Pennsylvania is now a main site of action in the international chess game that pits the Catholic Church against advocates for the victims of sexual abuse.
Former Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput took the reins in sex-scandal-plagued Philadelphia last week. A sampling of YouTubes posted last week offers a snapshot of his trying first days there, a new Church leader in a place grown deeply distrustful of Church leaders.
A video posted Thursday captured angry Catholics protesting More…
Pollsters are revising their estimates up for the number of seats that Democrats will lose in the House, but in the Senate Dems look like they’re sitting pretty. With Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) locking down their victories, Democrats can now breathe easy about their More…
It was bound to happen eventually. Fox 29 Philadelphia has the scoop:
Fox 29 News spotted Tuesday a member of the New Black Panther Party standing outside of a local polling place where voter intimidation was reported two years ago.
The man was seen outside the polling place in
If you want to understand what kind of outcome the White House would consider worth celebrating on Tuesday night in spite of inevitable GOP gains across the map, look no further than President Obama’s four-city trip this weekend, meant to help close the enthusiasm gap and put the Democrats More…
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is pounding the pavement all day today, traveling around the greater Philadelphia area in an attempt to raise turnout in the area where he’ll need it the most, and he’s bringing out his secret weapon: Former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton, who employed Sestak on his counterintelligence More…
Mudslinging about undisclosed campaign donors and the potential for foreign interference reached a new pitch yesterday in an already surprisingly heated national debate about campaign finance.
As midterm election campaigns heat up, so too are allegations of voter fraud, the majority of which are being made by right wing groups. TPM reports that the fears among such groups focus on “the perception that racial minorities are disenfranchising whites”:
When former Sen. Chuck Hagel reached across the aisle last month to endorse Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) for the Senate last month, Sestak gladly accepted the honor as a sign of his moderate politics and cross-party appeal. To a certain group of conservative Jews, however, it was further proof More…
The now 14-month old case of members of the fringe New Black Panther Party being charged for voter intimidation outside of a heavily Democratic polling place in Philadelphia — the Justice Department has dropped the case — is getting a little more attention from Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who More…
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