Month: December 2012

Jon Huntsman: GOP ‘Devoid Of A Soul’

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R), who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, had harsh words for his party in an interview published Sunday in Britain’s Daily Telegraph. “The party right now is a holding company that’s devoid of a soul and it will be filled up with ideas over time and leaders […]

Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law

HUFFINGTON POST:   President Barack Obama has signed into law a five-year extension of the U.S. government’s authority to monitor the overseas activity of suspected foreign spies and terrorists… Known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law allows the government to monitor overseas phone calls and emails without obtaining a court order for each intercept. […]

Questions raised again about Bill O’Brien’s future with Penn State football program

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:  The incessant, as yet-to-be-answered questions regarding Bill O’Brien’s future at Penn State were thrust back into the forefront Sunday, with ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reporting that O’Brien was likely on some NFL teams’ short lists, including the Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles…. If any team, college or pro, wants to hire O’Brien it will […]

Fiscal Cliff Countdown: What the Principals Want

DAILY BEAST Column: …1. President Obama Wish list: Higher taxes on the wealthy, stimulus spending, limited cuts to entitlements Worries of a “fiscal cliff” got a whole lot more real after the Nov. 6 election, which promised the return of divided government. Acutely aware of this, the newly re-elected president began publicly advocating the need […]

Deal Reached to Avoid $8 Milk Spike

NEWSMAX:   Farm-state lawmakers have agreed to a one-year extension of the expiring farm law that, if enacted, would head off a possible doubling of retail milk prices to $7 or more a gallon in early 2013. The extension would end a 32-month attempt to update farm subsidies dating from the Depression era, when farmers were […]

Hillary Clinton Admitted To New York Hospital With Blood Clot Following Concussion

HUFFINGTON POST:   Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Clinton’s doctors discovered the clot Sunday while performing a follow-up exam, her spokesman, Philippe Reines, said. He would not elaborate on the location […]

LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS

Free lance columnist Carol Petersen writes in “Mental Health Demands Respect”: “When suffering chest pains, we don’t refuse to seek treatment because we fear being labeled as having a heart condition. We don’t avoid treatment or lie about our condition so no one will know. We don’t suppress our symptoms, embarrassed to be thought of […]

LANCASTER NEW ERA

Editorial “E-town trying medical amnesty” opines: “Like Penn State, Elizabethtown College has adopted a “medical amnesty policy” that spares disciplinary action against a student who calls 911 or alerts campus security when he or she feels a fellow student is at risk of alcohol poisoning… Last year, a measure passed by the state Legislature and […]