Stuart Spittle, the incredible shrinking candidate, was spinning the hits last night in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Lies that have long since been debunked were pulled out of the couch cushions, denuded of dustballs and cat hair, and fed to the only people dumb enough to accept candy from a creepy old...
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Stephen Rodrick at Rolling Stone has a great piece about Michigan’s status as a battleground state during a pandemic which is a sobering reminder of while we should expand our map, we can’t take these states for granted: James Carville once famously said that between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is...
Received this e-mail yesterday from Andru Volinsky’s (D. NH) gubernatorial campaign: The most powerful response to the spread of COVID-19 is to wear a simple facial covering or a mask. Unfortunately, Governor Sununu claims his public health experts have “determined a mask order is not appropriate now.”. That’s just wrong....
Why is this not happening? We can use cots and isolate and make do until we can get all we need. I know we need PPE and nurses but we have medics from the military. We have interns ….and we have medical students. Can we get face shields from firefighters? ...
Kudos to ThinkProgress for highlighting this: Voters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District will vote Tuesday in their latest attempt to elect a U.S. Representative. The 2018 midterm election result was thrown out due to election fraud by the then-Republican nominee’s campaign and the seat has been vacant since January....
Received this e-mail today from Teresa Tomlinson’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaign: Gun violence is ravaging American communities on a daily basis, but just a few days ago, a bipartisan effort to enact common sense background checks on all gun purchases was killed – it’s time to eliminate the filibuster. I...
In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and blasted check points and strong-point bunkers. The main ISIS force engaged defenders in a 30 minute battle that ended with...
No Smoking. You see the signs everywhere – EVERYWHERE! A new one went up in my pharmacy – which is way in the back of the store. NO SMOKING it says in bolded capital letters. As though there might be some question about it. I live in PA. Smoking has...