Month: January 2014

Study: Many will die if PA Medicaid is not expanded

“We predict that many low-income women will forego recommended breast and cervical cancer screening; diabetics will forego medications and all low-income adults will face a greater likelihood of depression, catastrophic medical expenses and death,” researchers wrote in the study, which was released on the website of the journal Health Affairs…

NFL Legend Joe Namath: I Have Brain Damage

NEWSMAX: Famed quarterback Joe Namath says he has brain damage he believes was the result of concussions he suffered during his years on the field. The former New York Jets and University of Alabama star told Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on Thursday that he has had tests on his brain and has had […]

LANCASTER ONLINE

What Smart says would be true for a state guaranteed bond that was repaid back by the borrower…. CRIZ is repaid from future taxes that presumably would be earned by the state. So it is not the owner that pays off the debt, it is our children and grandchildren because they will not have the tax revenues from the project necessary to pay their future government costs.

Russia Defers Aid to Ukraine, and Unrest Persists

NEW YORK TIMES: A former Ukrainian president warned on Wednesday that the country is now on “the brink of civil war,” and Russia added to the gloom by announcing the suspension of its financial aid package, which was all that had been keeping Ukraine solvent. Leonid M. Kravchuk, Ukraine’s president from 1991 to 1994, issued […]

Obama Delivers Subtle Messages to Justices

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Chastened after his 2010 State of the Union address, when his explicit criticism of a Supreme Court decision sparked a rebuke from several justices, President Barack Obama took a more subtle approach Tuesday regarding a ruling he considers misguided. The reference in Tuesday’s address to Congress was so subtle, in fact, that […]

Obama Vows to Act Alone on the Economy

“I’m eager to work with all of you,” a confident Mr. Obama told lawmakers of both parties in the 65-minute nationally televised speech in the House chamber. “But America does not stand still — and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that’s what I’m going to do.”…