From NEWSMAX: British intelligence chiefs have warned that Israel will launch military action to thwart Iran’s nuclear weapons development efforts as early as Christmas, according to a report in The Telegraph. The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency this week confirmed that Iran is developing a nuclear warhead that could fit on an existing missile.
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Re Sandusky: What did AG Tom Corbett know in 2005 and what did he do about it?
NBC Philadelphia asks: “Why didn’t Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar prosecute Jerry Sandusky the first time he was accused in 1998? We may never know, as Gricar disappeared in 2005….” What is significant about the article is that the report tip toes around the elephant in the middle of the living room although it lacks the investigation…
Should the Penn State / Nebraska football game be moved or canceled?
Does it make sense, given the raw feelings and student upset, to pack a hundred thousand fans into Beaver Stadium at noon on Saturday? To further aggravate matters, the game is scheduled to be nationally televised on ESPN.
Tom Corbett and the Sandusky case
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is scheduled to attend Friday evening’s Penn State University Trustees’ emergency meeting. It is an unusual appearance for the Governor, and the circumstance of the meeting, the sordid child molestation charges against Penn State coaching legend, Jerry Sandusky, is also unusual.
Questions on Sandusky Are Wrapped in a 2005 Mystery
From the NEW YORK TIMES: One of the questions surrounding the sex-abuse case against Jerry Sandusky is why a former district attorney chose not to prosecute the then-Penn State assistant coach in 1998 after reports surfaced that he had inappropriate interactions with a boy.
WASHINGTON POST/ INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
“In Penn State’s failure to act”, columnist Eugene Robinson asserts “[In 1998] The local district attorney declined to prosecute, and the investigation was closed.”
Ohio voters overwhelmingly reject anti-union referendum
From the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: Ohio voters dealt a sharp rebuke to first-year Gov. John Kasich and his conservative agenda Tuesday by overwhelmingly rejecting the restrictive new collective bargaining law he championed. “It’s clear the people have spoken,” the humbled Republican leader said from the Statehouse.
Penn State: A stretch of credibility
All of the reports we have read concerning the scandal surrounding the alleged sexual predator Defense Coach Jerry Sandusky focus on Joe Paterno and the Penn State officials and ignore the biggest question of all: When did word first reach the criminal justice authorities and what did they do about it?
More charges may lie ahead in Penn State’s sex scandal
From the PITTSBURG POST-GAZETTE: State prosecutors on Monday left open the possibility of filing additional charges and discovering other victims in the still unfolding Penn State University child sex abuse scandal. Those officials indicated that head football coach Joe Paterno may be clear of legal consequences…
US to Work with Arab Spring’s Islamist Parties
From NEWSMAX / AP: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday that the Obama administration would work with ascendant Islamist parties of the Muslim world, answering one of the central U.S. policy questions resulting from the Arab Spring…
In Sexual Abuse Case, a Focus on How Paterno Reacted
From the NEW YORK TIMES: On Saturday, March 2, 2002, according to Pennsylvania prosecutors, a Penn State University graduate student went to visit Joe Paterno, the university’s football coach. The student had a horrific story to tell: the night before, the graduate student had witnessed one of Paterno’s former coaches sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in the football facility’s showers…
An Important Anniversary and a Belated Lamentation
Yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of California’s Proposition 215, which allowed use of cannabis (“marijuana”) as medicine, provided it was formally “recommended” by a licensed physician or osteopath.
Are government provocateurs infiltrating OWS?
You mentioned the Oakland protest the other day and the closing of the port. I understand there was some violence at the port. My guess is this was a provocateur. The Oakland police chief is on tape ordering his police to infiltrate (“to get protesters to do what we want”) and there is video of Oakland police pretending to be occupiers.
Randolph Carney for Lancaster School Board
NewsLanc endorses it “2009 Citizens of the Year” for election to the board of the School District of Lancaster. Here is what we wrote then concerning Randolph Carney: Lancaster Person of the Year 2009.