news
- 14 Jan 12:01 am
- City Controller: Audit raises questions about Philadelphia cash management
- 14 Jan 12:00 am
- PA turnpike officials received personal vehicles worth $28,000 each
- 13 Jan 11:58 pm
- PA state Senator moves to abolish Philadelphia Traffic Court
- 09 Jan 6:26 pm
- Philadelphia police tie construction-site arson to union sabotage
- 09 Jan 6:24 pm
- Former Philadelphia School Superintendent Ackerman Directed Award of No-Bid Contract
- 09 Jan 6:17 pm
- Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops
- 08 Jan 10:11 pm
- PA spent $690 million on overpayments for unemployment compensation
- 08 Jan 10:07 pm
- US sets records with number of drone strikes in Afghanistan this [last] year
- 08 Jan 10:06 pm
- 3/4ths of States Ignore Mental Illness Background Checks For Gun Buyers
- Virginia has more than 180,000 on its list. Nineteen states have less than 100 each.
- 08 Jan 10:00 pm
- DND removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israeli forces
- 08 Jan 9:58 pm
- Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
- 08 Jan 9:57 pm
- Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns
- 08 Jan 9:55 pm
- NY Times loses bid to uncover details on drone strikes
- 08 Jan 9:42 pm
- Illinois House Passes Drivers Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants
- 14 Dec 1:29 am
- Israel Is Set To Receive 5,000 US Bunker Buster Bombs For Delaying Its Attack On Iran
- Obama’s all like, “thx bros!”
- 13 Dec 1:21 am
- Report: Obama’s plan to harvest and store US persons’ data faced objections at DHS privacy office
- 13 Dec 1:20 am
- Auditors’ secret report reveals how millions flowed to President Zuma
- Exposed: An auditors’ report lays bare how a range of benefactors funded a reckless president’s lifestyle by more than R7-million. ...more news
from the web
- 09 Jan 6:21 pm
- Scandal Alert: Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
- The Atlantic
- 09 Jan 6:20 pm
- Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Operator
- Der Spiegel
- 08 Jan 10:09 pm
- How Fred Gaudelli Turned NBC’s Sunday Night Football Into The No. 1 Show On TV
- Deadspin
- 08 Jan 10:05 pm
- The college textbook bubble and how the “open educational resources” movement is going up against the textbook cartel
- American Enterprise Institute
- 08 Jan 10:03 pm
- When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen’s government tries to conceal it
- The Washington Post
- 08 Jan 10:02 pm
- Stop giving chemicals a bad name, says Royal Institution Christmas lecturer
- Dr Peter Wothers says the word ‘chemicals’ is being misused to mean something harmful or unnatural (The Guardian)
- 08 Jan 9:47 pm
- How Obama Decides Your Fate If He Thinks You’re a Terrorist
- A look inside the “disposition matrix” that determines when — or if — the administration will pursue a suspected militant (The Atlantic)
- 14 Dec 1:30 am
- CONFIRMED: US Counterterrorism Agency Can Amass Data On Any Citizen
- Michael Kelley
- 13 Dec 1:24 am
- Looming Crisis: State Budgets Soon to Be Under Siege
- The Big Picture
- 13 Dec 1:23 am
- Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job
- Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler. (The Guardian)
- 12 Dec 6:10 pm
- The NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend
- Known as the “double tap,” the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often strikes first responders. (Michael Kelley)
- 11 Dec 11:42 pm
- Chicago Warned Of Looming Transit System Meltdown
- I’m sure paying more outrageous benefits will get those tracks fixed any day now. (Business Insider)
- 11 Dec 11:37 pm
- Arizona Sued for Denying Illegal Aliens Driver’s Licenses
- hahahahaha… wait, you are serious?!?!?!?!?
- 11 Dec 11:34 pm
- Gender Grudge Match
- The “Women in Science” movement seems to be largely a victim mentality in search of a cause. (Pope Center)
- 11 Dec 11:32 pm
- Why China Should Study Singapore’s Anti-Corruption Strategy
- Business Insider ...more from the web
staff
- 11 Dec 11:07 pm
- Ruben Amaro: Idiot GM, or Idiotest GM
- Amaro out Amaro’ed himself this time
- 04 Sep 7:34 pm
- Facebook is run even worse than I imagined
- Doing a stock buyback is one of the most idiotic things I’ve heard
- 27 Aug 10:50 pm
- USA Today: News for idiots
- I’m sure there is nothing wrong with the Case-Schiller Index, but thanks for trying to discredit it anyway
- 08 Aug 9:39 pm
- It is pretty weak of Phillies fans that the home sellout streak ended already
- I thought you were better than this Philadelphia
- 07 Aug 1:54 pm
- Have we all forgotten that Garrett Reid is human garbage?
- I think the media is getting a little overboard with the mourning
- 30 Dec 10:53 pm
- Is it just me, or is SHLD seriously undervalued?
- [Some punny tagline including "Blue Light Special" in relation to their share price]
- 03 Dec 12:00 am
- The Steptford Lions
- Observations from the outside of the Penn State scandal
- 12 Nov 8:23 pm
- Week 10 – 2011 Inaugural Andrew Luck Memorial Derby
- Only one undefeated team remains… ...more staff
sorbet
- 11 Dec 11:19 pm
- Australian police warn of Apple Maps’ “life-threatening” flaws
- Some drivers relying on Apple Maps have needed Australian police to rescue them.
- 11 Dec 11:08 pm
- UK police unable to identify man who fell from sky
- 26 Nov 8:35 pm
- Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied
- 26 Nov 8:11 pm
- ‘BIGFOOT’ DNA SEQUENCED IN UPCOMING GENETICS STUDY
- Incredible!
- 20 Nov 12:13 am
- Dangerous driving: Power pole appears smack in the middle of Quebec highway
- GREAT comments
- 13 Nov 11:58 am
- Pepperoni trail: Police say man fled crash scene carrying pizza
- 13 Nov 11:57 am
- Chinese Communist Party ticket used to be a babe magnet, says billionaire Liang Wengen ...more sorbet
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