Even before two judges were charged with racketeering in the Luzerne County kids-for-cash scandal, most Pennsylvanians told pollsters they suspected state justice was for sale - since judicial elections were awash in campaign donations. Many judges agreed with that perception, other surveys showed.
Renewed objections by New Jersey and Delaware officials to deepening the Delaware River's shipping channel are important enough to put the project on hold, at least for a few more months.
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Conservatives favor limited government In your coverage of the "Kill this bill" rally at the U.S. Capitol, you quote Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan castigating the conservative demonstrators for their "extreme right-wing, rigid ideological agenda that has Americans leaving the Republican Party in droves." It would be helpful if extreme left-wing ideologues would not sacrifice language to rhetoric.
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As the health-care debate rages in Washington, National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month unites people across the nation to rally against the devastating human and financial toll exacted by this disease.
- Avoiding the top leader for local leaders may be a more effective way to face the many problems in Afghanistan.MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan - Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? This question dominates the U.S. debate as President Obama prepares to announce his long-delayed Afghan strategy. A leaked memo to the White House from the U.S. ambassador to Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, opposes any troop increase until Karzai tackles corruption. Many think Karzai's flaws will undermine the entire NATO effort.
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Mark Zandi is chief economist at Moody's Economy.com It has been a tough half century for Philadelphia's economy. The city's employment and population have fallen more or less steadily since just after World War II. The surrounding suburban ring has picked up some of these jobs and households, but the entire region has been weighed down by Philly's economic slide.
- Today, political correctness trumps common sense, and that's good cause to worry.That the Fort Hood gunman had plenty of enablers is unmistakable. But the fact that a number of red flags were ignored by so many is perfectly understandable given the context. Here is the reality:
- It first sang the praises of requiring all to be insured. Now the party uses it as a weapon.Perhaps you've long believed that extremist Islamic terrorism poses the greatest danger to America. Well, the Republicans wish to disabuse you of that notion.
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Last year, when I first spoke to Lisa Kirstein of Voorhees about her son, who was stationed in Iraq, she mentioned the negative reaction some people had when they heard her news. Not everyone, of course, but enough to sting.
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- An attack would unite its people under a regime now pressured.Two days after Iranian students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage 30 years ago this month, Pentagon brass met in a secret briefing room called "The Tank" to consider rescue options.
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Joel Brinkley is a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and now a professor of journalism at Stanford University
- During "that roller-coaster ride," the campaign focused on independent voters, and the issues.Russ Schriefer was the media consultant for Republican gubernatorial candidate Christopher J. Christie It was somewhere off the New Jersey Turnpike, Exit 4, I think, sitting in a dark room looking through a one-way mirror, eating bad food and too many M&Ms; something was happening I hadn't seen in a while. The group of independent voters we selected for th
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Mary Sanchez is an opinion-page columnist for the Kansas City Star The 2010 U.S. Census will soon be upon us, and by now you may have heard one of the patriotic pitches to comply.
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