Anti-Islam Blogger Receives ‘Liberty Award’ in Philly on July 4th
Anti-Islam blogger and editor of conservative website Atlas Shrugs Pamela Geller was in Philadelphia yesterday at an Independence Hall Tea Party event at the Independence Visitors’ Center. Geller was the featured speaker at the event, which later turned into a panel discussion on the health care Supreme Court ruling. During the event, which was billed as an...
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5 Political Events Going on in Philadelphia This Weekend
It’s Independence Season in Philadelphia, and that means one thing: Forty foot hoagies and the Goo Goo Dolls! Gatherings all over the city in the name of democracy in some cases, American exceptionalism in others, radical organizing in yet some others. Here are some of the political events going on this weekend and into next week you might want to know about....
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Romney in Town Tonight; Tax Day Protests Tomorrow
This is what happened the last time Romney was in town to raise funds. Mitt Romney will be in town tonight for the fourth annual Tri-State Tax Day Summit at the Franklin Institute, beginning at 6:30 p.m. He’ll be there to address the Independence Hall Tea Party Association, who say they are holding the event to discuss Tea Party principles of low taxes, less...
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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...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: A Time-Lapse Video of Citizen’s Bank Park Getting Ready for Hockey
The Flyers will play the Winter Classic against the Rangers on January 2 outside at Citizens Bank Park. Now, want to see a sweet time-lapse video of the park’s field being turned into a hockey rink? Of course you do. Check it out here. A seventh person came forward on the Friday before Christmas to say she, too, was molested by former Philadelphia Daily News...
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Remember High-Speed Rail Through Philly? It’s Dead.
The Vice President at Penn. Back in February, Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech at 30th Street Station in which he touted the Obama Administration’s plans for high-speed rail the country over. It involved using federal stimulus cash to build new locomotives, similar to high-speed rail in Europe. We were promised Philly to New York in under an hour, at...
Continue ReadingDoes Occupy Philly Stand with Tea Party on Economic Slowdown?
The Tea Party Nation made many negative headlines a couple weeks back for their ugly urging of all “small business owner[s], part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country” to “not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.” Part of that war against...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Mayor Nutter’s Infomercial Protested by Off-TV Opponent
NBC 10’s infomercial for Mayor Nutter went off without a hitch! He urged people who sent in questions by e-mail and Twitter to pay their taxes and don’t cheat and generally be a good person, just like him. There were actually too many questions for him to get to. But know this (as NBC does): Mayor Nutter tweets! Meanwhile, Republican mayoral candidate Karen...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Vince Fumo Will Be Re-Sentenced, Haz a Sad
A bearded, tired, depressed, overweight, retired former Sen. Vince Fumo is scheduled to be re-sentenced on November 9 for his part in defrauding, well, just about everyone. Prosecutors are looking to elongate his 4-and-a-half year sentence due to more than $1.5 million in losses “and other mistakes” in calculating Fumo’s original sentence. If it turns out...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Police Union Clout Going Up?
The police officer’s union could potentially get a lot more money—and by extension, a lot more power. The union is suing to require the city collect contributions directly from police officers’ paychecks (payroll deductions, if you will), instead of 50-50 raffles and the like. Union lawyer money quote: “In the real world in which we live, in order to...
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