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That’s it. Time to scrap everything and start over. When government shuts down this week—and as of this writing, such a shutdown seemed a certainty—we […]

The Confederate White Knights, a Maryland-based Ku Klux Klan group, has obtained a special permit to hold a demonstration at Gettysburg National Military Park on […]

As my colleague Joel Mathis noted yesterday, Vladimir Putin wrote perhaps the most astonishing, chutzpah-filled op-ed every to grace the pages of the New York […]

A bronze plaque on a 9/11 Memorial plaque in Scranton, PA has been stolen, apparently sometime earlier this week (pictured above). The memorial was erected […]

Former Congressman William H. Gray III, 71, passed away Monday in London, according to his Washington, DC office. A widely influential figure in local and […]

Yesterday I reported that the status of gay marriage in Pennsylvania won’t be affected at all by yesterday’s Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and Prop […]

On Face the Nation on Sunday, host Bob Schieffer let loose on our “do-nothing” Congress, lamenting how much things have changed since he first came […]

New Jersey, as of today, has a new Senator. His name if Jeff Chiesa. Surely there will be more information to report about his work […]

History may very well look back on Michele Bachmann’s political career with much amusement. She was the conservative Republican congresswoman with the ever-present off-kilter look […]

Democrats bank on a weary, politically shell-shocked public eventually punishing Republicans in 2014, compounded by the constant of changing demographic winds that conservatives can’t shake. […]

The ongoing plight of a Florida teen underscores the dysfunction of state laws that require sex offenders to register in a national database, even when […]

Nearly 20 years after being ousted from Congress, 70-year-old Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky (formerly) is gunning for her old seat again. Since getting ousted in 1994 […]

During the November elections, former Philly Mag and Daily News editor Larry Platt followed U.S. Rep Bob Brady around the 4th Street Deli with a […]

Rep. Chaka Fattah’s 30-year-old son Chip has been under investigation by the F.B.I. since 2012, apparently for financial improprieties. (The feds have also shown interest in possible […]

The flu tax is a hot topic on the Internet. A Google search shows hundreds of publications, blogs and TV stations have picked up the […]