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Syrian refugees still welcome in Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf says; some states slam doors on further resettlement TOM KNAPP | Staff Writer Updated 5 min ago Comments Syrian refugees are still welcome in Pennsylvania. As several governors this week closed their doors to refugees in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, Governor Tom Wolf said Pennsylvania will continue to accept refugees who have been properly screened. Pennsylvania has a rich, multi-century tradition of accepting immigrants, Wolf said, and that that should continue. “We must not lose sight of the fact that families leaving Syria are trying...

Who was the guy ranting about obama not being able to balance the budget - with lots of f-bombs. So funny, but I didn't catch the name.

Air Products, Crayola among companies accepted into government health insurance program Wednesday, September 01, 2010 FROM STAFF REPORTS Two of the Lehigh Valley's largest employers have been issued entry into a federal health insurance program designed to bridge gaps in coverage for early retirees who aren't yet eligible for Medicare. The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program is part of the massive new health care legislation passed earlier this year. It sets aside $5 billion to reimburse companies for medical costs incurred by their early retirees and dependents. Air Products & Chemicals Inc., of Upper Macungie Township, and Crayola, of Forks Township,...

Mark MacKinnon Shoubaozhuang, China — From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Jul. 18, 2010 11:48PM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010 5:20AM EDT Gated villages in China have for years been symbols of affluence; places where the rich can live in villa-style homes, surrounded by private schools and swimming pools, with fences to keep out those who don’t belong. Now China is gating off low-income villages, where migrant labourers from the countryside (the people who built those expansive villas) live in near squalor. The newly erected fences and nighttime curfews are designed to hold in the...

ATLAH Media Network ATLAH Media Network Donate Here When We Were Negroes Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 in ATLAH Now, ATLAH Times, Dr. Manning's Personal Page, Editorial 6 votesBuzz up! 1diggdigg 34Share By Dr. James David Manning I grew up watching the great rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers. The competition between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was classic. Perhaps the most magnificent truth between Blacks and Whites in America can be found in the history of that rivalry. I also grew up at the close of the greatest period of Black or Negro accomplishments in the...

Jones Act Slowing Oil Spill Cleanup? June 10, 2010 - 5:41 PM | by: Brian Wilson Foreign companies possessing some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships say they are being kept out of efforts to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf because of a 1920’s law known as the Jones Act -- a protectionist law that requires vessels working in US waters be built in the US and be crewed by US workers. Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation has been studying the matter and wonders, “Are we accepting all the international assistance in the maritime...

did I just hear Pelosi blame hold-overs from the Bush Administration for the oil spill? Wasn't the woman who just got fired for overseeing this disaster an Obama appointment from Harvard?

Senate Democrats Put Reconciliation for Cap and Trade National Energy Tax in Budget Language by Connie Hair 04/21/2010 Senate Democrats have included language in their 2011 budget resolution that would allow Democrats to try to ram through the massive cap and trade tax increase with only 51 votes in the Senate, according to a report in The Hill newspaper today. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), top Republican on the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee told HUMAN EVENTS this morning that votes for the enormous and unpopular new tax are going to be very hard to come by this election year....

Dr. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the Senator from bomb-throw: SEN. TOM COBURN (R), OKLAHOMA: I want to send a couple of messages to my colleagues in the House. If you voted no and you vote yes, and you lose your election, and you think any nomination to a federal position isn't going to be held in the Senate, I've got news for you. It's going to be held. Number two is, if you get a deal, a parochial deal for you or your district, I've already instructed my staff and the staff of seven other senators that we will look at...

Reporting from Seattle - In what would be the largest habitat zone ever established in the U.S. to protect a species from extinction, the federal government today proposed designating 200,541 square miles on the coast of Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears. Officials said the designation is not likely to further slow the pace of oil and gas development, and it crucially would not impose any controls to slow the biggest threat to polar bears, the melting of sea ice as a result of climate change. Those steps are crucial for polar bears but are being addressed separately in...

Richard W. Fisher Storms on the Horizon Remarks before the Commonwealth Club of California San Francisco, California May 28, 2008 Thank you, Bruce [Ericson]. I am honored to be here this evening and am grateful for the invitation to speak to the Commonwealth Club of California. Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, two of Ben Bernanke’s linear ancestors as chairmen of the Federal Reserve, have been in the news quite a bit lately. Yet, we rarely hear about William McChesney Martin, a magnificent public servant who was Fed chairman during five presidencies and to this day holds the record for the...

Greenland, the world’s biggest island, made an important step towards its independence on June 21. The island, which is presumably populated by the Eskimos, has been a part of Denmark for over 300 years. The Parliament of Denmark passed the law to expand Greenland’s autonomy at the end of May. The law asserted the results of the referendum which took place in Greenland last year. About 75 percent of the island’s 63,000-strong population supported the idea to expand the self-administration on the island with 23 percent voting against it. The new status, which the island will obtain, will give the...