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May 2013

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Walter Brasch on Fracking Pennsylvania By Chuck Brown

On April 11th Walter Brasch made a rare appearance at Reading’s Drinking Liberally to promote his new “must read” book Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster. He was accompanied by his...

Editor's Choice

This is going to be a short newsletter (You don’t need to cheer when I say that) because I am off to my daughter Jessica’s graduation from Law School. Pat...

CommonSense2 May, 2013 – Issue # 63

by CommonSense2 Editor May 1, 2013

Prioritizing Our Many U.S. Problems an Ignored Political Chore

by Paul A. Heise PhD May 1, 2013

Bob Hunter smiled. He had the little bastards now, and he was gonna scare the bejesus out of ‘em. Tommy Walker, Ricky Willis, Barry Snyder and know-it-all Marvin Blevins. Neighborhood...

Good Old Larry

by G.K. Thomas May 1, 2013

Harry Strausser III owns a successful small business with 25 employees in Bloomsburg, Pa. As an undergraduate, he was a national champion in several forensics categories and represented the Boy...

Oh, That’s What the Boy Scouts Mean by Being ‘Morally Straight’

by Rosemary & Walter Brasch May 1, 2013

Dear Sen. Gillibrand: Not that you will ever see this, but I did follow the NY Times report on your hearing on sexual assaults in the military. 19,000 per year...

An Exchange with Senator Gillibrand

by Harriet Rauenzahn May 1, 2013

J. M.’s sense of loyalty to people he knows and likes often causes him to step beyond the bounds of reason by resorting to overpraise. Knowing how critical he is...

BOUNDS OF REASON

by Jack Lindeman May 1, 2013

Two Marshmallows

by G.K. Thomas May 1, 2013

Your bruised eye was bad enough. San Marco was under a thin inch of water and you fell never believing in the life of a saint no matter how much...

KATY IN ITALY

by Jack Lindeman May 1, 2013

I often find myself on the defensive when I tell fellow Democrats and Progressives that I voted for Jill Stein (Green Party) for President last year rather than cast a...

Why I Couldn’t Vote for Obama

by Jerry Policoff May 1, 2013

Austerity is presently the economic policy advice offered by economists to cure the lingering global economic recession. The IMF and the European Central Bank demand that countries cut spending and...

Lauded Study’s Conclusions Bogus

by Paul A. Heise PhD May 1, 2013

The Politics behind the Killing of Americans

by Walter Brasch May 1, 2013

Whistleblower Bradley Manning Faces Life in Jail While Real Criminals Roam Free

by Dorothy Reilly April 10, 2013

Shakespeare said, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Dick Wagner has taken that advice to heart and has been “playing on” as the director of The Kutztown...

Dick Wagner to Receive 2013 Outstanding Citizen Award

by Chuck Brown

Editors' Picks

I say, enough. This has been much and keeps repeating itself like a pattern of memory or sunlight each day returning, each day shambling into my presence with its dawn...

Tired

by Jack Lindeman February 1, 2013

An Autumn Memory

by G.K. Thomas February 1, 2013

Sexual Violence Ltd.

by Harriet Rauenzahn February 1, 2013

PA Greens Endorse Earth Day Protest at DEP

by Chris Robinson February 1, 2013

There was a lot of news this past week. Some of it was even reported by the news media. First, there was a football player from Notre Dame who either...

The No News News Media

by Walter Brasch February 1, 2013

The Green Party of Philadelphia (GPOP, www.gpop.org) welcomes the national conversation on gun violence that has begun since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It is a long-overdue...

Green Party: “Sandy Hook Principles, Good but insufficient”

by Chris Robinson February 1, 2013

The Problem with the Bahmas

by Walter Brasch January 1, 2013

Dissolving a Stain Painted by Henry Ford

by Walter Brasch January 1, 2013

EVITA

by G.K. Thomas December 1, 2012

About 800,000 Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of union rights and activism, neither of the two largest university systems has a labor...

University Governance Doesn’t Represent the People

by Walter Brasch

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