Santorum Suspending Campaign?
There’s been a number of tweets this afternoon saying Rick Santorum is suspending his presidential campaign. He’s set to hold a news conference now. Not sure if ABC News realizes they’re on the air on the Internet right now. [UPDATE: Ignore the question mark in the headline.] And there’s all this, too: Not sure what his reasons for suspending...
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Porn Stars Encourage Masturbatory Protest Against Rick Santorum
Hey, I'm OK with softcore. That's what Cinemax is, right? As we’ve been reporting here for a while, former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been pretty open about his extreme distaste for hardcore pornography. He’s gone so far to say he’d make a point to ban it as president under the guise of enforcing obscenity...
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DAILY GRINDER: Occupy Philly Evicted, Again
Above: The glory days. Occupy Philadelphia decided to camp out and occupy Independence Mall this weekend. Things went pretty well at first. But on Saturday they were asked by park rangers to get a permit. They responded, on Facebook, saying the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was their permit. Legally speaking, that didn’t seem to be the...
Continue ReadingRachel Maddow Loves Her Some Philadelphia Weekly
Philadelphia Weekly’s politics blog (this one) got a shout out on the Rachel Maddow Show the other night with regard to a blog we wrote about a pro-Rick Santorum, anti-gay robocall produced by a group called “Jews and Christians Together.” The crank yanker, used in the Ohio primary on March 6, was used again Tuesday night in Wisconsin. The audio invites...
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DAILY GRINDER: Philly Rep. Wants to Crack down on Porn–In Cars!
Mobile peepshow. So, the 2011-2012 legislative session in Harrisburg has seen 3,628 bills introduced, and 164 signed into law. Many of those bills not signed into law (and some that were) are downright ridiculous. For instance, Sen. Gene Yaw wants to make “the venomous 6-foot Timber Rattlesnake” Pennsylvania’s official state reptile. (They have...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Nutter Calls Trayvon Martin’s Death “An Assassination”
Mayor Nutter went on MSNBC on Sunday to speak about the Trayvon Martin killing in Sanford, Florida. “I’ve called this nothing short of an assassination,” Nutter said. “This individual Zimmerman followed Trayvon for some period of time. Trayvon was not a threat to him.” There is a candlelight vigil for Martin tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Love...
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Santorum Thanks Pennsylvania for his Embarrassing 2006 Loss
Rick Santorum has something to say to the people of Pennsylvania about his 17-point loss to Bob Casey for Senate in 2006: Thank you. The former Pennsylvania senator came to the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference this morning—at 9 a.m., which was the third event of the day—to give a campaign speech in which he hit all the bases. Most surprisingly, he gave...
Continue ReadingJohn Featherman Back with ‘Naked Truth’ Smutty Ad
Former mayoral candidate John Featherman is running for Pennsylvania’s first U.S. Congressional district in 2012. While he’s got the Republican primary sewn up (he’s running unopposed), he’s probably as much of a general election longshot as would have been had he won the Republican primary in 2011. One thing no one could really fault him for then was...
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Election 2012: Santorum Will ‘Vigorously’ Crack Down on Porn
As Rick Santorum’s campaign gains momentum and continues winning primaries over frontrunner Republican candidate Mitt Romney, more GOP news agencies are beginning to notice his strict conservative views on hardcore pornography. And as everyone knows, that can’t sit too well with Fox News readers, whose Hannitized Internet readings are often interspersed with...
Continue ReadingHere Is the Anti-Gay Robocall That Almost Won Rick Santorum Ohio
As we mentioned earlier today, Rick Santorum lost Ohio last night, which was an important state in the larger Republican primary. But he almost won. And that’s not what lots of folks in the media—or the Romney campaign—were expecting weeks ago. But before he could almost win, a group called Jews and Christians Together released a robocall on behalf of the...
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