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Voter turnout in Berks County just 17% for 2013 primary election

Posted at 2:46 on May 23, 2013 by noreply@blogger.com TONY PHYRILLAS
Women’s sweep of judgeship races no surprise to local political leaders ...
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Nothing ‘fair about the ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’

Posted at 2:46 on May 23, 2013 by noreply@blogger.com TONY PHYRILLAS
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Washington & Wall Street: What Does Japan Meltdown Say About US Markets?

Posted at 2:46 on May 23, 2013
Japan’s key equity market indices fell more than 6 percent overnight, the most since the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake. Bloomberg reports that futures trading in Osaka was suspended.  “Every Asian market outside Sri Lanka retreated after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke yesterday said a premature withdrawal of quantitative easing would pu...

Terry McAuliffe suddenly all about the offshore drilling in Virginia

Posted at 2:45 on May 23, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
One-eighty. The commonwealth of Virginia has a lot to gain from offshore oil and gas drilling, and way back when, the Obama administration was all set to allow Virginians access to their own natural resources — but then the...

Cap-And-Trade Coming To China

Posted at 2:45 on May 23, 2013 by Andrew Sullivan
Reports from China indicate plans to pilot a carbon trading program next month in the southern city of Shenzen, as part of a regional rollout in 2014 and a potential countrywide cap in 2016. Katie Valentine calls the announcement a “bombshell”:...

The Caged Bird Sings, Ctd

Posted at 2:45 on May 23, 2013 by Andrew Sullivan
A reader writes: The video and story of Mohamed Assaf reminded of something I’ve been meaning to send you. It’s a music video by activist Israeli-Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, for a song called”If I Could Go Back in Time.” DAM is Tam...

Poll: Obama Approval Drops, 68% Think Government ‘Out of Control’

Posted at 2:16 on May 23, 2013
A new Fox News poll shows Obama’s disapproval rating among registered voters has spiked to 51%, up from 45% last month. The poll shows an 8-point swing against Obama since April. Another shocking finding, undoubtedly linked ...

Obama on the verge of becoming one of America’s most successful presidents ever

Posted at 2:16 on May 23, 2013 by Paul Mirengoff
(Paul Mirengoff) With so many scandals in the picture or looming, it’s easy to miss the fact that President Obama may soon become one of the most successful presidents in American history. I’m defining success as fulfilling Obama’s mission of substantially transforming America. The Obama administration scandals matter because, to one degree or another, they involve scandalous conduct. But step back for moment. In 20 years, very few people will remember any of th...

House Judiciary Committee to Justice: Explain snooping on AP, please

Posted at 2:16 on May 23, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
Hot seat. Get ready for more televised committee hearings.  Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a list of pointed questions to Deputy Attorney General James Cole this morning as the committee starts to probe the seizure of phone records from the...

Democrats Use McCain Comments to Paint GOP as Obstructionist

Posted at 1:46 on May 23, 2013
Senate Democrats are looking to paint a recent Republican fracas between Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as further evidence of an obstructionist GOP whose recalcitrance is bogging down budget negotiations. When Paul and Cruz called to block Senate Budget Committee Chairman ...

British troops told not to wear uniforms outside bases after yesterday’s attack in London

Posted at 1:46 on May 23, 2013 by Allahpundit
Fear. Hard to imagine a more demoralizing order for a soldier than to tell him to take off the uniform and hide after an enemy’s attack. And the powers that be know it: They’re stressing that the order’s temporary in order to blunt public i...

Healthcare Under ObamaCrapCare

Posted at 1:16 on May 23, 2013 by tom vorenberg
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Weiner: I Hope ‘Ideas Penetrate’

Posted at 1:16 on May 23, 2013
Politicians can survive sex scandals. Politicians can succeed with the last name “Weiner.” But it remains to be seen if a politician can survive both. Disgraced former-Congressman Anthony Weiner is already seeing his hopes of becoming the next mayor of New York City go up in smoke. Thursday, New York governor and fellow Democrat, Andrew Cuomo, spanked Weiner, saying ...

After The Gold Rush II – Kentucky Coal and Japanese Stocks

Posted at 1:16 on May 23, 2013
If you have based your hope for prosperity on what Globalization Guru Thomas Friedman referred to as The Electronic Herd, this morning you probably feel like one of the pigs that Christ sent over the cliff when he exorcised “Legion.” For today, at least, there is no hiding from the stupid. The Nikkei 225 crashed and burned yesterday and Business Insider describes...

Ending The Perpetual Emergency, Ctd

Posted at 1:15 on May 23, 2013 by Andrew Sullivan
Rosa Brooks asks Obama to channel his inner law professor and offer a concretely legal defense of his war powers during his speech this afternoon: Speaking not just as a law professor but as a citizen: It would be nice to know if President Obama thinks the [Authorization for Use of...

Update on what happened at the Metro Council on May 21st: pay raise for Metro employees, fairgrounds and more.

Posted at 12:46 on May 23, 2013 by noreply@blogger.com Rod Williams
Below is the video of the May 21st Council meeting. If you haven’t watched it yet, if you will wait I will watch it for you and tell you where to go in the video to watch the goods stuff and share my opinion of what happened and what should have happened. Check back. ...

WSJ: Say, who’s running the government?

Posted at 12:46 on May 23, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
This makes Clint Eastwood’s day. That’s the logical question to ask after an avalanche of official denials of knowledge and responsibility from the IRS, Department of Justice, and the White House.  ”I don’t know” seems to be the new mantra of executives at every level o...

Thune Grills Pritzker About Subprime Bank Failure

Posted at 12:17 on May 23, 2013
After over 40 minutes of evasion in Penny Pritzker’s confirmation hearing as Secretary of Commerce, the committee finally heard about the failure of Pritzker’s Superior Bank in 2001 due to subprime lending. “What do you have to say to the depositors?” Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the Ranking Member on the committee, asked her, asking ...

Cuomo Flogs Weiner: ‘Shame On Us’ If We Elect Him

Posted at 12:16 on May 23, 2013
Democrats are obviously not happy with the idea of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner running for mayor of New York City. In an editorial meeting with some local newspapers, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said “shame on us,” if Weiner is elected. ...

Bernanke Comments, Sluggish China Data Ignite Stock Sell Off

Posted at 12:16 on May 23, 2013
U.S. stocks were down nearly 1% in early trading as the Nikkei experienced its largest drop in two years, closing 225 down, with news that Chinese factory figures shrank for the first time in seven months. Also worrying were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s c...