NEW YORK TIMES: …The trouble is that varying or numerous state regulations aren’t the main reason insurance markets tend to be uncompetitive. Selling insurance in a new region or state takes more than just getting a license and including all the locally required benefits. It also involves setting up favorable contracts with doctors and hospitals […]
Fragments Show Oldest Koran May Be Older Than Muhammad
NEWSMAX: …The pages were carbon-dated by experts at the University of Oxford, a process that showed the Islamic holy book manuscript could be the oldest Koran in the world; several historians suggest the parchment might even predate Muhammad, the Times reports… “It destabilizes, to put it mildly, the idea that we can know anything with […]
Kane, supporters mobilizing against effort to force her out
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL / AP: ….[Scranton attorney James] Mundy, who once chaired the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, said any disciplinary action against Kane would amount to an end-run around constitutional provisions in Pennsylvania for removing an elected official from office… The state constitution requires the attorney general to be a […]
Will Prosecution Avoid Calling Key Witness in AG Kane Trial?
LEGAL INTELLIGENCER: …”The evidence just has to be relevant and for it to be relevant it has to be probative which means it would have to tend to prove a fact,” said white-collar defense attorney Ellen C. Brotman of Griesing Law. “If AG Kane’s lawyers can make a connection between the porn investigation and witness […]
Pope to allow all priests to forgive abortion during Holy Year
AOL: …In Church teaching, abortion is such a grave sin that those who procure or perform it incur an automatic excommunication. Usually only designated clergy and missionaries can formally forgive abortions. But from Dec.8 to Nov. 26, during an extraordinary Holy Year or “Jubilee” on the theme of mercy announced by Pope Francis in March, […]
Obama labor board flexes its muscles
Using a thin partisan majority on the National Labor Relations Board, President Barack Obama’s Democratic appointees have issued a string of rulings that favor unions — including six pro-labor decisions in just the past few days. On Thursday, the NLRB issued a momentous 3-2 ruling along party lines that may make it easier for McDonald’s to unionize, reversing a 34-year precedent.
Petraeus: Use Al Qaeda Fighters to Beat ISIS
DAILY BEAST: Members of al Qaeda’s branch in Syria have a surprising advocate in the corridors of American power: retired Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus. The former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has been quietly urging U.S. officials to consider using so-called moderate members of al Qaeda’s Nusra Front […]
Kane supporters petition to halt AG’s law license suspension
The petition states that Kane has been an “incredible asset” to the state, keeping focus on her main goal of making streets safer. The increase in child predator and drug arrests, as well as the implementation of a mobile crime unit are some of the specific issues the petition credits Kane’s administration with improving…
Clinton and Biden’s awkward friendship
POLITICO COLUMN: …During [Barack Obama’s] first term, the two developed a kinship — cultivated during weekly breakfast meetings in Biden’s cozy parlor — that hadn’t existed before (or since). For both, the experience kindled an abiding sense of affection, and not a little ambivalence. Clinton got an up-close earful of the maddening duality of Biden […]
More benefits of government employment discovered
State Attorney General Kathleen Kane continues to sit on thousands of pornographic emails exchanged by at least 50 state workers. Her threats could be an underlying reason that she could be booted out of her elective office.
Are all indictments of leaders to be treated the same? Then what follows Kathleen Kane?
And what sort of power does this give to accusers? They don’t have to prove a damn thing. “New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities that ‘a grand jury would “indict a ham sandwich,” if that’s what you wanted.’
Iowa poll: Sanders closing on Clinton
POLITICO: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is rapidly closing the gap with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but she still maintains a solid lead in Iowa’s Democratic caucuses, according to a poll released Saturday. Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner and establishment favorite, is drawing 37 percent of the vote. Sanders earns 30 percent of the vote. […]
LETTER: Supremes “are swinging for the fences”
Re: Response to “Board Seeks Suspension of Kane’s Law License, Sources Say” So the partisans on the Supreme Court told the Disciplinary Board to send it their way so they can suspend her. They are swinging for the fence. If the trial turns out to be trumped up, like I think it is, they would […]
Response to “Board Seeks Suspension of Kane’s Law License, Sources Say”
The board has the ability to petition the state Supreme Court for an emergency temporary suspension of a law license through Rule 208 of the Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement for “egregious conduct.”