Drug War Chronicle By Phil Smith Tuesday’s election brought decidedly mixed results for marijuana legalization advocates with three out of five state-level campaigns going down in defeat, according to unofficial results early Wednesday morning. Provided the results hold, Maryland and Missouri will become the 20th and 21st states to legalize marijuana, along with the District […]
Do Russians Really Believe Putin’s Politics Today?
by Slava Tsukerman After more than 8 months, the Russian war with Ukraine continues. The last weeks of Ukrainian successes in battles and Russian mobilization resulted in nearly a million young Russian men fleeing from the country. It seems all that should create disappointment in Putin’s politics for most Russians. Unexpectedly, statics tells the opposite. […]
REF: Charlie Smithgall is in ‘Cannon Heaven’
An LNP article reports the death of Charlie Smithgall, Lancaster’s long time pharmacist, former mayor, and a unique and unforgettable individual. I only got to know Charlie during his two attempts for re-election at which time I was a significant funder and a would be political adviser. Upon my arrival at his house, he would […]
Peace between Russia and Ukraine
Sep 22, 2022. – E-mail to friends Based on current conditions, the following is a deal I propose between Russia and Ukraine that would allow both to retain their dignity: 1). A hundred year lease to Russia for Crimea. 2). Russia having the right of passage by a designated land and rail route to Crimea. […]
Russians’ Attitude To The War With Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman It is extremely difficult to learn what are Russians’ opinions today on political questions, as almost no Russian tells sociologists what they really think. Besides, the situation depends on the development of the war in Ukraine and it changes literally every hour. Still, combining questionable data presented by polls with rich material […]
Europe’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Is On Fire
by Slava Tsukerman In the morning of August 7, 2022, the 4th power unit of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the Largest in Europe, now under Russian occupation, stopped working. It is on fire. It was disconnected from the network as a result of shelling carried out on August 6, afternoon. The website www.politico.eu […]
REF speaks: Is the “Atlantic” the “Fox News” of the left?
By Robert Field, Publisher Some weeks ago I discontinued my subscription to the “Atlantic”. This morning I heard Jeffrey Goldberg, its Editor in Chief, two times refer to Trump supports as “rabble”. I hardly consider almost half of the nation as “rabble”, defined at Google “as ordinary people, often regarded as socially inferior […]
Great news for NewsLanc and the history of Lancaster
Spread over the next few months, we will be adding to our NewsLanc web site the recently discovered articles that predated June, 2009 that were lost during the change over to the Word Press format . For any student or historian interested in Lancaster history, the early years of reporting on NewsLanc will be especially […]
Is the bar for proficiency now too high to encourage learning a musical instrument?
A couple of hundred years ago, only those living in major cities could hear professional performances of classical music. It was common for families and friends to gather in parlors to listen to amateurs perform music as best they could. The beauty of what they were playing transcended occasional mistakes, corrections, and misinterpretations. But in […]
Russians Find Historical Analogies With Their War In Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman Founding historical analogies to the Russian aggression in Ukraine became one of the popular subjects in the Russian anti-Putin media lately. There are two types of analogies. The first type is analogies with previous events in Russian history, the second type is analogies with the activity of Nazi Germany. Speaking […]
REF speaks re arming teachers
Newslanc supports allowing specially trained school teachers to have access to guns, body armor and face shields in a secure classroom closet. Only trained volunteers would have access to the closets. I recall from our visits to Israel several decades ago that every adult from army age forward was required to keep a firearm in […]
Russian Attitude to Ukrainians
By Slava Tsukerman The Internet is full of documents proving the violent attitude of the Russian military and even some Russian civilians toward Ukrainians. One especially outrageous document, which went viral on the Russian Internet, was a recording of a telephone conversation between a Russian soldier, who was fighting in Ukraine with his wife located […]
How Russians Living in the USA Feel About the War in Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman March 2014 was a time when Russia annexed Crimea and started the war in Eastern Ukraine. Russians in Russia and even Americans, who had emigrated to the US from this country, were divided in their attitude to those events. An article in New York Times, published on March 2, 2014, was entitled […]
Russians: The Meaning of the War in Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman There are two very different official Russian explanations of the purpose of the Russian war against Ukraine. The first explanation, still general Russia explanation insists that Russians want only to “free” Ukrainians from the “Nazi” government, but have no plans to occupy Ukraine or any other country. The second explanation is very […]