Did You Hear the One About the United Nations’ Alleged Intentions of Taking Over American Parental Rights?
In the ongoing fight between Weird and WTF, we’ve now been warned numerous times to do our part to stop the United Nations’ takeover of American parental rights. Because this is apparently at stake. Most recently, former Sen. Rick Santorum has gotten involved, and he says it’s personal. Our first glimpse at this fight (we think WTF is winning) came in May,...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Another Voter ID Analysis Shows Bleak Picture
An Inky analysis of Voter ID numbers shows more bad news for Philadelphia (not surprisingly). One in four Philly voters over 80 do not have photo ID from the state Department of Transportation. The state has also counted about 136,000 potential voters whose names “did not match those with PennDot IDs” in the city—and about 15.6 percent of the city’s registered...
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DAILY GRINDER: PA Atheist to Desecrate Quran if ‘Year of Religious Diversity’ Resolution Passed
Image: American Atheists Ernest Pearce V, the director of the state chapter of the American Atheists (the same group that put up the “Slaves, Obey Your Masters” billboard in Harrisburg) says if the House passes a new resolution in the fall, which would hilariously call 2012 the “Year of Religious Diversity” in addition to “Year of the Bible,”...
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Sen. Pat Toomey & Others Urge Denying Medicaid Expansion
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote later today on repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but before they do so, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey would like you to know that the law has been “discredited;” everyone hates it; and, by the way: Don’t you dare implement the Medicaid expansion, governors. “The Supreme Court has ruled...
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Meet George Badey III: The Mummer Running for U.S. House
George Badey III (via Facebook) When budget cuts threatened the 2009 and 2010 Mummers Parade, a group of longtime Mummers got together to find a way to put it all back together. The group called themselves Save the Mummers and set out with the idea to do just that. The problem: Their parade cost the city about $1 million (which includes both $750,000 for police...
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DAILY GRINDER: SEPTA Violated Federal Lobbying Regulations?
Good job: Federal officials say SEPTA has “repeatedly” violated lobbying regulations with regard to its paying Washington lobbyists over the past five years and could face fines of up to $100,000—“for each instance.” Smell that? A four-alarm fire killed a vacant warehouse at Front and Girard early this morning. The El is down and one firefighter was...
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DAILY GRINDER: Homeless Feeding Ban Hearings Today
Federal court hearings begin today over the homeless feeding ban in Philadelphia. The ACLU and the law offices of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg LLP are representing several religious groups who say feeding the poor is their religious right. The law technically went into effect on June 1st though the city hadn’t yet fulfilled its obligation to...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: 9.2 Percent of PA Voters Lack ID
New figures of those lacking valid voter ID in Pennsylvania: 758,000, or, about 9.2 percent of the state’s voters, which is much higher than the Corbett Administration’s original estimates of 1 percent. The new numbers are based on a comparison of voter registration rolls with PennDOT databases. There simply aren’t enough electronic monitoring ankle...
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Free Library Foundation Exceeds Fundraising Goals
The Free Library has been feeling some pain lately. Their funding is down 19 percent over five years and in the days and weeks leading up to the end of this fiscal year, the Free Library Foundation headed up a massive email campaign asking for donations, warning without help, programs like One Book, One Philadelphia and LEAP After-school programs could get cut. Now,...
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