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The Painful Cost of ‘Breed Standards’
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:38 pm | Walter Brasch
Legislatures in Pennsylvania and Illinois are considering bills that would reduce or eliminate what animal welfare advocates call mutilations, and what breeders and American Kennel Club (AKC) call “breed standards.” Because dogs are considered ... More >>
Walter Brasch: The Beeper Cacophony
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 9:54 am | Walter Brasch
Barack Obama was determined that the only way anyone was going to take away his BlackBerry was if they pried it from his cold dead hands. Or, something to that effect. More >>
The Republicans Have Nothing to Party About
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 1:11 pm | Walter Brasch
Every House Republican and 11 Democrats voted against President Barack Obama's $819 billion stimulus package. It still passed by a vote of 244 to 188. More >>
The $6 Million Social Worker
Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 11:32 am | Walter Brasch
The New York Yankees just bought a first baseman for $180 million. For the next eight years, Mark Teixeira will earn about $22.5 million a season. The week before, the Yanks bought seven years of pitcher CC Sabathia's life for $161 million, about ... More >>
One Leg Raised on the Bush–Cheney Legacy
Monday, 22 December 2008, 11:25 am | Walter Brasch
The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats ... More >>
Hit me, Congress, One More Time
Monday, 8 December 2008, 1:28 pm | Walter Brasch
Congress should bend over, dig into the public coffers once again, and give the auto industry everything it wants—even though 61 percent of Americans oppose a bailout, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll. More >>
They Auto Know Better: Fueling Anti-Union Fires
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:18 am | Walter Brasch
My local newspaper editor, as he does regularly, once again attacked unions as the problem in America. This is the same editor who once said "all the laziest goof-offs and goldbricks in the newsroom" where he began his career were union officials—and ... More >>
A Turkey By Any Other Description
Monday, 24 November 2008, 9:48 am | Walter Brasch
President Bush, as has every president since his father began the practice in 1989, annually pardons a Thanksgiving turkey. More >>
Making an Invisible Minority Less Invisible
Monday, 17 November 2008, 2:55 pm | Walter Brasch
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama was called mentally unstable; his supporters were called unpatriotic. At Sarah Palin rallies, in newspaper letters-to-the-editor, on conservative radio and TV talk shows, supporters spewed hatreds, resorting to ... More >>
Going Negative Not a Positive Way to Get Votes
Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 12:47 pm | Walter Brasch
During the final debate last week, Barack Obama called John McCain on the negative ads, saying that 100 percent of his radio and TV ads were negative. Not true, replied McCain. True, according to the Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin. ... More >>
Buy this book -- or else the terrorists win
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 12:52 pm | Walter Brasch
With wit and wisdom, Walter M. Brasch digs deep into the Bush–Cheney Administration and extracts the truth of the past eight years. In Sinking the Ship of State (2nd ed.), a well-documented 550-page book, Brasch looks at innumerable political and ... More >>
Brasch Column -- Conservatives ARE Right
Monday, 13 October 2008, 5:49 pm | Walter Brasch
The Sunbird Conservatives, a student group, put out some pro-McCain literature at a recruiting table at Fresno Pacific University a week ago. Seemed innocent enough. The conservatives weren't harassing anyone, nor were they blocking any sidewalks. More >>
Sarah Palin Wins Debate—by Darn
Monday, 6 October 2008, 11:56 am | Walter Brasch
The vice-presidential debates proved one thing. At the very least, Sarah Palin can be trained. For several days, she had camped out in one of John McCain's Arizona houses, where she underwent Debate Boot camp conducted by drill instructors who make ... More >>
Bailout Fail: Stampeded by Fear, Scammed by Lies
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 5:17 pm | Walter Brasch
The Republican leaders of the House of Representatives grabbed a half dozen bags of sincerity, looked directly into every TV camera they could find, and lied. More >>
Burning the First Amendment
Friday, 19 September 2008, 2:12 pm | Walter Brasch
"Got a match?" I didn't know where he came from, but there he was, right behind me—as usual. "You know I don't smoke," I told Marshbaum. "Come to think of it, you don't either. What's up?" More >>
Unions, the Mass Media, and an Anti-Worker Admin
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 10:26 am | Walter Brasch
Once a year, I and a few dozen other reporters and columnists write a Labor Day story. And, like most Americans we don't remember our history. More >>
Americans Need to Tear Down This Wall
Monday, 25 August 2008, 1:00 pm | Walter Brasch
The "star" of the Olympics may not be multiple medalists but the Great Wall of China. Every TV network covering the Olympics took the world to see the Wall. It seemed as if almost every newspaper and magazine reporter also visited the Great Wall. More >>
News: Downsizing & Pretending to Increase Qualiity
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 3:17 pm | Walter Brasch
Executive management at the Allentown Morning Call recently laid off more than two dozen persons from its newsroom, most of them veteran reporters drawing higher salaries. Management plans to cut 35–40 positions, according to a letter sent by publisher ... More >>
'Medaling' With Free Speech at the Olympics
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 1:42 pm | Walter Brasch
President Bush sounded just like a liberal. Yes, you read that right. Bush. Liberal. Same sentence. At the new U.S. embassy in Beijing on the opening day of the Olympics, he said, "All people should have the freedom to say what they think." Without even ... More >>
Mining Racism in a Northeastern Pennsylvania Town
Monday, 4 August 2008, 1:46 pm | Walter Brasch
On a street in Shenandoah, Pa., deep in the heart of the anthracite coal region, six White teens took their racial hatred to a higher level. They confronted 25-year-old Luis Ramirez, an undocumented worker, and beat him to death. More >>
