DAILY BEAST COLUMN: When Hillary Clinton launched her campaign for president this week, I thought, “Yep, there’s the Obama coalition.” Latinos (including a pair of brothers speaking Spanish), African Americans, Baby Boomers from the hippie segment, interracial couples, and a gay couple planning their wedding. My, how things have changed since 2008! What Clinton learned […]
Penn State offered to pay legal bills in NCAA case for lawyers it never hired
The suit later was broadened to challenge the validity of all the sanctions imposed by the NCAA over the university’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex crimes based on the Freeh Report’s findings…
Annual Causes of Death in the United States
Annual Causes of Death, By Cause Cause of death (Data from 2013 unless otherwise noted) All Causes 2,596,993 Major Cardiovascular Diseases [MCD] 796,494 Cerebrovascular Diseases [subset of MCD] 128,978 Essential Hypertension and Hypertensive Renal Disease [subset of MCD] 30,770 Malignant Neoplasms [Cancer] 584,881 Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases 149,205 Accidents (Unintentional Injuries) [Total] 130,557 Motor Vehicle […]
Four Blackwater guards sentenced in Iraq shootings of 31 unarmed civilians
WASHINGTON POST: A federal judge Monday sentenced a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for killing 14 unarmed civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007, an incident that fomented deep resentments about the accountability of American security forces during one of the bloodiest periods of […]
Recent Change In Russian Views of USA
The USA is presented as the headquarters of the universal evil, hating Russia, permanently intriguing against Russia, planning to demolish Russia, fighting against Russia in Ukraine by hands of Ukrainian Nazis.
Freedom means students are free to sit out the Pledge of Allegiance
PATRIOT NEWS EDITORIAL: Every so often, someone in a public school forgets a fundamental truth about the freedom guaranteed to Americans in the U.S. Constitution: That freedom includes the right not to participate in patriotic, government-sponsored rituals, like reciting the Pledge of Allegiance… A Wilson Middle School student has reported that while she was in […]
Once again, LNP immorally withholds critical information concerning motorcycle accident
Nowhere in the article is there mention of whether the deceased was wearing a crash helmet.
Clinton strikes populist tone in long-awaited campaign announcement
WASHINGTON POST: Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential race Sunday, saying she wants to fight for the economic futures of regular people and ending years of speculation about whether she would redeem the disappointment of her failed 2008 attempt to become the country’s first female commander in chief… “Americans have fought their way back from […]
Ex-Treasury chief sees “reckoning” for China
USA TODAY: …But in a new book, [former Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr.] warns…”It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure,” he said in an interview. “I take comfort in the fact that China’s leaders understand this.”… But the question he gets most often is whether […]
Working, but Needing Public Assistance Anyway
NEW YORK TIMES: A home health care worker in Durham, N.C.; a McDonald’s cashier in Chicago; a bank teller in New York; an adjunct professor in Mayfield, Ill. They are all evidence of an improving economy, because they are working and not among the steadily declining ranks of the unemployed. Yet these same people also […]
Middle-aged capitalism
WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: …In several studies, economists Robert Litan and Ian Hathaway of the Brookings Institution found that start-ups (firms less than a year old) had fallen from 15 percent of all businesses in 1978 to 8 percent in 2011. Meanwhile, older firms (16 years or more) had jumped from 23 percent of businesses in […]
LETTER: Kathleen Kane’s biggest mistake
What’s coming next is the Feds doing just that and, when it does, Fina and his minions will have more to worry about than Kane finding their porno stashes.
The Dangerous Myth of Appomattox
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: …To enforce its might over a largely rural population, the Army marched across the South after Appomattox, occupying more than 750 towns and proclaiming emancipation by military order. This little-known occupation by tens of thousands of federal troops remade the South in ways that Washington proclamations alone could not…6 And yet […]
Manheim madness? Easier to run township than F & B operation
If the township cannot find a qualified tenant operator, then they should take this as a message that the restaurants, banquets and catering are not economically viable. Or maybe they need to offer more generous concessions and possibly even subsidies.