NATION OF CHANGE: On July 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled PA Act 13 unconstitutional. The bill would have stripped away local zoning laws, eliminated the legal concept of a Home Rule Charter, limited private property rights, and in the process, completely disempowered town, city, municipal and county governments, particularly when it comes to shale […]

NEWSMAX:  Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctions against Penn State went beyond punishing just the football program for the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Corbett, a Penn State trustee, told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette he knew the NCAA sanctions against the school were coming, but didn’t know in advance what they […]

From REUTERS: Turkey has set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct vital military and communications aid to Syria’s rebels from a city near the border, Gulf sources have told Reuters.

NEWSMAX:   A Colorado business owned by a Catholic family does not have to comply with President Barack Obama’s new healthcare mandate that private employers provide employees with insurance coverage of birth control, a Colorado federal judge ruled on Friday. … The ruling only affects this plaintiff but opens the door for any company to seek […]

Peter Orszag, Obama’s former OMB director, now a vice chairman of corporate and investment banking at Citigroup, has let the cat out of the bag writing: “Congress should now privatize the U.S. Postal Service,” i.e., given over to Federal Express and UPS along with a tax payer subsidy. The Postal Service does not receive a subsidy it operates from the revenue it receives from its products and services.

“A grave injustice has occurred over these past two weeks that began with the issuance of the Freeh report,” the email states. “After much review, it’s clear the report is highly flawed, and factually insufficient. Yet, the media, the Board of Trustees, University officials and the NCAA, seem to have read only the conclusions and not the content of the report and have failed to question the report’s evidentiary basis or lack thereof – they have rushed to judgment. As a result, OUR program has been brutally harmed and our Coach has been completely tarnished.”

EVERY DAY HEALTH:  ….A recent study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior examined the different ways women cope with sexual discomfort. From vulvar pain to low libido or no libido, researchers Sharron Hinchliff, Merryn Gott, and Kevan Wylie talked with women about the different ways they cope with physical discomfort and lack of […]

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:   …Harrisburg is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and is under state receivership as a result of debt incurred during a failed attempt to “retrofit” its waste incinerator. Sen. John H. Eichelberger, Jr. (R-Blair County), Chairman of the Local Government Committee announced in a press release Friday that the committee has scheduled a […]

HUFFINGTON POST: European policymakers are working on “last chance” options to bring Greece’s debts down and keep it in the euro zone, with the ECB and national central banks looking at taking significant losses on the value of their bond holdings, officials said. Private creditors have already suffered big write downs on their Greek bonds […]

HUFFINGTON POST / AP: The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 1.5 percent from April through June, as Americans cut back sharply on spending. The slowdown in growth adds to worries that the economy could be stalling three years after the recession ended. The Commerce Department also said Friday that the economy […]

A Letters to the Editor,  Harold Arends writes in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal New Era: “The National Collegiate Athletic Association has sucked the heart and soul out of some 38,000 Penn State students, plus countless others… “Although the ‘death penalty’ was not issued, I believe the Penn State’s football program should be listed in your […]