NEWSMAX: Mitt Romney says he doesn’t believe military action will be necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The Republican presidential nominee says he discussed the issue with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone Friday afternoon. Romney later told reporters traveling with him that it’s unclear whether there is any difference between their […]
Month: September 2012
10 Fla. counties report suspicious GOP voter sign-ups
USA TODAY: …Santa Rosa County elections officials found 100 problematic forms out of about 400 turned in by the state Republican Party. Most did not include Social Security numbers. Others had date of births that did not match the names. Some listed fake house numbers… … “Anyone with any sense would have known there was […]
Romney’s failing campaign hurting Republicans in congressional races
THE GUARDIAN: Mitt Romney‘s collapsing campaign is beginning to hurt Republican chances in key congressional races, risking their hopes of taking the Senate as a bastion against a second-term Barack Obama presidency… Romney’s lacklustre campaign, compounded by the threat to social security and Medicare coming on top of last week’s secret video of a Romney […]
Civil rights group file suit against Tom Corbet and Michael Turzai
News Release: Pennsylvania Civil Rights Law Network Dateline: Harrisburg Pennsylvania, September 27, 2012 A group of registered voters comprised of registered Democrats, Republicans and Independents filed suit today in federal district court naming Tom Corbett and House Majority Leader Rep. Michael Turzai as defendants. The suit alleges that Corbett and Turzai conspired with Republican operatives […]
Pa. judge backs most of voter ID law
As written, the law says voters who do not bring proper photo ID on Election Day can cast a provisional ballot. They would then have six days to bring in the required photo ID for their votes to count…
Caring isn’t enough
Do we really care about educating our youth….? What? We spend more on education than any society on earth. Of course we care. If test scores are any indication, we care much more than those we are trying to educate.
France unveils tough budget measures
FINANCIAL TIMES: France’s socialist government has delivered on its pledge to make big companies and the wealthy bear the brunt of an unprecedented budget crackdown in 2013, including a 75 per cent tax band. But Paris acknowledged that its growth forecast for 2013, which underpins its target of reducing the budget deficit to 3 per […]
U.S. Postal Service to Default on Second $5 Billion Retiree PaymentAOL
DAILY FINANCE: The U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can’t afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note that having squeezed out all the cost savings within its power, the mail agency’s viability now lies almost entirely with Congress. In an interview, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe […]
Obama Economy Has Created Jobs as Payroll Revisions Raise Count
BLOOMBERG: The number of jobs created in the year ended in March was revised upward by 386,000, the Labor Department said in Washington yesterday. If that estimate is confirmed in the final report, it would wipe out the 261,000 employment deficit spanning January 2009 to last month that is currently on the books and mean […]
Philadelphia man who claims to be Jerry Sandusky victim tells questionable tales: report
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …Only recently he’s been telling people about a “tri-state pedophile ring” that involved Sandusky. [Greg] Bucceroni claims that Sandusky, Savitz and others would swap photos of naked children “like baseball cards.” Law-enforcement sources say there is no evidence of a Savitz-Sandusky link. A federal law-enforcement source familiar with Bucceroni said he is not […]
Bad political ad ignored truth
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Editorial: Spreading false information because you don’t know the facts is a mistake. Continuing to spread false information when you know the truth is lying. That’s what a Washington-based, big-money political group did by continuing to run TV commercials that used false information to smear Pennsylvania Attorney General candidate Kathleen Kane as being […]
Supreme Court may limit use of race in college admissions
WASHINGTON POST: …But this time the challenge comes from a white woman. Abigail Fisher says the color of her skin cost her a spot in the 2008 freshman class at the university she had longed to attend since she was a child… But as recently as 2003, the justices reaffirmed the view that “student body […]
United States Economy Still Weak, but More Feel Secure
NEW YORK TIMES: … Despite months of disappointing-to-dismal economic reports — capped by a Commerce Department release Thursday showing the economy had expanded at an annual pace of just 1.3 percent in the second quarter, barely above stall speed — a closely watched measure of consumer confidence surged to its highest level since February. Economic […]
RNC cuts ties to firm after voter fraud allegations
LOS ANGELES TIMES: The Republican National Committee has abruptly cut ties to a consulting firm hired for get-out-the-vote efforts in seven presidential election swing states after Florida prosecutors launched an investigation into possible fraud in voter registration forms. Working through state parties, the RNC has sent more than $3.1 million this year to Strategic Allied […]