Earlier this week, President Obama announced his decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by mid-2010. The president chose to address the nation from the U.S. Military Academy in front ... [...]
FAMILY UPDATE
Volume 5, Issue 37
December 3, 2009
The Pennsylvania Family Institute's weekly update to concerned citizens.
Michael Geer, President
Attention: PA Family Institute has printable v ... [...]
"This is not funny, this is serious stuff!" intones a flock of furrow-browed politicos about that well-dressed couple who conned their way into a White House shindig. Yes and no, in that ord ... [...]
By Elizabeth Bryan and Nathan Benefield
With Pittsburgh on the brink of bankruptcy thanks to its continual out-of-control spending, Mayor Ravenstahl and his allies on City Council have hatched a ne ... [...]
Conventional thinking among local leaders is that because the area didn't "boom" during the last few years, it didn't suffer the economic "bust" to the degree some other areas arou ... [...]
Constitution Convention: In Truth....
PA has not had a Constitution convention of any kind since 1967, and we haven't had a general convention since 1873. So it's to be expected that a lot of misin ...' [...]
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There's a new picture of Obama that's sticking in my mind, like a song that keeps playing in your head (the one that keeps playing for me this week is "Empire State of Mind," especi ... [...]
I have a few questions to ask my generation. Aren't you tired of having someone tell you what to do? Or how much money you should earn? Or putting your personal security at risk? If you're like most p ... [...]
Sometimes extra-curricular activities seem to teach our kids more about excellence than academic subjects.
One of my sons is a singer. Throughout his high school career, he has sung for various c ... [...]
FIRE and 15 National Organizations Sign Statement of Principle on 'Free Expression at Risk, at Yale and Elsewhere'
FIRE has joined with the American Association of University Professors, National Coa ... [...]
INDIANA, Pa. - Turn the corner onto Philadelphia Street in this small Western Pennsylvania town, and you might be on the main street of Bedford Falls, the mythical town in Frank Capra's Christmas clas ... [...]
The 1988 Republican Party primary contest was a titanic struggle between several party heavyweights seeking to carry the Grand Old Party's banner in the post-Reagan era. The campaign featured Vice Pre ...' [...]
By Matt Brouillette, Tim Potts, Barry Kauffman & Olivia Thorne
Pennsylvania's government is a prime exhibition of Lord Acton's well-known admonition that "power corrupts."
The ongoin ... [...]
FIRE is pleased to announce the publication of Defying the Constitution: The Rise, Persistence, and Prevalence of Campus Speech Codes in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. Authored by FIRE ... [...]
Welcome to the 2009 Unnamed Holiday Season
We will shop for Unnamed Holiday gifts. Our children will participate in public school Unnamed Holiday concerts celebrating snow, sleigh bells, and red-n ... [...]
Presidential comparisons that greeted Barack Obama's election ranged from the sublime to the transcendent. He was variously described as the second coming of John F. Kennedy, a re-embodiment of Frankl ... [...]
The privatization of Pennsylvania's liquor stores is an idea that has been floating around the halls of Harrisburg for decades. The sale of stores alone would generate over $1.7 billion dollars in pro ... [...]
Shortly after the conclusion of the September G-20 Summit, the head of VisitPittsburgh claimed the event's economic benefits to the City and region reached $35 million. As we pointed out in an earlie ... [...]
You can't say we weren't warned ahead of time about Obama's globalist and controlling tendencies.
As candidate Obama explained in a campaign speech in Portland on May 18, 2008, it would be tough fo ...' [...]
The time has come for a state constitutional convention.
It has become abundantly clear that not only is state government broken and dysfunctional, but that it is impossible for the current governmental structure to fix itself so that it can begin to address the ma ... [...]
The 2008 national election shows our next generation of leaders must possess something many recent and current elected officials lack: intellectual courage.
President Nixon believed all leaders, rega ... [...]
Obama actually gave a pretty good speech, one directed at Chinese college
students. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him refer to basic American values of liberty and free enterprise. Obama pointed ... [...]
November 21-22 - Insane Foreign Policy
The bottom line this week, is that President Barrack Hussein Obama's foreign policy is insane.
In April, Obama became the first President of the United Sta ... [...]
Policy Brief
An electronic publication of
The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy
At the October 19th hearing to determine how and when to conduct a reassessment of Allegheny County-a hear ... [...]
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe
12th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
(724) 772-3110
(717) 783-1707
RepMetcalfe.com
Contact: Ty McCauslin
(717) 772-9979
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, ... [...]
For some years I have corresponded with Larry Willmore, formerly
with the United Nations in New York, currently with the International
Institute for Applied Systems in Austria. In July of 2008 ... [...]
THE HOUSE of Representatives has now voted for the largest possible
government takeover of health care, despite bipartisan opposition.
Thirty-nine House Democrats, including two from Pennsylvania, ... [...]
November 17, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Information Contact: James May, Campaign Manager
James@SamRohrer.org | 484.319.7907
Rohrer Announces Gubernatorial Bid
WEST LAWN, PA [11.17.0 ... [...]
In my previous commentary for American Radio Journal, I commended the
profound historical event that was fall of the Berlin Wall, the 20th
anniversary of which took place on November 9. The fall of ... [...]
The Obama administration's decision to treat the 9/11 terror attacks as a matter for our civilian court system stands as a propaganda victory for al-Qaida and jeopardizes national security. It has bee ...' [...]
America honors its deceased presidents, its fallen troops, its late senators, and even its musicians and movie stars. But what about its veterinarians?
Well, theres one veterinarian who deserves p ... [...]
The Mayor of Pittsburgh is trying to levy a new tax on college and university tuition to shore up the City's calamitous legacy costs. A City Council member has countered with another proposal. That ...' [...]
In news from the world of universal health care, Mark Wattson, 35, collapsed in pain in the street in Swindon, England, a month after he had his appendix removed.
He was rushed by ambulance to Grea ... [...]
In recent interviews defending President Obama's slow decision making on Afghanistan, Congressman John Murtha continues to undermine our troops, embolden our enemies, and place our country in greater ... [...]
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe
12th District
Rep. Todd Rock
90th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Contact: Ty McCauslin
House Republican Public Relations
(717) 772-9979
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEA ... [...]
Like most Americans, I have spent a lot of time on my knees, asking God for help with the challenges that members of my family were facing. As each of my kids grew, I prayed with them as well as for ... [...]
The history of the United States is one of victories in defense of freedom.
These moments include great military victories in the Revolutionary and Civil wars and World War II. Other victories incl ... [...]
It has been quite the month thus far in Pennsylvania politics. Highlights include a Republican resurgence in six statewide judicial races, an ongoing recount in a tight Superior Court race, the emerge ... [...]
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN, W.Va. - This mountain in southern West Virginia, right in the middle of Appalachia's spine, is fast becoming someone's Waterloo.
It's too soon to tell who will be the loser: t ... [...]
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For the weeks of ... [...]
November 14-15 -- Defending Freedom is our Culture
This week, Sara Mohsin joins me on the program and offers some compelling insights concerning recent economic headlines. Sara is a great entrepren ... [...]
By Col. Frank Ryan, USMC (Ret.)
The Medal of Honor is bestowed on those individuals "who conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his [or her] life above and beyond the ca ..." [...]
The Conservative Reform Network
The Newsletter for Independent, Conservative Political Activists
In This Issue
Conservative Reform Network
Taxing Citizens
Taking Your Money
Spending ... [...]
THE WESTMORELAND WATCHMAN
A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY CONSERVATIVE COALITION
___________________________________________________________________________________________ ... [...]
(Lebanon, PA) - The national grassroots organization FreedomWorks has confirmed that former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey will be serving as the keynote speaker at the "March On Harrisbur ..." [...]
There's something about stocks that turns us upside down. For example, normally when something goes on sale, we tend to buy more of it; yet, when stock prices fall, many investors want to buy less.
... [...]
For Immediate Release
Contact: 717-228-7524
CONSTITUTION GROUP JOINS CALL FOR RALLY IN HARRISBURG
(Lebanon, PA) - The Constitutional Organization Of Liberty (COOL) is adding it's voice ... [...]
An independent consultant hired by Pittsburgh Public Schools to study facility usage recommended closing 16 buildings and reconfiguring another 19 of the District's 70 facilities. The recommendations ...' [...]
Holmes and I were firmly ensconced in our parlor at 221B - Baker Street on the first evening at the end of daylight savings time. The shadows grew eerie and by late afternoon darkness was upon us when ... [...]
Two summers ago, while passing through an airport, I caught a TV news
story: double homicide in Ohio. The victims were a young woman and the nine-month-old fetus she was carrying. The murderer was he ... [...]
Once upon a time a little red hen decided that she wanted to have some bread to eat. So she planted wheat, tended her crop, harvested the ripe grain, ground it into flour, and then baked her bread. ... [...]
How Professors Think by Harvard University Michelle Lamont is a recently published book from the Harvard University Press.
Obviously not a report on how all professors think, its basis is better indi ... [...]
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215-717-3473
Fax: 215-717-3440
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Adam Kissel For Immediate Release:
Phone: 215-717-3473 November 3, 2009
College Aband ... [...]
The sky-is-falling greenies are getting progressively batty.
It's not enough that we shut down our oil, gas and coal industries, bike to work, switch our light bulbs, take cloth bags to the supermark ... [...]
Would one-party domination in any combination of Tuesday's off-year elections really indicate where this country is going politically?
You've got gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, a c ...' [...]
In the next few days, we will see the health care reform bills that the Senate and House have been cobbling together behind closed doors. In the Senate, the result of merging two bills, one from the ... [...]
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For the weeks of ... [...]
Temple University hosted a visit by Dutch Parliamentarian and Chairman of the Dutch Freedom Party Geert Wilders on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The controversial European politician was invited to speak by an or ... [...]
By G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
Let's be frank. Pennsylvania's long running dilemma about selecting judges is here for the duration. It's been around a long time and it's not going away soon ... [...]
New administrations normally inspire commentators into rummaging through a thesaurus to extract that single phrase or word that is apposite to the times. Instead musing about a reincarnation of The Sq ... [...]
The Conservative Reform Network
The Newsletter for Independent, Conservative Political Activists
In This Issue
Conservative Reform Network
Toomey/Sestak Videos
Toomey Talks Healthcare
... [...]
October 30
Under Pressure from FIRE and Students, University of North Texas Eliminates Free Speech Zones
FIRE is very pleased to report that the University of North Texas (UNT) has revised it ... [...]
By Colin A. Hanna
President, Let Freedom Ring
It's been a year since Californians said YES to Proposition 8, the controversial ballot initiative preserving traditional marriage in the Golden State ... [...]
Did you ever notice that Halloween was a socialist holiday?
People who do not work knock on the doors of people who do and ask them to share their wealth. And the wealth is redistributed. It's ac ... [...]
After missing the constitutionally-mandated deadline for passing a state budget by 101 days the Pennsylvania General Assembly promptly adjourned and went home for a month's vacation.
The decision to leave Harrisburg was made by Speaker Keith McCall over the strong ... [...]
"[T]he death of ten to twenty million people is nothing to be afraid of."
-Mao Tse-tung
"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's ent ...'" [...]
By Joe Torsella
For almost two years, Pennsylvania has been engaged in spirited debate about the academic expectations we hold for our young people. In public hearings, the halls of the Capitol an ... [...]
The Conservative Reform Network
The Newsletter for Independent, Conservative Political Activists
In This Issue
Conservative Reform Network
Airport to Nowhere
Ties that Bind
Murtha's ... [...]
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PRESS RELEASE
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Phone: 215-717-3473 October 22, 2009
FIRE Celeb ... [...]
Over the weekend of September 11th, President Obama chided opponents of his health care reforms for being naysayers. He accused them of lying and of not offering alternatives.
The President's clai ... [...]
It's that time of year when Americans can exercise their constitutional right to abstain from voting. Which they do. Even in the presidential election of 1964, when President Lyndon B. Johnson receiv ... [...]
Rep. Douglas Reichley
134th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
(717) 787-1000
(610) 965-9933
Contact: Todd Abele
tabele@pahousegop.com
(717) 783-3957
Member Site: RepReichley.com
... [...]
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE ON
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Download the Judicial Voters' Guide!
Why should I care?
Voters will be choosing the judges on your own county's Court of Common Pleas --who de ... [...]
Total Started Survey: 173
Total Completed Survey:161 (93.1%)
[b]Section I: Business Climate[eb]
[b]1. In general, do you think business conditions in Pennsylvania are better, the same, or worse ... [...]
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke says the economic recession has ended. Somebody, however, forgot to tell businesses in Pennsylvania. Results of the Lincoln Institute's 2009 Keystone Business Climate Survey found 92% believe the recession continues, and 62% say the state's economic climat ... [...]
October 17-18 - Healthcare Destruction
I began this past weekend's show, by commenting on the "Baucus" Healthcare Bill that was passed out of the Senate Finance Committee last week. This ... [...]
The patient was wheeled into the emergency room. The paramedics who brought him
filed a report describing that he had been weak and lethargic. They had been unable to revive him at home, and had de ... [...]
I don't want to sound negative, but is anyone else getting the idea that we're starting to live in Clunker Nation?
Start with the actual clunker deal where we borrowed money from China to buy Japan ... [...]
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For the weeks of October 19 and 26, 2009: Carolyn F. Scanlan, Presiden ... [...]
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PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Greg Lukianoff For Immediate Release:
Phone: 215-717-3473 October 19, 2009
FIRE Wins ... [...]
Remember the city mouse and the country mouse who exchanged visits?
In the end, the gap between the cousins' worlds left both comfortable with their own choices and baffled by the other's.
That's ... [...]
The price of gold has recently spurted to a new all-time high in terms of U.S. dollars. I'm neither an expert nor a market timer, but let me offer a few perspectives on this event.
To most people, ...' [...]
While state budget deliberations have come to a close, discussions about Allegheny County's budget are just beginning. The County's general fund-where most of the day to day operations are accounted ... [...]
October 10-11 -- Restore the Reagan Revolution
On my radio show this past weekend, I discussed the current state of our economy, as well as the Democrats' proposed changes to health care and the Pe ...' [...]
A young dark-haired student, Chris Klicka, sat in my U.S. Constitutional History class at Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania around 1980. He was an excellent student with a particularly keen ... [...]
The Allegheny County Airport Authority has released its budget for 2010. And while it contains a very slight increase in expenditures over this year's budget it has been necessary to boost airline charges to cover expenditures and to reverse a decline in revenues. These higher costs will ultimately ...' [...]
October 14
Final Day to Register Online for FIRE's 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner in NYC!
Online registration is still available for FIRE's 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner-but not fo ... [...]
Finally, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a new state budget. The 101-day budget crisis ended with a new spending plan of $27.8 billion, a mere $500 million less than the previous year's budget w ...' [...]
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CITIZENS AGAINST GAMBLING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Casino opponents appeal decisions to give Foxwoods more time to open their Casino - Opponents file brief in PCGB's Commonw ... [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
PA Chamber, U.S. Chamber rally to address importance of international trade to Pennsylvania's economy
Senior Trade Advisor and Consul of Mexico to speak ... [...]
You ain't seen nothin' yet" was Ronald Reagan's standard rally-ending line during his 1984 reelection campaign. He won 49 states, losing only his opponent's home state, Minnesota, 49.7 percent to ..." [...]
The "Overseas Contingency Program" -- the "war on terror" -- is back at the center of the political world, thanks to the uncertain prosecution of the war in Afghanistan.
As Pres ... [...]
Representative Sam Smith
Republican Leader
PA House of Representatives
NEWS RELEASE
Date: October 9, 2009 Contact: Stephen Miskin (717) 787-3845
Internet: www.SamSmithPaHouse.com
(HARRIS ... [...]
Have you ever been in charge of a project or program? Then you have probably been the recipient of the advice of friends, co-workers, or onlookers who are full of wisdom about how you could be doing ... [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 11, 2009
For more information contact Jim Babb at 610-539-8825 or jamesbabb@mac.com or Ken Krawchuk at 215-881-9696 or info@KenK.org
The Abington Township Commiss ... [...]
