A shutdown of the Federal Government has been averted. A continuing resolution will be passed tonight (already passed by voice vote; actual ...

. Not. I understand that if the government does shutdown, my sister who works at the Library of Congress will still be working, she just mig...

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I wanted to post on this stuff yesterday but other things ( doncha know ) got in the way. (Hey, that's dactylic !) Now here's somet...

Or rather a huge communication failure. Here's the story. Earlier today this was posted at my friend Jennifer's blog : Spurred on b...

Let me start with my comment at Ginny's blog and work backwards: For the record… I have nothing to say about Ginny’s party affiliation ...

Well, now I definitely know for whom I'm voting.

The CBO has done an initial analysis of the latest GOP budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI). First a caveat from the CBO: CBO...

Today, I am quoting the Trib but not to criticize what it says there. I'm just setting the stage: What a mess : A judge once again has...

The union thugs were out in full force: As were the class warriors: 500 strong according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (P-G video here ): ...

Lil Ricky's at it again: A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three p...

With this from the Trib: For those who don't know what's going on, we'll turn (wisely and reverently) to Potter's Slag Heap ...

(Click to enlarge) The We Are One events which are running from the 1st through the 5th have been billed as "Pittsburgh Labor, Faith...

In an early morning press conference today, General Electric Chief Executive Jeff Immelt apologized for their recent corporate tax controver...

A few weeks ago , I blogged on Rick Santorum's hypocrisy regarding faith in the public sphere. For him, there should be more faith in t...

"Squirmish" Half-Governor Sarah Palin is at it again. The Shakespeare of Wasilla has created another new word. While criticizing...

From today's Tribune-Review : The George Soros-funded liberal group Media Matters might be violating its tax-exempt educational status b...

Coincidences are fun! Late this afternoon I found this at Early Returns 2.0: The former Navy admiral and congressman is back in Pittsburgh ...

My friend Ginny wrote yesterday : The very day I outed myself as Virginia Montanez instead of PittGirl, Chad Hermann at the Radical Middle l...