NEW YORK TIMES: …Mr. Obama’s library will be in his adopted home, Chicago’s South Side, according to two people who were briefed about the decision. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak before the official announcement. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Mr. Obama’s chief of staff and led […]
Month: April 2015
The Most Honest 15 Minutes Of Obama’s Presidency
He went on, “And we’ll go through the same cycles of periodic conflicts between the police and communities and the occasional riots in the streets. And everybody will feign concern until it goes away and then we go about our business as usual.”…
Gov. Wolf at 100 days
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS COLUMN: …”I ran because Pennsylvania couldn’t keep doing what it’s doing,” Wolf says, “I’m not here to mark time, tread water or use this as a stepping stone to anything else . . . I think I can make it better.”… His budget calls for reduced property taxes, more sales taxes, cutting […]
Slower US economy sets the stage for Fed
FINANCIAL TIMES: The US’s economic expansion faltered badly in the first quarter with gross domestic product rising by a sluggish 0.2 per cent annual pace, which could influence policy makers’ decision on when to lift interest rates. The growth figure was a fraction of the 1 per cent rate of expansion predicted by economists, and […]
Kane’s ability to lead AG’s office questioned
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: Sam Stretton, a West Chester attorney and constitutional law expert, said the presentment is further evidence that Ms. Kane’s tenure has been a “disaster” and she should resign immediately… John Burkhoff, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, agrees Ms. Kane’s ability to run the office has been compromised, but […]
An Eroding Syrian Army Points to Strain
NEW YORK TIMES: The Syrian Army has suffered a string of defeats from re-energized insurgents and is struggling to replenish its ranks as even pro-government families increasingly refuse to send sons to poorly defended units on the front lines. These developments raise newly urgent questions about the durability of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. “The trend […]
Should Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane resign? Or is Kane a butterfly on the torture wheel?
The potential upside is, should Kane tough it out and win, we have an attorney general who deeply understands just how inherently unfair and bad our politicized court system has become, and how it needs to be changed to protect all Pennsylvanians.
2016 Candidates Are United in Call to Alter Justice System
NEW YORK TIMES: …Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Rand Paul want to ease mandatory minimum sentences. Gov. Chris Christie wants to release nonviolent offenders pending trial without bail. Gov. Scott Walker, former Gov. Rick Perry and former Senator James Webb want to expand drug treatment as an alternative […]
Rand Paul: It Was a ‘Mistake’ to Overthrow Saddam Hussein
NEWSMAX: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul says it was a big “mistake” to topple Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein — and that it may have made Iran “twice as strong as it was before the Iraq War.” Speaking to Orthodox Jews at the Torah Umesorah Hebrew Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Paul also said he […]
Grand jury: PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s testimony about alleged leak ‘not an honest account’
Made public Monday, those findings are behind a December grand jury recommendation that Kane, the state’s top law enforcement officer, face perjury and other charges. The court document identifies her as the “principal” source of a leak to the Philadelphia Daily News…
National Guard Called Out in Baltimore
“Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in announcing the 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m…
Jimmy Carter: Can’t afford to be president today
WILKES-BARRE TIMES-LEADER: …“I couldn’t possibly do it, because I have very little money,” the 90-year-old said at a press conference during a recent visit to Wilkes-Barre. “And now it takes $200 million if you want any chance to get the Democratic or Republican nomination.”… “When I ran against Gerald Ford, who was the incumbent president, […]
Apple iPhone boom as China switches on
FINANCIAL TIMES: Explosive iPhone sales among the middle class in China and other emerging economies propelled Apple ahead of Wall Street’s forecasts for the fifth successive quarter, as it pledged to return another $70bn to shareholders… “I’ve never seen as many people coming into the middle class as they are in China and that’s where […]
Judge releases grand jury presentment against PA AG Kathleen Kane
“The public has the right to have this information be made public,” Kane’s attorney, Gerald Shargel, told the judge.