DAILY BEAST / REUTERS: The Obama administration issued the first federal regulations for fracking since the drilling technique fueled a domestic energy boom, requiring extensive disclosures of the chemicals used on public land. After years of debate and delay, the Bureau of Land Management on Friday said drillers on federal lands must reveal the chemicals […]
10 Reasons Why Women Should Date Men In Their 50s
HUFF POST COLUMN: 1. He’s mature. Men age like a fine wine. It takes a while, a long while in fact, for a man to mature. When a woman finally meets a “real” man, she’s very very happy because she has waited so damn long for those sour boy grapes to mature into a luscious, […]
Money for nothing [to PA Supreme Court Justice]
Its rules require only that clients be advised of and not object to referral fees, while the share each lawyer receives need not be disclosed. Nor does the state require lawyers receiving fees to perform any work or assume any responsibility
“Woe is me. Woe is me. Oh woe is me!”
It is amusing to read and hear people talk about how we live in such dangerous and difficult times.
Obama to Iran’s People: ‘Best Opportunity in Decades’ for Nuke Solution
REUTERS: President Barack Obama, in a message to Iran’s people and leaders on Thursday, said this year represented the “best opportunity in decades” to pursue a different relationship between their two countries. Obama said nuclear talks with Iran had made progress but that gaps remained. “This moment may not come again soon,” Obama said in […]
Gen. David Petraeus: The Islamic State isn’t our biggest problem in Iraq
WASHINGTON POST: “Yet despite that history and the legacy it has left, I think Iraq and the coalition forces are making considerable progress against the Islamic State. In fact, I would argue that the foremost threat to Iraq’s long-term stability and the broader regional equilibrium is not the Islamic State; rather, it is Shiite militias, […]
2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record
NASA: The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on Feb. 25, according to data from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At 5.61 million square miles (14.54 million square kilometers), this year’s maximum extent was the smallest on […]
Ukraine crisis: EU links Russia sanctions to truce deal
BBC: European Union leaders have agreed to keep sanctions on Russia in place until the end of this year at the earliest. The sanctions, imposed because of Russia’s alleged military intervention in Ukraine, are now linked to “complete implementation” of a ceasefire deal. Last month’s deal envisages Ukraine regaining full control of its eastern border […]
LETTER: Sounds like Lancaster General Health
California tax authorities have stripped Blue Shield of California, the state’s third largest insurer, of its tax-exempt status in California and ordered the firm to file returns dating to 2013, potentially costing the company tens of millions of dollars.
White House reconsiders supporting Israel at UN
FINANCIAL TIMES: The White House said on Thursday that it was reconsidering the support it has given Israel at the UN even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to row back his election campaign comments rejecting a Palestinian state. Describing the Israeli leader’s tactics in the final campaign push as “cynical and divisive”, White […]
Backtracking, Netanyahu says he wants two-state solution
WASHINGTON POST: Apparently backtracking on his promise this week to fully oppose Palestinian statehood, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he could support the idea after changes in the region’s political and security landscape. “I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution. But for that, circumstances have to change,” […]
Chechen’s Ties to Putin Are Questioned Amid Nemtsov Murder Case
NEW YORK TIMES: Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, has been at the center of intrigue surrounding the murder of Boris Y. Nemtsov, a prominent critic of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. So before a busy weekend that included a night out with the boys to watch cage fighting, Mr. Kadyrov wanted […]
Berkeley’s Swastika Problem: Are America’s Liberal Colleges Breeding Anti-Semitism?
DAILY BEAST COLUMN: …A majority of Jewish college students, 54 percent, reported being subjected to or witness to anti-Semitism on campus during a six-month period, according to a 2014 survey published by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Trinity College. Not only was this survey undertaken before the violent summer […]
KEISLING: The moral and ethical decline of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Part 3
It turns out, according to the Inquirer’s own reporting (if you can trust it), this is not the only time that Frank Fina has gone running to the same grand jury Judge Carpenter with suspicious requests which serve to help Fina out of a serious problem.