By Chris Comisac Bureau Chief Capitolwire HARRISBURG (March 23) – All the tough talk from the governor and his administration last week gave way to “doing the right thing,” as Gov. Tom Wolf announced he would allow most of the supplemental budget bills sent to him last week to become law, putting an end to a […]
Statement by Secretary Jeh C. Johnson on the attacks today in Brussels, Belgium
As the President said today, we stand in solidarity with the Belgian people in condemning the terrorist attacks that occurred this morning in Brussels, we mourn the loss of those killed, and we will do what we can to help Belgian authorities bring to justice those responsible for the attacks. At present, we have no […]
OP-ED by Joe Sestak: Dealing with ISIS and terrorists
By former Admiral / Congressman Joe Sestak On 9/11, I walked out of the Pentagon shortly before the plane hit. Returning, I look down the hill at the destruction and immediately helped establish a Navy crisis response center nearby. I arrived home in the early morning hours, and upon returning again, I was […]
Ithaca’s Anti-Heroin Plan: Open a Site to Shoot Heroin
NEW YORK TIMES: Even Svante L. Myrick, the mayor of this city, thought the proposal sounded a little crazy, though it was put forth by a committee he had appointed. The plan called for establishing a site where people could legally shoot heroin — something that does not exist anywhere in the United States… But […]
Investigate all jury leaks (not just Kane)
SCRANTON TIMES-LEADER EDITORIAL: Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane is responsible for her own conduct in office, so she must answer to the charge that she leaked grand jury information and later lied about it as part of a dispute with an adversary. But she faces prosecution while authorities, who loudly profess the sanctity of grand […]
SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to CO Marijuana Legalization
DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: Today, the United States Supreme Court rejected Nebraska’s and Oklahoma’s misguided effort to undo Colorado’s marijuana legalization law! Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed suit against Colorado, claiming that federal marijuana prohibition preempts state law. The federal government filed a brief urging the high court to reject the […]
Pa.’s judges reeling from the latest humiliation
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …Scandal has become an enduring theme of the Pennsylvania judiciary. On Tuesday, in the latest embarrassment, state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin resigned rather than face a trial before the state Court of Judicial Discipline on charges he breached ethics rules by exchanging emails containing racist and misogynistic content among a small […]
Hillary vs. Trump begins to shape up for November
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Wagons are beginning to circle around Donald Trump. The presumptive nominee will open as a slight favorite to defeat Hillary Clinton in November. She can only win if voters are convinced she is not the evil person the Republican Establishment has said she is for the past 25 years. This civil […]
The 2016 Oscars; an apology and a last few words.
By Dan Cohen, our Santa Monica Reporter I had every intention of writing a piece on the 2015 Oscar race, officially called the “2016” Oscars. But I kept putting it off. As time passed I refined my objectives, from speculating on probable award nominees, to ranking the front-runners, to a postscript on the outcome. I […]
The “Bloody Nanny” from Moscow
By Slava Tsukerman Gyulchekhra Bobokulova from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan, a 38-year-old mother of three, for more then three years unofficially worked in Moscow as a nanny of a four-year-old girl who suffered from epilepsy and learning disabilities. The child’s parents considered her reliable and efficient. On February 29 Bobokulova killed and decapitated the girl at […]
Kane Wants to Know if DA Leaked Evidence
LEGAL INTELLIGENCER: In an admittedly ironic twist, Attorney General Kathleen Kane moved Friday for a hearing in her criminal case to determine whether the prosecutors charging her leaked evidence to the press that she said could represent prosecutorial misconduct. Kane requested an evidentiary hearing to establish whether a member of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s […]
Senate GOP leaders’ deceit on retirement age of judges ballot may boomerang
Pollsters and public policy experts have long warned that when government is run by ballot questions, those who write the ballot questions will actually run the government. Now we see why. by Bill Keisling Facing the likelihood of a humiliating defeat at the polls for an ill-timed proposal to increase the retirement age of state […]
Kudos to LNP’s editorial board and the Steinman family
We have remarked on it often before but it deserves being said again: LNP and members of the Steinman family for at least two decades have been courageous and visionary concerning the need to emphasize health care over the criminal justice system in dealing with drug addiction. It was almost unprecedented at the time, perhaps […]
POST-GAZETTE: Do your duty: The Senate must set a hearing for Judge Garland
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE EDITORIAL: President Barack Obama did his duty under the Constitution by submitting to the Senate his nominee — Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court… The choice of Judge Garland, 63, has put Senate Republicans […]