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By Randy LoBasso
The Rise and Fall, Again, of Rick Santorum's Political Ambition
Everyone remembers the photo from 2006, when Rick Santorum had to stand up and acknowledge he’d been voted out of the U.S. Senate by the people of Pennsylvania. While Santorum spoke, his 8-year-old daughter Sarah Maria stood next to him, her chubby cheeks soaked with tears. It was the picture of the end of the Republican Revolution that, for a decade, had ruled Congress, and thus Washington, and thus America.
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Attorney General Candidates Patrick Murphy and Kathleen Kane Battle in the Democratic Primary
Heading into November, yet another formidable Republican—no-nonsense Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed, who’s running unopposed in next week’s primary—will try to make mincemeat out of either Kathleen Kane or Patrick Murphy, the two Democrats sparring fiercely in a primary bout to determine who’ll carry their party’s flag in the AG race this fall.
Letters to the Editor
The point isn’t what we’ve accomplished, or whether a liberal reporter likes how things went. There was no predetermined outcome. It was, and it connected people who are now doing some hard work to try to make things better in a variety of ways.
By Katherine Rochester
Objects of Our Affection at Rebekah Templeton and Vox Populi
The five sculptures that comprise Tyler Kline’s solo exhibition don’t exactly look like they belong at home.
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- NEWS AND OPINION: Why You Should Care About These Primary Challenges
- ARTS AND CULTURE: Calendar: April 18-24
- NEWS AND OPINION: Still No Solution to Deterring Attacks on SEPTA Drivers
- MUSIC: WU LYF Make Music So Powerful It Doesn’t Matter That No One Can Understand Them
- MUSIC: On the Record: Monica, Of Monsters And Men and more!
- NEWS AND OPINION: Savage Love
- MUSIC: Reclusive Guitarist Willie Lane Has Two Shows This Weekend
- MUSIC: Critic’s Pick: Tobacco
- SCREEN: "Think Like a Man" Takes a Different Approach to Bringing a Best-Seller to the Big Screen
- SCREEN: "Marley" Is More Like a Well-Researched Term Paper than Documentary
- SCREEN: "The Three Stooges" Is Not Perfect, But Still Really Funny
- SCREEN: Six (Well, Seven) ’90s Indie Filmmakers Who Went Largely AWOL
- SCREEN: "Damsels in Distress" Conjures the Lovely Naiveté of Bull-Headed Youth
- ARTS AND CULTURE: A Dangerous Manifesto Demands Gay Rights in "The Temperamentals"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: Flashpoint's "Slip/Shot" Is Haunted by the Death of Trayvon Martin
- FOOD: Why Chinatown's M Kee Needs to Do Better in a Neighborhood Full of Great Food
