Even with the drop in support on the final night of the survey, Trump was the favorite of 24 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.
Trump and His Apologists
As a standard-bearer for conservative ideas, Mr. Trump would likewise be a catastrophe. His only discernible principle is the promotion of his personal brand. His main message seems to be that because he’s rich and doesn’t care what anyone thinks, he can afford to tell everyone to go to hell.
TSUKERMAN: Russia's out dated army and long expired nuclear capacities
The functional period of operation of a nuclear charge of the Russian ballistic missile is ten years, and then the warhead must be returned to the plant, because it is necessary to change plutonium. Handling nuclear weapons is a very expensive process, requiring the entire industry for the continuous maintenance and replacement of charges.
Allentown’s contracting process open to abuse
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL EDITORIAL: …Allentown’s contracting process is at the heart of an FBI investigation into Allentown City Hall. During the July 2 raid, FBI agents seized documents looking for links between campaign donations to city officials and those awarded municipal contracts or seeking contracts… A Morning Call review of city contracting procedure shows […]
A CASE STUDY: My role in the 2008 failed Downtown Library’s renovation and expansion project
It is relatively easy to design a new structure from bottom up. It is many times more challenging to retain and make wises future use of the old portion while successfully integrating it with the new. It is by necessity a process in informed and judicious compromise.
Barack Obama’s Long Game
POLITICO COLUMN: …From the Supreme Court decisions upholding his signature health care plan and the right of gay Americans to marry, to contested passage of fast track trade authority, the opening of normal diplomatic relations with Cuba and an international agreement to curtail Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Obama is on a policy and political roll […]
President Obama Takes On the Prison Crisis
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL: …[President Barack] Obama’s visit to El Reno, a medium-security prison in Oklahoma, capped off a week in which he spoke powerfully about the failings of a criminal justice system that has damaged an entire generation of Americans, locking up millions — disproportionately men of color — at a crippling cost to […]
No action on rape kits despite new laws, federal money
The examination across all 50 states identified at least 70,000 sexual assault kits at more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide — likely only a small fraction of the national accumulation that likely reaches into the hundreds of thousands across the nation’s 18,000 law enforcement agencies.
Kerry: the Sunday before the Iran deal was a dark day
POLITICO: …“On the Sunday before we got the deal, Joe, about a week out, I had a very sober and almost depressing conversation with my counterpart [Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif],” the secretary of state said during an interview with panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” The day began “with a very serious evaluation” on whether […]
Hungarians distribute food, water to refugees trapped in Serbia
On Tuesday, Budapest Beacon senior correspondent Benjamin Novak accompanied the director of a Budapest-based charity to the brick factory. There he met other Hungarian nationals determined to do what they can to help those less fortunate.
Germany’s Wolfgang Schäuble puts Grexit back on the agenda
FINANCIAL TIMES: … Speaking before a key Bundestag vote on Friday, Mr Schäuble said voluntary departure from the eurozone “could perhaps be a better way” for Greece than a proposed €86bn bailout package, which was painfully assembled at a marathon eurozone summit in Brussels over the weekend… Mr Schäuble’s manoeuvre makes clear he is leaving […]
KEISLING: Luna was ‘The worst murder I’ve ever seen’
“I’ve seen lots of murders, but this was definitely the worst one I’ve ever seen,” MacLeod told me. She said she’d been selected to work on Jonathan’s body because she knew the pastor of the Lunas’ church, and because of her extensive experience working with badly damaged bodies.
To Fix the Euro, Look to Connecticut
According to calculations by The Economist, Connecticut paid out 5 percent of its gross domestic product in net fiscal transfers to other states between 1990 and 2009; that is, its tax payments exceeded its receipt of government services by that amount. This is typical for rich states: They pay a disproportionate share of income and payroll taxes, while government services are disproportionately collected in states where people are poor or old or infirm…
Pat Toomey’s Senate run raises $8.3M
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: Arming for his 2016 re-election battle, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., continued his robust fundraising pace in the second quarter of the year. The freshman Republican raised $2.2 million in the three-month reporting period that ended on June 30. That gave him a cash balance of $8.3 million 16 months before he is […]