Scoop’s Views

Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, remains alive – despite several news reports around 2 p.m. today to the contrary, as well as information in Congress around 1 p.m., saying she had passed away.

Jones has been hospitalized for about a day now, as a result of a brain aneurysm in what doctors describe as an “inaccessible” part of the brain. Many news outlets had reported she had died from a brain aneurysm she suffered Tuesday evening while driving, according to the Cleveland Plains Dealer and CNN. She will celebrate her 59th birthday in 21 days, on September 10.

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Senate is rewarding telecommunications providers for breaking the law
York Times is reporting that the United States Senate, by a vote of 69-28, approved a bill overhauling the rules covering secret government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecommunications companies that aided in the wiretapping of Americans without warrants. Doing Chicago-style two-stepping, Barack Obama, who originally spoke harsh words against the illegal wiretaps, voted today in favor of granting immunity to the telecommunications companies. His former presidential contender, Hillary Clinton, stayed true to her original position and voted against the immunity.

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Obama is spending money left-and-right in his attempts to woo the voters in Pennsylvania. He’s running commercials that are seemingly accurate, but some of the truths — the realities — at the fringes of the ad are in question. Did the pharmaceutical industry really put wording in legislation that Medicare cannot negotiate for lower prices with manufacturers of medications? No.

It was politicians, just like Barack Obama — a senator — put together the wording, and later, after being approved by a committee, was sent to the Senate and House, for approval. If the wording bothered Sen. Barack Obama, why did the senator from Illinois not make a motion to change or delete the wording? It’s a common practice, as is another common practice of adding bills that alter other legislation onto popular bills being brought for vote. Barack Obama has had time to change the Medicare language about price negotiations he’s ranting about.

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It’s been six years since that fateful day that literally rocked America. In fact, it was a day that, for most Americans, made them realize what others in many nations deal with on a regular basis: something called living life with bunch of radical terrorists who are little more than loons.

As I’ve written in the past, I was in New York City on September 11, 2001. In fact, I was there, with my daughter, who is now almost 21. If you take it out forty seconds more, she and I would have been dead, victims in the first assault on the Twin Towers.

Today, the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, though, I decided to write about what happened to my daughter and I that day in New York City and how we were almost killed that day.

The Deathly Hallows is the climax to the last 17 years of Rowling’s life, a time when she has gone from a single, divorced mother living on public assistance to a happily married mother of three and one of the richest women in the world.

There is a murder story on Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV 10…

When it comes to being accurate, Nancy Grace evidently believes her demands she knows all, and when she speaks, her guests must immediately be silent on the topic. Fortunately, I am not one of her guests. As someone who spent over two decades in newsrooms as a journalist and editor, I freely bash media outlets when they get it wrong. Guess what? My proverbial bat is swinging at Nancy Grace.

Today, in fact, around 1:20 a.m. Eastern Time (-0500), BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released by his captors after 115 days in captivity. Again, it is Independence Day: this time for a journalist.

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The police officer, husband, and lover-in-the-shadows of the late Jessica (Jessie) Marie Davis has apparently confessed to the local cops and other investigators who have been looking for the pregnant, missing woman for more than a week.
Cutts has sworn all week long, including giving a crying fit for television camera almost fit for an Academy Award, that [...]

JohnDowdell writes for Adobe, sort of. He has a…

Basketball player Tim Hardaway was asked the other day about his views on gay players in the NBA. He said, Well, you know, I hate gay people. So I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people. You know, I’m homophobic. I don’t like it. It should be (unintelligible) in the world for that or in the United States for it. So, yeah, I don’t like it.

Yesterday afternoon, while flipping channels on TV, I can across the “breaking news” story of the hour on CNN about the semi-tractor trailer at the Port of Miami whose driver had been detained.

In TV’s rush-to-judgement, rush to get the news to the viewers, it seems both CNN and the Fox News Channel (Channels 4 and 46 on Philadelphia Comcast cable system, maybe flipping between the two convenient) got the story wrong.