Top 10 Most-Visited PhillyNow Blog Posts of the Year
We have a news blog here at Philadelphia Weekly. Because in the age of the Internet, if you’re not constantly writing things, always, with certain “Search Engine Optimization Something or Other” keywords, everyday, forever, you lose. And news blogs are fun. Over the past year, this blog, PhillyNow, has commented/broke/followed-up on plenty of newsworthy...
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Is Bob Casey’s National Defense Authorization Vote Hurting His Global Reputation?
Did you know Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey is a champion of human rights? That’s correct! His spot on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has made him the main man in tiny Asian nation Sri Lanka. That country finally won its 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam — a terrorist group known for participating in ethnic cleansing, suicide...
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Senate Passes National Defense Authorization Act; PA Sens. Have No Response on Indefinite Incarceration Provision
Image: Shutterstock We’ve been contacting both Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey all week to get the rationale behind their Tuesday votes in favor of Section 1031 of the National Defense Authorization Act. This section, according to some critics, essentially turns the entirety of the United States into part of the “battlefield” in the...
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National Defense Authorization Bill Makes Unlikely Allies; Casey Office Responds
The National Defense Authorization Act Bill, which many believe could make way for the “infinite detention” of U.S. citizens in the name of fighting terrorism, has made allies out of unlikely members of Congress. A provision of the bill, as we wrote yesterday, would require military custody — rather using than the U.S. Justice system — of a suspect...
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