Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, has a message for “Occupy Wall Street” protesters: “you’ve made your point, you’ve gotten publicity for the things you’ve wanted to say” and now it’s time to “go home” and “clean up.” (more)
A person’s last will and testament is not simply a laundry list of who gets what after they die; it is a sacred covenant between the generations as the defining expression of a person’s intentions. When wills or trust documents are challenged post-mortem, the burden of justifying a deviation falls on those provoking the change, not on those who are defending the written text. Courts make every effort to ensure that the wishes of the deceased are honored and, in disputed cases, use all available evidence and a fair adversarial process to reach a “best guess” decision. At least that’s what should happen…but let’s not be naïve. When those challenging a will or trust are powerful government officials acting in concert with some of the largest elite “charitable” organizations in the world — and the prize they are seeking is control of tens of billions of dollars worth of art — we’re still living in the Wild West. (more)
Heavy snowfall may have shut down travel across the East Coast on Sunday, but Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell found it ridiculous that the Eagles-Vikings game was postponed until Tuesday night. (more)
HARRISBURG – At 5:30 p.m. on Election Day, you could catch him live on Hardball With Chris Matthews on MSNBC. (more)
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine unveiled the organization’s new logo and website this afternoon at The George Washington University, but failed to mention another website launched today by the DNC: BoehnerLand.com. (more)
In an unofficial start to the last stretch of the 2010 campaign season, top officials throughout the Democratic Party upped the rhetoric on Wednesday, spotlighting the crazier characters and policy positions that could land in Congress with GOP gains. (more)
Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said last week on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that it is not impossible to imagine a primary challenge to President Obama in 2012 from an anti-war progressive who opposes the administration’s policy in Afghanistan. A spokesman for Rendell clarified the governor’s remarks to The Daily Caller saying that such a challenge would only come from a candidate from the “left fringe” of the Democratic Party. (more)
An increased sense of frustration over the war in Afghanistan appears to be building among Capitol Hill Democrats — creating a force some suggest could have political consequences for President Obama, who has drastically increased troop levels in Afghanistan since his inauguration while reducing them in Iraq. (more)
(AP) For the third time in as many weeks, Senate Republicans on Wednesday successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to millions of people. (more)
Democratic governors on Wednesday ramped up the pressure on Congress to pass a $24 billion extension of aid to states for spending on health-care assistance for the poor and elderly, with one saying that the country will slip back into recession if the money is not handed out. (more)
Just days after the Obama administration claimed it did nothing improper by offering Rep. Joe Sestak a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, a sitting governor has announced that he too once offered a politician a job to convince him to stay out of a race. (more)
I first saw, heard and then met Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) on the evening of April 21 at the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Palestra sports arena. With nearly all 10,000 seats filled the night before the Pennsylvania primary, it was an old-fashioned, rousing rally for then-New York senator and—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. (more)
These are boom times for political lexicographers as the House of Representatives prepares for its historic vote to “reform” health care. (more)
Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak’s revelation the Obama administration tried buying him off in his bid to unseat Sen. Arlen Specter underscores the ongoing ethics problems on the Democratic side of the aisle, not to mention the ethics problem that plagues Washington in general. (more)
Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa.) untimely death Monday makes the political map even more daunting for House Democrats, who will have to defend another highly competitive seat in what is shaping up to be a hostile election year. (more)
Home-run record holder Mark McGwire finally came clean on his steroid use in 1998, the year he broke the record. People were shocked; Sammy Sosa’s face turned white as a sheet when he heard. (more)
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. — A flight carrying 53 Haitian orphans has landed at Pittsburgh International Airport. (more)
