DAILY GRINDER: PW Gets Shout-Out on *Daily Show* [UPDATED]
This article by the late Steven Wells regarding Republican sociopathism and reptilianism was mentioned on the Colbert Report Daily Show with John Stewart last night. We’ll have video up when we get it (or, if anyone knows where we can find one, like, right now, please let us know. We’ll provide you with a “hat tip.” You’ll be famous! UPDATE: HERE...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Nutter Asks, ‘Can We be Nonviolent for Just One Day in this City?’
Mayor Michael Nutter held a Martin Luther King, Jr. event yesterday at Enon Tabernacle Church and offered this money quote: “Can we be nonviolent for just one day in this city?” He continued: “We need to be champions of non-violence ourselves. We are one city, one community. There is only one Philadelphia,” he said. “When someone gets shot,...
Continue ReadingElection 2012: Santorum, Other GOP Candidates Vow to Ban Porn
Only because all other problems have been solved, at least three Republicans still playing the primary field—Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich—have vowed to get “tough on porn.” Why porn? Lots of reasons. Through a FAMiLY LEADER pledge both Rick Santorum and former candidate Michele Bachmann signed, the candidate promised to uphold “Humane protection...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Santorum has Poor Showing in ‘Dead Ground’ New Hampshire
Last night, Rick Santorum again tried and failed. He came in 5th place in the New Hampshire primary, swallowing just 10 percent of the vote. We liveblogged the thing. But long story short, everything they said might happen in New Hampshire, happened. Mitt Romney won, then came Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, Gingrich and Santorum. Most voters in New Hampshire were interested...
Continue Reading2012: Touring ‘Dead Ground,’ Santorum’s Momentum May Stall
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission thinks presidential candidate Rick Santorum should have stayed the hell out of New Hampshire—or, as he refers to it, “Dead Ground.” “I think he’s made a mistake in going to New Hampshire. I don’t know when social conservatives...
Continue Reading2012: Can Santorum Finish 4th in New Hampshire?
Presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum came to New Hampshire last week after his big Iowa almost-win, and the “Live Free or Die” state decided to greet him back with a series of roundhouse kicks. After a quick surge in the state, he’s been marginalized and hoping not to come in last place amongst the viable candidates campaigning...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: First Men’s, now Women’s—the ‘Health’ Magazines Hate Philly
Hooray! Women’s Health Magazine—the sister magazine to Men’s Health, a publication by and for men who think they can “melt belly fat!” by watching TV on the floor and parking their car farther away from “the office” in the morning (both actual “tips” mentioned in Men’s Health)—has declared Philadelphia 97th on its list of 100 cities in the...
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2012: Report from Rick Santorum’s Tele-TownHall
NOTE: Being that 2012 is a big election year, and – for the time being – one of our own is in the race, PW is setting aside some of its online content for election coverage. This blog is part of that. On the eve of the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Rick Santorum held what was billed as a tele-TownHall event. It essentially boiled down to a phone call...
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As Santorum Goes, What’s Old is News: The ‘Stillborn Baby’ Affair
Now that he’s a real guy and not just a guy, Rick Santorum’s past is being re-examined by liberal journalists and news columnists. And did you hear he almost won Iowa? Anyway, lots of people point to lots of things that’ve already been reported on as it pertains to Santorum: Google definitions, bestiality, Terri Schiavo, kicking it with lobbyists for cold,...
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DAILY GRINDER: No Education Required to be a Judge
News: Christine Solomon, a newly elected Philadelphia Traffic Court judge, just flunked a required judicial education examination that’s required to let her do her job. Gross news: A month after Judge Willie Singletary was “relieved” of his judicial duties for allegedly showing a court worker a photograph of his junk. Philly: Shame you don’t have to be...
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