Opinion & Essay
Hard to believe: The Gary Hart scandal revisited
If you’re old enough to remember Gary Hart, you know he was a promising presidential candidate who’s political career went up ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘The Addams Family’ values
Sometimes you just have to bring in the big guns to wake up the near-dead – and in “The Addams Family,” of course, plenty o ...
11 years ago
The campaign season’s most repugnant TV ad (so far)
My original plan was to patiently wait until midterm election eve before singling out the season’s most repugnant campaign ad. But ...
11 years ago
What you need to know about New Jersey’s new alimony law
On Sept. 10, Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill into law that has made significant changes to how alimony is awarded in New Jersey. The am ...
11 years ago
Goodbye Eric Holder, hello to a new partisan war
Oh man. Just what we needed, another Washington crapstorm. You don’t need a PhD in politics to understand why Eric Holder ti ...
11 years ago
8 favorite cookie recipes inspired by science (sort of)
This week’s edition of The Pulse features a segment with Dr. Bethany Brookshire demonstrating the scientific method with cooki ...
11 years ago
A crooked judge – what we don’t see scares me
It’s a sad day when a judge admits to taking cash and then influencing cases. “You run into a problem with any of your ...
11 years ago
GOP guy: Our next nominee “can’t be the richest whitest person in the room”
I shook my head in pity the other day while reading Michael Gerson, a senior aide in the Bush White House, as he sought to convince his f ...
11 years ago
Wolf leads in new poll, campaign cash
A new Franklin & Marshall poll shows Democrat Tom Wolf leading incumbent Republican Tom Corbett by 20 points among likely voter ...
11 years ago
Review: Genuine ‘Love Letters’
It’s no wonder that audiences love “Love Letters” – even though it’s a play with basic costumes, little ma ...
11 years ago
Back to the future: In new ads, Republicans try to party like it’s 2002
Those of you with long memories can probably conjure the midterm campaigns of 2002, when Republicans ramped up for the disastrous Iraq in ...
11 years ago
Democrats pull second TV ad in New Jersey congressional race
For the second time in five weeks, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has pulled a TV ad attacking New Jersey Republican con ...
11 years ago
The Hillary haters’ anthem: “Better call Saul”
Perhaps the shrinks can explain, in clinical terms, why right-wingers are so obsessed about long-dead community organizer Saul Alinsky. B ...
11 years ago
Corbett makes a showing – is it enough?
My scorecard in Pennsylvania’s first gubernatorial debate: Corbett wins on points, with no knockout. Corbett, the incumbent ...
12 years ago
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