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Runner Fined $100 for Violating Valley Forge Shutdown

AP reports that runner John Bell was fined $100 for running at Valley Forge, despite the park’s closure during the government shutdown. “Bell, 56, said […]

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Are Journalists Bored Because Miriam Carey Wasn’t a Terrorist?

The public knows very little about Miriam Carey, the woman who Capitol Police identified as the person who rammed her black Infiniti into a White […]

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Democrats Screwed Themselves Using “Obamacare”

Question to Democrats: Whose bright idea was it for you to start using the term “Obamacare?” Oh, yeah, that’s right–it was the guy who created […]

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Liberals: Wrong on Community Service Mandate for Long-Term Jobless

  The day before Congress sent tens of thousands of U.S. government workers into a state of involuntary joblessness, conservatives in the United Kingdom unveiled […]

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Sims Announces Marriage Equality Bill

G Philly’s Josh Middleton is on the scene. Check his live Twitter and Instagram coverage after the jump. More on the bill from G Philly […]

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Are These Local Republicans Defecting to End the Shutdown?

Tea Party favorite Michelle Bachmann promised that none of the House Republicans would blink in their efforts to defund Obamacare, even if it means closing […]

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Will It Be Judges or Legislators Who Decide to Bring Gay Marriage to Pennsylvania?

At Slate today, Widener University law professor John Culhane points to a Pennsylvania lawsuit that could provide a final end-around on gay marriage—not just here, […]

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Chris Christie Brings His Unvarnished Style of Take-No-Prisoners Rhetoric to the Gov’t Shutdown

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Government Shutdowners! I bet you didn’t know that you had Chris Christie against you, did you? NBC Philadelphia reports that the New […]

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Americans Are Losing Faith in Each Other. Are We Losing Our Democracy, Too?

So, America, are you ready for a dictator yet? That seems like a crazy question to ask, doesn’t it? After all, we Americans practically invented […]

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Good News From the Shutdown: KKK Rally is Delayed

Penn Live brings us the best news to emerge, so far, from the government shutdown. “A Maryland-based Ku Klux Klan group has a permit to […]

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The Government Is Shut Down! Obamacare Has Started! The World Has Gone Higgledy-Piggledy!

The New York Times reports that the government is shutting down for the first time in nearly 20 years: “The impasse meant that 800,000 federal […]

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Ed Rendell Addresses Rumors He’s Running: Only If Things Got Really, Abysmally Bad

Just how desperate is Philadelphia? Come 2015, the answer to that question might determine whether or not Ed Rendell seeks a third term as mayor. […]

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When The Government Shutdown Comes, Let’s Scrap It and Start Over

That’s it. Time to scrap everything and start over. When government shuts down this week—and as of this writing, such a shutdown seemed a certainty—we […]

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PA Republicans Think Gun Owners Have More Rights than Cancer Sufferers

Last year during a visit to New England my wife slipped on ice and dislocated her shoulder, leaving her in excruciating pain. It wasn’t the […]

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6 Reasons Cory Booker Lost a Whole Lot of Ground to Steve Lonegan

There was a tremor on the political Richter scale you may have missed, since partisan prognosticators and Crossfire fan-kids have been all but assuring us […]