PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER EDITORIAL: Take the increasingly sordid case of state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin, who this week apologized for, as he delicately put it, “insensitive” emails detailed in the Daily News and turned over to the court and Judicial Conduct Board. Last year, Kane’s first round of pornography purges forced the resignation of […]
Special interest groups in Pennsylvania funding ads targeting state Supreme Court candidates
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: It was nice while it lasted, the time when state Supreme Court candidates merely advertised themselves. But now outside money is wading in, starting with negative TV ads targeting Republicans seeking the court’s three open seats. According to “Pennsylvanians for Judicial Reform,” Adams County President Judge Michael George “routinely handed out lenient sentences” […]
New York Times Op-Ed “Why Tipping Is Wrong” is itself wrong
Tipping is an incentive system. It encourages servers to do their best for patrons.
What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts
If the tax increase were limited to just the 115,000 households in the top 0.1 percent, with an average income of $9.4 million, a 40 percent tax rate would produce $55 billion in extra revenue in its first year…
LETTER: Entire PA Supreme Court should resign
The remaining few justices on the highest court in PA should also resign. They allowed this to continue for nearly a year. They should have stepped up to the plate, but they all failed. They’re no better than than Eakin, McCaffery and Castille.
AG Kane’s driver seeks dismissal of contempt charge
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: Patrick Reese, head of state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane’s security detail, is seeking to dismiss charges he illegally accessed grand jury information, arguing he was never served a copy of the protective order he is accused of violating. The former Dunmore police chief also contends Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter should recuse […]
KEISLING: Crocodile tears and smoke in Justice Eakin’s porno email apology
There’s plenty of reason to believe that Eakin’s “apology” is not only dishonest and calculating, but that Eakin continues to carry on the worst of his misbehavior.
Lancaster City tax payers duped again!
Even so, the $127,000 would only amount to about half the amount needed to pay interest and debt service on the $5.4 million the city intends borrow against CRIZ revenue this year.
Another GOP congressman says Benghazi panel meant to hurt Clinton
CNN: …Rep. Richard Hanna, R-New York, said Wednesday on New York’s’ WIBX 950, “Sometimes the biggest sin you can commit in D.C. is to tell the truth.” “This may not be politically correct, but I think that there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people and an individual, […]
Capitolwire: Kane disputes Judicial Conduct Board’s claim on Eakin emails.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane issued a statement disputing the suggestion by the state Supreme Court and the Judicial Conduct Board that emails recently referred to both bodies by Kane’s office are new, and were not provided last year when requested of the Office of Attorney General. The statement also seemed to question the veracity of the investigations conducted by both bodies in 2014.
KEISLING: The Gang That Refuses to Shoot Straight
So the Daily News in all probability got these latest emails from — pinch yourself — the Conduct Board.
When it comes to the debate, NYT columnist more cynical than even our editor
In our eyes since the get go, Bernie Sanders is not running for the Presidency but is using the campaign bully pulpit to energize progressives and win over new comers. What the columnist perceives as opportunism, we felt was sheer righteous indignation, given with the passion and conviction as his other deeply held views.
More questions after the latest porn email revelations
WITF: …speaking on WITF’s Smart Talk, Philadelphia’s former U.S. Attorney says he’s most concerned about cozy relationships. “You have to have a good relationship with somebody to send them that. You wouldn’t just take a stranger and send it off and here judge, by the way here’s a dirty picture. So think about that relationship […]
TSUKERMAN: Russians react to Russia’s missile attacks on Syria
“From Korea or Vietnam, even from Afghanistan, we were not expecting avenging Jihad terrorists to come to our home. And now we have a situation where our adversaries are not only devoted to the idea of Jihad, terror, but two and a half thousand citizens of Russia are already fighting on the side of ISIS.”