TIMES LEADER/ AP: Former Navy vice admiral Joe Sestak tells a punchy story on the campaign trail about Pat Toomey, the incumbent he wants to beat in Pennsylvania’s important U.S. Senate election this year. He says Toomey voted to send him to war, visited him on the aircraft carrier as its warplanes bombed Afghanistan and […]
[Gov. John Kasich of Ohio]: A Chance to Reset the Republican Race
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL: …Those two, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are equally objectionable for different reasons. Mr. Trump has neither experience in nor interest in learning about national security, defense or global trade. Even unemployment figures, which he’s pegged at 23 or 42 percent (the correct number is 5 percent) don’t merit his attention… Ted […]
Tsukerman: Russians rating of Stalin
By Slava Tsukerman I’ve written on NewsLanc several times about popularity of Stalin in today’s Russia. This popularity keeps growing, turning this matter into one of the most popular subjects of discussions in Russian media. The most popular Russian statistical institution, Levada Center, recently published the results of its latest survey “Role of personality in history”. The survey […]
LETTER: Nonviolent Resistance in the South Hebron Hills
by Cassandra Dixon January 28, 2016 The worst worries of a child’s school day should be homework. Maybe a lost book, or an argument with a friend. No child’s walk to school should routinely involve armed soldiers and fear of sometimes being chased and assaulted by angry adults. But for the Palestinian children who live […]
Attorney General Kane leads PA Democratic primary poll
HARPER POLLING: Despite it all, when incumbent Kathleen Kane (31%) is included on the Democratic primary ballot for Attorney General, she holds a double-digit lead over her closest challenger, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala (18%). Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro (13%) and Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli (9%) register third and fourth, […]
SCRANTON TIME-TRIBUNE: Let special investigation proceed
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: …Former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler has launched the investigation into the distribution of more than 1 million emails. Deputy Attorney General Bruce Beemer has claimed that there is no legal basis for the independent inquiry and, Tuesday, one of the candidates to replace Ms. Kane called for the independent inquiry […]
KEISLING: Senate letter reveals effort to remove AG Kane really about stopping porno email investigation
Kane opponents pretend there are complicated legal issues at hand, when nothing can be further from the truth. What’s at hand, of course, are mountains of porno emails. The problem with Pennsylvania government isn’t the state budget, or AG Kathleen Kane: the problem is Pennsylvania government by Bill Keisling The Pennsylvania Senate Republican leadership […]
BUDAPEST BEACON: What is to be done about Hungary and Poland?
BUDAPEST BEACON , a Real Reporting publication JANUARY 28, 2016 By Benjamin Novak “Once the EU allows a country like Poland to drift in the same direction as Hungary, and allows Hungary to continue down this path, it makes a mockery of its claim to be a union of democracies that stands for the rule […]
Capitolwire: Senate panel pauses Kane removal process to await Supreme Court action.
By Kevin Zwick Staff Reporter Capitolwire HARRISBURG (Jan. 27) – On at least one of her battle fronts, Attorney General Kathleen Kane received a temporary reprieve. After months of deliberations, the Special Committee on Senate Address’ much-anticipated report says the full Senate shouldn’t hold a vote on the embattled Democrat’s removal from office until the […]
Senate Special Committee advises that further action await the Supreme Court review of license suspension
Final Committee Report of the Special Committee on Senate Address
County GOP endorses Smucker for Congress, divided over his replacement
LANCASTERONLINE: Lloyd Smucker, a state senator serving out his second term in Harrisburg, easily won the Lancaster County Republican Party’s endorsement to replace U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts in Congress Tuesday night… In the three-way race to replace Smucker, Republican committee members voted and debated for an hour and a half before deciding to adjourn without endorsing […]
Scandal-driven turnover prompts Pa. high court to take fresh look at outstanding cases
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: With the number of veteran justices sitting on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court whittled down to three by retirement and scandal, the state’s highest court will go back to Square 1 for more than two dozen undecided cases. The decision to take a fresh look at the cases gives new Justices […]
LETTER: First Deputy AG preventing AG from defending herself
Re: Re: Deputy Attorney General seeks to prevent independent investigation of e-mail scandal [First Deputy Attorney General Bruce] Beemer sent the letter regarding Kane’s alleged lack of authority to hire a special prosecutor — not to the courts, to one State Senator Lisa Baker, who is not even a lawyer, much less a […]
The Wreck of Amtrak 188
NEW YORK TIMES: …But just minutes after the Acela 2121 left New York, Bostian encountered a problem with his “cab signals,” an internal device that automatically displays information about obstacles or other trains ahead. Without a functioning signaling device, Bostian was forced to reduce the top speed on the 2121, his eyes fixed on every […]