THE HIILL: …1. Trump destroyed Jeb Bush. Okay, so former Florida Gov. Bush probably doesn’t think that’s great, but it is. Bush represents everything that is wrong with establishment politics. Before Trump came along, Bush was in first place by a wide margin, and that margin wasn’t a result of merit. It was manufactured by […]
Month: September 2015
Biden surges in new Bloomberg poll
POLITICO: Vice President Joe Biden surged in a new national Bloomberg Politics poll of Democratic voters and independent voters leaning toward the Democratic Party released Wednesday morning, even though he has not announced his intentions for the presidency. Hillary Clinton earned a plurality of 33 percent, followed by Biden at 25 percent and independent Vermont […]
Budapest Beacon: What really happened at Röszke?
It appears that over a period of twenty or thirty minutes Hungarian security forces launched three separate attacks on asylum seekers. As best we can tell, only the first police action could possibly have been justified on the grounds that asylum seekers “cast the first stone”
Trump and Fiorina’s Snake Oil Sales
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: …By every metric that mattered, HP was in far worse shape when [ Carly Fiorina] was fired than when she was hired. The company’s stock price dropped more than 50 percent during her tenure, compared to a 7 percent drop in the S.&P. 500. And net earnings dropped to $2.4 billion […]
Capitolwire: Attorney General Kane’s law license suspended but she’ll remain in office.
In the unanimous ruling issued Monday, the court said, “This order should not be construed as removing Respondent from elected office and is limited to the temporary suspension of her license to practice law.”
Can the outflow of capital from Russia be stopped?
The outflow of capital from Russia in the first half of this year reached the level of $52.5 billion. However, the Ministry of Finance projected that the peak of payments on foreign debts, which is expected in the last quarter of this year, could accelerate the capital outflows. By the end of 2015, according to the most experts, the outflow will reach at least $ 100 billion.
Counter-terrorism police ratcheted up violence at Röszke says photographer
Hungarian riot police and counter-terrorism forces clashed with refugees on Wednesday, wounding scores of people, including a number of reporters and photographers, many of them seriously. Among those injured was Warren Richardson, an Australian free-lance photographer based in Budapest, who blames units from Hungary’s counter-terrorism center (TEK) for ratcheting up the violence.
Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded
NEW YORK TIMES: A huge overnight price increase for an important tuberculosis drug has been rescinded after the company that acquired the drug gave it back to its previous owner under pressure, it was announced on Monday. However, outrage over a gigantic price increase for another drug spread into the political sphere on Monday, causing […]
Statement of AG Kathleen Kane on suspension of her law license
:“While I am disappointed in the court’s action I am grateful that the court recognized my constitutional rights both as a democratically elected official and as a citizen of the Commonwealth. The court, in specifically recognizing my continuing authority as Attorney General of the Commonwealth, today allows me to continue the good works of this […]
Legal Intelligencer: Kane’s Law License Temporarily Suspended
The order said it should not be construed as removing Kane from “elected office,” and is limited to the temporary suspension of her law license.
Europe’s Hungary Problem
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Just as one rotten apple can spoil a barrel, one brutish autocrat can spoil a political union. As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has consolidated power and built an increasingly authoritarian regime, he has thumbed his nose at the European Union—and mostly gotten away with it. Over the past few years, Orban has […]
Joe Kennedy said “All businessmen are SOBs.” Not all.
But what is startling to us is the willingness of decent business people to sit quietly and even hob nob socially with predators that openly and unabashedly mislead and loot the public.
CAPITOLWIRE: Wolf recalls nominations, allows more negotiating time with Senate GOP on picks.
The ongoing back and forth over the nominations started earlier this year when Wolf recalled dozens of nominations he said were “eleventh hour” picks by lame duck Gov. Tom Corbett.
MILLER: “Majority of Majority” prevents progress in state budget talks
An informal procedure rule known as the “Majority of the Majority” prevents bills even coming to the floor when speculation is that they would pass by a combination of Republican and Democratic votes. Over the years the rule has been applied more when Republicans controlled legislatures (now the case in both Capitols).