The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gets right to the heart of the matter in terms of the controversy over Rick Santorum's residency:

"He doesn't live here anymore."

We noticed something interesting while watching a KDKA-TV story about the controversy surrounding the home that Rick Santorum owns in Penn Hills. Rick claims that he stays there when he's in Pennsylvania, and his mother-in-law recently told KDKA that the Santorums spent five days there last week. But, if you look at the two pictures below, it doesn't look like the lawn has been mowed in quite some time. Do you think Rick didn't have time to mow it or do you think he just didn't notice how long it had gotten?





For comparison's sake, here's a shot of the Santorum lawn in Virginia looking very tidy.

Apparently the house that Rick Santorum owns in Penn Hills, PA is now vacant (it was previously rented out to family members). However, you shouldn't try to confirm that yourself because the police have stepped up patrols in the area of the house based on reports of trespassers. Here's the story from KDKA-TV