From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Pennsylvania is more than a battleground state, it is a lynchpin in what promises to be a conservative revolution of “Street Fighters” who are not simply FED UP but who positively LOVE this state, this nation, and the future generations we want to see inherent both.

How do we create a “Conservative Revolution?”

Revolutions, even peaceful ones like ours, are PEOPLE who are enagaged in IDEAS. It seems somple then to me to determine what the first steps should be: [click to continue…]

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New Faces for Harrisburg

by Ethan Demme on November 25, 2008

in PA News

Over at the Clarke Report Hank Clarke writes this excellent post,

Over the past two state election cycles voters have sent a resounding message to Harrisburg insiders: WE WANT NEW BLOOD! Of the 34 GOP victors in open races for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature, 15 have been candidates who had zero name recognition at the outset of the campaign and negligable political experience on their resumes.

Voters have preferred insurance salesman, UPS employees, small business owners, and teachers over entrenched political operatives and county row officers a staggering 44% of the time. Only in overwhelmingly Republican districts where democrats have next to no chance of winning, have old political hands fared well.

Read the full post.

It’s pretty sad when people like insurance salesmen better than they like you. The culture in Harrisburg could use a little shaking up, not just one or two new faces but an earthquake like influx.

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PA Senate GOP Podcast

11.25.2008

Listen the latest PA Senate GOP podcast.

Pretty cool huh except the GOP podcast is usually done this way. It’s not that hard to spiff up you podcast with a free google player (instructions for use) and if they wanted to get really cool they could make the code available so other people could post it [...]

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Pennsylvania Teacher Strikes

11.25.2008

Pennsylvania has the highest number of teacher strikes. (h/t policy blog) the are 111 school districts that are at an immediate risk of a strike and did you know that there could potentially be 125 teachers in 2009?
Visit School Board Transparency and Stop Teachers Strikes for more info.

and to lighten things up a bit…

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Back in the Army Again

11.24.2008

A friend of mine is headed to Iraq in January but unlike most of the guys in his unit he is 55 years old.
LancasterOnline just wrote another piece about him and put up this video on YouTube.

But if you want the real story you need to read his blog “Back in the Army Now” [...]

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Make the water cleaner and produce bio-fuel

11.24.2008

This is a perfect example of a win win situation. Fix the problem of dirty water and create a renewable form of fuel.
LancasterOnline reporter Ad Crable reports
Weird as it seems, the work of a coral reef is being replicated on the rocky banks of the Susquehanna River near Holtwood.
Here at the Muddy Run Pumped Storage [...]

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Democrats Refuse Vote on MCARE

11.20.2008

A statement from “Healthcare for PA families”
House Republicans once again tried to bring the physician MCARE abatement up for a vote on the House floor, but Democrats avoided this critical vote on the last day of session this year.
House Republican Health Care Task Force co-chairs, Reps. Scott Boyd (R-Lancaster County) and Kathy Watson (R-Bucks County) [...]

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Petition to Fight the FOCA

11.19.2008

The American’s United for Life action arm has launched a petition to stop the Freedom of Choice Act which President Elect Obama has promised to sign into law a soon as possible.
Here is Obama’s statements regarding the FOCA

Here is a statement on the FOCA from the Westchester Institute
FOCA would call into question virtually every abortion-related [...]

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