Second, and most importantly, we must lead diplomatically in bringing about the necessary “alliance of convenience” among those states opposed to ISIS — most significantly, those that are often adversarial to U.S. interests.
Who loses most when sales taxes are increased
ABOUT.COM:… •Seniors. People do not earn income at a steady rate during their lifetime. The bulk of most people’s earnings occur before the age of 65. People over the age of 65 have vastly reduced incomes and typically live off the savings they earned while employed in addition to programs like Social Security. A switch […]
When management passes from owners to professionals and generation to generation, values are often lost
This may go far to explain why LNP professes estimable values in issues not relevant to their investments in Lancaster and act in a scurrilous manner when its interests and influence are at stake here in Lancaster.
Here’s $360 million reasons to raise Pa.’s minimum wage
PENNLIVE OP-ED: …Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Appropriations staff estimates that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would result in $130 million in additional tax revenue. Second, according to the University of California, Berkeley 2015 report, “The High Public Cost of Low Wages,” the majority of Pennsylvania families who rely on public assistance are working. […]
Mennonite Farmers Prepare to Leave Mexico
NEW YORK TIMES: On the edge of a high plain fringed by craggy sandstone hills, Johan Friesen’s small farm is a testament to the rural providence of his Mennonite people. Neat fields of onion, soybean and yellow corn stretch behind his concrete and adobe house. In the farmyard, a few dozen cows stand in a […]
Putin vows payback after Kremlin confirms bomb downed Russian plane over Egypt
REUTERS: President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt and intensify air strikes against Islamists in Syria, after the Kremlin concluded a bomb had destroyed the plane last month, killing 224 people. “We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them,” Putin said at […]
LETTER: Allowing the actions of a few terrorists to scare us achieves their goal
Terrorists have two goals (1) kill individuals who do not share their beliefs and (2) generate sufficient fear and panic to cause irrational policy decisions (e.g. Second Iraq War).
Voters to decide whether Pa. judges may serve until 75
PENNLIVE: …The state Senate voted 36-13 Monday to approve a pair of bills to extend the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75 and put the proposal out for a referendum vote in the April 26 primary… Sen. Anthony Williams cited the ongoing scandal over pornographic emails that forced one state Supreme Court […]
Life after power: John Boehner’s uneasy adjustment to retirement
POLITICO: …In his most direct terms so far, Boehner spoke of the group of lawmakers that pushed him out of the speakership. He said during the speech that he fought with them over tactics, not strategy. Many of his GOP colleagues are perfectionists in a system of government that doesn’t allow for perfection, Boehner said. […]
Budget agreement for new Gov. Tom Wolf not good start
The state sales tax increase would give us the second largest such levy in the U.S. Pennsylvania would continue, however, to be the only significant producer of untaxed natural gas.
The Steinman’s should pack their LNP bags and move on
LNP cannot conscientiously serve as the shepherd and at the same time be the wolf.
LETTER: Yesterday’s horrific attacks
I was interested to hear a conversation last night between Bill Maher and a progressive thinking Muslim woman (on Politically Incorrect) both of whom decried our dangerously unrealistic attitude toward radical Muslims.
Joe Sestak: Don’t let China disrupt peace
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER OP-ED: …We need to permanently base a second aircraft carrier in Guam, as I suggested in 2001, backed up with submarine forces in the area and an Air Force presence. We must also devise a smarter defense strategy that values capability over numbers, especially in the Far East. We must invest more in […]
Free the Kurds!
Let’s accept the reality on the ground and support the Kurds. Then we will be in a position to effectively drive ISIS out of Syria and Iraq.