NEW YORK TIMES: …The Turks have insisted that any broad support to the coalition is dependent on the mission going beyond the Islamic State, also called ISIS or ISIL, to also target the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, which Turkey has long opposed and blames for creating the conditions that led to the rise of the extremists within Syria and Iraq…

The story behind the e-mails is far more tangled than what has become public: that eight men, all with ties to [former state prosecutor Frank] Fina, have been named by Kane as sending or receiving X-rated e-mails in a widening scandal that has also touched a state Supreme Court justice.

Under the supplement’s title appears: “Not too rash – yet not fearful – open to all parties, but not influenced by any. William Hamilton & Henry Willcocks. Motto for The Lancaster Journal June 18, 1794”

U.S. Steel is run by scads of executives who write big campaign checks to Corbett’s fundraisers. U.S. Steel was born in Pittsburgh and its management culture has been hand-in-hand with the Republican Party always. Corbett has already delivered in the form of various tax cuts. He never met a tax on business that he liked.

On Monday,officials announced that a medical marijuana pilot program was getting underway. Three children’s hospitals and the Department of Health are doing a research study on the use of CBD cannabis oil in children.

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE EDITORIAL: …Far too few doctors have approval from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe Suboxone, which was OK’d in 2002 for treating opioid dependence. Even worse, the law limits those doctors to 30 such patients the first year and 100 after that

NEW YORK TIMES: Not long after American forces defeated the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein in 2003, caravans of trucks began to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on a regular basis, unloading an unusual cargo — pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills. The cash, withdrawn from Iraqi government accounts held in the United States, was loaded onto Air Force C-17 transport planes bound for Baghdad, where the Bush administration hoped it would provide a quick financial infusion forIraq’s new government and the country’s battered economy.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Here are the breakdowns by market for the current week (Note GRP stands for “gross ratings points,” an estimate of the number of times an ad is seen by a typical TV viewer, used to sell advertising.):

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE COLUMN: Started in June by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Wolf, the Campaign for a Fresh Start leads the attack against Republican Gov. Tom Corbett but allows Wolf to keep his hands clean and put forth a positive message, political analysts said.

1) Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor, gave a short but trenchant analysis of the ISIS danger on Good Morning America, stating that if the USA introduces our troops on the ground, we will start a twenty year war against Islam that will spread from the Middle East through Asia.

Perhaps Obama would feel less guilty about his youthful pot smoking if he realized that the law he broke was based on Richard Nixon’s need to punish the youth of the Sixties and that his own use of cannabis almost certainly helped him compensate emotionally for the absence of his biological father from his life.