DAILY GRINDER: San Diego Chargers QB Philip Rivers Likes Rick Santorum
First Megadeath, then First Love, and now this: San Diego Chargers’ quarterback Philip Rivers put out a press release saying he thinks Rick Santorum is just great. “I am supporting Rick Santorum for President because of his stance on issues that attack vital Christian values our country was founded upon: no abortion, upholding traditional marriage, defending...
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Pennsylvania Senators Toomey, Casey Agree: Birth Control is Bad and Should be Denied
Today, the Blunt Amendment—introduced by Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, which would exempt any employer with moral objections from covering birth control in their health care plans—was shot down in the Senate, by a 51-48 vote. Considering this is the year 2012, AD, that vote probably sounds a bit too close for comfort. And if it does, blame yourself. Your U.S....
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Election 2012: Rick Santorum vs. Arlen Specter
The gloves are off, and former Sens. Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum, former colleagues in Pennsylvania’s delegation of the U.S. Senate, are trading some overdue hits. This morning, Specter spoke with Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown about Santorum. When asked the hypothetical question of whether or not he’d support the Pennsylvania Republican...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Councilwoman Discriminates Against Jehovah’s Witness?
Jehovah’s Witness and former Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell assistant Tyeisha Boulware has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and City Council for unlawful religious discrimination. Boulware claims being a Jehovah’s Witness barred her from wearing a Christmas-themed sweater to a holiday party and voting. Blackwell didn’t like that,...
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Occupy Philly Performs Street Theater, Says U.S. Senate Worse than Historical Fascists
Occupy Philly held a day of action against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which, they and other critics contend, would allow the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. The crowd of about 30 marched around the city, hitting both Sen. Bob Casey and Sen. Pat Toomey’s offices, among other spots. Both senators voted in favor of the...
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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...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Some Occupy Homeless Move to Port Richmond
There’s a story in the Daily News this morning all about how homeless advocate Dennis Payne “commandeered” the move of about 20 tents to an park encampment east of Richmond Street, north of Cumberland, along the Delaware River. Payne is calling it Liberty One and says it’s only for the homeless, many of whom left Occupy Philly Sunday night to live there. Numbers...
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Pat Toomey on the Supercommittee ‘Superfail’
As we reported yesterday, Congress’ supercommittee turned out to be a not-so-surprising superfailure due to the series of mishaps that led to its beginnings. Among those: Anti-tax pledges politicians signed away to anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist; John Boehner’s numerous walk-outs when Republicans had what at any other point in history could be called a “Republican...
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Congressional Supercommittee May Admit Failure As Toomey Holds up ‘No-Tax Pledge’
Photo by Ada Kulesza Later today, the Congressional Supercommittee, of which Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey is a member, will announce their plan to save $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Most media reports have stated the outcome will not be good, and no deal will be reached. Blame will be hot-potatoed from member to member, cause to cause, but that fault...
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