In meetings on Capitol Hill and with influential policy analysts, administration officials argue that inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities under the deal will reveal important details that can be used for better targeting should the U.S. decide to attack Iran.
Month: August 2015
LETTER: Kane should do the right thing
This is a distraction to her job, guilty or not guilty. She needs to do the right thing.
No state budget! How personal does it get?
Before you fall in love with the GOP, know you are likely to be paying higher taxes at the local level to make up for Harrisburg’s tricks. During the four years Corbett wielded his tax-cutting sword, he ignored the burden that fell on local school districts and municipalities.
Kane hearing a ‘he said, she said’ case
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE COLUMN: State Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane sees herself as a devoted crime fighter under siege by state officials threatened by her effort to expose “filthy” emails they traded on state time. State prosecutors say she is a liar who shamelessly used her position as the state’s top prosecutor to seek revenge on […]
Why Drug Testing Students is Un-American
Random drug tests violate students’ privacy and may make them more likely to switch from pot to harder stuff…
Doubt Is Raised Over Value of Surgery for Breast Lesion at Earliest Stage
NEW YORK TIMES: As many as 60,000 American women each year are told they have a very early stage of breast cancer — Stage 0, as it is commonly known — a possible precursor to what could be a deadly tumor. And almost every one of the women has either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy, […]
Capitolwire: Kane’s tumultuous tenure draws another potential challenger.
State Rep. Todd Stephens announced his candidacy for Attorney General on Thursday, saying Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s troubled first term has “shattered the faith” in the state’s criminal justice system for many.
Keisling: Voters wanted an unpolished outsider, and with Kane that’s what they got
Reporters in the room nearly all expected Kane to say one thing: that she was resigning. Instead, Kane took the microphone and told the press corps, which has thrown all objectivity overboard and aligned against her, in not so many words, “Up yours!”
Pelosi: House Democrats Will Sustain Obama Veto on Iran Deal
NEWSMAX: …[Democrat Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi said that if such a vote were held today there would be enough support among House Democrats for Obama to prevail. That would take 146 House Democrats, and fewer than 60 have publicly declared their support so far. “The president’s veto would be sustained” if the vote were held […]
Swing-state poll shows Joe Biden’s appeal
…n hypothetical general-election matchups in all three states, Vice President Joe Biden performed as well or better than Clinton against the top Republican candidates, outpacing even The Donald. (Biden has not made a decision on entering the race, though speculation has been hot in recent weeks.)
Scientists find how obesity gene works, a clue to treatment
AOL: The discovery challenges the notion that “when people get obese it was basically their own choice because they choose to eat too much or not exercise,” said study leader Melina Claussnitzer, a genetics specialist at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “For the first time, genetics has revealed a mechanism in obesity that was […]
CNN/ORC Poll: Trump Trails Clinton By Just 6 Points in the General
NEWSMAX: Donald Trump is now competitive in a general election face-off against Hillary Clinton, with numbers posted in a new CNN/ORC poll showing him just 6 points behind the former secretary of state. Trump’s numbers have climbed dramatically since July, the poll shows, when he was still 16 points behind Clinton, CNN reported Wednesday. And […]
How Bernie Sanders makes his mega-rallies
POLITICO: ….Bearded, he wore a t-shirt in the style of Shepard Fairey’s iconic image of Barack Obama — emblazoned instead with Sanders’ face and the message, “Hope is nice, but I prefer no bullsh—.” It was mid-afternoon on Monday, and the volunteer training did not begin until 7 p.m. But Paul Sherman, 68, was on […]
Vaping: e-cigarettes safer than smoking, says Public Health England
While stressing that e-cigarettes are not free from risk, PHE now believes that e-cigarettes “have the potential to make a significant contribution to the endgame for tobacco”.