By Robert Field Headline in LNP’s print edition “Sex for sale on the Route 30 corridor: How one suburb is cracking down” goes on to report: “East Lampeter Township, home to half of all the hotel rooms in Lancaster County, is seeking ways to crack down on drug dealing, prostitution and other criminal activities that […]
Limbaugh and Levin Finally Bash Donald Trump
DAILY BEAST: …Appearing on Fox News Sunday this weekend, Trump said of the Texas senator who has made it a campaign agenda to avoid criticizing the frontrunner: “I don’t think he has the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment. You look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he […]
Angela Merkel Calls Multiculturalism ‘A Grand Delusion’
HUFFINGTON POST: …In comments The Guardian translated into English, Merkel said refugees will have to make an effort to assimilate into German society. She also dismissed the idea of multiculturalism, which in parts of Europe is associated with a policy of encouraging distinct cultural groups to live in separate communities. “Those who seek refuge with […]
“If You’re Black, jump back”
I was a tornado of a little girl. I had lots of energy and imagination. I made up songs and dramas and acted them out –by myself if no one was around or wanted to play with me.
Trump gets foothold in PA
Inviting Donald Trump to headline a major fundraiser for Pennsylvania Republican Committee Friday in New York will either be a disaster for the state organization or a stroke of genius by chairman Rob Gleason.
Poll: Trump 5 points ahead of Cruz nationally
THE HILL: …Trump now has the support of 27 percent of Republican primary voters, according to the poll, a portion of which was conducted after Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) moved into second place with 22 percent, gaining 12 points… [Ben] Carson […]
Obama, Once a Guest, Is Now a Leader in World Talks
NEW YORK TIMES: Six years ago, President Obama came away from a round of global climate talks bitter and frustrated, having been reduced to personally chasing other world leaders around a Copenhagen conference center and bursting uninvited into a meeting with them to salvage a pact that left many disappointed… For Mr. Obama, the agreement […]
Climate Accord Is a Healing Step, if Not a Cure
NEW YORK TIMES: …The Paris deal sets a more ambitious target, declaring that the global average temperature rise ought to be kept “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, and that countries should try go further, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius… The research organization Climate Central found recently that 280 million people live on land that […]
LNP editorial neglects the significance of The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board Complaint re Justice Eakin
While LNP buries its head in the sand concerning the far more serious issue of who in the Attorney General’s department in 2014 redacted materials to exculpate Eakin, NewsLanc is very eager to get that answer.
Why Poland Is Turning Away From the West
NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED: …Would the conservative Law and Justice Party, the expected victors in the poll, go the way of Viktor Orban’s increasingly authoritarian Hungary, or would it stay closer to the center? Given the nationalist, anti-liberal slant of the party’s campaign platform, could Poland’s seemingly consolidated liberal institutions reverse course? Law and Justice […]
Read the entire Paris climate agreement
THE HILL: World leaders are calling on a global force of nations to back an “unprecedented” accord to fight climate change, as negotiators in Paris released a final draft deal. “The whole world is watching. Billions of people are relying on your wisdom,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday, according to the Associated Press… The […]
Subpoena orders Attorney General Kane to testify about Philadelphia bribery case
Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Evans ordered Fina to testify because Bishop’s attorney, Charles A. Peruto Jr., filed a motion claiming racial profiling…
What makes U. S. current generations so cowardly?
The danger of being murder has actually steadily decline over the past two decades. We are safer now than at any time during most of our lives.
Gun homicides steady after decline in ’90s; suicide rate edges up
WASHINGTON POST: Several mass shootings this year have brought renewed attention to the issue of gun violence in America, and President Obama has again called for Congress to change the nation’s gun laws. But the increased spotlight on guns does not reflect the overall gun violence trend in the country. Although most Americans think the […]