Go check out this piece by Matt Osborne at the Huffingtonpost. From his opening: Nontroversy feeds on empty, twisted brains. In this case,...

Oh, so here goes. Tony Norman, award-winning columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, winner of a Knight-Wallace Fellowship, and (most im...

Sen. Boxer Challenges Men Who Support Nelsons Abortion Amendment: Methinks Boxer reads Digby ... .

Pope Benedict XVI held up introducing his new papal encyclical on abortion to give women in the United States more time to review it: Pope B...

I have no problem with the Senate needing the approval of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- a group who is exclusively male and who...

From Politico : Nelson said that the amendment’s language was not finished, and that groups opposed to abortion — notably the U.S. Conferenc...

Emily's List has a petition to stop a Stupak-like bill in the Senate here: http://action.stopstupak.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=...

UPDATE: Daniel Malloy of the Post-Gazette responds here . _____________________________________________ When can we finally retire the urba...

Looks like they're learning - if only about how to hide the circle jerk. From today's Sunday Pops: The next shoe to drop in the gro...

From WAPO : For those who don't remember the song which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies i...

From today's Trib Thursday Wrap : Records released this week show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent nearly $3,000 in taxpayer dollars on ...

From today's Midweek Briefing : Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid reminds that there was another interesting guest at President Obam...

“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they ...

(Click for larger image) Looks like I should have started that magazine . From Bloomberg.com : Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- “I just wrote my first ...

From today's Tuesday Takes : Available data call into "serious question" the claim by Official Pittsburgh that the region enjo...

Today's the last day you can get a 25% discount on registration to the PA Progressive Summit that will be held in January 2010. From the...

A new report says that the Bush Administration let Osama bin Laden slip from our grasp in Tora Bora. How Bush escaped criticism for so long...

Sociological Images notes the problem with describing objects -- such as this dress in an Associated Press article -- as being "flesh...

KDKA' s Jon Delano interviews Bram Reichbaum of The Pittsburgh Comet , Chris Potter of the Pittsburgh City Paper and me about the onlin...

Raise your hands if you think Pittsburgh's Lil Mayor Luke and his Philly attorney went overboard threatening to sue anyone and everyone ...