“The board’s secrecy, [Judge Eakin] wrote, “has led to unfortunate and wholly misguided accusations against the integrity of its process, as well as the integrity of the Board’s members and staff.
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Russian’s attitude towards ISIS
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officially announced that the crash of A321 plane en route to St. Petersburg in Sinai was caused by a terrorist attack. When the Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed on October 31, killing all 224 people aboard, Russian media didn’t even list terrorist act as one of the possible causes of the catastrophe.
Philadelphia Inquirer twists logic to try to have it both ways
“Given the shared confidences and cozy connections among judges and the body that is supposed to police them, there can be no mystery about the kid-gloves treatment of Eakin or any of the commonwealth’s other wayward jurists. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s deeply unsatisfying response has been to order the conduct board to investigate Eakin again.”
U.S. must change strategy toward Islamic State
Second, and most importantly, we must lead diplomatically in bringing about the necessary “alliance of convenience” among those states opposed to ISIS — most significantly, those that are often adversarial to U.S. interests.
When management passes from owners to professionals and generation to generation, values are often lost
This may go far to explain why LNP professes estimable values in issues not relevant to their investments in Lancaster and act in a scurrilous manner when its interests and influence are at stake here in Lancaster.
LETTER: Allowing the actions of a few terrorists to scare us achieves their goal
Terrorists have two goals (1) kill individuals who do not share their beliefs and (2) generate sufficient fear and panic to cause irrational policy decisions (e.g. Second Iraq War).
Budget agreement for new Gov. Tom Wolf not good start
The state sales tax increase would give us the second largest such levy in the U.S. Pennsylvania would continue, however, to be the only significant producer of untaxed natural gas.
The Steinman’s should pack their LNP bags and move on
LNP cannot conscientiously serve as the shepherd and at the same time be the wolf.
LETTER: Yesterday’s horrific attacks
I was interested to hear a conversation last night between Bill Maher and a progressive thinking Muslim woman (on Politically Incorrect) both of whom decried our dangerously unrealistic attitude toward radical Muslims.
Free the Kurds!
Let’s accept the reality on the ground and support the Kurds. Then we will be in a position to effectively drive ISIS out of Syria and Iraq.
Hollande blames ISIS for attacks in Paris as death toll rises to 127
“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France,” Mr. Hollande said from the Élysée Palace, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.”
Capitolwire: In a reversal from earlier Friday, Kane hands over documents to Senate committee.
“After due consideration, she decided that complying with the request would represent the proper respect the Attorney General has for the Senate,” her spokesman Chuck Ardo said Friday afternoon.
LETTER with reply: Cites Gov. Tom Wolfe’s rejection of A. G. Kathleen Kane
Earlier Kane had challenged in court his right to create a moratorium on death penalties in the state. Perhaps as governor Wolf has a natural desire to appoint his own attorney general, someone who would cover his back.
LETTER: Why are people saying NewsLanc went out of business?
There seems to be two separate audiences, those who read handbills and those who visit the web site.