Council President Releases Statement on Democratic Mayoral Primary 9 February 2009 Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields today rele...

SNL takes on the Michael Phelps controversy and totally nails it: UPDATE: I can't embed NBC videos, but you can watch it here . .

From Think Progress (Graph by The Gavel ): The current recession that the United States economy finds itself in is, by far, dramatically wo...

Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker was born today in 1944. In her honor, here she is reading Sojourner Truth:

This week's column could be called "A Conservative's failed attempt moral equivalence" where Jack rattles off the evidenc...

Via our friends across the pond : The four members of the British hit band, the Beatles, have arrived in New York at the start of their firs...

From Equality Advocates Pennsylvania : Please join us this Saturday, February 7 for a workshop to discuss upcoming legislative priorities fo...

Found this here : I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to ne...

Transcript (via crooksandliars) here .

Act I 36 out of 41 Republican senators voted to scrap all spending in the Stimulus Bill -- all of it. Act II Republicans don't want Obam...

Via Huffington Post . He was speaking before some 200 House Democrats: Look, I value the constructive criticism and healthy debate that is ...

Here's Luke in a rather iconic picture. He's defending the free golf outing he got from UPMC before the City Ethics Hearing Board ...

Recently our good friend Jack Kelly wrote : What is essentially a victory in Iraq [...] And when he wrote that, I wondered what his definit...

Earlier this week Chris Potter over at his Slag Heap blog wrote about some proposed changes to the Allegheny County Democratic Committee...

What he said. and What he said. .

A few days ago Maria got an e-mail from Rose, of Quinn and Rose. She wrote to point out an error I'd made in this posting . Seems that...

Interesting "research" over at DickieCougarMellonScaife's editorial board this morning. We begin with today's editorial . ...

WARNING: Neither of these is even remotely safe for work. Christian Bale : Bill O'Reilly: .

Via: http://www.alleghenycounty.us/elect/200902sp/el45.htm SUMMARY REPORT Allegheny County Unofficial Run Date:02/03/09 Pittsburgh Council D...