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The Competitive Enterprise Institute has a story on its website and I am wondering how long it'll take for our friends on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviews editorial board (aka Scaife's Brain Trust) to write about it.
Let's all take a moment to remember that the CEI is funded (in part)' [...]
These are uncertain times. But here's one thing we can rely on: No matter how horrific the tragedy, there's always going to be some vile jackass trying to bring out the worst in us.
Sorry if I'm a bit behind-the-news-cycle on this one. I'm still catching up after my flu-related hiatus.
So [...]
Nothing uglier than a gaggle of pissed-off groupies.
Seriously, Sarah Palin does seem to attract folks who are angry -- angry at the government, angry at their perceived lot in life -- angry at, well, everything.
It doesn't take much for their anger to turn towards Palin herself when they don't get [...]
We've referred many times on this blog to the Stupak Amendment, but actually it's the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and the "Pitts" is one Joe Pitts: a Republican in PA's 16th Congressional District.
Pitts has a challenger:
Lois Herr is no Blue Dog and she can use your help -- especially tomorrow' [...]
The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy Talk Show is tomorrow night and features 1/2 of 2pj:
[...]The National Organization for Women, which says it will target Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts in next year’s election, is holding a rally Saturday morning in opposition to the health-care amendment the congressman co-authored with Democrat Bart Stupak.
Lois Herr, the Democratic candidate for the 16th Congressional District seat, will [...]
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You can find the transcript here.
Here's how things began:
MADDOW: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office,” “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.” This is such strong [...]
To be fair, I haven't seen the update of "V" either. I did see the original when it aired, though. The part where that woman unhinges her jaw and swallows a guinea pig? Maaaan! Thinking back on it, I still feel that disorienting sensation of being simultaneously terrified and strangely' [...]
The county commissioners on Wednesday rejected, by a 2-1 vote, a spring arbitration award that gives county corrections officers raises in 2010 and 2011. The arbitration panel gave the 185 corrections officers, who are represented by AFSCME Council 89, a 7 percent pay this year. The officers are contributing [...]
The following students at Pottsgrove High School were named Wednesday (Nov. 18, 2009) with “distinguished honors” to its honor roll for the 2009-2010 school year’s just-ended first quarter:
Bittle, Ryan
Kohler, Jennifer
Defnet, Amy
Collins, Sarah
Letting, Rachel
Edwards, Erica Kathryn
Dixon, Leasia
Letting, Stephanie
Ivins, Ryan
Kennedy, [...] [...] And what, pray tell, did they do again?
They faked some crowd video. First it was a Michele ("She got teh crazie") Bachman rally:
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Sorry for the lack of posts. I'm recovering from a bout of the flu. For a few days there, I didn't have much energy for anything besides reading and napping.
Once I started feeling better, one of the first things I did was go online to make sure that the latest [...]
From The Christian Science Monitor:
There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8”
A nice sentiment?
Maybe not.
The psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Presidential criticism through witty slogans is nothing new. [...]
One man is in custody and another man is at large after a burglary in the North End over the weekend.
Ofc. Jeff Murray was on routine patrol along the 100 block of East Market Street at around 05:17 Sunday morning when he spotted two men, Joseph Dominic Sims, 20, [...]
Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy, D-8th District, will be presented with the sixth annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award on Monday in Cambridge Mass., by the former president's daughter Caroline Kennedy.
The award is jointly sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and Harvard's Institute [...]
Pittsburgh's predominately African American Hill District neighborhood has been without a grocery store for 30 plus years. A year ago, it looked like they'd finally found an operator in Kuhn's Market but the deal has fallen through.
Kuhn's Market says that it's due to one of the owners of the' [...]
From The Macyapper:The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Presents:
The John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show – Thanksgiving Edition!
THANKS BUT NO THANKS – THE PEOPLE WHO RUIN IT FOR THE REST OF US
We all can’t stand the rest of us. So let’s focus like a laser beam on the most annoying among [...]
You know when an issue hits Michelle Malkin's website, it's soon going to be all the talk in conservative political circles: Eagle Scout Versus SEIU.
So don't be surprised if you hear tongues wagging this week about the union that represents city workers in Allentown taking on a volunteer project [...]
But then again, how surprising is that?
Here's what Richard Mellon Scaife's Editorial Board had to say today about October's weather:
Another month, another set of data that counters global-warming orthodoxy -- and another reason why the climate debate must stop generating more heat than light if it's to arrive [...]
The Democratic National Committee has booked air time on Cat Country 96.1 FM to take on Republican 15th District Congressman Charlie Dent for voting against the House Democrats' Health Care reform bill.
Here's a little sample from the script:
"When the U.S. [...]
Yeah, we had problems well before Bonusgate. I love the Patriot-News’ not-so-brief history of political wrongdoing — alleged and otherwise — in our fair state.
[...]Politically Uncorrected
By G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
TOM CORBETT’S PROBLEM
Attorney General Tom Corbett has a problem. More precisely, he had a problem. More about that in a moment!
Corbett’s problem was the same problem confronted by each of his predecessors since the Office of Attorney General became elective in [...]
This weekend was Aaron Copland's birthday. He's one of my favorite composers. He's the guy who wrote "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare for The Common Man."
He also wrote this:
Which continues here:
The amazing thing about his story, of course, is that Copland was questioned by Roy Cohn regarding his Communist [...]
I never thought Jack Kelly would be so anti-US Military. But check out this week's column.
After a gratuitous slap at "America's self-anointed elite" Jack heads straight towards the US Army (Note: Jack thinks that The Army is "America's self-anointed elite"??)
The column starts out about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the [...]
What follows is the full transcript of a recent interview with U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th District, that appeared in and edited version as a point/counterpoint in Sunday's Morning Call
Q: You voted no on Congressional Democrats’ health care reform legislation last weekend. Why?
A: It cuts Medicare by nearly a half trillion [...]
What follows is the full transcript of an interview with 15th District Congressional candidate John Callahan on the topic of health care reform. Callahan, a member of the Democratic Party, is mayor of Bethlehem
Q: How would you have voted on the Medicare bill that passed the House this weekend?
I [...]
The last tears of a departing Hurricane Ida fell as light rain and drizzle in York County for the past few days -- and it's gone now, with clearing expecting tomorrow and sun for all of next week -- but it prompted us to remark on [...] Actually we -- Bob Hillen, Rev. Frank Almade and I -- walked onto PCNC's NightTalk set last night along with the show's host P.J. Maloney. Abortion, LGBT issues ,and the role of women in the Catholic Church were discussed (along with some local issues).
I think that [...]
Republican Tony Allen conceded the race for Lancaster Township supervisor early this afternoon after a painstaking, 3½-hour manual recount showed his Democratic opponent won by 13 votes. “That’s it,” Allen said after the tally was announced by Lancaster County elections officials shortly before 2:30 p.m.
The results will bring an end [...]
You’ve heard about those taxpayer-funded robocalls Rep. John Perzel ordered against fellow Republicans who refused to “adequately conform to his directives” on how they should vote. Perzel also allegedly directed those calls be made against lawmakers he felt had become a “liability” to the caucus, according to the grand [...]
The hypocrisy of the RNC is hardly surprising:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
And it's been the case for a generation:
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho [...]
Holy crap!
I'm not going to write a lot right now on the latest "bonusgate" charges from Attorney General Tom Corbett. I've just worked 12 straight hours, and I'll likely come in on my day off tomorrow to write a follow-up story.
Yeah, I know -- you don't read this blog [...]
Democratic Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan was expected to join pro-health care reform protesters outside the local office of his his 15th Congressional District opponent Charlie Dent today to protest the Republican's vote Saturday against House Democrats' health care bill.
Callahan has not said whether he would [...]
Of all the things in the grand jury’s 188-page Bonusgate presentment against John Perzel, I found this the most humorous: Perzel allegedly punished a group of Republican House members who refused to “adequately conform to his directives” on how they should vote by directing untraceable “robo” or automated calls [...]
