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Pennsylvania Editor
Raise your hands if you think Pittsburgh's Lil Mayor Luke and his Philly attorney went overboard threatening to sue anyone and everyone who engage in any rumors/speculation about his separation from his wife.
The P-G interviews Gene Grabowski (a former reporter with The Associated Press who now specializes in crisis [...]
They'll be a protest today at UPMC headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh to demand that Braddock Hospital stay open.
WHAT: Braddock Hospital protest at UPMC headquarters, Black Friday
WHEN: TODAY! 11:30 AM on Friday, November 27
WHERE: Gather at the US Steel Building
Next Community Planning Meeting:
Monday, November 30 at 7:00 PM' [...]
At least not for 2010.
Reports WHTM: Pennsylvania legislators will not give away free 2010 calendars to their constituents. Rep. John Payne (R-Dauphin) said Republican and Democrat leaders of the House of Representatives recently decided not to print the calendars. “After completing a difficult state budget, and with all signs pointing [...]
Via Thinkprogress.
Former Bush Administration Spokesperson was speaking about the recent shootings at Ft Hood (calling them a terrorist attack) when she said:PERINO: And we had a terrorist attack on our country. And we should call it what it is. Because we need to face up to it so that [...]
Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at 2pj!
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From Talkingpointsmemo:Rush Limbaugh may have crossed another line today in his anti-Obama rhetoric -- openly joking (at least, we hope he's joking) about a military coup.
Limbaugh noted that President Obama will be delivering his upcoming speech on Afghanistan, from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
"My question is:" [...]
Well, I'm about to head out of town for a few days. Thanksgiving is the holiday when we're supposed to think about what we're thankful for. I'm thankful for the fact that Lyndon LaRouche never succeeded in any of his attempts to get elected president.
[...]Here's a press release I got yesterday from state Rep. Eugene DePasquale, D-West Manchester, about a package of reforms he wants.
His timing is pretty good. I'm guessing that after the latest Bonusgate charges, members of both parties will be tripping over themselves to demonstrate how reform-minded they are.
' [...]From the uncut version of the KDKA interview (about 9:33 in):
Marty Griffin: Your political advisories, here's what they're going to say tomorrow. The mayor waited until after the election to do this. This thing's been falling apart for two years.
Luke Ravenstahl: Well, it hasn't been falling apart for [...]
The Keystone State was well represented at Tuesday night's state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first of Barack Obama's presidency.
Among the Pennsylvanians who dined on potato and eggplant salad, arugula (of course), red lentil soup, roasted potato dumplings and prawns with green curry were:
Sen. [...]
The Ravenstahls have hired Philadelphia attorney Richard Sprague to represent them in contacts with the media. According to Sprague, his job is "to prevent there being a whole bunch of smears, innuendoes, defamatory things being suggested. If that is so, I will bring appropriate legal action."
In [...]
I mentioned recently that some people are calling for Attorney General Tom Corbett to step down if he's running for governor. Their argument is that high-profile cases such as Bonusgate are giving him too much publicity.
You know, maybe they have a point. Check it out. Tom Corbett's so famous that [...]
On Saturday, we posted this.
Today, the Richard Mellon Scaife's Brain Trust went with this. It's all there:
The Daily Telegraph of London reports that some of the world's top climate scientists engaged in nothing less than fraud to perpetuate the theology that man is responsible for supposedly cataclysmic global [...]
You pay for my family's health insurance.
Suckers!
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
"The goal of this bill and the selling point for it when they were trying to round up the votes was, 'Isn't it wonderful that we're going to cover 30 million uninsured people?' That shouldn't'" [...]
Picture this. One of your poker buddies is telling you and the rest of the guys how he got in trouble at his job.
See, he told his boss that there was a death in the family and he had to go to the funeral. But he was actually heading up [...]
Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy will recieve his New Frontier Award from the Harvard University Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation this afternoon.
Couldn't get tickets? Too busy working? Washing your hair this afternoon?
Check it out here: Live streaming video [...]
In a post on his campaign blog Sunday, U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts says his opponents on the left are making “wild claims” about the Stupak-Pitts amendment. He also indirectly criticizes Lois Herr, the Democrat who is running against him in next year’s election.
There is, however, a small [...]
Predicting the outcome of a political races isn't exactly science, so take this one with a measure of caution, but one of the nation's more respected handicappers The Rothenberg Report, now says the Pa. Senate race is up for grabs.
It had been in the "narrow advantage for incumbent" column.
That's [...]
POTTSTOWN PA – The following students at Pottsgrove Middle 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:
Adair, Alexis
Hillen, Evan
Gottshall, Zachary
Adams, Jeffrey
Hunsberger, Renee
Harp, Matthew
Albright, Lauren
Hutchinson, Kelsey
Hendershot, [...] [...]
U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, who plans to run against Attorney General Tom Corbett in the Republican primary for governor next year, said that Corbett should resign.
Gerlach's not the only one to make that suggestion. The latest round of "Bonusgate" allegations have raised the question once again. How possible is it [...]
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[...]Now THIS is interesting.
This week's column, by Jack Kelly, seems to be in two versions. There's the first published over at the Toledo Blade and a second edited version published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Here's the opening in Toledo:
WHAT were President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder [...]
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 [...]
