Voter Fraud - Philly style

Desperate Dems Paying People To Sit In Empty Convention Arena

Democrats Perfect the Art of Voter Fraud

Jack Cashill, writing at American Thinker:

Worse than fraud is the process that turned nearly 20,000 black Philadelphians -- and millions of inner-city dwellers throughout the country -- into automatons.  Hope does not produce this kind of regimentation.  Fear does.  In looking at these numbers, in fact, one can begin to see how, 34 years ago this Sunday, in the jungles of Guyana, Jim Jones was able to persuade 918 of his followers, most of them poor and black, to drink their lethal Kool-Aid. Fear can do that.

Jack Cashill: Obama's Jonestowns

Pa. archdiocese named 'unindicted co-conspirator' in child sex-abuse case

The new Philadelphia District Attorney is taking no prisoners in putting an end to a pattern of child sex-abuse and coverups withing the Catholic church.

Pa. archdiocese named 'unindicted co-conspirator' | 6abc.com

Gov. Corbett Appoints 4 to Philadelphia Regional Port Authority

Governor Corbett Appoints Four Members to Philadelphia Regional Port Authority

Columnist finds a conservative in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky does a half-decent job of profiling conservative blogger Aaron Proctor, whose Philly Decline blog focuses on the one-party rule (Democrats, of course) that has destroyed one of America's great cities.

Check out the article at the newspaper's website.

And check out Proctor's blog at Philly Decline.

Tom Quigley vs. Bernard Hopkins

It's crunch time in Harrisburg as the Pennsylvania Legislature works to meet the June 30 deadline for completing the 2010-11 budget, but there's always down time in the Legislature as the rank-and-file members wait for direction from the leadership.

During a break, State Rep. Tom Quigley, R-146th Dist., mugs for the camera with Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard Hopkins, who was visiting the state Capitol this week.

Hopkins, a Philadelphia native, was honored by the House and Senate for his boxing achievements and community activities. The 46-year-old boxing legend recently won the WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship, becoming the oldest fighter in boxing history to win a world title.

Ryan Howard engaged to Eagles cheerleader

Who says there's no future in cheerleading?

Krystal Campbell, a member of the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleading squad, has landed Ryan Howard, the Philadelphia Phillies slugging first baseman.

While NFL teams frown on players fraternizing with cheerleaders, there appear to be no rules for girls dating players from another sport.

Howard is among the highest paid players in baseball, earning $20 million a year from the Phillies.

No word if Campbell will continue strutting her stuff from the sideline after she marries Ryan. A wedding is planned in 2012.

Howard engaged to Eagles cheerleader - pottsmerc.com

Phillies the Favorite to Win 2011 World Series

Do the people who participated in this poll know Chase Utley is probably out for the season with a bad knee?

Phillies the Favorite to Win 2011 World Series

Columnist: Why Is Philly Spending $500,000 to Build Another Statue?

Philadelphia is nearly bankrupt but city officials have decided to spend $500,000 for a statue. And you wonder why so many Pennsylvania taxpayers are sick and tired of subsidizing the city. Might as well dig a hole and bury the money.

From a column in Philadelphia Magazine by Victor Fiorillo:

Whether the city wants to admit it or not, we are on a long and painful road that terminates in bankruptcy — unless we change direction. And in addition to the fat union benefits, unconscionable D.R.O.P. payments, and the huge contracts that go to political cronies and the good old boys, we need to look long and hard at all of these "small" expenses — no matter how feel-good they are or how many votes they guarantee—because they add up.

I don't want to be the one to tell the thousands of inner-city kids who depend on the community pools for recreation, No, I'm sorry. No swimming this year. We decided to build a statue. In fact, the city is desperately searching for money to keep the pools open this summer, and that earmarked $500,000 would guarantee that 58 of the 70 pools in question would be filled with splashing kids for one more season.

My proposal: Sink that $500,000 into the pools (or any of the other cash-strapped programs that benefit our kids), and I'll personally give each city library a copy of Inquirer reporter Daniel Biddle's new book, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America. That way, the children of Philadelphia can actually learn something about Catto. Assuming the libraries are still open, of course.

Why Are We Spending $500,000 to Build Yet Another Statue?

The Philadelphia Horror

Michelle Malkin writes about the abortion-on-demand industry funded by taxpayers. The horror stories coming out of Philadelphia are not that rare, she argues.

The Philadelphia Horror - Michelle Malkin - National Review Online

Songwriting icon Jimmy Webb performs in Philadelphia

Singer/Songwriter Jimmy Webb, who has written classics like "Up, Up and Away," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston" and "MacArthur Park," is performing in Philadelphia this weekend. Check out the profile of the music legend in The Mercury.

Songwriting icon, Jimmy Webb, releases 'Just Across the River' - pottsmerc.com

The Anti-Rendell Movement: Pennsylvania Political Power Shifts West

Ed Rendell's legacy after eight years as governor of Pennsylvania? A state teetering on the verge of bankruptcy and a Democratic Party in shambles, having lost the governor's race and control of the state House and the prospect of being the minority party in state government for the next decade. Heckavu job, Ed.

Rendell is counting down his last few days in the governor's mansion. Former Speaker of the House John Perzel, a RINO who helped push the Rendell agenda through the Legislature, lost his bid for re-election. Former Sen. Vince Fumo is behind bars. And now Philly Rep. Dwight Evans is no longer a player in Harrisburg. How the mighty have fallen.

With the ouster of Evans by his own party from the powerful post of House Appropriations Committee Chairman, Philadelphia won't have a seat at the adult table when the Pennsylvania Legislature reconvenes in 2011.

From a story by Brad Bumsted about how power has shifted to Western Pennsylvania:

HARRISBURG -- The balance of power at the state Capitol that for decades tilted toward Philadelphia now largely lies in the hands of Western Pennsylvania lawmakers.

Senate Democrats on Wednesday elected Jay Costa of Forest Hills as minority leader, giving Allegheny County three of the four floor leaders in the General Assembly in January. House Majority Whip Mike Turzai is a Bradford Woods Republican, and Oakmont Democrat Frank Dermody will become House minority leader.

Gov.-elect Tom Corbett of Shaler will take office with two other legislative leaders from the West: House Speaker-elect Sam Smith, R-Punxsutawney, and Senate President Pro Tempore-elect Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson County.

Additionally, House Democrats on Tuesday chose Rep.Joe Markosek of Monroeville as ranking Democrat on the budget committee, displacing 20-year veteran Rep. Dwight Evans of Philadelphia.

An erosion of an inner circle of leaders during the past four years was capped by the Nov. 2 election, in which voters handed the House back to Republicans. Former Senate power broker Vincent Fumo, D-Philadelphia, is in federal prison for fraud, and former House Speaker John Perzel, a seated GOP member from Philadelphia, faces trial next year on felonies for allegedly using public resources for campaigns.

Read the full story at The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review website.

Route 422 to close for 4 hours Sunday

If you're planning a trip toward King of Prussia or Philly on Sunday, be warned. You're going to have to find an alternate route.

From the Pottstown Mercury:

Route 422 in both directions will be shut down from 6 to 10 a.m. Sunday, June 27, between the Route 202 and 23 interchanges in Upper Merion and Tredyffrin, PennDOT announced Thursday. PECO is resetting overhead utility wires.

The following detours will be in place during the closure:

Route 422 East Detour: Eastbound Route 422 traffic will exit at Route 23, turn right at Route 23, turn left at Gulph Road and take Gulph Road to Route 202

Route 202 North to Route 422 West Detour: Northbound Route 202 traffic will turn left at Gulph Road, take Gulph Road to Route 23, turn right at Route 23 and then turn left at the ramp to Route 422 west

Interstate 76 East/West and Route 202 South to Route 422 West Detour: I-76 and southbound Route 202 motorists will take the ramp to the Swedesford Road exit, turn right at Swedesford Road, turn left at South Warner Road, turn left at Gulph Road, turn right at Route 23 and turn left at the ramp to Route 422 west

Motorists are advised to allow additional travel time during the road closure.

Check The Mercury's Web site for updates.

Blonde in sex-for-tickets case blogs about 'Phillies fantasies'

She says it right on her blog: Her 15 minutes of fame were not enough.

The suburban Philadelphia woman charged with prostitution after she allegedly offered undercover cops sex in exchange for Phillies World Series tickets, has launched a blog to share her fantasies about the Phillies.

(She was found not guilty in court of the most serious charges but was sentenced to one year probation).

You can check out Susan Finkelstein's R-rated fantasies at Rounding 3rd with Susan Finkelstein

State trooper charged with DUI killed in wrong-way crash

A Pennsylvania State Police trooper facing DUI charges was killed early Wednesday morning while driving the wrong way down Interstate 76 in Philadelphia.

The off-duty trooper, Cpl. John Quigg, 48, of Wyndmoor, died when he crashed into an oncoming car driven by a 23-year-old Philadelphia woman, authorities said.

The accident happened around 1 a.m. Wednesday in the eastbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway near the Spring Garden exit ramp, police said.

Cpl. Quigg was an accident reconstruction specialist for the Pennsylvania State Police. He was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday in Montgomery County on the DUI charge, which resulted from an incident on Route 422 last year.

Read more about the crash and Quigg's legal troubles from reporter Carl Hessler Jr. at The Mercury's Web site.

Go Flyers!

Help honor Greek-Americans in Philadelphia region

The Greek American Heritage Society of Philadelphia has launched a capital campaign to raise funds to build a museum honoring Greek-Americans in the Delaware Valley.

The group has set up a charitable foundation to accept tax-deductible donations in any amount toward the project.

It has also launched a Web site, www.GreekAmericanHeritage.org, to promote the effort.

Its short-term goal is to locate traveling classrooms "where young people will observe displays of objects, videos and other means to inspire an interest in the Greek culture," according to the Web site.

The long term goal is to locate a permanent site for a museum, library and study area.

"After many years of planning, the founders of The Greek American Heritage Society of Philadelphia were able to obtain sufficient funds in order to create a venue to perpetuate the Wonders, the Glory, and the founding of our own American Democracy and our own American Freedom of which we are so proud," according to the Web site.

If you'd like to make a donation, make checks payable to "The Greek American Heritage Society of Philadelphia" and send them to P.O. Box 103, Broomall, PA 19008

The group is also looking for volunteers to help spread the message about its cause. You can contact the Society at 610-356-5329 or e-mail: greekheritagesociety@msn.com

Rendell taser comments 'unnecessary'

Pennsylvania has run up $4.25 billion in budget deficits over the past two years, needs to come up with another $3 billion for transportation funding and a few billion more to deal with the looming public pension crisis.

So what is Gov. Ed Rendell spending time on?

He's offering his 2 cents over the recent Taser incident of a fan who ran onto the field at a Phillies game.

Good way to keep those priorities in order, Ed.

Columnist Kevin Cramsey is also disgusted with the governor's behavior.

From a new post at Examiner.com:

He's not the mayor of Philadelphia anymore, so it's not really his call.

And since the act of a nitwit running onto a baseball field is hardly cause for gubernatorial intervention, one has to wonder why Mr. Rendell had to inject himself into this story.

Perhaps the lure of the TV cameras is just too great.

Read the full post at the link below:

Rendell taser comments 'unnecessary'

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Little sympathy for fan who ran onto field

There is little sympathy for the teen who ran onto the field at Monday's Philadelphia Phillies game only to be brought down by a Taser fired by a Philly police officer.

The vast majority of readers voting at The Mercury's Web site (nearly 8 in 10) say the teen deserved what he got.

Here's the question and the results so far.

Do you think the Boyertown teen should have been tasered for running onto the field during the Phillies' game?

Yes, he violated the rules, he deserved it. (78%)

No, it was excessive. (22%)