The governor could have let the process play out by not participating openly and actively on the Penn State board as his predecessors had. He did none of that.
Once again, LNP editors incapable of saying “We were wrong”
Editorial at LNP is headed: “NCAA’s fumbles don’t absolve Penn State of its mistakes in handling Sandusky.” According to the LNP editorial: “Jerry Sandusky committed crimes against children, and used the perks of the Penn State football program to groom his victims.
Pennsylvania AG Kane terminates at least 6 employees due to porn emails
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: A scandal that implicated top state officials in email chains transmitting pornography has prompted the first firings in the Attorney General’s Office, where the email sharing was based, the Tribune-Review has learned. Six or more office employees have been terminated or offered early retirement, said sources familiar with an internal investigation by Attorney […]
FBI says agent impersonated AP reporter
USA TODAY: FBI Director James Comey says an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter during a 2007 criminal investigation, a ruse the news organization says could undermine its credibility. In a letter Thursday to The New York Times, Comey said the agent “portrayed himself as an employee of The Associated Press” to help catch a […]
Obama Wrote Secret Letter to Iran’s Khamenei About Fighting Islamic State
WALL STREET JOURNAL: President Barack Obama secretly wrote to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the middle of last month and described a shared interest in fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, according to people briefed on the correspondence. The letter appeared aimed both at buttressing the campaign against Islamic State and […]
US anti-ISIL strategy faces major setback in Syria’s second city
ALJAZEERA: A growing chorus of alarm has warned the Obama administration that its strategy to combat Islamic State forces in Syria is on the verge of unraveling in Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city. But with regime forces now in control of all but one road into Aleppo, the remaining residents of areas controlled by the rebels […]
Putin’s defence of Soviet-Nazi pact ramps up security tensions
FINANCIAL TIMES: …Vladimir Putin said Poland behaved in the same way by seizing part of Czechoslovakia when Germany attacked that country, adding: “Serious research has shown that such methods were part of foreign policy at that time. The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. They say: ‘Oh, how bad.’ What is wrong here […]
Corbett: Penn State ‘probably’ should not have fired Paterno
“They probably shouldn’t have fired him, they probably should have suspended him,” Corbett said in an exclusive interview at his residence with The Inquirer. “He probably should have been given the last three games, not on the sideline.”
In States Seen to Be Tilting Left, Voters Defy Democrats’ Forecast
NEW YORK TIMES: …More striking than any Republican gains in red-state America on Tuesday were the party’s Senate victories in Colorado and North Carolina and the near miss in Virginia… But a powerful lesson for both parties emerged from the returns: Demographic shifts that are gradually reshaping the American electorate, making it more racially diverse […]
Blue spot on a red night: Takeaways from Wolf’s win
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …Republicans do well in districts and Democrats do well statewide – that’s the current history being written,” Nicholas said. Democrats are more densely packed in cities like Philadelphia and its suburbs, while Republican voters are spread out more, he said. Those tendencies have been magnified by gerrymandering. “Democrats running for Congress and the […]
NEWSLANC was first and virtually alone to challenge NCAA jurisdiction
NEWSLANC: …We have downloaded and read NCAA Constitution, Operating Bylaws, Administrative Bylaws
It is not clear to us that the NCAA had the power to “kill” any athletic program and, if it does, the process and safeguards would have made it extremely unlikely under the current circumstances.
Emails show NCAA questioned right to sanction Penn State
The internal emails between high-ranking NCAA officials, first reported by Onward State, show that some people in the NCAA office believed the association did not have jurisdiction to punish Penn State. The university was hit with unprecedented penalties without going through the normal NCAA enforcement process.
NCAA loses bid to avoid Penn St. sanctions trial
The NCAA sought to end the case after it agreed the money would remain in the state, to address child abuse-related issues, but Covey has kept the case alive…
How did pollsters miss the Republican tsunami?
USA TODAY: Republicans out-performed their poll numbers in race after race Tuesday, raising questions about pro-Democratic bias in this year’s election’s polls — a major turnaround from the pro-GOP bias in 2012’s polls. The series of misses caused at least one political forecaster — Larry Sabato of the widely read Center for Politics’ Crystal Ball […]