There are some people out there who actually believe Democrats, the media, and government agencies are either inter-dimensional demons or psychic vampires running a child sex trafficking ring. There normally wouldn’t be any reason to waste time explaining...
Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one of the most turbulent and interesting in recent times. One of the...
A global pandemic ripping through the United States is not deterring American voters. More than 91 million have cast their ballots, putting the country on pace to produce the highest voter turnout since 1908. But this doesn't...
Soon-to-be former Congressman Ryan Costello (image courtesy Costello's Twitter)
As we all know, election night 2016 effectively ended when Pennsylvania was called for Donald Trump by the narrowest of margins--a mere 44,000 votes out of more than six million cast. The reason that this...
Pennsylvania State Representative Cris Dush, leader of the effort to impeach the state supreme court (image courtesy Dush's Facebook)
Two months ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shot down one of the most brutal gerrymanders in the nation. The court found that when the state legislature drew a congressional map intended to elect 13 Republicans...
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Of the many gerrymandered congressional maps produced by Republican-controlled state legislatures after the 2010 census, one of the worst came from Pennsylvania. By any standard, Pennsylvania is a Democratic-leaning swing state. At the time of the...
Conor Lamb on the campaign trail (image courtesy Lamb's Facebook)
For the better part of a century, southwestern Pennsylvania was as Democratic an area of the country as they came. Whenever a Democrat won a statewide or presidential race in the Keystone State, everything from...
I'm sure you're aware that last week the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. Are you also aware of the ensuing riots ecstatic Eagles fans engaged in in downtown Philly? They weren't...
Conor Lamb on the campaign trail (image courtesy Lamb's Facebook)
When wave elections happen, more often than not seats are basically given away--either because the incumbent party nominates the wrong candidate, or the incumbent party's candidate shoots himself in the foot. The latter may be...
Tim Murphy inspecting a bridge in Charleroi, Pennsylvania (image courtesy U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
Congressman Tim Murphy bills himself as one of the most rabid opponents of abortion in the House. But the congressman from the southern suburbs of Pittsburgh was exposed as a full-blown hypocrite when it emerged...
Republicans love telling America that they are pro-life in public, but when it comes to their personal lives, it seems like their morals are a little more flexible. This particular moment of GOP hypocrisy comes...
Of all the divisive things President Donald Trump has done in his nascent political career, picking a fight with the National Football League seems to be the one that is striking the loudest chord. After...
A Republican senator recently displayed his violent side, which should come as no surprise since he idolizes our president. Tracking Republicans Scott Wagner (R-Pa.) is a senator and gubernational candidate. A Republican watchdog group recently filmed him speaking...
John Ziegler sitting down with Glenn Beck (image courtesy Ziegler's Twitter)
For the better part of the last five years, right-wing talk show host and filmmaker John Ziegler has harassed and stalked several now-grown men who were molested by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky...
John Ziegler sitting down with Glenn Beck (image courtesy Ziegler's Twitter)
For the better part of the last four years, right-wing talk show host and filmmaker John Ziegler has been on a mission. He believes that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was framed for...
John Ziegler sitting down with Glenn Beck (image courtesy Ziegler's Twitter)
In the last two-plus years, we've spilled a lot of ink, recorded a lot of video, and chewed up a lot of bytes about the outrages we've seen from Donald Trump and those acting in...
Even though he's only been in office a little more than two months, plenty of voters who cast their ballots for him are already spectacularly unimpressed with what they've seen so far. CNN convened a focus...
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Recently, the Young Turks interviewed a young white millennial raised in the heart of America's coal country, and what he had to say is straight out of the Republican Party's worst nightmare. Nic Smith describes himself as...
We've all heard about the long list of hate crimes that have occurred since Donald Trump's shocking victory in the presidential election. But it turns out that one particularly appalling hate crime took place before...
On Thursday, December 1, a Woodland Hills High School student was arrested. It is worth mentioning the teen is enrolled in a special needs program. According to the Houston Chronicle, he was recording his principal...