“Today’s job news showed that Pennsylvania had the largest increase in initial jobless claims of any state in the country two weeks ago. While John McCain and Hillary Clinton continually claim their Washington experience as the primary reason they should be President, these numbers show that the ways of Washington are not working for the residents of Pennsylvania. As Sen. Obama demonstrated in town after town across Pennsylvania earlier this week, he has an agenda that includes immediate relief for homeowners, a second stimulus package that expands unemployment insurance and helps state and local governments, and investments in millions of […]
JUST DO IT: The Dissident Olympics
Beijing 2008 Olympics Live Video Coverage Uploaded by Podrovnik [Hat tip to KEIKO KETSUGO] CHINA ASKS U.S. TO PUBLICLY SUPPORT THE MILITARY CRACKDOWN IN TIBET BLOOMBERG NEWS: The U.S. should understand the real motives of protesters in Tibet and support China’s moves to control unrest, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said. Yang made the comment after meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in Beijing, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported late yesterday. China blames separatists backed by the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, for last month’s unrest in Tibet and neighboring provinces, the most serious protests in 20 […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Cocaine For Your Eyes
Cops Seize $28 Million Worth Of Blow; Still Can’t Buy Jay-Z PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police said they found 600 pounds of cocaine and are calling it the largest drug bust in the city’s history. Officers found it at a home along the 2600 block of Federal Street in South Philadelphia Wednesday morning. If it were sold on the street it would be worth about $28 million. “Getting this amount of drugs off of the streets whether it’s the poundage or the kilo count or the street value all of this active is what leads unfortunately to the daily death and […]
LIVE AND DIRECT: The Audacity Of Teamsters
Sen. Barack Obama, on his way to address a union audience in Philadelphia this morning. [photo by MASTERCHEF28] BY NICK POWELL CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT Obama addressed the AFL-CIO at a Center City Sheraton this morning, and judging by the roaring cheers and Holy Ghost shrieks, one would have thought that Barack Obama had already saved our sagging economy, brought the boys home from Iraq and ended racism as we know it. Speaking to a major pow-wow of union workers, the effervescent U.S. Senator fired up his base, dissed his own bowling skills, discussed the Rocky comparisons, and drew a line in […]
IRAQI VICE: Freedom From Choice
Ever wonder what life would be like under Sharia Law? No, me neither. But check it out: There wouldn’t be no TV commercials with funny black dudes goin’ Wasssssuuuuuuuuuuup on the phone. No beer pong, no beer goggles, no kegstands, no keggers period. Which is a shame if you ask us, but be that as it may this is really quite fascinating and worth the five minutes of your time. It’s a super-short documentary on how Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army cracks down on alcohol sellers in Basra. Under Sharia Law alcohol is forbidden, of course. It opens with an Imam […]
APRIL’S FOOL: Larry Kane Will Make Obama Bigger Than Jesus, The Beatles & Frank Rizzo Combined
Humbly submitted for your approval, dismissal or snickers and chortles of derision, is the following HOT DOCUMENT. It’s an email from Larry King Kane to the Obama Pa. campaign — mistakenly sent out to the press — wherein Larry makes a full-court press for the ultimate Philly ‘get’: A one on one with Senator Barack Obama. It would get ‘super wide play because I am involved,’ he assures the Obama folks. Larry Kane the great and powerful Philly Media Oz? Maybe once upon a time, but these days? At a certain point we all gotta look in the mirror and […]
TINFOIL HATS: These Are People Who Died
The following is an email making the rounds, and comes via THE FIELD NEGRO: “1 – James McDougal – Clinton’s convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement.He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation. 2 – Mary Mahoney – A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown . The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House. 3 – Vince Foster – Former White House counselor and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock’s […]
NEWS CLUES: ‘Boring But Important News’ Edition
NITTANY LION KING: Obama Draws 20,000 At Penn State Rally, Urges Crowd To ‘Take The Skinheads Bowling, Take Them Bowling’ UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) — Shivering in blankets of Penn State’s colors, some 20,000 people filled a campus lawn Sunday to hear Barack Obama say he can win the Democratic nomination even if rival Hillary Rodham Clinton stays in the race. Supporters stood in long lines for hours to hear Obama ahead of the April 22 Pennsylvania primary. Some Democrats, particularly Obama’s supporters, have voiced concern that the hard-fought, drawn-out race is already hurting the party‘s chances to win in […]
WORTH REPEATING: Five Things Every American Should Know About The Current Violence In Iraq
Muqtada al-Sadr’s Militia parading through Basra in an undated photo. [via ALTERNET] U.S. is propping up unpopular regime; Sadr has support because of his platform One of the ironies of the reporting out of Iraq is the ubiquitous characterization of Muqtada al-Sadr as a “renegade,” “radical” or “militant” cleric, despite the fact that he is the only leader of significance in the country who has ordered his followers to stand down. His ostensible militancy appears to arise primarily from his opposition to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He has certainly been willing to use violence in the past, but the […]
LIVE & DIRECT: From Clinton Headquarters
On Monday we will have a report from Obama headquarters.
IOU: Cash-Strapped Clinton Campaign In Arrears
POLITICO: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles. A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails […]