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January 2012

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Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players – Part 2 By Dory Hippauf

Chesapeake Energy – Peeking Behind the Curtain *********** Editor’s Note: They say that knowledge is power. If that’s so, then Dory Hippauf is destined to be one very powerful individual....

Editor's Choice

January 4, 2012

Happy New Year, friends and foes. Welcome to this, our 47th issue. We started CS2 four years ago in an effort to inject meaningful discussion into our politics. In the...

CommonSense2 – Jan. 2012 – Issue # 47

by CommonSense2 Editor January 1, 2012

Capitalism’s Wedded Bliss of Profit and Exploitation Two years ago, at the age of 77, my mother had totally unnecessary knee replacement surgery. Until the time mom called me...

The Bride of Old Frankenstein

by Lynn M. Petrovich January 1, 2012

Virginia Woolf was not above envying those writers whose work she held in esteem and whose lives were somewhat less respectable than her own.

WITHOUT HATRED

by Jack Lindeman January 1, 2012

The thing that I admired most about Hitchens is the thing that irritated many people about him—he would not follow the party line.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

by James Patrick January 1, 2012

Where is the outrage of the masses? Why have there been no prosecutions of those who stole from the taxpayers?

Where Would We Be If …..?

by Rudy Avizius January 1, 2012

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2011 is “The Protester” TIME Magazine Cover: 2011 Person of the Year: The Protester – Dec … CommonSense2 online magazine has chosen for...

1st CS2 Person of the Year Award: “The Whistleblower”

by Dorothy Reilly January 1, 2012

Just as in Lewis Carroll’s tales of Alice’s illogical adventures, the political landscape just gets “curiouser and curiouser.” We’ve traveled down the rabbit hole, through the looking glass, and into...

Alice’s Adventures in Medicare Land

by Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz January 1, 2012

Michelle Sayles is a talented cartoonist and a member of Berks Gas Truth. This is her 2nd appearance in CS2.

Monopoly

by Michelle Sayles

Editors' Picks

January 1, 2012

The Green Party considers the lifting of any death sentence as a step forward.

Greens Applaud Abu-Jamal Decision

by Green Party of Philadelphia January 1, 2012

When confronted by facts, these fundamentalists point out that the Puritans, the ones who fled England for religious freedom,

One Jew’s Christmas

by Walter Brasch January 1, 2012

Blue is my favorite color True is my favorite word Mankind is my brother Faith is my sword Blue is cool Blue is true Blue is a swing set I...

Blue

by Kelly Darrow January 1, 2012

In 2002, the US had only 167 drones. Now there are upwards of 7,000

The Drone Wars

by Paul A. Heise PhD January 1, 2012

Drinking morning coffee. Out my front window I watch a man standing in the rain— stolidly cleaning rainwater off his car’s windshield. Stoically he disregards the weather as traffic flows...

CHAOS AND THE COMMON MAN

by Steve De France January 1, 2012

While the wind grows bold I try to imagine myself shivering in some other place I have not gone to yet ***************

SCENIC

by Jack Lindeman January 1, 2012

Tyranny is not a word to be used lightly. It is an accusation of a deliberate attack on basic liberty. It is especially not to be used in regard to...

Call It Tyranny

by Paul A. Heise PhD

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