AOL / AP: Responding to critics’ relentless claims, President Barack Obama on Wednesday produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born and confirm his legitimacy to hold office. He declared, “We do not have time for this kind of silliness.” By going on national […]
Month: April 2011
Medical Marijuana Bill Re-Introduced in Pennsylvania
PENNSYLVANIANS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA (PA4MMJ) www.pa4mmj.org CONTACT: Chris Goldstein 267 702 3731 [email protected] A bill to legalize the use of medical marijuana for qualifying patients and to create a statewide system of “Compassion Centers” has been introduced in the Keystone State. Senator Daylin Leach brought SB 1003 forward on April 25th with Senators Larry Farnese, James Ferlo […]
Poll shows Pennsylvania voters divided over Corbett
TRIBUNE-REVIEW: A poll released today on Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s 100th day in office show voters by a 39-37 percent margin approve of the job he is doing as governor — a statistical tie. Since he released his budget last month, Corbett’s negative rating more than tripled from 11 percent from a February survey, according […]
Poll: Over Half of Egypt Wants End to Israel Peace
NEWSMAX / AP: More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday. According to the poll results, only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 […]
State’s use of tobacco settlement money lights fire under crowd
PITTSBUGH TRIBUNE REVIEW: Uninsured Pennsylvanians and health care advocates yesterday criticized state leaders’ plan to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars of state tobacco settlement money to the general fund after ending a low-income insurance program. “This money is not for the state to steal. They can steal our tax money,” John […]
Corbett undoes sprinkler requirement for new homes
INQUIRER: Gov. Corbett on Monday signed his first bill into law since taking office in January, undoing a requirement that fire sprinkler systems be installed in all new single- or two-unit homes. “This is a commonsense measure to keep new-home prices within the reach of working families,” Corbett said at a bill-signing ceremony in the […]
Michener’s Afghanistan has not changed that much
In 1963, James A Michenerpublished “Caravans” which ostensibly describes the attempt of a state department employee at the American Embassy in Afghanistan to “find a missing American girl whose parents have not heard from her since her impetuous marriage to a young Afghan engineer.”
Treasury quietly plans for failure to raise debt ceiling
From the WASHINGTON POST: The White House is warning that catastrophe will strike if Congress fails to raise the limit on the national debt: With too little cash to pay creditors, the U.S. government would default. Interest rates would skyrocket. And the economic recovery would collapse.
Santorum: Prez and I both have birth certificates
POLIRIXO: DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Rick Santorum said Tuesday that he and President Barack Obama both have the same proof they were born in the United States, making clear that he won’t play into the widely discredited claims about Obama’s birthplace. “He has a certificate of birth, which is what, if you ask for the record […]
John Boehner gas gaffe creates opening for Democrats
POLITICO: Democrats think Speaker John Boehner stepped in a tar pit when he tried to dance around a question about taxing Big Oil, and now a White House concerned about its own vulnerability to rising gas prices is working overtime to make sure he’s stuck. The Ohio Republican left the door open to hiking taxes […]
Gadhafi’s grip on western Libya slipping
USA TODAY / AP: …His loyalists were driven out of the city of Misrata, a key rebel stronghold in Gadhafi-controlled territory. A NATO airstrike turned parts of his Tripoli headquarters into smoldering rubble. And rebel fighters seized a border crossing, breaking open a supply line to besieged rebel towns in a remote western mountain area. […]
IPhone, Android location-logging feature sparks privacy concerns.
USA TODAY: Revelations about how Apple iPhones and Google Android phones keep precise track of each user’s whereabouts every day is sending shock waves through the tech and privacy communities. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.,sent separate letters late last week to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking him to supply details about how […]
Corbett’s reluctance to tax drillers undermines confidence in his leadership
PATRIOT-NEWS: Pennsylvania’s vast shale gas resources are a huge advantage for the state, but they are fast becoming political quicksand for Gov. Tom Corbett. At the moment, he’s in danger of sinking. Corbett remains adamant against any sort of severance tax on the Marcellus Shale drillers despite poll after poll that shows the majority of […]
The US military praises Iraqi security forces as they crack down on press freedom.
AL JAZEERA: As revolts swept across the Middle East and North Africa, they spread to Iraqi cities and towns, but took on a very different cast…. Many journalists have been prevented from covering protests or have curtailed their reporting in response to brutality, raising the spectre of a return to the days of Saddam Hussein’s […]