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What sad news - the death at 56 of Steve Jobs, the world's most creative genius since the mid-20th century. As a writer the last of our typewriters was a 'golfball' printhead IBM Selectric, but the only computers we've ever owned were Apples - from the Apple II through to the Cube and all the Macs.

Apple computers have been the most innovative, the most functional and the most fun to own and use.

Even someone who thinks his policies have been a disaster must concede President Obama's powers of oratory. His speech to a joint session of the Congress Thursday night was, as a political speech, a performance as good as any seen since presidents Reagan or Kennedy. No other contemporary American politician, he reminded us, is in the same league at a podium as Obama at his best.

Governor Tom Corbett "went ballistic" last week on hearing that the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had made two senior appointments  without consulting his office. We heard this from two separate sources today. They said independently that Corbett is very angry that the Commission made the appointments before his representative, Barry Schoch could take his position at a Turnpike Commission meeting.

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