My sense of the election (non-expert, to be sure) is that Obama is not worried about California. Colorado has more potential to be a swing state, among medical marijuana states, less likely but potentially New Mexico and Michigan. One source I found online that makes predictions about 2012 swing states, linked from a Wikipedia article but which I’ve heard of before, is the site Real Clear Politics .
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“Fraud, inside deals and corruption” – Part Two of Watershed Series
The state receiver’s job was to implement a financial recovery plan for the bankrupt city. It was the state’s Financial Recovery Plan, filed in July 2011, that valued the city’s water system at a mere $50 million, give or take. “This city had been mismanaged for twenty years!” the receiver fumed on the witness stand in federal court on March 21, 2012, pounding his fist.
Private interests seek to grab invaluable water shed for pennies on the dollar; Part One of Water Shed Series
Harrisburg PA may soon lose control of its priceless and historic public water system to bottom feeders who hope to pay pennies on the dollar. One hundred years of sound public works could be lost to a score of years of folly, fast bond trading and high finance, and a public that wasn’t paying attention.
League of Women Voters drops the ball re AG race
The April 17, “2012 Primary Election” insert fails to provide information on Democrat Attorney General candidate Kathleen G. Kane on the basis that the campaign “did not respond to the Leagues’ request for information.”
A discussion: “What the heck is going on with the Obama administration concerning medical marijuana?”
EDITOR: We have been puzzled over why federal prosecutors had launched a war against medical marijuana distribution in California, contrary to state law and overwhelming public opinion there and nationwide. I asked our chairman from Common Sense for Drug Policy Michael Gray (neither he or we are “revolutionaries” in a literal sense) for his views as a Californian. Later, our president Kevin Zeese added his comment.
Disabilities Act Used by Lawyers in Flood of Suits
From the NEW YORK TIMES: A small cadre of lawyers, some from out of state, are using New York City’s age and architectural quirkiness as the foundation for a flood of lawsuits citing violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
US Has Saltiest Fast Food, Study Finds
From ABC RADIO: If your favorite fast foods taste different in certain other countries, it could be because they have less salt, according to a new study… The 2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend that most adults consume no more than about a teaspoon of sodium daily, and studies have found that reducing sodium in the diet can lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease.
Dan Meridor: We (Israel) misquoted Ahmadinejad
From AL JAZEERA: …In the words of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister: “They are the leaders of Iran who called for a new Holocaust and who vowed to wipe Israel off the map.”Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili talks to Dan Meridor, Israel’s minister of intelligence and atomic energy and deputy prime minister, about this and questions him over Israeli politicians’ claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, said Iran would ‘wipe Israel out’.
PA Gov. Tom Corbett blasts magazine article exploring his role in Paterno, Spanier firing
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Gov. Tom Corbett pounced Monday on an ESPN magazine article published this month that portrayed him as a driving force in the Penn State board of trustees’ decision to fire university president Grahan Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno last fall.
“It is totally, factually wrong,” Corbett said, during a brief press conference after an unrelated bill signing in New Cumberland. “Not even close to the facts.”
Group of Pa. Republicans wields power in key votes
From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: Republicans have a majority in the state House, but they can’t get everything they want. The House now has 112 Republicans, which is more than enough to get the minimum of 102 votes needed to approve bills and send them to the Senate.
Study: One in five US adults does not use the internet
From the GLOBAL POST: One in five US adults does not use the internet at all, according to a new report from the Pew Internet Project. They don’t use email, read newspapers online, check out friends’ photos on Facebook or waste time watching cat videos on YouTube.
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
In “The limits of government”, columnist and Associate Editor Gil Smart states: “Now, I have three kids, all of whom will be taught that drugs are dangerous, harmful and illegal. I think it’s great that our schools will make those same points inside the schoolhouse.”
EDITORIAL: Then there is the ‘Lunatic Left’
Most of the damage done to the nation over the past three decades can be attributed to the lobbyists for conservative special interests. Their purpose is to further enrich the highest 400 tax payers in America who, in 2008, had annual incomes of $87 million or more as well as the 11,000 households of the top 0.01% of taxpayers with incomes of $5.5 million or more.
NATO Sees Flaws in Air Campaign Against Qaddafi
From the NEW YORK TIMES: Despite widespread praise in Western capitals for NATO’s leadership of the air campaign in Libya, a confidential NATO assessment paints a sobering portrait of the alliance’s ability to carry out such campaigns without significant support from the United States…