We are in an age when too many of our government leaders believe politics should trump facts. For them, nothing tops winning an election.

This past year she watched as Holder’s Justice Department struck a series of historic settlement deals with Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America. The root bargain in these deals was cash for secrecy.

The success was largely due to a series of deals between Detroit and major creditors, especially retirees who agreed to accept smaller pension checks after the judge said they had no protection under the Michigan Constitution.

The Democrats’ dismal performance in Tuesday’s election was “sort of the exclamation point” on why he’s challenging Dermody, said Sturla, D-Lancaster, currently the caucus’ policy committee chairman.

The governor could have let the process play out by not participating openly and actively on the Penn State board as his predecessors had. He did none of that.

Editorial at LNP is headed: “NCAA’s fumbles don’t absolve Penn State of its mistakes in handling Sandusky.” According to the LNP editorial: “Jerry Sandusky committed crimes against children, and used the perks of the Penn State football program to groom his victims.

“They probably shouldn’t have fired him, they probably should have suspended him,” Corbett said in an exclusive interview at his residence with The Inquirer. “He probably should have been given the last three games, not on the sideline.”

NEWSLANC: …We have downloaded and read NCAA Constitution, Operating Bylaws, Administrative Bylaws
It is not clear to us that the NCAA had the power to “kill” any athletic program and, if it does, the process and safeguards would have made it extremely unlikely under the current circumstances.

The internal emails between high-ranking NCAA officials, first reported by Onward State, show that some people in the NCAA office believed the association did not have jurisdiction to punish Penn State. The university was hit with unprecedented penalties without going through the normal NCAA enforcement process.

The NCAA sought to end the case after it agreed the money would remain in the state, to address child abuse-related issues, but Covey has kept the case alive…

Washington already redistributes income from the rich to the poor. Richard Burkhauser and Philip Armour from Cornell and Jeff Larrimore from the Joint Committee on Taxation have become heroes to the right by trying to establish that government redistribution has, in fact, erased the trend of increasing inequality…

NORML: Oregon and Alaska legalized and regulated the commercial production and sale of marijuana for adults, while voters residing in the nation’s capitol and in numerous other cities nationwide similarly decided this Election Day to eliminate marijuana possession penalties.

With all the talk the last couple of months about a possible Democratic majority in the state Senate – and the potential political coattails of Democrat Tom Wolf’s historic gubernatorial win – you’d think Senate Democrats would have made a better showing on Election Day.