The New York Times editorial “The Complex Cost of Brexit Gets Clearer” concludes: “There is no turning back from Brexit, and the challenge now for Britain and the European Union should be to do the least harm to each other and the world.” Have these pundits concluded that one of the world’s great democracies is […]
REF SPEAKS: Will the growth of Medicare and Medicaid ultimately lead to Universal Health Care?
By Robert Field An article in the March 28th edition of the New York Times, In Health Bill’s Defeat, Medicaid Comes of Age, describes the historic roots of Medicaid and how it has grown to be even larger than Medicare. “[Over the past five decades, Medicaid has surpassed Medicare in the number of Americans […]
TSUKERMAN: Russian Commentary re the Assassination of the Duma Defector
By Slava Tsukerman On March 14, 2017, NewsLanc published my article “Duma Defectors” about two former members of the Russian State Duma: Communist party representative Denis Voronenkov and his wife, the renowned opera singer Maria Maksakova, who moved to Kiev and became Ukrainian citizens shortly thereafter. On March 23, Voronenkov was shot in the street in […]
MILLER: Setback of Trumpcare: it ain’t over
By Dick Mlller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Liberals, moderates, progressives and just-plain people who need Obamacare health insurance count last week’s Congressional rejection of Trumpcare as a victory. There are reasons not to celebrate. Obamacare will implode soon. President Trump has plenty of time to make that happen. President Obama rejected outright implementation of universal healthcare, opting instead […]
An allegory re the conviction of a former Penn State president for child endangerment
EDITOR: The events reported below are fictitious and meant only as a parable to assist the reader to view matters from a fresh perspective and in the context.of the times. CEOs deal with dozens of matters each day. And what at one time frame is perceived as being a “big brother” at another raises the spectra of pedophilia. Actions […]
TSUKERMAN: Third Anniversary of the Russian Annexation of Crimea
By Slava Tsukerman Three years ago Crimea was annexed by Russia. Since then, March 18 is considered a holiday in Russia. In honor of this event, various festive concerts are held in different cities and especially in Moscow. For example, in 2015 a large-scale rally-concert “We Are Together” was held in Moscow near the Red […]
REF SPEAKS: Impeachment is what every highly respected political analyst is thinking but no one is saying
By Robert Field For those born as early as the 1950s, one cannot help feel that we are reliving the tragic Watergate saga that dragged out from June, 1972 through August of 1974 and ended in the imminent impeachment of President Richard Nixon and his last minute resignation. According to Wikipedia: “Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred […]
MILLER: Rural areas get free police services
WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Hempfield Township in Westmoreland County promotes itself as “a great place to raise a family.” Promotion for the largest suburb of Pittsburgh should be “a great place to raise a family where you don’t have to pay your fair share.” With one of the 20 largest populations in Pennsylvania at a 2010 census of over […]
Tsukerman on Russia: Duma Defectors
By Slava Tsukerman It is recognized that the Russian parliament State Duma usually almost unanimously votes for every Putin’s initiative. The famous Russian TV personality Vladimir Pozner once made on the air a “slip of the tongue” saying “State dura” instead of “State Duma”. “Duma” in Russian means “thinker”, “thinking body”. “Dura” […]
MILLER: Is healthcare a right?
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Congress will adopt some version of Trumpcare. Republicans control the government. Democrats are so ineffective they can hardly be called “loyal opposition.” President Trump now regards the media as his first enemy, not the Democrats. Healthcare is now all about tax cuts. Under Obamacare, the rich were targeted for […]
KEISLING: Rolf Larsen conviction and impeachment, 1994
NewsLanc Editor: This is another excerpt from the book on corruption in Pennsylvania government and media that writer Bill Keisling is preparing for publication later in 2017 (Or so we hope.) Upon publication, the book will substantiate why Pennsylvania is currently rated among the most corrupt states in the Union. Things have not changed much and, in some […]
Putin’s Plans for Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman In last several months 9 out of 12 military commanders and rulers of Donbas (East-Ukrainian) separatists were assassinated. Who killed them? The Russian official theory was that the separatists were killed by the Ukrainian agents. Many believed another theory, that the leaders of the competing militant groups were killing each other. […]
LETTER: Ryan Plan to Replace Affordable Care Act a Sham
The Ryan plan to replace Obamacare is a sham. Its being rushed thru Congress without the non partisan Congressional Budget Office estimating what the cost will be and how many people will be covered. Some of its features are : 1. 30% increase in health care premiums for people between the ages of 45 &64; 2. […]
DeVos, GOP senator boost PA charters
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Political pundits like Jim Hightower claim President Trump is “all-out to destroy” America’s public schools. The Donald fired his opening salvo when he appointed right-wing ideologue and billionaire Amway heiress Betsy DeVos as his Secretary of Education. Republicans say education is a state’s rights concern. Normally, this means the Feds should […]