NEWSMAX: …”We should snuggle up comfortable with the Kurds in Kurdistan, who have always been pro-American and actually have a functioning society and state right now.

The discovery announced on Wednesday was hinted at in 2008 in a much smaller study of the Amish conducted by researchers from the University of Maryland’s medical school.

Last week a coalition of anti-fracking groups led by The Food & Water Watch Fund called on Wolf to return approximately $273,000 he’s already accepted from people associated with the industry.

Yet this most basic of efforts may offer more than simply adding an online twist to vocational training. It may finally offer a reasonable shot at harnessing the web to provide effective schooling to the many young Americans for whom college has become a distant, unaffordable dream…

Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, who serves on the justice center’s board, also discussed the state’s efforts to strengthen bonds between prisoners and their families, which reduces the risk of recidivism upon release…

[Steven Woolf, of Virginia Commonwealth University,] explained this disparity by citing the work of the British social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, who has proposed that income inequality generates adverse health effects even among the affluent. Wide gaps in income, Wilkinson argues, diminish our trust in others and our sense of community, producing, among other things, a tendency to underinvest in social infrastructure. Furthermore, Woolf told me, even wealthy Americans are not isolated from a lifestyle filled with oversized food portions, physical inactivity, and stress. Consider the example of paid parental leave, for which the United States ranks dead last among O.E.C.D. countries. It’s not hard to see how such policies might have implications for infant and child health.

Sestak’s interest in politics and governance has always been clearly at the Federal level. His grasp of defense, foreign affairs and national security remains impressive. Being a retired admiral and advisor in such matters to President Clinton provide a solid background.

A Lancaster Sunday News article is headed “Sen. Casey urges DOT to preserve commercial air service at Lancaster Airport.”

SCRANTON TIMES-LEADER Editorial: Government corruption in Pennsylvania is roughly as consistent as the Earth’s rotation. But because it always is prosecuted and publicly reported in terms of individual cases, it’s hard to place a price tag on overall corruption.

[President] Obama on Saturday granted Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s request to create a presidential emergency board to mediate the contract dispute, forcing the 400 union workers to go back.