NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: …While the turbulent process was embarrassing for the president and deeply confusing for foreign negotiating partners, Mr. Obama now has the leverage he sought to force the final concessions needed to wrap up a free-trade pact bringing together 12 nations along the Pacific Rim. Talks should resume soon, and American officials […]
Month: June 2015
Our runaway spending on the elderly
WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: A recent Congressional Budget Office report, “The 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” reminds us that the federal government is slowly becoming an agency for taking care of the elderly. Almost everything else is being crowded out. We ignored that during the Obama presidency, and now it seems that the fledgling presidential campaign may […]
Who lost Iraq?
POLITICO: Did George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame… (more) NEWSLANC EDITOR: Five knowledgeable participants and up close observers express their views of what occurred. We recommend the article be read in its entirety. It is only through that process that a […]
KEISLING: PA legislature ignores responsibilities yet again
This year’s stalled budget process again drives home the point that Pennsylvania government and its legislature is broken, and has been broken for years.
Plan would require conviction before property seizure
WITF: House and Senate plans would halt a practice that allows law enforcement to seize property from someone accused, but not convicted, of certain crimes. Supporters of the bills repeatedly equated the policy to theft. Rep. Jim Cox (R-Berks) said civil asset forfeiture is falling more heavily on the poor because most seizures are small […]
Report Cites Dry-Rotting in Collapse of Balcony in Berkeley
EDITOR: New York Times’ report clarifies many of the absurdities as posted at radio station KQED. There must have been a massive miscommunication between the Berkeley, CA building officials and what perhaps was an inexperienced reporter.
How Much the Best-Performing and Worst-Performing CEOs Got Paid
WALL STREET JOURNAL: A substantial part of American CEOs’ pay is now tied to performance. But that doesn’t mean their compensation follows their results in lockstep. The Wall Street Journal’s annual pay survey looked at compensation for 300 CEOs and the returns the chiefs delivered to their shareholders. Broadly speaking, CEOs did well when their […]
Obama’s Fast-Track Trade Bill Advances Toward Final Senate Vote
NEWSMAX: President Barack Obama’s call for “fast-track” trade negotiating authority to help him strike a Pacific Rim deal cleared a key hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, paving the way for a final vote on the legislation on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Senate was likely to vote to grant Obama the power to speed […]
Plan B for Iran
POLITICO: President Barack Obama’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran may yet fail. On Tuesday, exactly one week before a June 30 deadline for an agreement, Iran’s Supreme Leader delivered his latest in a series of defiant statements, setting conditions for a deal—including immediate relief from sanctions, before Iran has taken steps to limit its nuclear program—that […]
Capitolwire: GOP lawmaker to file discharge resolution, kicking medical cannabis bill out of House Health Committee.
Still, advocates of the bill believe Baker is the only man standing in the way of its passage in the House. Miccarelli’s discharge resolution would forge a new path to passage by pulling the bill out of Baker’s committee.
Russian Reaction to the Development of Their Relationship with China
On June 20, 2015, the International Economic Forum took place in St. Petersburg. It was announced at the forum that 29 new Russian-Chinese projects worth over $20 billion are already approved, and the total number of joint projects has increased to 58. Currently signed agreements between Russia and China signed agreements amount to over $1 trillion.
This time the Lancaster City Alliance and others got it right
NewsLanc commends the authors and sponsors of “Prosperity Indicator, 2014 Report for Lancaster County”. Every person interested in their community and the county would benefit from reviewing it.
The Kingsley decision creates a crucial new constitutional protection against police abuse.
SLATE COLUMN: In April of 2010, five police officers put Michael Kingsley face down on a cement bunk in a holding cell, shocked him with a stun gun for five seconds, then left him alone, writhing in pain with his hands cuffed behind his back, for 15 minutes. Kingsley sued the officers, claiming they violated […]
WSJ/NBC national poll shows Hillary Clinton crushing all rivals
POLITICO: …The poll found the former secretary of state garnering 75 percent of the vote in a potential Democratic primary. Her closest challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, received only 15 percent of Democrats’ support, while former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley were supported by fewer than 5 percent of respondents. […]