AOL NEWS: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Tuesday praised the presidential campaign of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, even though Buffett said he still backs Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “I think we all have lessons to learn from him (Sanders),” Buffett said in an interview with Reuters… “You know exactly what he feels on everything. He’s […]
Migration Aid volunteers rescue refugees from human smugglers
BUDAPEST BEACON: Acting on a tip that over one hundred Syrian refugees were being held against their will at a hotel in south Buda, eight Migration Aid volunteers and a photographer visited the Hotel Berlin in Budapest’s Hunyadi János street late Sunday night. They ended up transporting some 80 Syrian asylum seekers by private car, taxi, and public transportation to Budapest’s Keleti (Eastern) station, where they put them on trains to Austria.
Mysterious demonstration for Kane scheduled for Thursday in Harrisburg
Will this timid effort truly help Kane or will the result of a small turnout be used as evidence by statewide media that Kane has no support?
Democrats pin hopes on Hillary for winning back the Senate
THE HILL: …Democrats appear well positioned to knock off two Republican incumbents, but whether they can stretch the number of Senate pick-ups to the necessary four or five while defending two of their own vulnerable seats remains to be seen. The election map favors Democrats. They are defending only 10 Senate seats, while Republicans are […]
Is It Time to Tax Harvard’s Endowment?
SLATE COLUMN: “The joke about Harvard is that it’s a hedge fund with a university attached to it,” Mark Schneider tells me. It’s a quip that, for obvious reasons, has become pretty popular in recent years. In 2014, the university’s legendary endowment, overseen by a team of in-house experts and spread across a mind-bending array […]
Let hear it also for those workers who are not “hard working taxpayers”
It is Labor Day, so let’s also pay homage to those who slough off from time to time, like many of us. While at work, they day dream, they organize dinner, they give a quick call to their children to make sure all went well at school. Maybe they send romantic texts to lovers.
MILLER: Favorite porn stories
The first chapter of this story begins when I became Mayor of the small borough in 2006. I learned that Corbett as attorney general was responsible for negotiating an agreement for Trinity to environmentally restore the contaminated land to use.
Colin Powell: Iran Deal Is a ‘Pretty Good Deal’
NBC NEWS: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed support for the nuclear agreement with Iran on Sunday, calling the various planks Iranian leaders accepted “remarkable” and dismissing critics’ concerns over its implementation. “It’s a pretty good deal,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Critics concerned that the deal will expedite Iran’s pursuit of […]
KEISLING: Disciplinary Board of PA Supreme Court has been a laughable joke
At the time, the implication, of course, was that Justice Larsen was fixing cases for his good buddy, attorney Gilardi… “Richard Gilardi (was) a former chairman of the state Disciplinary Board responsible for investigating lawyer misconduct in Pennsylvania,” the Inquirer dutifully reported at the time.
SurveyUSA Poll Puts Trump Above Clinton By 5 Points
NEWSMAX: …The new SurveyUSA poll put Trump at 45 percent versus 40 percent for Clinton. Trump also beat out all other declared and potential Democratic candidates, the poll of 1,000 adults shows: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by 44 percent to 40 percent; Vice President Joe Biden by 44 percent to 42 percent; Former Vice […]
Invest in Our Cities (Editor: If only it were that simple)
POLITICO COLUMN: …If we’re going to advance economic opportunity for more people, building thriving, sustainable cities must be a central priority. The encouraging news from Detroit is that the city is turning the corner and its journey is worth examining because it points the way for other cities as they seek to build the foundation […]
In Hungary good Samaritans come to aid of asylum seekers
Responding to an urgent plea for help from Migration Aid and other NGOs, hundreds of Hungarian and Austrian volunteers converged on Herceghalom, Hungary to distribute water, food, blankets, clothes, and even baby strollers to an estimated 2,500 Syrian refugees camped out in the open by the side of the M1 motorway.
Hallmark Health’s plight is sign of success of Affordable Care Act
The losses are caused by the previously uninsured and thus under treated who have now gained access to health care through the Affordable Care Act, a/k/a “Obamacare.” Treating sick people is a desirable goal for society, unless one is misanthropic enough to root for their early demise.
Philly D. A. Williams Will Not Fire Fina or Costanzo
POLITICS PA: Ever since the infamous pornographic emails were revealed, everyone in Pennsylvania has been wondering what Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams would do to those involved who worked in his office… At roughly 4:30 on the Friday before Labor Day weekend (the perfect time for a news dump) Seth Williams released a statement to […]