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...
Scott Walker decided to pay a visit to the City of Brotherly Love--Philadelphia--yesterday, and he's probably sorry he ever showed his face in town.
While in Philly, Governor Walker stopped by Geno’s Steaks, one of the finest...
Well this puts a whole new definition on ?crap all over them.? Imagine one of those delightful Sweet 16 birthday celebrations. A fairly good-sized list of guests were enjoying the pool and playing horseshoes in...
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...
On the morning of October 6, 22-year-old Keisha Jenkins was murdered in Philadelphia, PA say local police. Jenkins, a transgender woman, was assaulted by five to six men before being shot, according to Police Chief...
A school district outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been ordered by a federal judge to remove a public display of the Ten Commandments from a school by a federal judge.
The monument had been located outside Connellsville Area...
With the Supreme Court expected to rule on marriage equality in the coming weeks, Rick Santorum has made it clear that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality, he will "fight it."
In...
A female student at a high school in Pennsylvania is saying that she will be discriminated against if her school allows transgender students in the locker rooms. That's fine if she doesn't like transgender people....
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...
So this is what we've come to in America? People are now being harassed just because they used their SNAP benefit card to buy groceries and some major-league asshat has a problem with them buying...
An executive for Range Resources recently exposed a startling revelation about their shale drilling practices. At a meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in Harrisburg, Terry Bossert, Range Resources Vice President for legislative and regulatory...
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...
You just can't make this stuff up.
Seeing that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is in fourth place with African-American voters, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence decided to do something about it.
A typical politician would...
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...
On Monday, I told you that Isaiah Wooding, a teenager from Penn Hills, Pennsylvania who has cerebral palsy, was brutally attacked in the hallway of Penn Hills High School--an assault that was captured on video and...
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with abandoning her severely disabled son in the woods so she could visit her boyfriend in Maryland.
Nyia Parler was arrested in Maryland and will be extradited back to Pennsylvania...
A gay couple in Chester County, Pennsylvania woke up one June last year to find their garage vandalized. Keith David and David Ruth live there with their two children who are Ruth's nephews.
Someone spray-painted "Get...
Charles Wasko is the Republican mayor of West York, Pennsylvania, and he just loves posting right-wing crap on his Facebook page. But now his online habits could wind up costing him his job.
A couple of...
Bill Cosby, iconic comedian and TV show personality, is set to stand trial in July, following new evidence that has surfaced in regards to a 2004 sexual assault allegation. Pennsylvania Judge Elizabeth McHugh determined after remarks...
Generally speaking, I try to give wives a pass when it comes to having an assh*le for a husband. I've known wonderful women who have somehow found themselves legally tied to a guy I can't...
