“…Prevent your knee from jerking in jingoistic time. Resist the urge to think that those who object to war don’t love their country as much as you do. Remember the cost of war, fiscal and otherwise: More than 32,000 Americans wounded, nearly 4,500 killed. Nearly $1 trillion spent…”
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LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
“Writing -30- on a career” “This morning, as the Sunday paper is being printed, I will walk away after nearly 44 years with Lancaster Newspapers and retire…”
Cyprus Makes Plan to Seize Portion of High-Level Deposits
NEW YORK TIMES: A one-time levy of 20 percent would be placed on uninsured deposits at one of the nation’s biggest banks, the Bank of Cyprus, to help raise 5.8 billion euros demanded by the lenders to secure a 10 billion euro, or $12.9 billion, lifeline. A separate tax of 4 percent would be assessed on uninsured deposits at all other banks, including the 26 foreign banks that operate in Cyprus.
Three PA cabinet secretaries resign in six months – an analysis.
With Corbett’s poll numbers prostrate and begging for a defibrillator, some have conjured the image of rats and sinking ships.
But each of the departed officials might also be seen as public relations barnacles, their departure a good hull-scraping prior to the re-election cruise…
Hasidic Women Feel Pressure for Children, But Fathers Fret About Providing
THE FORWARD: … I remember what it was like for me. I was 21, married for two-and-a-half years, and a student at the kolel — yeshiva for married men — in our Hasidic village in Rockland County, N.Y. Our second child had just arrived, 16 months after our first.
Former U. N Ambassador Andrew Young: ‘Wars Don’t Work’
NEWSMAX: … “The only places where we have real troubles are Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran,” says Young, the former Atlanta mayor who retired last year from the GoodWorks International global advisory firm he founded in 1996.
LETTER: We already have our own clowns
Re: “Clown festival moves from Seaside Heights to Lancaster, Pa.”
May I be so bold as to suggest the out-of-town clowns play the “Lancaster In-Town Clowns” from the Lancaster Newspaper management, editorial and news writing staff; the mayor’s office, the police detective department, and oh yes, let’s not forget High Industries.
Once Few, Women Hold More Power in Senate
NEW YORK TIMES: …In the 90 years since Rebecca Felton of Georgia became the first woman in the United States Senate — sworn in for a mere 24 hours — women remain an anomaly in the upper chamber. But with 20 female senators now in office, an all-time high, women have morphed from the curiosity they were for much of the 20th century into an important new force on key committees and legislation
CC Chapter Nineteen Revised: ‘An alternate use for the site’: The PKF Report
Any hope that selecting Pannell, Kerr, Forster (PKF) to perform the first genuine feasibility study on the convention center project would bring harmony to the the Lancaster community was dashed almost immediately after PKF’s selection by the Lancaster County Commissioners.
ECB issues ultimatum to Cyprus
The move, however, raises the prospect of the ECB having to make good on its ultimatum on Monday, which could leave the banks unable to honour their obligations. Some analysts have speculated that the collapse of the banks could trigger a series of events that lead to Cyprus leaving the euro, with unpredictable consequences for the rest of the eurozone…
House panel panders away PLCB reforms
Committee Republicans drastically and foolishly altered the bill. The version they concocted and passed would give beer distributors first crack at obtaining state licenses for wine and spirits sales, thus bolstering an anti-consumer relic of another era that itself is in need of reform…
Colorado governor signs historic gun control bills
NBC NEWS: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed landmark new gun laws on Wednesday expanding background checks on gun purchases and limiting the size of ammunition magazines, placing the traditionally firearm-friendly state among the handful to pass new restrictions in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn…
Sen. Smucker Bill eases Pennsylvania tuition for illegal foreigners
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: A Republican state senator stood with unauthorized immigrants and Democratic colleagues Monday to announce the introduction of a bill to allow students without documentation to pay in-state tuition rates at Pennsylvania public universities.
LETTER: The biggest hoax since the Vietnam war
They pulled off the BIGGEST DEFENSE DEPT. hoax since the Vietnam war. A weapons inspector who worked in Iraq kept on going on TV before the war almost shouting…they will find nothing I know, funny how the BUSH administration didnt want to talk to him of all people but to powerful rich Iraqis who had everything to gain from a U.S. invasion.