USA TODAY / AP: …Meeting for the 19th time since the debt crisis exploded in late 2009, leaders of the 17 countries that use the euro currency agreed to let funds intended to bail out indebted governments funnel money directly to struggling banks as well. The move is intended to stop banks from piling debt […]
Month: June 2012
Stockton, Calif. To File For Bankruptcy, Becoming Largest U.S. City To Go Broke
HUFFINGTON POST: …Officials said the city of nearly 300,000 could file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy by Friday afternoon, after the city council approved on Tuesday a budget that includes savings from the bankruptcy. The $26 million budget gap that was expected for fiscal 2013 is filled half by savings from missed payments on the debt […]
Moral and legal authority of PA’s highest offices and the equal enforcement of our laws are in doubt
It didn’t take long for a jury in Bellefonte, PA, to conclude that former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky for more than a decade misused his positions of trust at the university and the Second Mile Charity to seduce and rape vulnerable boys.
Health Care Dissent: Here’s What The Conservative Wing Wanted To Happen
From the HUFFINGTON POST: “The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying nonconsenting States all Medicaid funding. These parts of the Act are central to its design and operation, and all the Act’s other provisions would not have been enacted without them. In our view it must follow that the entire statute is inoperative.”
Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act.
With Chief Justice John Roberts casting the pivotal vote on a 5/4 decision, President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act was virtually fully upheld by the nation’s highest court.
The Court rejected the Administration’s argument that requiring health care insurance was permitted under the Commerce Clause, yet it justified the mandate under the government’s power to tax.
Castille called it: Corbett’s decision to nominate judges isn’t fiscally sound
From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …The state’s top judge correctly predicted the political winds in Harrisburg. And he accurately anticipated the flurry of legislative deal-making that will cost the judiciary a lot of money. A few weeks ago, [Ronald] Castille expressed concern when Gov. Tom Corbett nominated his former top aide, William Ward, to serve as an Allegheny County judge.
Joe Williams, Suspended Politico Reporter, Blames Conservative Media Smear Campaign
HUFFINGTON POST: Speaking to radio and Current TV host Bill Press, Joe Williams, who was punished for saying on MSNBC that Mitt Romney is more comfortable around “white folks,” said that there had been a “selective prosecution” against him by conservative websites like The Daily Caller and the late Andrew Breitbart’s Big Media Speaking about […]
Washington Post Stands by Bain Outsourcing Story
NEWSMAX: … The Romney campaign had sought a retraction of the June 21 story arguing that its claims about Bain are either incomplete or inaccurate and that reporters misinterpreted SEC filings. President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has seized on the report and quickly turned out ads to capitalize on it. “We are very confident […]
JPMorgan stock hit by report that loss could balloon to $9B
USA TODAY: Shares of JPMorgan Chase (JPM) tumbled in premarket trading Thursday as a published report said the bank’s losses on a bad trade may reach as much as $9 billion — far higher than the estimated $2 billion loss disclosed last month… The New York Times, citing sources it did not identify by name, […]
Kevin, please get those d–n Occupy marchers out of our way!
With his taxi cab delayed in San Francisco traffic due to about forty marching Occupy movement members protesting over Post Office policies, the Watchdog hurriedly called long time friend, drug policy reform partner and now DC Occupy movement ‘leader’ Kevin Zeese to ask him to get the protestors out of the way! Below is a message from […]
Chicago Marijuana Ticketing Approved By City Council, Decriminalizes Low-Level Offenses
HUFFINGTON POST: …The 43-3 vote in favor of the ordinance, which allows officers to write a ticket for $250 to $500 for possessing as much as 15 grams of marijuana or about 15 marijuana cigarettes, was expected after a council committee voted 13-1 last week to approve the measure. But aldermen still debated about two […]
Lancaster Solid Waste Authority is sole contender to buy Harrisburg incinerator
From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority has emerged as the sole remaining bidder for the Harrisburg incinerator. Harrisburg Receiver William Lynch made the announcement today at a by-weekly update meeting for Harrisburg’s financial recovery.
Mayor Gray owes Hamid Zahedi an apology
In an article appearing in the Intelligencer Journal New Era titled “Mayor, Lancaster city scrutinize Hotel Brunswick”, the following appears: “Gray said the owner, New York-based investor Hamid Zahedi, has told city officials the tenant is responsible for management and upkeep.
Discrediting the Drug War: Part 1
By Doctor Tom The United States has been pursuing an intellectually dishonest policy of criminal drug prohibition ever since the Harrison Act was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in December 1914. Never remotely successful at achieving its stated goals, the policy survived the demise of alcohol prohibition in 1933; primarily because it was not […]