ALJAZEERA: What a difference 24 hours made for former champions of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher first hailed by some GOP politicians as “a patriot” for standing up — with rifles — against what he saw as the yoke of the federal government, and now backed away from as an unreformable and politically toxic bigot.

NEW YORK TIMES Editorial: …On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced what would be the most sweeping reinvigoration of the clemency power in nearly four decades.

Lancaster City offers relative level terrain. Those who use Amtrak witness young and early middle age visitors traveling with folding bicycles. Cycling throughout Lancaster City and County is a splendid way to spend a day or a vacation.

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: ….”Particularly, I think Tom Wolf has been evasive about expressing support for the law,” said [Congresswoman Alison] Schwartz, who this week started running a campaign ad on television, touting her role in helping to craft and pass the legislation.

NEW YORK TIMES: …Today’s NATO, hollowed out by years of European military cuts and deployed mostly to help fight far-off battles in places like Afghanistan and Libya, is no longer as prepared to counter a newly assertive Kremlin, its own leaders acknowledge…

Two alumni already have received the OK from the borough to install a projected $300,000 life-sized bronze sculpture downtown, about two miles from the original site. And they’re hoping the statue, which will feature Paterno sitting on a bench reading Virgil’s “Aeneid,” will be installed by fall of next year.

The leading proposal under discussion by Senate leadership would expand beer and wine sales into grocery stores, gas stations, beer distributors and other private retailers, while keeping hard liquor in state-run stores.

Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it.

With the demolition of the original Host Hotel, later Days Inn, on the other side of the railroad track from the train station, there are eleven vacant acres zoned commercial, an ideal location for a parking garage that could link directly over the railroad tracks to the Amtrak station.

In the article, O’Connor says changes in the SATs — which include dropping the essay and some vocabulary words — will force students to learn what the Founding Fathers wrote because the College Board has pledged that every test taker will read a passage from one of “America’s founding documents or the great global conversation they inspired.”

It is a mistake to assume that all children held in juvenile facilities represent “hard cases” beyond redemption. Indeed, a new study, by the Southern Education Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta, shows that nearly two-thirds of the young people who were confined in 2010 were confined for nonviolent offenses…

HUFFINGTON POST Column: …It’s a thankless task for Democrats to run and govern as centrists. The policies do not solve large national problems. Voters see only more bureaucracy, and voters give up on politics…