An interesting article that raises some interesting questions. These days when everything, everywhere is subject to being monitored by video, even when people are not aware of it, there is hardly any expectation of privacy to complain about. If the film-maker is not obstructing your path and/or not threatening you, if you don’t want tt […]
Month: November 2010
Marijuana as medicine
I would love to try it but am to afraid to go get it I fractured my back at work had a failed surgery an now suffer severe pain and i am talking severe. So here we go with my meds 8 Perc 10’s a day 4- 5mg valiums a day. 1 fyntanal 75mg every […]
Double standard regarding perks received by PA Supreme Court Chief Justice Castille
TRIBUNE-REVIEW: The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court “routinely accepts dinners, plane rides, tickets to sporting events, and rounds of golf from lawyers and businessmen, some of them with cases that go before the court,” reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. That’s based on information contained in Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille’s financial disclosure forms. Accepting […]
Portugal’s Drug Experience: New Study Confirms Decriminalization Was a Success
TIME MAGAZINE: From the perspective of drug warriors, the criminal laws against drug possession are all that protect Americans from a deluge of drugs, an orgy of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine use that would kill children, destroy productivity and basically leave America a smoking hulk of wasteland populated by brain-dead zombies. For example, one […]
Does LGH turn patients away?
The last 2 paragraphs of the newsletter are priceless! Ironically, Alex Henderson says on the front that LGH”serves everyone who comes in our doors whether they have insurance or the ability to pay”, and a regular at market told me Tues. a.m. that she had a friend withdrawing badly from heroin and the addict was […]
Thanks to the givers among us
From USA TODAY: ….Though we don’t often see this philanthropy flowing through our nation in the news media, 89% of U.S. households donate. America is the most generous nation on the planet, making up nearly half of the world’s total giving. The average American is 14 times more generous than the average European, because Americans see philanthropy as their individual responsibility, not as a governmental activity, as most Europeans do.
Zogby: Obama Plunges to 39% as Dems Abandon Him, Too
From NEWSMAX: The fact that even Democrats are turning on President Barack Obama contributed to an approval plunge to 39 percent, his lowest ever, according to a Zogby Poll that prompted John Zogby to describe the result as a “perilous position.” Two months ago, Zogby put the president’s approval at 49 percent, according to the Top of the Ticket political blog in the Los Angeles Times.
EDITORIAL: Can we learn from Rome’s experience?
History students can sense “déjà vu all over again”, in the words of the great Yankee catcher and manager, Yogi Berra. The Watchdog senses that the USA started to decline around 1992 with the election of Democrat Bill Clinton by a minority with almost 19% of the public voting for Ross Perot of the “United We Stand” political party, a movement with much in common with today’s “Tea Party.”
Some abuse cam corders
Strictures like this are unfortunate. No doubt. However, I can’t help but wonder if this policy exists largely in response to camera-abuses that have become fairly commonplace in Lancaster’s public forums. Some local activists (whose causes are often honorable) have lately taken to pointing cameras in the faces of public figures while blasting them with […]
Only we can save the NFL from itself
More than 100 years after President Teddy Roosevelt, in an effort to save football, successfully campaigned against its violence, some worry that we need intervention again. With football arguably now the U.S. pastime, the moral stakes are higher this time around. While the recent focus has been on helmet-to-helmet hits that can cause concussions and […]
Corbett won’t find it easy to emulate New Jersey’s Christie
MORNING CALL: Gov.-elect Tom Corbett has never hidden his admiration for Chris Christie, the blunt-spoken, budget-slashing governor of New Jersey. More than once, Corbett has said a hint to how he will govern starting in January can be found across the Delaware River. On the surface, the two Republicans have much in common. Both are […]
Mellow Casey has to up profile for re-election
MORNING CALL: In any other political climate, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s mild-mannered style would be a welcome respite from the typical self-aggrandizing politician. But after a stormy campaign season that was lost for Democrats partially on President Barack Obama’s inability to forcefully sell his message, Casey has to find a way to reach people if […]
North Korea shells South Korean island; two killed
USA TODAY / AP: North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, setting buildings ablaze and killing at least two marines after warning the South to halt military drills in the area, South Korean officials said. South Korea said it returned fire and scrambled fighter jets in response, and said […]
Record U.S. Exports Reflect Midwest Boom With 3.7% Unemployment
BLOOMBERG: .. The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.7 percent, and “if it wasn’t for cable news, we probably wouldn’t have any idea that the rest of the country was any different,” said Doug Johnson, co-owner of crop insurer TCI Insurance in West Fargo, who added six new employees this year .. As businesses […]