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DA to seek death penalty for abortionist Gosnell | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/02/2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Joseph A. Slobodzian - Mar. 02 (News) - The Gosnells and their eight employees were criminally charged in January after the District Attorney's Office released a 260-page county grand jury report. The report alleged in horrific detail that Gosnell performed illegal late-term abortions for poor women, in some cases killing infants born viable by cutting their spines with scissors.

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DEATH'S DOLLARS: The abortionist, accused of murders, made at least $1.8M a year. He says he's broke. Where did it all go?

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Stephanie Farr - Feb. 08 (News Report) - According to the grand jury's report, it's estimated that Gosnell, 69, made almost $1.8 million each year in abortions alone - and most of it was cash from desperate, poor women. That figure does not account for any of the money he took in from allegedly selling illegal prescriptions to drug addicts in his community, including his notable distinction of being one of the top three prescribers of OxyContin in Pennsylvania, something federal authorities continue to investigate. But when brought before a judge Friday to explain why he and his wife, Pearl, had not hired attorneys, Gosnell claimed to be broke. The judge didn't buy it and refused to appoint public defenders for the couple. They have until Wednesday to hire a lawyer.

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The American Debate: A death-row opponent: Be still, my heart

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Dick Polman - Dec. 12 (Opinion) - Ever since a self-described loser named Steven Hayes went on trial this autumn for the murders of a Connecticut doctor's wife and two daughters, my gut has been warring with my brain.

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Man accused of killing softball star was registered sex offender

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:42:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - Sep. 25 - The first time Stephen Headley wound up in the Burlington County Jail, he'd been charged with kissing and fondling an 11-year-old girl at a skating rink.

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Military is told to reinstate nurse - Philadelphia Inquirer

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:30:20 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - Sep. 25 - msnbc.comMilitary is told to reinstate nursePhiladelphia InquirerSEATTLE - A federal judge in Tacoma, Wash., has ordered the Air Force to reinstate a skilled flight nurse in a closely watched case involving the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays serving in the military. ...Judge orders military to reinstate gay nurseWashington PostStatement from Judge Leighton after the Margaret Witt trialSeattle TimesJudge orders lesbian reinstated to Air ForceThe Associated PressCNN International?-The Spokesman Reviewall 715 news articles??

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New effort to capture 500 unregistered sex offenders in the U.S.

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:31:20 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - Sep. 20 - LEON DICKSON raped a 12-year-old girl on her way to school. Jerry Barker assaulted a woman with Down syndrome. And Malik Torian molested a 5-year-old boy.

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N.J.'s high-minded media experiment

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - NJ's high-minded media experimentPhiladelphia Inquirer... lasting animosity generated or grudges held: NJN's reporters were every bit as professional and capable as their colleagues in the rest of the media. ...and more??

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Sestak, White House deflect job-offer questions

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Thomas Fitzgerald - May. 26 (News) - Rep. Joe Sestak, the brand-new Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs each dodged questions Sunday about Sestak's claim that the Obama administration offered him a job last summer if he would skip a primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter.

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Sestak ousts Specter in Democratic primary

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Thomas Fitzgerald, Derrick Nunnally - May. 19 (News) - Rep. Joe Sestak, riding a call for "new blood" in Washington, defeated incumbent Arlen Specter in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary Tuesday, ending the career of the longest serving senator in Pennsylvania history.

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Obama should expand court

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Stan Isaacs - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - So if nine justices is not writ in stone, the embattled President Obama should deal with this hostile conservative/reactionary court by adding three members.

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A conservative's case for same-sex marriage

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Michael Smerconish - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - Tomorrow, conservative legal giant Ted Olson will begin a new trial, this one involving a federal challenge to Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage. The case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, is the latest and arguably most important legal review of what has become a nationwide debate about affording rights to same-sex couples.

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Sea-level rise quickening along East Coast

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Sandy Bauers - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Looking deep into the geologic past, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have learned that along the Atlantic Coast, including New Jersey, sea level rose three times faster during the 20th century than it did during the previous 4,000 years. At one location in North Carolina, they fixed the date of the rapid acceleration to between 1879 and 1915, after the Industrial Revolution had taken deep hold, lending credence to the connection between the rising temperatures that occurred then and rising sea levels.

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Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Nancy Phillips, Craig McCoy, Dylan Purcell - Dec. 15 (Special Report) - Intimidation on the streets is changing the way trials are run. "People are frightened to death," the D.A. says.

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How to change too-big-to-fail ethic?

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Harold Brubaker - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Thirty years ago, the biggest bank in Philadelphia was in deep trouble because of a bad bet on interest rates. First Pennsylvania, then the oldest bank in the nation, had invested heavily in long-term government securities paying fixed rates of interest. When Paul Volcker, then the chairman of the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates in 1978 to fight inflation, the bank was crushed; it had to pay more to borrow than it earned on the bonds.

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Scrubbing In: Will health innovation be stymied by U.S.?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Rachel K. Sobel - Jul. 21 (Opinion) - The epiphany came in a dentist's chair. That's where Charles Kelman, a former Wills Eye resident, dreamed up the idea of modern-day cataract surgery. Why not use the same ultrasound technology for teeth cleaning to take out cloudy lenses in the eyes?

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Walter's choice -- Cronkite's lesson for today's journalists

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Will Bunch - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - In the two days since we learned of Cronkite's death, so much has been written about the man, about his rare tone of authority, about the avuncularity and comfort offered to couch potatoes by their "Uncle Walter," about the incredible events that he reported from moon walks to the Kennedy assassination. All those things are true, but they also tend to miss how he was willing to risk all of that because he felt his responsibility to his country and to the truth was more important than his career. That he could make such a choice was the true meaning of Walter Cronkite.`

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Universal health care could boost economy

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Jeff Gelles - Jun. 28 (News Analysis) - Imagine living in a society where reliable police and fire protection were available only to those who worked for the largest employers. In this fictional country, people with enough money might be able to buy personal protection - but perhaps not if they'd suffered a burglary five years ago, or once called 911 for a kitchen fire. Would people with good ideas and a little bit of money be willing to give up personal security for the chance to start their own businesses? Or would they cling to the safety promised by a job at a big company or institution? Substitute health insurance for police and fire protection, and you have one of the best - and least-heralded - arguments for universal health care, according to a small but growing number of economists.

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Cap-and-Trade Does More Harm than Good

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Laurie Williams & Allan Zabel - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - Unfortunately, despite the best intentions of its proponents, the bill known as Waxman-Markey would disable our ability to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions for at least a decade, hugely increasing the risk of irreversible climate calamity.

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Inquirer defends the indefensible: A monthly column by torture architect John Yoo

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Will Bunch - May. 12 (Opinion) - It was Yoo's immoral guidance that aided the United States in sanctioning the torture practice known as waterboarding -- used in the Spanish Inquisition, by despots such as Pol Pot and by Chinese Communists in the Korean War to obtain false confessions from Americans -- as well as slamming detainees into walls, part of a harsh interrogation regime that has been linked to the deaths of at least a dozen U.S, detainees and possibly more.

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Don't abandon public schools

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - May. 11 (Editorial) - Vouchers are not the answer to what's wrong with America's public schools. But a pilot program for District of Columbia children deserved better than the shoddy treatment it received from Congress. The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program was created by Congress in 2004 for families who wanted to escape abysmal, unsafe schools. But last month, when it came time to reauthorize the voucher program in the federal omnibus spending bill, Congress left out the $14 million program.

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This party's over

Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Dick Polman - May. 03 (Opinion) - Once upon a time, long before the GOP plummeted to its current status as the Southern and Rural Older White Guy Party, it actually was home to a healthy subspecies known as the Republican moderate. These moderates roamed the land, cutting deals with Democrats, winning statewide elections, and broadening the GOP's appeal. Pennsylvania alone was fertile turf for people like William Scranton, Richard Schweiker, John Heinz, Hugh Scott, and Arlen Specter. But now, of course, that era is over. Specter has quit the party one step ahead of his own extinction - yet another sign that the Republicans, in their self-defeating quest for ideological purity, have ceased to be a national party.

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Gen. David Petraeus makes the case for Obama's war.

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Trudy Rubin - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - When Gen. David Petraeus testified on Capitol Hill 11 days ago about the new U.S. policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the story was relegated to the inside pages of major papers. What a contrast to the media circus when Petraeus testified on the Iraq war. Shell-shocked by the financial crisis, the American public hasn't focused on Obama's war, which calls for 17,000 more combat troops this year, as well as 4,000 new military trainers. Polls show the public is wary about the AfPak conflict, but opposition is more muted than to the war in Iraq. That could change should casualties increase, as is likely over the next year.

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Rendell opens door to energy stimulus money

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Diane Mastrull - Mar. 24 (News Report) - For a Bensalem producer of energy-efficient windows and doors, yesterday's visit from Gov. Rendell meant a publicity surge.

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Don't let outrage at bonuses make a bad economy worse

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Trudy Rubin - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - These days, as public anger soars over AIG bonuses, fanned by cable television and Congress and indulged by President Obama, it seems we have arrived at a Gallic moment - or something more scary. When an Iowa Republican, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, actually suggests that AIG executives follow "the Japanese example," come before the American people, bow, and "commit suicide," you know we're reaching hysteria levels.

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U.S. turning into Europe untrue, but wouldn't be all bad

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - By Dick Polman - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - I can't fathom the new GOP hue and cry about how President Obama is supposedly trying to "Europeanize" the U.S.A. Think about it: If they couldn't successfully discredit his '08 candidacy by linking him to our terrorist enemies, how can they possibly discredit his '09 domestic agenda by linking him to our friends? But apparently that's their message du jour. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell warns of "the Europeanization of America," Newt Gingrich warns of "European-style socialism," 2012 hopeful Mitt Romney warns that America might morph into "government-dominated Europe," and a top conservative Web site has sounded the alarm by posting a photo of the Swedish flag, which perhaps is intended to warn us that, failing vigilance, we, too, will be saddled with onerous un-American concepts such as cradle-to-grave health care.

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