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Time for pols to joke for charity
With warm weather bringing out swimsuits, it’s time to think about fitness, and a return to the gym. So there I was at the gym, and there it was, up against the wall, a gleaming new machine I hit hard for half-an-hour. It had everything I wanted: S
Philadelphia Daily News
Published: 2012-05-17 23:20:00Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Jeff Landry finally decides to take on Charles Boustany
• In 2011, freshmen Republicans received an average score of 71% on the Club for Growth's Congressional Scorecard. The average veteran received a 69%. This means the freshmen Republicans voted, on average, about the same as the Republicans who were alrea
Bill Clinton, Axelrod Back Different Democrats In Primary Contest
Former President Bill Clinton and David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s senior campaign adviser, support different Democratic candidates in a New Jersey congressional primary. Democratic Reps. Steve Rothman and Bill Pascrell are squaring off in the Jun
NewsMax
Published: 2012-05-15 16:59:00Former opponent backs Kane for Pa. attorney general
PHILADELPHIA -- Patrick Murphy is throwing his support behind former opponent Kathleen Kane in the Pennsylvania attorney general's race. Murphy, a former two-term congressman, endorsed Kane on Tuesday. He called the Democratic primary campaign "a family
GoErie.com
Published: 2012-05-15 16:55:00Patrick Murphy endorses Kathleen Kane for state AG
Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy just endorsed former Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Kathleen Kane for state Attorney General, three weeks after she beat him in the Democratic primary election. Murphy and Kane fought a bruising campaign. He
Philly.com
Published: 2012-05-15 15:29:00Top Obama adviser backs Rep. Steve Rothman over Rep. Bill Pascrell
A top Obama campaign adviser is taking sides in a member-versus-member primary in New Jersey, with senior adviser David Axelrod set to campaign for Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), according to a national Democratic aide. Rothman faces Rep. Bill Pascrell in
The Washington Post
Published: 2012-05-14 22:28:00Crossroads funded super PAC aims at young voters - Expect lobbying on both sides of gay marriage issue - Publisher of 'official' Dem convention magazine backs down
With Abby Phillip CROSSROADS FUNDED SUPER PAC AIMS AT YOUNG VOTERS: Republicans aren't ceding young voters to Democrats this cycle. In fact, a new Republican super PAC, Crossroads Generation , has formed to target them. As the name implies, the organizat
The Politico
Published: 2012-05-14 18:05:00The Class of 2006 House Democrats are Gone - PostChronicle.com
U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire's loss in the Democratic primary marks the end of more than just his congressional career. Moderate Democrats, he said earlier this month, appear to be on their way out the door. "I don't see a role for them in Congress," said Alt
The Post Chronicle
Published: 2012-05-14 11:52:00Cell phone tower battle waged in Bucks County
Who would want a 25-foot cell pole fronting their yard? Not Ed Bendzlowicz, Beth-Ann Wolfson, Janet Swenson, or several other Bucks County residents who are surprised and shocked that the black metal poles are about to be erected along their plush, green
Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 2012-05-13 21:55:00Cell poles may be headed to neighborhood near you
Who would want a 25-foot cell pole in their yard? Not Ed Bendzlowicz, Beth-Ann Wolfson, Janet Swenson, or several other Bucks County residents who are surprised and shocked that the black metal poles are about to be erected along their plush, green lawns
Philly.com
Published: 2012-05-12 11:47:00Gay Marriage Won’t Matter This Fall
Could Barack Obama be the next Patrick Murphy? US President Barack Obama and US first lady Michelle Obama wave after a campaign event at the Verizon Wireless Arena - Stuart Siegel Center May 5, 2012 in Richmond, Virginia. (Brendan Smialowski, AFP / Getty
The Daily Beast
Published: 2012-05-12 03:07:00House Republicans roll back defense cuts
WASHINGTON — The failure of the so-called "supercommittee" to meet its spending-cut target set off an automatic trigger that in January would slice federal spending, divided evenly between domestic and defense. At $1.2 trillion over a decade, it was mean
The Morning Call
Published: 2012-05-11 01:35:00House Republicans roll back defense cuts
WASHINGTON — The failure of the so-called "supercommittee" to meet its spending-cut target set off an automatic trigger that in January would slice federal spending, divided evenly between domestic and defense. At $1.2 trillion over a decade, it was mean
The Morning Call
Published: 2012-05-11 01:35:00House Republicans Gut Defense Sequestration Cuts
The House voted Thursday to override steep cuts to the Pentagon’s budget mandated by last summer’s debt deal and replace them with spending reductions to food stamps and other mandatory social programs. While doomed in the Senate and opposed by the White
Outside the Beltway
Published: 2012-05-10 21:11:00House passes bill undoing defense cuts
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would replace looming Pentagon spending cuts opposed by the GOP with a series of domestic program reductions opposed by congressional Democrats. The bill passed in a strongly
Democratic Underground
Published: 2012-05-10 18:24:00House poised to pass deficit-chopping bill
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House is on track to approve a bill today that would cut the deficit by $300 billion over 10 years in an effort to head off dramatic defense spending cuts scheduled to take effect in January. The bill is likely to pass on the streng
The Tennessean
Published: 2012-05-10 13:14:00A tough year for political insiders
In the following edited exchange, former Pennsylvania Republican Chairman Alan Novak and former state Democratic Chairman T.J. Rooney looked ahead to the fall elections and considered political lessons learned this spring. Alan Novak: Last month’s
Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 2012-05-09 23:05:00Best of the Web Today: Beware the Demagogues
Demagogues use fear and frustration to advance themselves and their own narrow political agendas--scapegoating immigrants, foreigners, ethnic minorities, labor unions, government workers, the poor, the rich, and "enemies within" such as communists, terro
Wall Street Journal
Published: 2012-05-02 19:39:00"U.S. Constitution Justified Slavery" According to a Letter by Jefferson Davis, Confederate Leader, Found by Tom Lingenfelter
DOYLESTOWN, PA--(Marketwire - May 2, 2012) - America's history detective, Tom Lingenfelter, discoverer of the only true copy of the Declaration of Independence and the 'Birth Certificate' of the U.S. Constitution has uncovered another piece of history th
MarketWire
Published: 2012-05-02 19:11:00Quinn Gillespie future uncertain? - Crowley plugs Barber to supporters - Dems to highlight 'Red to Blue' candidates - GOP activists seize on NASCAR popularity - Super PACs clean up in April
By Anna Palmer and Dave Levinthal With Abby Phillip QUINN GILLESPIE FUTURE UNCERTAIN? Four years after Quinn Gillespie & Associates earn-out from WPP , the lobby shop's status as an independent firm may be coming to an end. Started by the bipartisan powe
The Politico
Published: 2012-05-02 18:17:00Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick announces plans for a '100 Businesses in 100 Days' campaign, calls on Congress to pass budget
Mike Fitzpatrick recently spoke with members of the Men's Club of Shir Ami in Newtown LANGHORNE – Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick (R-8) announced on Tuesday, May 1 that he would kick off a "100 Businesses in 100 Days" initiative that will span three months.
Bucks county woman sticks to her fight against voter-ID law
Since 1943, Joyce Block says, she has voted in every election - even the two times she left hospital beds to get to the polls. "That's how important it was for me to vote," the 89-year-old Doylestown Township woman says. And that's why she call
Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 2012-05-02 03:05:00THE NEW FACE OF YARDLEY: Mayor's Clock unveiled, dedicated to town's mayors and former manager Bill Winslade (PHOTOS)
YARDLEY – You would have to go back to 1682 to trace the origins of Yardley Borough. The town was settled by William Yeardley, a Quaker minister seeking religious freedom from the British monarchy, in July of that year. A year later, in 1681, William Pen
A National Swat at Kane
Last week's Democratic primary winner for state attorney general, Kathleen Kane, already is taking fire from a national Republican group claiming she is "wrong for Pennslvania." The group is the Virginia-based Republican State Leadership Committee, of wh
Philly.com
Published: 2012-04-30 12:50:00Raising Kane: West Scranton native marching toward Harrisburg
On the concrete steps outside the Radisson at Lackawanna Station hotel, Kathleen Granahan Kane was headed for her victory party Tuesday night when her cellphone rang. She paused and pushed the answer button. Only an hour earlier, primary election voters
Scranton Times-Tribune
Published: 2012-04-29 03:40:00Karen Heller: Weak turnout, strong pick
Pennsylvanians should be semi-proud that one in five voters bothered voting Tuesday, considering Rhode Island's 3 percent turnout, most likely fewer people than in your high school class. Gov. Corbett's handpicked candidate for U.S. Senate, Steve Welch,
Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 2012-04-29 03:10:00Comcast unveils new Bucks County Xfinity store in Langhorne
Comcast Regional Senior Vice President LeAnn Talbot, fifth from right, Sean Brushett, third from left, and PA State Rep. Frank Farry, second from left, cut the ribbing during a ceremony for the newly opened Xfinity store in the Oxford Valley Plaza in Lan
House Republicans pass poison student loan interest bill
Unfortunately, rather than finding common ground on a way to pay for this critical policy, H.R. 4628 includes an attempt to repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created to help prevent disease, detect it early, and manage conditions before they
Daily Kos
Published: 2012-04-27 16:49:00Corbett’s Colossal Cockiness Castrates His Credibility
“Stevie Welch sat on a wall (of cards); Stevie Welch had a great fall (winning a mere two of 67 counties). All of King (or is it Joker?) Corbett’s horses (jackasses), and all the King’s men (endorsements by 27 County Commissioners and 35 State Legislator
Unendorsed win in GOP Senate race may reflect on Corbett
April 27, 2012 12:00 am John Heller/Post-Gazette Tom Smith, seen here after winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. AP/Gene J. Puskar, Mary Altaffer, File From top left, Steven Welch, Marc Scaringi, Dave Christian, Sam Rohrer and Tom Smith. Mr
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Published: 2012-04-27 04:00:00
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