And as it was with their first go-round, neither Gov. Tom Corbett or Democrat Tom Wolf produced what anyone would consider a decisive blow for their election cause. Wolf was more aggressive than his first debate outing. However, during the second debate’s back-and-forth discussions, both men, sitting next to each other at a table, got some shots in on their opponent.
Ten percent of female University of Oregon students raped: survey
REUTERS: About 10 percent of female University of Oregon students surveyed have been raped while attending the school and the vast majority of those sexual assault cases were never reported to campus officials, school researchers found.
Atlantic City’s Revel casino snatched up for $110M
USA TODAY / AP: …A Canadian asset management company won a bankruptcy court auction for the failed Revel casino hotel and announced plans to re-open it as a casino. Toronto-based Brookfield US Holdings will pay $110 million to buy the 2-year-old casino that cost $2.4 billion to build, adding it to casinos it owns in […]
If you live long enough…
A great fuss was raised by Republicans during the late 1940s and 1950s about the so called “Loss of China.” The relatively ineffectual Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist Party had been defeated by the Chinese Communist Party and had to withdraw to the off shore island of Taiwan. Counter to the views of the time, […]
Doctors And Hospitals Raking In Billions From Big Pharma, Huge Data Trove Reveals
HUFFINGTON POST: U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers in the last five months of 2013, according to the most extensive data trove on such payments ever made public. The payments, disclosed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday, include consulting and speaking […]
Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records / LNP afraid to investigate?
NEW YORK TIMES: …Regardless of who is at fault, doctors and hospital executives across the country say they are distressed that the expensive electronic health record systems they installed in the hopes of reducing costs and improving the coordination of patient care — a major goal of the Affordable Care Act — simply do not share information with competing systems.
Gov. Corbett signs bill to help reduce fatalities from heroin overdoses
A drug called naloxone, commonly referred to by the brand name Narcan, reverses the effects of heroin and opioids like oxycodone. Although Pennsylvania permits paramedics and doctors to use it, police were not able to legally administer the antidote until now…
Hong Kong Government’s Strategy on Protesters: Wait Them Out
NEW YORK TIMES: …Leung Chun-ying, the chief executive, and his advisers have decided not to use force to disperse the demonstrations but also not to hold formal negotiations with protest leaders for now, said people with a detailed knowledge of the Hong Kong government’s and Beijing’s policies. Nor has there been any serious discussion of […]
How Gary Hart Became the First Political Sex Scandal Casualty
DAILY BEAST: …It will surely come as a welcome balm to a failed statesman in his twilight years that a widely respected political journalist—and a wonderful writer to boot—has re-examined the senator’s stretch on the spit and basically signed on to his theory of the ordeal: namely, that Hart was the first victim of a political news media that had finally, in the spring of 1987, succumbed to the mob-pleasing temptation to display entertainment over serious reporting, gossip and trivialization over policy and substance, and take “character” simply to mean “character flaws.”
Reports: ISIS Within a Mile of Baghdad
NEWSMAX: Islamic State militants are reportedly within a mile of Baghdad despite battling Iraqi forces and U.S.-led airstrikes, and there is “immense fear among everybody,” the vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq said Tuesday. “We are at a crisis point,” Canon Andrew White, vicar of St George’s Church in Baghdad, told Sky News. […]
Oil’s plunge means $3 gas for many consumers
USA TODAY: With crude oil prices plunging to near two-year lows and likely to remain tepid through year’s end, consumers in all but a handful of states could soon pay $3 a gallon or less for gasoline, the lowest pump prices since 2010. Rising global oil production, ample inventories, slackening demand and a U.S. dollar […]
Xi Jinping embraces old guard as Hong Kong challenges party rule
FINANCIAL TIMES: …If past examples are anything to go by, the beleaguered Hong Kong chief executive, CY Leung, will be left to solve the problem by masters in Beijing who may not even be answering his calls. For even the lowliest county-level Communist party cadre in China, their first and most important responsibility is to […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA EDITORIAL
“It is time to bring heroin from out of the shadows and treat it as the public health crisis that it is…”
The Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong: a second Tiananmen?
Are political developments in Hong Kong heading for a second Tiananmen massacre? A fortnight ago, partly to provoke discussion, partly to sound an alarm, I suggested in a radio interview that unless the Chinese government wisely handled the fast-unfolding dynamics, things in Hong Kong might well come to that. At the time, it seemed a rash remark. Given events of the past several days, it is now the most pertinent consideration, the core driver of the fate of what many Hong Kong citizens are calling the Umbrella Revolution.