The NBC poll also shows how damaging the shutdown has become for the GOP – 55% of those surveyed blame Republicans for the shutdown, while 31% point the finger at President Obama. That 22-point margin is even wider than the one Republicans received in the 1995-96 shutdown. And in even worse news for the GOP, while Obamacare still isn’t popular, it’s becoming less unpopular over time. Last month, only 31% of the public thought the Affordable Care Act was a good idea; that number has now climbed to 38%…
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PA Supreme Court Chief Justice Castille accepts $50,000 political contribution from Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association PAC
On its webpage, the Trial Lawyers Association explains to its members that donations from its PAC are made to “candidates to office who share your interests.”
Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High
GALLUP: Amid the government shutdown, 60% of Americans say the Democratic and Republicans parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed. That is the highest Gallup has measured in the 10-year history of this question. A new low of 26% believe the two major parties adequately represent Americans.
LANCASTER NEW ERA
Republicans need to find a way out of this. One way would be to have the House pass a short-term government-funding measure and increase the debt limit through, say, mid-January.
What kind of Baptists are we?
FRIENDS OF JUSTICE: In the 1950s and 60s, the unofficial public theology of America was dominated by theologians associated with what we now call “the Protestant Mainline”. A public theology makes biblical teaching relevant to the pressing political, economic and social issues of the day; it gives the Church a public voice.
LETTER: Open Letter to DA Craig Stedman re police bullying of cameramen
Your first role is to UPHOLD the constitution BUT NOW, you’ve created an environment whereby citizens are being threatened and bullied as they exercise their constitutional rights.
Three Lehigh Valley Republican Congressmen break ranks over ‘clean’ bill, but won’t over discharge petition
All three Republicans had indicated a willingness to vote for a “clean” spending bill to reopen the federal government, a position that put them deeply at odds with House GOP leaders, who want conditions attached.
US withholds military aid to Egypt
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US would withhold delivery of certain “large-scale military systems”, as well as cash assistance to the Egyptian government, until “credible progress” is made toward an inclusive civilian government set up through free and fair elections…
Republican disapproval grows in budget battle, Post-ABC poll finds
WASHINGTON POST: Disapproval of congressional Republicans’ budget wrangling after a weeklong shutdown has shot up to 70 percent, with 51 percent disapproving “strongly,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Alaska sinks as climate change thaws permafrost
The pace of permafrost thawing is “accelerating,” says Vladimir Romanovsky, who runs the University of Alaska’s Permafrost Laboratory in Fairbanks. He expects widespread degradation will start in a decade or two.
LETTER: What attitudes will prevail towards opiates after marijuana legalization?
What concerns me about this is the prospect of marijuana advocates turning against other drug users. I know that back in the 1980s, the rhetoric we were using included the idea that by legalizing marijuana it would be easier for law enforcement to focus on hard drugs.
LETTER: Obama vs. other presidents
Re: John Boehner Blamed For Shutdown In New ‘Temper Tantrum’ Ad To Air During Sunday Football. Perhaps readers would like to know, of all prior presidents, whom, in Newslanc’s opinion, has caused more divisiveness than Mr. Obama?
Pa. ranked 14th in number of drug overdose deaths
The report also said Pennsylvania was among 28 states and the District of Columbia that have implemented six or fewer of 10 “indicators” of specific drug-abuse prevention strategies that the trust considers promising…
Rep. Dent: House Has Enough Votes for ‘Clean CR’
…”I believe a clean CR would pass the House comfortably,” [U.S. Rep. Charlie] Dent, , R-Pa., told CNN, though he would not predict a specific vote tally….