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Pawatercooler.com: This Day In History

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:06:33 -0500

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Today is “the day that shall live in infamy” — one that nobody [except on one public occasion, George Herbert Walker Bush] will ever forget. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Each year on this date flags are to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the men and women who gave their [...]

Bucks Right: Among Independents, Tea Party Tops GOP and Dems

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:42:23 -0500

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Rasmussen released the results of a survey this morning showing that, among independent voters, a generic candidate from a fictional “Tea Party” would beat generic candidates offered by both the Democrat and Republican Parties. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes [...]

POLICY BLOG: Who Pays Pennsyvania's Personal Income Tax? Part II

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:24:00 -0500

Pennsylvania has a flat rate Personal Income Tax (PIT) of 3.07%, which is a fair and simple distribution of taxation. Yet some people are imprudently calling for a state-wide graduated income tax, similar to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In this blog series, I will highlight various reasons why one [...]

Suburban Guerrilla: You Call This A Compromise?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:17:06 -0500

Jacob Hacker, author of the original public plan, on the ongoing negotiations:

Another, even stranger idea is to offer the nonprofit plans available in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) within the exchange. Since the FEHBP is itself a form of exchange, this amounts to offering a new set [...]

Fun with Politics: Book recommendation

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:17:51 -0500

I'm not sure if I mentioned this on the blog before, but I'm a book junkie. I'm always working on at least one, regular text-on-pages book, and one audio book.

Since a lot of those books tend to be about political subjects, I figured maybe I could write a recommendation here' [...]

Bucks Right: NPR To Liasson: Reconsider Your FOX News Role

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:42:12 -0500

At about the same time as the Obama administration was waging war on FOX News, urging other outlets to stop treating the dominant cable news channel as a legitimate news outlet, National Public Radio urged Mara Liasson, their top political reporter, to reconsider her frequent [...]

2 Political Junkies: Post-Gazette repeats old myth

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:11:00 -0500

UPDATE: Daniel Malloy of the Post-Gazette responds here.
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When can we finally retire the urban legend repeated in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today? Namely this:
The debate puts the first-term senator in an uncomfortable place. His father, former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey, challenged Roe v. [...]

Pawatercooler.com: Roundup: Economy/Porkulus edition

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:01:18 -0500

(1) By Jim Geraghty’s reckoning, the Allentown slice of the porkulus spent over $11 million on various projects with no identifiable jobs created. “Hey, I think I spotted the problem with the economy! All of this money is being thrown around, but nobody’s created any jobs with it!” (2) The CEO [...]

Capitol Punmanship: A lot at stake for Corbett in first corruption trial

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:35:11 -0500

Brad Bumsted of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review lays it out:

The case arguably is the weakest of the corruption cases. That’s not to say [ex-state Rep. Sean Ramaley will] win a not-guilty verdict. But it was in my view a 50-50 shot as the trial got under way. Those are good [...]

Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents: Letter to the Editor

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:29:33 -0500

It certainly has been a long time since we've had a letter to publish. Bruce Wilder of Oakland writes to deplore the tactics of the Manhattan Principles. It is a lovely letter and a nice way to start Monday.

If such a group wants to challenge our laws with civil' [...]