The Black Lives Matter movement continues to gain momentum. More Americans are rising in protest against the violent actions of police officers. Colin Kaepernick made headlines by refusing to stand up during the playing of the...
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....
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...
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Republican Ohio Governor, John Kasich, must be craving pizza. That is the only logical explanation for his analogy where he compared the competition of charter schools to pizza shops. On his HBO show Last Week Tonight, comedian John...
Presidential campaigns have become very homogenized over the past couple of years.  States like Ohio and Florida are almost always the major battle ground states.There are also a couple of states like New Hampshire, Virginia,...
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine--now officially the Democratic ticket (image from Hillary's Facebook)
Most of us spent this week tearing our hair out at polls showing Donald Trump had pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton due to a modest convention bounce. But a new poll out of a key...
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is against Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and tried to use religion against him. Some of their emails were recently leaked, and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the DNC, Brad Marshall,...
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The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania started yesterday, July 25. There were many powerful speeches. One of the best speeches of the night came from Anastasia Somoza, a young girl with cerebral palsy. She spoke...
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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...
Joe Paterno in 2007 (image courtesy Ben Stanfield, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
The legacy of longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is already a shambles. After all, it is beyond dispute that he knew his longtime defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, molested children. Indeed, Paterno himself admitted...
Donald Trump is known to frequently name drop his alma mater, the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, but how proud is the school of him? Well, according to many of its current...
Why do people stay in abusive relationships? When you enter the question into Google over six-million search results populate. For some people, particularly people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, one of many reasons to stay in an...
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"Enough Is Enough" is the name John Cramsey chose for his drug-abuse rescue group. Having suffered the loss of his 20-year-old daughter to a heroin overdose, Cramsey and a group of concerned friends banded together...
Bill Cosby
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...
On Monday, millennial favorite Bernie Sanders discussed the encroaching Democratic National Convention taking place in Philadelphia and what he anticipates from the public. The presidential hopeful foreshadowed future chaos at the convention because “Democracy is messy." I...
Corporation money in politics
Alright, Sanders supporters.There have been a lot of seemingly shady stuff to be pissed off at in this election cycle.  Well, get ready to be angry once again as this time around the Democratic National...
Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia is gifting new moms with baby boxes.   Good Housekeeping reports that the boxes retail between $80-$100 each.  The research team believes the boxes can help break the cycle of parents co-sleeping with...
Jerry Sandusky on his way to court (image courtesy Mark Pynes, The Patriot-News)
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal exploded back into the national headlines in a big way this week. Allegations surfaced that former head coach Joe Paterno may have known about the debauched behavior of...
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A man with a concealed weapons permit inexplicable pulled out his gun during a service at the Keystone Fellow Church in Pennsylvania, because he felt provoked by a fellow worshiper. Why? He was in the...
How can a soda pop ignite a battle between presidential candidates?