Wanna know how Keith Rothfus plans to send Jason Altmire packing and undo the Pelosi catastrophe?  Well, then,  join us for a town hall meeting on Wednsday, September 8 at 8:00 pm at the O’Hara Municipal Building!

Reagan vs today’s clowns - a MUST VIEW!  November is almost here.  Who speaks for you???

Had enough of Jason Altmire?  Join us and Keith Rothfus at our next committee meeting on Wednesday, September 8 at 8:00 pm at the O’Hara Township Municipal Building.  Keith needs our help, and he’ll lay out his message and what you can do to send a true conservative to Congress as our representative.

Join Team Rothfus, Team Toomey and Team Corbett this weekend at the Waterworks Panera at 10:00.  We’ll be going door-to-door in Fox Chapel and O’Hara for our candidates.

Dear Nancy:

Yes 667,680 No 271,102

This isn’t some radio news or website poll asking whether American Idol can survive without Simon Cowell, nor is it a poll of San Franciscans about whether you apply one or two coats of primer before putting on your face every morning. 

No,  this is the result of a much more important - and growing - movement in America.  On Tuesday, Missouri’s voters said “SHOW ME” to you and the ruling Beltway elite by passing a ballot initiative to void a controversial provision in the new federal healthcare law which requires all Americans to have (or buy) medical insurance. 

“Show Me” being the operative phrase here, not so much for the MO motto as for your absurdity in saying “We have to pass this [healthcare] bill so you can see what’s in it.”  Well, guess what, Nance, We the People have been reading what’s in the bill, and we don’t like it.

If there were more people like Missourians, there’d be less people like you telling us what we can and can’t do in our daily, private pursuits of happiness.

And guess what, Nancy?  There are.

Let’s do some math, shall we?  I know this might be difficult for you, seeing as you majored in demagogeury and you’ve never run a business in your life.

Let’s take those 667,680 Yes votes.  Only 577,615 of these came from Republicans.  How many non-Republicans voted to overturn ObamaCare?  That’s ok, I’ll wait.  Borrow 1 from the 8 and carry the 5…that’s it.

90,065.

And who are these people? 

Democrats: 45,000

Independents: 40,000

Record turnout!

I like those numbers, Nancy.  Don’t suppose you do, though.

And it’s spreading.  As a Pennsylvanian, I am greatly encouraged by the fact that Attorney General Tom Corbett had already agreed to join a growing number of other states in challenging this attack on our liberty way back in March.  This result will only strengthen his position.

Give em’ hell, Tom!  We (and many Democrats) are behind you 100%!

And Nancy?

Give our regards to Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters.

99 days ’till conservatives call

99 days, that’s all

If 40 liberals should happen to fall

We can tear down their socialist wall

Check out the latest video from Team Toomey on the hypocrisy of Joe “I could have been Navy Secretary” Sestak keeping campaign contributions in return for his earmarks - something he said he would not do.  Maybe he meant anything above $120,000.

Sestak says one thing and does the exact opposite.  NOT GOOD FOR PENNSYLVANIANS.

With a new story of incompetence sprouting every day, we present the latest action in the gulf from Team Slobama…

Slobama

Given the drive-by media’s narrative regarding New Jersey’s $11 billion budget shortfall, one would think that Governor Chris Christy were the antichrist.  Freezing teacher pay for one year?!! Oh, no!  But let’s consider the facts:

1. New Jersey faces an $11 billion budget gap
2. Eight straight years of 115 democrat tax hikes, resulting in eight straight years of falling revenues
3. A state worker who contributes $148,000 into his pension will receive $3,900,000 when he retires and lives to his life expectancy.  Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer have nothing on this scheme.
4. New Jersey spends $22,000 per student, and only 25% of those students graduate
5. New Jersey has eight of the ten counties with the highest property taxes in the nation

All he asks is that, like everyone in the private sector, teachers contribute 1.5% of their salary to their pensions, as opposed to their current contribution rate of zero.  Predictably, the blessed union leaders are screeching from on high.

Which brings me to Pennsylvania.  We face a multi-billion dollar shortfall, thanks to eight years of raiding pension funds in favor of unprecedented cronyism.  Our unfunded pension obligations are a ticking time bomb whose blast radius has increased under Governor Rendell.  School districts are supposed to fund teacher pensions and then get reimbursed by the state.  However, state pension funding has suffered the same fate of other programs under Fast Eddie’s street vendor shell game governing style.  Prior to 2008, when the market was in good shape, Fast Eddie cut the percentage of payroll the state paid into the pension, from 7.14% to 4.7%.  Like Washington, the Edsel viewed the public pension has his own piggy bank to dole out favors to his cronies in Philadelphia and across the state.  This philosophy - “Times are good, so let’s get drunk on spending” - has led us to the point where the pension is underfunded by $10 billion. 

This is not to excuse the teachers from paying into the fund.  But rather, it takes two to tango.  In the current budget, our fearless leader has graciously increased the contribution percentage to 5.4%.  It would have been higher, the logic goes, but he needed to enact property tax relief. 

Oh. 

Well, I’m sure every citizen is living under a rainbow, now that they each received less than $200.00 per year in relief.  I don’t know about you, but I haven’t heard spin like this since Subway began calling their workers “Sandwich Artists”.

Mr. Corbett, who God willing will soon occupy the Governor’s Mansion, will have to make dramatic spending cuts to bring fiscal stability back to the Commonwealth.  I only hope he’s looking to New Jersey, lest we end up like California.

This is a very sad story about a bear.  Everybody should heed the warning to not feed wildlife because they become dependent and cannot forage for themselves anymore.   This is such a tragedy to see what they have done to our country’s wildlife!

The photo below captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect US wildlife.

Where's the Government?

Just like you, we care about our homes and property, our children’s education, and most important, the performance and accountability of a limited government that answers to you, not the other way around.

Our Principles
Our Founding Fathers got it right when they risked everything for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Our rights come from God, not from the government
There is no right the government can give you that it hasn’t first taken away.

Personal and economic freedom
Each of us has the right to make our own choices, which includes what to do with our hard-earned money.  It is for us to decide how much we pay to the government.

Individual accountability and responsibility
Our God-given rights go hand-in-hand with responsibility.  Each of us is responsible for our own actions and our property.

Respect for and preservation of property rights
Private property rights are fundamental to our freedom.  We choose what we do with our property.

Private citizens, businesses and non-profits are better at solving problems than government
A limited government exists first and foremost to protect its citizens, so that we are free to foster an environment of free enterprise and common sense.  It is in this environment that each of us is at our best when tackling problems in our community.

THANK YOU.  To all of the men and women who have proudly served our country, thank you.  Thank you for putting your life on the line in distant lands, away from your spouse, your children, your family and other loved ones.  Thank you for meeting unbelievable challenges and harrowing circumstances with courage, honor and duty.  Thank you for bearing the scars of war so that we are free to go about our lives in the greatest country God ever bestowed on man.

It is all too easy for the rest of us to get wrapped up in our daily struggles, some of which are more difficult than others, but none that approach what you have endured.  Indeed, we have the luxury of complaining, of speaking out loud about our doubts and fears and exercising our unalienable rights, because of you.

So on this Veterans Day, thank you for protecting and defending our freedom, and may God Bless You.

Scott Brown’s astounding victory in Massachusetts last week was more than a shot across the bow; it torpedoed the notion that the healthcare “crisis” was at the top of everyone’s list of concerns since Obama took office.  In fact, most polls had the economy as Americans’ first concern, at 60%.  Healthcare?  5%.  That’s right.  5%.  Like cap and tax, Obama’s healthcare debacle is a failed power grab to wrest individual freedoms from each of us.  Many in the drive-by media have subjected us to the notion that if only we had universal healthcare, the seas would part, the sun would shine and our economy would rebound.

Scott Brown reminded those in Washington’s bubble, in no uncertain terms, what we in the Heartland have been saying all along:  Knock it off.