FINANCIAL TIMES: Tim Geithner, the former US Treasury secretary, has been elevated to the highest rank of public speakers, alongside former world leaders Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, after receiving about $400,000 for three speaking engagements.
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JUSTICE IN MOSCOW
There were several trials in Russia lately where judges rendered obviously unjust decisions for political reasons. The most widely known of them, publicized all over the world, is the current trial of the opposition leader, Aleksei Navalny.
House leaders get caught in sneaky gambit to help payday loan industry
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: In one of the more brazen, underhanded maneuvers that took place during this year’s budget work in the Capitol, the Republican House leadership snuck a controversial last-minute wording change into the fiscal code bill.
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
“In a nation of immigrants, there will always be a moral argument for reform; I share those sentiments. But let’s be clear on the consequences: At a time when America needs a raise, immigration reform may amount to a pay cut.
In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
NEW YORK TIMES: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects, but also people possibly involved in nuclear proliferation, espionage and cyberattacks, officials say.
Egypt Crisis Finds Washington Largely Ambivalent and Aloof
No major American political figure has overtly endorsed the military seizure of power, but Mr. Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood had few friends in Washington when he was elected a year ago and even fewer by the time he fell from power this week.
Poll: Public Still Sharply Divided Over Snowden’s Actions
The HuffPost/YouGov Poll shows that 38 percent of Americans believe Snowden did the wrong thing when he released classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs, while 33 percent said he did the right thing…
Politically Uncorrected: PA House Divided
POLITICS PA: …Nothing illustrates these deep fissures more than the debate over Gov. Tom Corbett’s “big agenda” items: liquor privatization, transportation funding, and the state pension debt.
Pa. ranks poorly in report on nation’s road conditions
POCONO RECORD: …Pennsylvania’s state highway system is ranked the 12th worst in the nation in overall highway performance and efficiency in the latest Annual Highway Report by Reason Foundation.
Chances for transit, liquor bills in Pennsylvania are slim
…Despite Republican control of the Senate and House, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett was unable to get lawmakers to approve either of his key issues by June 30, the budget deadline and fiscal year-end. Budget deadlines typically give governors some leverage on issues, but not this time…
Egypt Power Grab ‘Another Chance to Get it Right’
“People in Tahrir that I was talking to, they are very happy tonight,” observed Miller. “They have a real sense of pride in what they’ve done. They forced the military to act in the people’s interest. This is not the kind of military coup we’ve seen in other countries.”
An inadequate measure for patriotism
While passing through a small town in rural New York State, we encountered a war memorial with three words: “Duty. Honor. Country.” Is that an adequate message to guide us and to pass along to our vulnerable youths?
Senate GOP’s eleventh-hour turnabouts on Pa. budget
Both moves reflected a bitter and widening divide between Senate and House Republican leaders in the wake of the annual budget…
The antidote to American decline
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”