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Pennsylvania Hangover in Urban America

As we nurse our collective hangover from the political bender that led up to yesterday’s primary, with heads now clear we can reflect for a moment on what we learned. Beyond the various rhetorical foibles and overstatements that Wonkette and The Onion covered so deliciously – or was it so honestly?  read more »


Will tonight make a difference?

Will tonight make a difference? This will be debate 21. I guess the real point of tonight is to let them go at it over bitter. I hope they give enough answer and rebuttal time and I hope that Barack articulates his point clearly on rebuttal. Because you know he will get the question, Clinton will try to not address his answer and then he will have to CLARIFY. I really don’t think it will make that much difference in the end. The people who are bitter over Obama’s “bitter” comments weren’t going to vote for him anyways. Obama supporters won’t be so easily swayed. It will be interesting to see the exit polls though, they better have the bitter question on there!!!


Nutter Defends High Salaries For Top Staffers

Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter is strongly defending the salaries he is paying his top staff — salaries that in some instances approach $200,000 a year.  read more »


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