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MSNBC’s resident Hillary Clinton super-fan, Andrea Mitchell, came across as particularly desperate Wednesday as she dedicated a segment of Andrea Mitchell Reports to dreaming of a possible recount in three key swing states. “Some Clinton supporters are trying to mount a campaign to ask for an audit in key states to see if a recount should be ordered,” she reported, “According to a group of election lawyers and computer scientists… there is quote, ‘Persuasive evidence that election results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan may have been manipulated or hacked.’” The report Mitchell was staking her hopes and dreams on was...

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a remarkable moment of candor, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell today acknowledged what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has been saying for years: Stronger gun laws could not have prevented the horrible shooting yesterday at the Amish school in Lancaster County. Rendell, a staunch gun control advocate, admitted, "I believe with all my heart that we need more gun control" during a live press conference. But he also acknowledged that tougher gun laws would not have prevented gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV from carrying out his deadly attack,...

For the second time since he took office, Governor Ed Rendell has gotten a resignation letter from his secretary of education. The tenure of Dr. Francis Barnes as Rendell’s education secretary was marked by his discomfort with Act 72. While the governor and other administration officials publicly campaigned to get school districts on board with the law that distributes property tax relief from gambling revenues, Barnes stayed on the sidelines. But Rendell press secretary Kate Philips insists that is not the reason for Barnes’ departure. And she rejects the suggestion that Rendell is having trouble staffing this key cabinet position:...