Trump’s problem with emerging from the GOP convention with the nomination is that as each of the remaining candidates drop they are certain to endorse any other remaining candidate but him.
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Should prostitution be taxed, regulated and controlled?
“That document contends that sexual desire is a fundamental need and that punishing buyers ‘may amount to a violation of the right to privacy and undermine the rights to free expression and health.’ The group also cites the benefits for buyers with physical and psychological disabilities who ‘feel safe to express their sexuality” and “develop a stronger sense of self with their relationships with sex workers.’ ”
Joe Sestak gives an extraordinary briefing on Iran Treaty and national defense
2016 Marijuana Legalization Initiatives: An Overview
Support for legalization is now consistently polling above 50% nationwide, four states and DC have already voted to legalize it, and activists at least ten states are doing their best to make it an issue this time around.
The shameful problem of elder financial abuse is only going to get worse.
Certainly, these cases are not exactly hard to find—last week Deadline Hollywood highlighted the sad fate of Eunice Bellah, the widow of the late and acclaimed television and film art director Ross Bellah. A few years after her husband’s death, the longtime family accountant deposited Eunice Bellah in a nursing home, sold her residence, and listed possessions ranging from wheelchairs to artwork on Craigslist, with longtime family friends powerless to intervene.
Murder charge against Cincinnati University policeman should alert Millersville U. and F & M administrators
Mr. Deters said that the university police force should be disbanded because policing is not what a university knows how to do, and that the campus should be patrolled by the Cincinnati Police Department.
Will AG Kane next investigate Lancaster Convention Center ‘miracle’?
“Lancaster city Mayor Rick Gray announced a plan Thursday to keep alive a hotel/convention center project by plugging a $20 million funding gap.”
Why Dem ‘big wigs’ really dislike Sestak
What Madonna doesn’t mention is Sestak’s real sin in the eyes of Democrat Party potentates: Against their wish, he ran against and defeated Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democrat primary.
Tsukerman: Crimea Today
“Ukrainian sources report that Moscow, through business channels that include the CEO of one state-owned oil major, is quietly sounding out Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on a grand bargain that would include Russia’s final withdrawal from the Donbass with Ukraine’s recognition of Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea in exchange for about $100 billion in debt forgiveness, gas price rebates and other financial incentives.”
Capitolwire: Medical cannabis compromise continues to elude House leadership.
Marsico’s bill gives the Drug and Alcohol Department power to authorize up to five “medical marijuana organizations” who will handle every aspect of growing, processing and selling. Each of the organizations can operate four dispensaries.
KEISLING: Harrisburg bond debt criminal probe serves as wake-up call to Lancaster and other municipal officials
In Lancaster, for example, a string of failed financings and re-financings related to the city’s Convention Center raises similar disturbing questions.
LETTER: VA should be taking care of combat wounded, service related injured and then retired military
One of the GOP’s greatest wins would have to be in fooling much of the public into thinking that the Obama administration is responsible for the fiasco the VA is when in fact it was the Republican Congresses and Republican Presidents going back to Reagan that have underfunded the VA.
MILLER: Does history repeat?
In 1992, Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush without winning a majority of the popular vote in the presidential campaign. Candidates with the same last name could repeat this happening in 2016.
Amtrak delays: It didn’t have to be this way
“We’re seeing two trends converging in an extraordinary way,” said Thomas Wright, president of the Regional Plan Association, a research and advocacy group. “Ridership is hitting all-time highs on the Northeast Corridor at the same time that the system is just too brittle and does not have the ability to withstand heat waves, storms and other incidents.”