Archives: 2008 January

All hands on deck!
Chester County Republicans have found a formidable opponent for state Sen. Andy Dinniman, who is in his second year in the Senate after winning a special election in 2006 following the death of longtime GOP state Sen. Robert Thompson.
The 19th Senate District has always been Republican territory but the combination of a […]

I can’t figure out the angle for Alycia Lane.
The Associated Press is reporting that the dethroned queen of Philadelphia news is working on a lawsuit against her former employer, KYW-TV 3, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia.
KWY fired Lane after she was arrest for allegedly assaulting a New York City policewoman.
Lane, through her attorney, said at […]

Billy A. Reed wants another shot at the 130th District House seat in the state Legislature.
The Republican said he will seek his party’s nomination on April 22 to run against incumbent Rep. David Kessler, a freshman Democrat.
Reed, who has never held political office, defeated Republican Dennis Leh, a 20-year member of the House, in the […]

Michael Mukasey, who replaced Gonzales as our top Justice guy, is afraid to admit that waterboarding is torture. And he wends and weaves his way through a legal labyrinthe of his own construction in order to confuse senators and the rest of us. Cagey Mukasey will not say whether he thinks waterboarding is legal. How […]

Kevin Gosztola just provided two pages of reasons for progressives to support the Green Party.

Dennis Kucinich’s failure to gain a significant percentage of votes in the Democratic primaries and his failure to combat media exclusion was a good thing for the Green Party. Witness the comments that came from supporters who were thinking about what […]

“Small l” libertarian, former Green Party candidate and Idaho gubernatorial hopeful W. Lane Startin wrote an interesting article on the history and future of third parties. It started with a discussion of issues well known to people engaged in third party politics, such as the importance of ballot access reform and inclusion in candidate […]