Do Pennsylvania’s Representatives Support Turning U.S. into a ‘Battlefield’?
Image: Shutterstock The 2012 Defense Authorization Bill has become the object of scorn by the White House and many civil rights groups due to a provision that some say would allow the U.S. military to assert “battlefield” rules on U.S. soil and imprison American citizens without charge or trial. The bill, S 1867, was drafted “in secret,” by Senators...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Drexel Student Arrested in Egypt Protests
One of the Americans arrested during the Egypt protests, Gregory Porter, is a Drexel University student and resident of Glenside. He and two other Americans were accused of throwing firebombs from a rooftop within the university compound near Tahrir Square. ‘International and area studies’ probably doesn’t sound like one of those majors where you could...
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Bob Casey Votes Against Ethanol Subsidy Repeal. What? (Updated)
Yesterday, Seventy-three U.S. Senators voted to repeal the $5 billion annual subsidy the U.S. hands out for producing ethanol. Senator Bob Casey, after sending out a press release saying he was with his Adorable Republican Sitting Partner (Toomey voted with the majority) earlier in the week, voted against the amendment. And we were so ready to give Casey...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Look at Rep. Chaka Fattah on ‘Morning Joe’
Rep. Chaka Fattah went on ‘Morning Joe’ this week to tout his ‘Debt Free America Act.’ Part of his plan includes a 1-cent fee on all financial transactions. Watch: [Morning Joe] Obama polls around 50 percent in Pennsylvania. He is finished! Game over! [Some poll] The Federal Reserve says our local Philly economy is slow. Slowing. Not...
Continue ReadingDaily Grinder: Will Vince Fumo Get Out of Prison in a Couple Years, or Never?
They’re still trying to “re-sentence” Vince Fumo. Prosecutors say the measly 55 months he’s serving for 137 counts of fraud, tax evasion and obstructing justice should actually be 27 years. That argument’s main flaw: This is America. We don’t imprison our politicians that long. [Reuters] There are lots of pictures of Philly. Something about a...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Prove Everyone Wrong and Vote
Rain has a way of being synonymous with ‘not voting.’ Don’t do that. I mean, really? Rain? C’mon. District Attorney Seth Williams said, for this reason, he expects voter turnout “will be low.” (Assuming it starts raining later.) Prove him wrong. Say, ‘I’m not afraid of water!’ [Philly Clout] Also, just go ahead and prove everyone...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Corbett: There are Things to Use Surplus on Besides School. Things Like Nothing.
Governor Tom Corbett does not want to use a “growing state cash surplus” to ease his devastating spending cuts in, say, education. He cites “the generational cycle of these children, so that they have a Pennsylvania to live in, to grow up in and raise their children in.” Protesters, not happy. Parents, pissed. Four-hundred Philadelphia teachers being...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Ladies Not Charmed by Governor Corbett
According to a Quinnipiac Poll, Governor Tom Corbett has reached Bob Casey-like numbers in the state: 39 approve, 37 disapprove, 24 have no opinion. Weird part: almost half of all Pennsylvania women disapprove of the dude. Growing up in a small town, no one ever told him you gotta buy a lady a drink before she let’s you defund her son’s kindergarten....
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