Senior Democrats had been encouraging Shapiro to jump into the primary against Joe Sestak, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Delaware County congressman who lost a close race to Toomey in 2010 but who also has a strained relationship with members of the party establishment…

“The performance of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Tuesday was shameful. The committee allowed itself to be used to parrot the views of the Hungarian government . . . “

All eyes turned to the Junior Senator from Pennsylvania. Hundreds of thousands watched or listened by means of C-SPAN’s broadcast of the long awaited and vital debate.

When an agent of the government kills someone, no matter how justified, it amounts to an arrest, indictment, trial, conviction and execution. If government can withhold vital information about an execution of a member of the public, then the most basic rights and protections of our citizenry are in serious danger.

“I believe, for a number of reasons, that we ought to decriminalize marijuana use. I think our prisons are over-crowded as a result of people going to jail for reasons that, you know, we break up families for reasons that we shouldn’t,” Wolf said…

Once considered a moderate, Kenney ran on a progressive platform, advocating for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, ending stop-and-frisk, decriminalizing marijuana, and restoring funding to the city’s cash-strapped public schools. As a city councilman, he fought for a bill that reduced cooperation between Philadelphia police and federal immigration authorities in detaining undocumented immigrants in the city, as well as a bill expanding LGBT rights.

The carrier made a mistake and delivered the WSJ instead of the LNP this morning. No problem. We turned to the “e-edition” which is available to subscribers and especially helpful when traveling.

But a train is so massive, with so much momentum, that it almost never experiences that kind of deceleration. (One exception is when two trains collide, which is very rare.) Less extreme deceleration usually means less extreme impact injuries. A train hitting a car or truck at a grade crossing barely slows down at first…

Peruto noted that Kane, in defending her decision to not pursue the sting, said the lead investigator in the case had said he had been directed to target blacks…

“The argument was always that the winners could compensate the losers,” [Nobel Aware winning economist Joseph] Stiglitz said. “But the winners never do. And that becomes particularly relevant when we have a society with as much inequality as we have today.”

[On Tuesday] A couple million of us (at the most) will trek to the polls and vote for one or more choices for more than 15,000 local political offices. For the most part, we will not have a clue as to the significance of our vote. This is not surprising because most people running for these offices do not have a clue what they will do if they win.

“What you have to understand, in many cases, [legal same-sex marriage] is actually being treated as a non-event,” said Kathleen Schneider, a Regent Square lawyer and LGBT activist. “These folks who thought they wouldn’t ever be able to be married, treated themselves as being married. They already had joint financial accounts, they owned real estate jointly, named one another as beneficiaries in 401(k) plans and their wills. They did as much as they could within the confines of the law.”