HARRISBURG, Pa. — Barack Obama has picked up a third endorsement from Pennsylvania’s Democratic superdelegates. Former Philadelphia city councilwoman Carol Ann Campbell says she made up her mind Saturday after a telephone call from the Illinois senator’s wife, Michelle. Campbell says they talked for nearly 90 minutes , about the problems of the handicapped, children being raised by their grandparents and the importance of religion in their lives. Campbell, who’s previously said she was undecided, says she’s comfortable with what she heard and decided on the spot to support Obama over New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. With Campbell’s endorsement, […]
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD: Principal Claims He Embezzled To Avenge His Abuse By Priests
BY SAM WOOD OF THE INQUIRER The former principal of Burlington County’s only Catholic high school said he embezzled from the school partly to get back at the church for sexual abuse he endured as a teenage seminary student.An attorney for Joseph Lemme raised the alleged abuse in a plea for leniency at Lemme’s sentencing in Superior Court last week. Lemme, principal at Holy Cross High School from 2002 to 2006, received a five-year prison term on Friday for stealing more than $415,000 from the school, which struggled with declining enrollment and financial problems during Lemme’s tenure. Lemme 51, of […]
EARLY WORD: If You’re Going To San Francisco
…you’re gonna miss the Spank Rock show on Friday.
ST. JOHN THE ESCALATOR: 100 Years In Baghdad
THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: John McCain’s reputation as a maverick is no recent contrivance. The senator first captured the media spotlight in September 1983, not long after he’d been elected to his first term in the House, when he voted against President Reagan’s decision to put American troops in Lebanon as part of a multinational “peacekeeping” force. One of 27 Republicans to break with the White House, the freshman McCain made a floor speech that reads as if it might have been written yesterday — by Ron Paul: The fundamental question is: What is the United States’ interest in Lebanon IRAQ? […]
THE END OF FIDEL: After 50 Years, Castro Steps Down
HAVANA (AFP) — Fidel Castro resigned Tuesday as president and commander in chief of Cuba, the online official press said. 14 minutes ago …DEVELOPING…
CORPORATE WELFARE: The American Taxpayer Has Handed $1 Billion To Tanking Banks In The Last Month
FINANCIAL TIMES: US banks have been quietly borrowing massive amounts of money from the Federal Reserve in recent weeks by using a new measure the Fed introduced two months ago to help ease the credit crunch. The use of the Fed’s Term Auction Facility, which allows banks to borrow at relatively attractive rates against a wider range of their assets than previously permitted, saw borrowing of nearly $50bn of one-month funds from the Fed by mid-February. US officials say the trend shows that financial authorities have become far more adept at channelling liquidity into the banking system to alleviate financial stress, […]
MEDIA: Goodbye Norma Jean
Actress Lindsay Lohan appears as she’s never been seen before in an exclusive photo portfolio by Bert Stern, restaging the photographer’s famous series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that came to be known as “The Last Sitting,” in the Spring Fashion issue of New York magazine, on sale today. Shot at the Hotel Bel-Air on February 5, the photos of Lohan as Monroe duplicate the 1962 originals down to the lighting, the shellacked blonde wig Lohan wears, and her willingness to appear in little more than a chiffon scarf. MORE
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Americans consume more bananas than apples and oranges combined. Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit. Koeppel traces the ubiquitous yellow fruit back to the Garden of Eden, where, he argues, it, not the apple, was the “forbidden fruit” that Eve offered Adam. In the 20th century, he examines the United Fruit Company’s maneuvering in the “banana republics” of Central America, and warns that the banana’s unique reproductive system — each new […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
CHUBB ROCK: Pissed Jeans, Johnny Brendas, Friday[Photos by JUSTIN ROMAN/CLICK TO ENLARGE]
SMASHMOUTH POLITICS: The ‘Silly Season’ Begins
NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Barack Obama adapted one of his signature arguments — that his oratory amounts to more than inspiring words — from speeches given by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts during his 2006 campaign. At a Democratic Party dinner Saturday in Wisconsin, Mr. Obama, of Illinois, responded to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who has criticized him for delivering smooth speeches but says they do not amount to solutions to the nation’s problems, by ticking through a string of historic references. “Don’t tell me words don’t matter,” Mr. Obama said, to applause. “ ‘I have a […]
KILLADELPHIA: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
INQUIRER: Joseph Kelly Sr., 77, was eastbound on the Expressway about 1:50 a.m. when he spotted the man in the wheelchair stuck on the expressway’s outer eastbound lane near the 15th Street off-ramp. The wheelchair was facing traffic heading in the wrong direction. It was not immediately clear why the man in the wheelchair was on the expressway or how he had become stuck. Kelly stopped his minivan on the right shoulder, got out of his vehicle and crossed three lanes of traffic to offer help to the wheelchair-bound man, police said. As Kelly pushed the wheelchair back toward the […]
BEYOND THE GRASSY KNOLL: Dallas D.A. Finds Alleged Smoking Gun Proof Of JFK Conspiracy In A Safe
DALLAS MORNING NEWS: The Dallas County district attorney’s office has unearthed a treasure trove of memorabilia from the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in an old safe on the 10th floor of the courthouse. It includes personal letters to and from former District Attorney Henry Wade, a gun holster, official records from the Jack Ruby trial, letters to Ruby and clothing that probably belonged to him and Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, said Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. And conspiracy theorists will rejoice over one find: a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between Ruby and Oswald […]
ADBUST: Over The Hillary
This is another set of devastatingly sly anti-Hillary ads from the always dead-on Lee Stranahan, the guy who brought you the legendary Hillary 1984 Apple spoof. These ads cleverly masquerade as the pro-Hillary ads similar to the ones the Clinton campaign is running in Wisconsin that attempt to bate the Obama campaign into yet ANOTHER debate. Because, the 22 debates they’ve already had were just not enough, especially when you are short on cash and debates mean free air time. Heh-heh. You check out more of his work here. It is our considered opinion that he is without a doubt […]