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A Philadelphia newspaper reporter assigned to cover the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York is moonlighting as a Media Matters activist — tweeting in support of the protests while writing about them. Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News — whose front page article on Tuesday carried the headline “It’s About Time!”— is also, according to his own Twitter feed, a senior fellow at Media Matters, the anti-Fox News media group. FoxNews.com was unable to find any mention of Bunch’s association with Media Matters on Philly.com, which hosts content from the Philadelphia Daily News and its rival, the Inquirer....

Slide show of celebrities who support GOP or other right causes.

The principal of a New Jersey elementary school where young students were videotaped singing the praises of President Obama is making no apologies for the videotape and says she would allow the performance again if she could, according to parents who spoke with her Thursday night. Three parents told FOXNews.com that Dr. Denise King, principal of B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., defended the controversial performance, which was videotaped and posted on YouTube, when they approached her during a "Back to School" event. Parent Jim Angelillo said King told him the lesson was merely part of Black History...

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Philadelphia police continue to look for two men (in surveillance footage above and below) accused of attacking a Geno's Steaks employee. The owner of the business is offering a reward. Police say it was around 6:30am December 27th when two males started to argue with a female employee at Geno's Steaks about the now notorious sign there "this is America, when ordering please speak English". A male employee, Tony Chestnut, was power-washing the sidewalk when he went to his co-workers aide. Chestnut, who is recovering at his south Philadelphia home, describes what he says happened next. "When I just waved...

The FBI raided the homes of Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter and a close friend on Monday as it investigates whether the congressman improperly helped the pair win lobbying and consulting contracts. Agents searched four locations in the Philadelphia area and two in Jacksonville, Fla., said Debbie Weierman, an FBI spokeswoman in Washington, DC. The congressman's home and his offices were not among the locations searched, she said. Earlier Monday, Weldon (in file photo at right) called the investigation politically motivated and called the timing suspect. A Republican locked in a tight re-election bid (see related story), he denied wrongdoing and...

I just got off the phoe with a pollster. Every single question he asked had the phrase (corruption of Republicans in the state and in Washington) in it or referenced to it. How blatant can these guys be? The pollster admitted to me that all his calls were in the 215 area code, thats Philadelphia and immediate surroundings. Expect to see this one trumpeted on the news in a weeks or so.

A controversial question given to students during a practice test for a math final at Bellevue Community College has students - and others - shaking their heads because of its lack of racial sensitivity. A civil rights activist said it refers to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice although it doesn't mention her by name. The question read: "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second." The Condoleezza question went on to ask when the watermelon will hit the ground, based...

Man Thought He Was Communicating With 12-Year-Old BENSALEM, Pa. -- A local scoutmaster is in jail after undercover agents arrested him Friday in an Internet child sex sting. Prosecutors said that David Mayberry is a dangerous man. State agents arrested the 50-year-old Montgomery County man, accusing him of trying to engage in sex acts with a gay 12-year-old he met on the Internet. However, prosecutors said that Mayberry was not messaging a 12-year-old -- it was an agent with the attorney general's office. "I can't describe the specific acts he wanted to engage in. You won't hear me repeat them...

The BBC was last night plunged into a damaging general election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and sending them into a campaign meeting addressed by Michael Howard, the Conservative leader. The Tories have made an official protest after the hecklers, who were given the microphones by producers, were caught at a party event in the North West last week. Guy Black, the party's head of communications, wrote in a letter to Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news, that the hecklers began shouting slogans that were "distracting and clearly hostile to the Conservative Party". These included...

DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. (AP) April 8, 2005 — A judge gave neighbors in a Birmingham Township subdivision one more month to settle a scrap over political campaign signs, or at least leave each other alone. District Justice Rita Arnold ruled Thursday that if Harry Miller, Paul A. Benini and Carol Palmer comply, she will drop disorderly conduct citations against the three. They were cited following a sign-brandishing, pepper-spraying quarrel two days before the presidential election. Miller, president of the Radley Run Homeowners Association, said he saw Benini and Palmer removing Bush-Cheney signs from an intersection, and told them the signs were...

Homosexual attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division not only attended a large homosexual event in Philadelphia last year, but they advised police on the scene who arrested 11 Christian protesters, says a source within the agency. According to the Justice Department employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, a number of agency attorneys from Washington, D.C., attended the October "OutFest" event, and, he says, they therefore are not likely to take up the cause of the five criminally charged Christians who believe Philadelphia officials violated their civil rights. As WorldNetDaily reported, on Oct. 10, the group...

Today National President Chuck Canterbury said that vice presidential candidate John Edwards' promise to overturn the new Federal overtime regulations revealed either a fundamental misunderstanding of their positive impact on public safety employees, or an early assurance of the political payback his trial lawyer colleagues can expect to receive in a Kerry-Edwards Administration. Speaking in Sioux City, Iowa, on Thursday, Edwards stated that "the first day John Kerry is sworn into office, we're going to reverse the overtime rule." "It's good to know in October that if elected they are not going to waste any time in dismantling the historic...

Today Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, blasted Senator John Kerry for yet again turning his back on America's law enforcement officers by crossing two police picket lines in Florida yesterday established by F.O.P. Lodge #25 in Orlando, Florida. Canterbury noted specifically that his actions against police officers who were seeking nothing more than to highlight their situation weakened Kerry's continuing claims that he is not a habitual flip-flopper. "It wasn't that long ago that Kerry said 'I don't cross picket lines. I never have,'" Canterbury said. "That 'pledge' is now meaningless. I guess his support...

An assistant Boy Scout leader from Cherry Hill, N.J., is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. Jason Rosner, 23, was charged Sunday with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. He is a self-employed landscaper who is also a Cherry Hill, N.J., volunteer firefighter, police said. The complaint alleges that Rosner engaged the boy in sex acts on multiple occasions in September and October 2003 at the defendant's home, the victim's home and a Cherry Hill hotel. The charges carry a maximum prison term of 35 years if Rosner is convicted. Rosner was being held in lieu...

Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz captured a prize from organized labor yesterday with the endorsement of Teamsters Joint Council 53, representing 60,000 workers. It is the second major union endorsement for Katz - he was backed recently by city firefighters - in his rematch with Mayor Street. In 1999, Katz had no union endorsements. The Teamsters, who supported Democratic Gov. Rendell last year, did not endorse either candidate in the mayor's race four years ago. "We're looking to do the right thing for our members - protect jobs and bring more jobs into this city," said Frank Gillen, president of...

So who was that letter-writer, calling herself Theresa Newbery from Philadelphia, who slammed mayoral candidate Sam Katz in the letters-to-the-editor section of Saturday's Daily News? It was Theresa Keel - wife of Frank Keel, who is a spokesman for Mayor Street's campaign against Katz. He's also the mayor's former press secretary. The Keels live in Montgomery County, not Philadelphia. The Daily News, unaware that "Theresa Newbery" was really Theresa Keel, published her letter. "Yes, I wrote the letter," Theresa Keel said, in a brief telephone interview from the $263,000, four-bedroom, 2 ½-bath home she and her husband purchased in North...

I need some source links showing how the Florida recount would have come out if it had preceeded. IIRC, they showed Bush was still the winner if they had violated election law and recounted like the dems wanted.

The widow of a Royal Marine killed in Iraq says she was told to pay back some of his wages and move out of the family home. Ian Seymour, 28, an operator mechanic (communications) second class, was killed in a helicopter crash in Kuwait at the beginning of the conflict. His wife Lianne, 27, from Poole, Dorset, was devastated when the Ministry of Defence (MoD) asked her to pay back his salary for the rest of the month and to move out. But, when told about her plight, Prime Minister Tony Blair said she will not be expected to pay...

This is a rarity..a web comic that has a conservative bent.