. What they were calling for is the relaxing on Pope Francis Traditionis custodes, which does not ban the Tridentine Mass, but greatly restricts its availability. There are, of course, a few very traditional Catholics who do believe that the Traditional Latin Mass should replace the Novus ordo, but that wasn’t what Dr Mueller cited.

Mr Bunch, as you’d guess, only sees the Archbishop of Philadelphia, and the Catholic Church in general, in political terms, but that’s not how the Church should be seen or defined. In American political terms, the Church is very liberal on some things: immigration, welfare, capital punishment, and ‘social justice’, to name a few. But the Church is also very conservative on other things, condemning prenatal infanticide, homosexual activity, ‘transgenderism’, in vitro fertilization, homosexual ‘marriage,’ and divorce. If your only view of the Church is through a political lens, you’ll never understand it.

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Harvard admits to anti-Semitism on campus The real question: what will the University do about it?

When I don’t have a good photo for an article, perhaps just a picture of my morning coffee being made will suffice!

We noted, just three weeks ago, how Harvard University, the oldest and most prestigious institution of higher learning in our great nation, rather than at least negotiate with the Trump Administration over policies to end blatant anti-Semitism on campus, was choosing to double-down on discrimination instead.

Harvard is, of course, a private school, so the government cannot order it to comply, but as a private institution the government is not obligated to fund it, either. But that doesn’t mean that the university doesn’t have to address its problems. From The Atlantic:

Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem

A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.

By Eliot A. Cohen | Monday, May 5, 2025 | 12:45 PM EDT

Harvard’s anti-Semitism report has landed: elaborately footnoted, abundant in statistics as well as anecdotes, earnest and troubled in tone. It was composed entirely by current insiders at the university—no alumni or, heaven forfend, faculty or deans from other universities. And it offers more than 300 pages of dismal reading.

The report spends time — an inordinate amount of time, according to some Harvard critics — parsing the definition of anti-Semitism and its relationship to exterminationist hatred of Israel. By its very length and carefully modulated tone, it sometimes seems to reflect an academic wringing of hands rather than shocked wonder and volcanic fury at the Jew hatred that has infected this great university.

Naturally, The Atlantic has a paywall, and if you are like us, you can’t afford to subscribe to everything! The article can also be found here, without a paywall.

The report nonetheless carefully documents a series of appalling incidents, and the failure of university leadership to address chronic and worsening Jew-baiting. It notes that the university leaders remained mute when a commencement speaker resorted to anti-Jewish tropes. It describes the silencing of Jewish students by their classmates, egregious faculty support of anti-Israel protests at the expense of classroom neutrality or even attendance, and sheer thuggishness aimed at Jewish students. It also documents the collapse of a once-demanding disciplinary system, as various penalties for misbehavior were reduced or rescinded wholesale in July 2024. It has a long list of recommendations, including special training for students involved in DEI efforts, more courses on Judaism and the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and setting clearer expectations about civil discourse for new students.

So, Harvard is, perhaps, going to institute courses and seminars and training to try to educate the students at one of our great and adult institutions of Western civilization how to act like civilized adults? Shouldn’t one of our most selective colleges only be admitting students who are already civilized adults?

The fundamental problem, however, is that the roots of Harvard’s Jew-baiting problem go far deeper than either the earnest recommendations of the task force or the more robust actions of Harvard’s president can address.

The widespread harassment of Jews reported at Harvard reflects the attitudes of hundreds if not thousands of students, faculty, and staff — that last group is an often underappreciated element in indulging or even encouraging this behavior. It reflects the development of identity-driven politics, for which responsibility lies outside the university as well as within it. It has been fed by witch-hunting for “white privilege” (no matter that there are plenty of Jews of color, as a walk down the streets of Tel Aviv will show you). It flourishes in the bogus specializations that have hived off from more traditional and all-embracing disciplines such as history, literature, and anthropology. It has been nurtured in research centers whose very existence is premised not on the quest for truth but on the pursuit of a political or ideological agenda.

This is an important point. Author Eliot Cohen noted that staff are “an often underappreciated element in indulging or even encouraging this behavior,” and it is the staff who are taking most of the admissions decisions. I would guess that the higher-up among the staff are the ones who take the decisions on whom to admit, but, with annual applications in the mid 50,000 range, and acceptances in the mid 1,900s, most of the rejections are undoubtedly handled by the lower level staff.

I admit to being somewhat less than impressed with how Harvard is educating its students these days. The Editorial Board of the Harvard Crimson seemed to think that Dylan Roof, the South Carolina mass murderer, was coddled due to his white privilege because the police brought him food after his arrest, when he said he was hungry. Not feeding Mr Roof, who told the police he hadn’t eaten for a couple of days, would have been a civil rights violation which could have tainted his arrest, and the case against him.[1]Dylann Roof was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in federal court in early 2017. He later pleaded guilty to South Carolina state charges, in exchange for life without parole sentences, which … Continue reading It took me, with my baccalaureate degree from the not-so-selective University of Kentucky[2]Actually, when I matriculated at UK in the Fall of 197, any graduate from an accredited Kentucky high school was guaranteed admission, something that the University handled with a high flunk-out rate., about three seconds to find that information. You’d think that the best and the brightest that Harvard is supposedly educating would have thought about that, but if the attitude is more about fighting against “white privilege” than actually looking at the facts, it’s unsurprising that it didn’t.

Harvard already lost the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” battle when the Supreme Court declared Affirmative Action programs which discriminate against non-favored racial and ethnic — read: white and Asian — groups to be illegal in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, declaring what we all knew, that the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment prohibited Affirmative Action using racial preferences in collegiate admissions, so ‘DEI’ programs were always legally suspect, but the Classes of 2025, 2026, and 2027 had already been selected and admitted when that was handed down. Whether the university has actually complied with the ruling in the admissions decisions for the Classes of 2028 and 2029, classes which are already on campus, is unknown.

There is an element of absolute insanity in all of this. Let’s tell the truth here: the left’s fight against “white privilege” and “white supremacy” are actually code words for a fight against Western civilization, yet it is Western civilization which gives us our freedom of speech and of the press, our freedom of religion, and our institutions of higher learning. Every female Harvard student campaigning against that ought to realize what her life would be like in Afghanistan, where it is illegal to educate girls beyond the sixth grade, an many girls never get even that far, as it has effectively become a waste of time and effort for them. Every female Harvard student campaigning for the victory of the ‘Palestinians’ against the hated Jewish oppression should realize that, were the Islamists to gain power, they’d basically be sentenced to housewifery, and to second-class — if even that high1 — citizenship. Every male Harvard student campaigning against white privilege and white supremacy and Western civilization ought to realize that they are campaigning for dictatorial rule by men determined to impose Islam as a religion, and Islam as the basis for all laws and freedoms. Every Harvard student who isn’t sexually normal should realize that being anti-Semitic and campaigning against Western civilization has to know, if he has an IQ above room temperature, that he’s campaigning to be imprisoned, to be beaten, to be tortured, or just plain hanged by the neck until dead.

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↑1 Dylann Roof was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in federal court in early 2017. He later pleaded guilty to South Carolina state charges, in exchange for life without parole sentences, which was accepted in case the federal conviction was overturned, as an insurance policy to keep him locked up for the rest of his miserable life. When outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences for 37 out of 40 inmates on the federal death row, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Mr Roof was one of the three whose capital sentences were not commuted.
↑2 Actually, when I matriculated at UK in the Fall of 197, any graduate from an accredited Kentucky high school was guaranteed admission, something that the University handled with a high flunk-out rate.
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You in a heap o’ trouble, girl! Nothing quite exposes some people's stupidity like social media!

Sometimes I’m just shaking my head in stunned amazement. How, I have to ask, could a public school teacher call for the assassination of President Trump, in public, on Facebook, and still have a job?

Well, maybe she doesn’t, as Superintendent Peter Hallen notified the public that he and “appropriate authorities” are actively investigating the “incident.”

Hat tip to Carol Marks of The Victory Girls! The copy of the post at the right is a screen capture, before Facebook takes it down or the lovely Miss St Germain takes it down.

At the moment, she’s doubling down.

As far as I am concerned, nothing she said is criminal. She has not threatened the President herself, saying that she lacked the “skill set” to do anything, but has ‘asked’ the Secret Service and the United States military to do it for her. But not being criminal, and the freedom of speech and of the press that we are guaranteed, is not a guarantee of complete immunity from the consequences of her speech.

JoAnna St Germain, from her Facebook page. She also has an LGBTQ+ flag image on her Facebook page, which shows you just how utterly brilliant she really is.

But, let’s tell the truth here: if what Miss St Germain advocated actually happened, millions of whacko Americans would be cheering. I suppose that there were a few people who would have cheered had President Biden been assassinated, but I certainly wouldn’t have, and the vast majority of conservatives are smart enough not to put something like that online. In the most practical sense, it would have made Kamala Harris Emhoff President, and she would have been, if possible, even worse.

And let’s tell another truth: social media have exposed the utter stupidity of some of our friends on the left. I have absotively, posilutely no doubt that the #TrumpDerangementSyndrome-afflicted columnist Will Bunch would be among the first to cheer if President Trump were assassinated, but he at least has enough sense not to publish that on Bluesky.

The lovely Miss St Germain didn’t have even that much sense!

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Leaping before they looked Bad causes attract bad people, and the Democrats certainly chose a bad cause!

It has to be asked: did President Trump and his staff just plain set up the Democrats for failure?

Following the arrest and deportation of the “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the left waxed wroth and have trumped it up that his deportation was unjustified, that Mr Abrego Garcia was as pure as the wind driven snow. Several Democratic lawmakers even traveled to El Salvador, to try to rescue the poor, abused soul and return him to the United States.

Oops!

Dem immigration talking points fizzle as dark picture of Abrego Garcia emerges

‘The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are,’ DHS Secretary Noem said of Democrats defending Abrego Garcia

By Emma Colton, Fox News + Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 1:05 PM EDT

Democrats rallying around illegal immigrant KIlmar Abrego Garcia are facing a narrative reckoning as allegations of violent and criminal behavior mount against the man they made a poster child in the fight against President Trump’s mass deportations.

In recent weeks, evidence has emerged that Abrego Garcia beat his wife and was caught trafficking migrants during his time living illegally in Maryland. He has since been deported to El Salvador, where several Democrats, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, have rushed to meet with him and decry what they say was a lack of due process extended to him.

“The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday. “That they are people who don’t put America first. They don’t care about our citizens and protecting our communities. So, I’m glad that the onion’s been peeled back and that their true motivations have been revealed, and this is just one of the cases that we’re getting off the streets.”

Van Hollen has led the surge of Democrats traveling to El Salvador since April, after Abrego Garcia was deported to the country in March and sent to its notoriously high-security prison equipped to handle violent gang members, known as CECOT. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited court and police documents showing that the El Salvadoran man was not only in the U.S. illegally, but also connected to the MS-13 gang and that his wife had sounded the alarm to police about his violence.

That Mr Abrego Garcia was in the United States illegally was sufficient to kick him out!

But our good friends on the left have a rather consistent history of championing the wrong people. Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, turned out to be exactly the kind of thug that was said about him, a physically large teen who had roughed up a convenience store owner in a robbery just a few minutes before he was killed, and stupid enough to attack the police officer who was trying to question him. George Floyd turned out to be a fentanyl-and-methamphetamine-addled, previously convicted felon. Breonna Taylor was connected to a notorious drug dealer. Trayvon Martin physically attacked and assaulted George Zimmerman.

Democrats and the media had characterized Abrego Garcia as a “family man” and a “Maryland man” who was wrongly deported back in March and the following weeks.

Van Hollen met last month with Abrego Garcia and advocated for his release, declaring that the deportation risks “the constitutional rights of everyone who resides in the United States of America.” Van Hollen’s trip sparked other left-wing lawmakers to also make the trip south, including Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California last month. At one point, Dexter pledged to remain in El Salvador until Abrego Garcia was brought back to the U.S.

“At one point.” 🙂 Mrs Dexter did return to the United States, but without Mr Abrego Garcia in tow.

The article notes that the Democrats have mostly stopped yapping about the “Maryland man,” because the evidence has been overwhelmingly against him being anything other than a scumbag. Vice President J D Vance asked why “congressional Democrats care more about this man than the victims of illegal immigrant crimes,” and it’s a question they do not want asked. A reasonable case could be made that the procedures used to kick him out of the country could have been better, but he did have a valid deportation order, but this is not the kind of guy on whom the Dems would want to build their propaganda.

It has to be asked: did President Trump and his staff guess that the left would fall into a trap over Mr Abrego Garcia, and set it? Information about the “Maryland man” was released slowly enough that it seems like the left were given enough rope to hang themselves! That would be a clever trick, and I’d like to think that is exactly what happened, but, clever trap or not, the Democrats stepped right into it.

Bad causes attract bad people, and the Democrats certainly chose a bad cause!

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To the surprise of no one, The Philadelphia Inquirer again endorses softer-than-Charmin-on-crime Larry Krasner Virtually nothing they wrote has to do with actual crime on the city's streets

Philadelphia Police Officers and FOP members block District Attorney Larry Krasner from entering the hospital to meet with slain Police Corporal James O’Connor’s family, because it was the District Attorney who had not kept Cpl. O’Connor’s killer in jail when he could have.

I wrote, on May Day, that I would be “completely unsurprised if The Philadelphia Inquirer in general, and far-left columnist Will Bunch individually endorse(d)” the city’s George Soros-sponsored, police-hating and criminal-loving District Attorney, Larry Krasner, for re-nomination. Well, I am completely unsurprised! Continue reading →

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Will Bunch says the quiet part out loud The left want to eliminate all immigration law enforcement

Some of our good friends on the left in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia simply want to eliminate law enforcement entirely. The city’s George Soros-sponsored, police-hating and criminal-loving District Attorney, Larry Krasner, has been twice elected, and I will be completely unsurprised if The Philadelphia Inquirer in general, and far-left columnist Will Bunch individually endorse Mr Krasner for re-nomination.

“Working Families Party” criminal justice organizer — whatever that title means! — Sergio Hyland, who had previously served 22 years for murder before being paroled in February of 2022, was just arrested for the early morning murder of Jasimane Ransom on July 11, 2024. When officers arrested Mr Hyland at his East Germantown home, they recovered three rifles, two handguns, and multiple rounds of ammunition inside. As a previously convicted felon, Mr Hyland was legally prohibited from possessing firearms. He was not a good guy.

Just eight days before his arrest, the Working Families Party issued a joint news release from Hyland and District Attorney Larry Krasner, announcing its endorsement of Krasner in his campaign for a third term as top prosecutor. Continue reading →

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You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!

Our nation’s public school teachers are supposed to be intelligent and reasonably well educated. They are required to have baccalaureate degrees, and the vast majority of systems require teachers to obtain their master’s within about five years or so. Oddly enough, when I went to high school, back in the days of inkwells and quill pens, we had exactly one teacher who had his masters, yet I’d argue that we emerged from high school far better educated than what our public schools are producing today.

So, the obvious question is: why are so many of them so boneheadedly stupid?

Conestoga High School teacher facing 63 charges for allegedly having sex with student

Michelle Mercogliano, a special education teacher at Conestoga High School, was charged by the Tredyffrin Township police.

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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right President Trump tries to break the 'anchor baby' chain.

According to Wikipedia, the term “anchor baby” is defined as:

Anchor baby is a term (regarded by some as a pejorative[1][2]) used to refer to a child born to non-citizen parents in a country that has birthright citizenship which will therefore help the parents and other family members gain legal residency[3] or avoid deportation. In the U.S., the term is generally used as a derogatory reference to the supposed role of the child, who automatically qualifies as an American citizen under jus soli and the rights guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[4][5][6] The term is also often used in the context of the debate over illegal immigration to the United States.[7] A similar term, “passport baby”, has been used in Canada for children born through so-called “maternity” or “birth tourism“.[8][9]

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