While Putin promised yesterday that Russia isn’t about to send in troops, he has plenty of other tools to undermine the Western-backed Ukrainian government. They include fomenting insurrection by Russian-speakers, cyber war and crippling Ukraine financially by ramping up natural gas prices and demanding the repayment of billions of dollars in debts.

Thus the first question that should have been raised about the CSA is by what authority could Nixon and Mitchell, a pair of lawyers, presume to speak authoritatively on behalf of “American Medicine?” Sadly, no one in Congress or in the Medical profession had the presence of mind to ask that question.

From where is that road tax money to come as more efficient hybrids are introduced and total electric cars become common? Expect a bumpy road ahead…even moreso than today.

According a new study by the University of California, San Francisco, published online in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, adolescents who used e-cigarettes were more likely to be smokers of traditional cigarettes and less likely to quit smoking than those who did not use e-cigarettes.

Many of us have long been told that saturated fat, the type found in meat, butter and cheese, causes heart disease. But a large and exhaustive new analysis by a team of international scientists found no evidence that eating saturated fat increased heart attacks and other cardiac events…

Gorbachev, who resigned as the Soviet president on Christmas Day 1991, has voiced regret that he was unable to stem the Soviet Union’s collapse. He has criticized President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian policy, but said Tuesday that he supports his course in the Ukrainian crisis…

Given ever broadening indication that “Good Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough may be a Republican candidate for President in 2016, does it make sense and is it even ethical for MSNBC to allow him fifteen hours of air time each week to ingratiate himself with the electorate?

“Much of the progress made so far in getting nutrient levels in check has come from farmers. Pennsylvania farmers are credited for reducing nitrogen loads to the Bay by more than 14.5 million pounds since 1985. Farmers also have reduced phosphorus loads by more than 434,000 pounds and sediment by 431.3 billion pounds, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.”

Many believe Jay Paterno has entered politics to help clear his father’s name in the Sandusky child molestation case.

Freeh’s law firm was hired as external legal counsel to lead an investigation into the Sandusky scandal, and the university, while committed to making the results of that probe public, has never waived its attorney / client privilege.

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office ran an undercover sting operation over three years that captured leading Philadelphia Democrats, including four members of the city’s state House delegation, on tape accepting money, The Inquirer has learned.

“…[Vladimir] Putin also saw a lack of resolve in President Obama’s actions beyond Europe. In Afghanistan and Iraq, military decisions have appeared driven more by a desire to withdraw than to succeed. Defense budgets have been slashed based on hope, not strategy.

Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U.S. authority over the system of Web addresses and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National Security Agency surveillance.