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Surprise: Philly ‘Sanctuary’ Advocates Don’t Like Reporting Illegals to Feds

Mike in Ardmore tipped me to this story from Philadephia: Outside the Immigration Court building at 9th and Market Streets on Wednesday, about 100 demonstrators knelt on the sidewalk in memory of recent deportees, whose names they wore on string-and-paper necklaces. It was just one stop in a mile-long walk to increase public pressure on […]

Obama Jinxes Steelers in Super Bowl

Ever since the president put the curse on Philly, every NFL team has prayed that Obama wouldn’t endorse them. Obama: ‘I’ve got some love for the Steelers’ Sorry, Pittsburgh fans: Packers by 4. But at least Dan Collins can enjoy the sexy cheerleader at AOSHQ. UPDATE: Everybody else has already blogged this, so what the heck?

Abortion Is Murder, and Sometimes We Are Brutally Reminded of That Fact

Even the Associated Press can’t ignore this story: A doctor who provided abortions for minorities, immigrants and poor women in a “house of horrors” clinic has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive . . . (Via Memeorandum.) UPDATE: John Hayward at […]

Report: Suspect Confesses to 3 Murders in Philadelphia ‘Kensington Strangler’ Case

Police say Antonio Rodriquez, 22, has “made a full confession” in the case of three women murdered last year in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, according to Fox 29 (WTXF-TV) News: Rodriguez was taken into custody Monday in connection with the case after being linked to the sexual assaults and strangling deaths of three women late last […]

When Did Sarah Palin Say ‘Put Him Against the Wall and Shoot Him’?

 Oh, wait. Excuse me. It wasn’t Sarah Palin who said that: On October 23, The Scranton Times reported that Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., said this about Florida’s new Republican Governor Rick Scott: “That Scott down there that’s running for governor of Florida,” Mr. Kanjorski said. “Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to […]

Did Obama’s Election Cause Outbreak of Racist Grafitti in Philadelphia?

That’s what is claimed by an attorney representing plaintiffs in a civil-rights lawsuit: Several black men who were contracted to work at the Sunoco refinery in Philadelphia were forced to clean up racial slurs written about them on bathroom walls, the men claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit. . . . The six plaintiffs, […]

Nine Key States for 2012

Jennifer Rubin identifies the Democratic senators who are most vulnerable in the next cycle: Jon Tester, Bill Nelson, Jim Webb, Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Sherrod Brown, and Kent Conrad, for starters. That’s a total of seven Democrats who voted for (were all the 60th vote for) ObamaCare, supported the stimulus plan, and come from states […]

PA-10: Greetings From Williamsport

Traveling with Pete Da Tech Guy is not just a job, it’s an adventure. We left the home of William Jacobson in Ithaca, N.Y., about 3:30 p.m. and arrived in Williamsport about 6:30. We had called and left messages on the phone number listed on Tom Marino’s Web site, but got no return calls, and […]

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