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Archive: September 2007

September 2007 - Back Issue

Education
The Leaning Ivory Tower of Academia: Regulating the Marketplace of Ideas
by Eric Johnson
2 Comments

Academia is a marketplace of ideas, and just as people can vote with their wallets students can vote with their feet.

Nickel and Dimed in Academia
by Karen O'Mara Voytas

Employing qualified teachers with little to no chance of advancement at poverty-level wages to save a buck is in direct opposition to the social values taught to students by the academy.

Diary of a Distraught Teacher
by Anonymous
1 Comment

How does No Child Left Behind affect what goes on in your child’s classroom?

Green-ology
Sowing The Seeds Of Change
by Darree Sicher
1 Comment

Don’t miss the 3rd annual PA Renewable & Sustainable Living Festival this September, right here in Kempton, PA!

Health Care: News & Notes
Holden to Review Single-Payer Health Care
by Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz

Congressman Tim Holden promises to review single-payer health care!

Humor
Summer Fun
by Chuck Brown

Fun & Games in the summertime!

Other Topics
Tradition? Yes! Innovation? Yes!
by Jesse Tobin
1 Comment

The Braucherei tradition has survived millennia of persecution, a most precious heirloom to be carefully passed on, polished, cherished, and passed on again.

Poetry
Prelude
by Jack Lindeman
1 Comment

Iraq in verse remains as ugly

Fidelity
by Jack Lindeman
1 Comment

A world-class poet takes a look at presidential infidelity.

Political Rhetoric
The Rhetorical Power of “Support Our Troops”
by Dr. Michele Ramsey
3 Comments

Words can and are used to corner one’s political opposition. Political rhetoric shapes the way American’s think about the most important issues of the day.

On The Subject Of Rebellion
by Jack Lindeman
1 Comment

“On the Subject of Rebellion” was written during the Vietnam era, but one can only wish that the spirit of rebellion could move today’s writers.

Politics: General
Political Junkie Reveals All
by Kathi Ember

How the Iraq war created one formidable political activist.

Wide-Eyed In The World: Media Responsibility
by Emily Hoch

One young person’s view of how the media shapes and often distorts our perceptions of people and events.

Politics: Local
In Praise of Tom Gajewski
by Chuck Brown

When a politician is willing to take a second look at a decided issue because of evidence presented, then the public should take a second look at the politician.

Politics: National
This Can’t Be Happening! Dennis Kucinich Desapparacido!
by Dave Lindorff
1 Comment

The co-author of The Case For Impeachment shows how the mainstream media limits the publics choices.

Talkin’ 9th Ward Blues: Katrina As Political Change
by Chuck Brown

This country rebuilt Europe under the Marshall plan after World War II. Now our government is unable to rebuild one American city.

Politics: State
Tim Holden-Blue Dog Conservative Democrat
by Robert Johns & Chuck Brown
9 Comments

Q: Why did the Blue Dog cross the aisle?
A: To vote with the other side!
Progressives have been singing the blues because of these dogs for too long.

September 2007 - Back Issue Columns

This Issue & Site News
Everything CS2 site related: article info, site developments, coming attractions.
Newsletter for September 2007

This month (our first "officially online" month) we are including our newsletter here on our site.

Editorials
Opinions, rants, confessions and predictions appear in this monthly commentary.
Words Matter
2 Comments

When did we stop believing we were patriots and allow the right-wing extremists to co-opt the flag?

Unsung Heroes
People who work tirelessly for progressive change in our community and state
Linda Wood: CommonSense2's First Unsung Hero
1 Comment

No offense intended, but I always say give me 10 organized women and we could clean this whole mess up. America needs to change direction. We need to focus on what kind of world we're leaving our children. Clean water, breathable air. Health care for all. Protect the land. Control sprawl.

To Your Health
Ron Stouffer and Rosie Skomitz have been waging battles in the health care wars for 15 years. Check back every month for views, opinions and information vital to you and To Your Health
This Month: Anatomy of a Sick Health Care System
1 Comment

You thought your health insurance would protect you from financial hardship in the event of a medical crisis. Think again!

The Keystone Scorecard
Sylvia Baylor chronicles the absurdities of Harrisburg and our State Legislature. Occasionally The Keystone Scorecard will feature guest authors.
The Keystone Scorecard

If you worked 43% of a regular work week, would you still be employed? What's going on in Harrisburg?

The Road Less Traveled
I’ve known Kathleen Welch for 35 years. I’ve learned to respect and admire her resilience and her refusal to buckle under to conventional wisdom. As you get to know her through these columns I’m sure you’ll feel the same.
The Road Less Traveled
4 Comments

Most of us travel down predictable tracks during the course of our lives. Some choose to take The Road Less Traveled.

The Dark Visions of Sheldon Kaplan
Sheldon Kaplan explores and brings a world into focus that is unseen to most of us
Cable sNOOZe

Are you tired of cable sNOOZe yet? If the information of the cable news were a diet, the public would have died of starvation a long time ago!!

Democrat Fundraiser ~ Got Spine?

We all wonder if the Democrats will ever get a spine? Will Pigs Fly? It s a very close race!!

Stay On Course!
2 Comments

Why do the Democrats and Republicans say they didn t get enough Intel before invading Iraq? I lived in an attic in Kutztown PA, 165 miles from Washington DC. Instead, I used a brain function not used often these days in Washington common sense.

Fate of America
2 Comments

The United States & its citizens think that this party life will go on and on. That their individual responsibility isn t important, but at some point in time payback will come. Our children, your children, will ask you "What were you doing? What were you thinking?"

That Woman!!
Dorothy Reilly - You may love her, you may hate her, but you’ll never be confused about where That Woman!! stands.
That Woman!!
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Some will love her, some will hate her....but no one will be confused about where she stands!!!