It is not news that there are violent whack jobs on the fringe of the Republican Party. The last Presidential campaign gave us plenty of evidence, and we don’t really need Alexandra Pelosi’s film to tell us not only that there are extremist whack jobs out there on the Republican fringe, ...

Holy Separation of Church and State, Batman! Is there a fiscal revrsal button on my utility belt? The state of Pennsylvania, undergoing huge budget cuts despite the relief brought by the Obama stimulus package, bought each of its state legislators, get this, a bible. Evidently this is a tradition he...

Delaware County, Pa has been reliably Republican for a long time, but that’s been shifting of late. Curt Weldon fell to a scandal and Joe Sestak, and the county even elected a Democrat to the PA House in Bryan Lentz. But the Republicans have still held a tight grip on local offices, such as th...

This might seem like a very local issue, but it should have resonance as one possible solution to budgeting problems that are happening across the country at the state and local level. In this case, it is a school run by the Commonwealth of PA, the Scotland School, which is at risk. The Scotland Sch...

Surely it should have dawned on Senator John Cornyn Tuesday that there’s a new regime in town and that Barack Hussein Obama will not tolerate torture. Surely he hard this section in Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our saf...

This winter Chris Matthews toyed with the idea of running for Senate against Arlen Specter. Hey, his deliberations on the subject could have been a negotiating ploy with MSNBC, sure, and it looked like that ploy, if it was one, worked for Tweetie. Chris Matthews is out of the race on the Dem side to...

Every city in the nation is seeing its tax revenues falling these days because of the GOP/Buch-led recession. There’s no arguing that. Michael Nutter, the Mayor of Philadelphia has had to make some hard choices, one of which is to close some city libraries. Given Michael Nutter’s program...

OIL: TURNING BOOM INTO BUST Alan Caruba Energy is called “the master resource” because every other aspect of life operates off of it. Nations that are rich in energy resources such as oil, natural gas, and coal, grow wealthy. There is also something called “the curse of oil” ...

Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and under shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the t...

There should have been absolutely no controversy in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this past week. Speaker Dennis O’Brien, a Republican from Philadelphia, wanted to honor the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which was holding its 60th annual national convention in H...